Germany’s Moral Choice - New English Review

by Howard Rotberg (January 2020)

The Jewish School (Drawing a Golem), R. B. Kitaj, 1930

Since the 1960s, German historical memory of the Holocaust was the foundation for a moral obligation to support the existence and security of the Jewish State, Israel.

In the past, there have been tensions over sale of German tanks to Saudi Arabia, and the sale of military chemicals to Iraq which were useful in attacks on civilians. More recently, Germany’s refusal, as one of the P5+1 nations, to follow the American lead in tearing up the Iran deal which would see Iran legally achieve nuclear weapons in about 2031, was viewed negatively by Israel and the United States.

And we must all remember that in a speech at Tehran University on December 14th, 2001, former Iranian president Rafsanjani said:

on that day this method of global arrogance would come to a dead end. This is because the use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, whereas it will only damage the world of Islam.

Alain Destexhe, writing in gatestoneinstitute.org on December 10th, 2019, outlines the various ways that the European Union shows its hostility to Israel at a time when anti-Semitism is growing in both the Left and the Right. This is exacerbated by Muslim immigrants who have been raised with extremely anti-Semitic beliefs in their home countries, and see no need to change when their new hosts show an almost obsessive double standard and demonization of Israel, the Jewish homeland.

—which clearly uses part of its EU financial support to incentivize terrorism and pay pensions to the family of terrorists who kill civilians?

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The Center for Near East Policy Research has examined all school books of UNRWA.

UNRWA texts, all of which are acquired from the Palestine Liberation Organization, openly teach the “value” of exterminating Jews.

In fact, Germany maintains a Government Department for Monitoring Anti-Semitism. The Center for Near East Policy Research together with an official from the Simon Wiesenthal Center pressed this department for a comment but it astoundingly replied that it does not relate to what Germany does abroad.

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equated Israel’s counter-terrorism strategy with the US- and EU-designated terrorist entity Hamas: “Civilians must live without fear of Palestinian rockets or Israeli bulldozers,” said Heusgen.

reported in The Jerusalem Post, Turkey’s president Erdogan slammed Israel and called for Islamic unity among the “brothers and sisters” to confront the West and conspiracies against Islamic countries. Germany, in the United Nations, is obsessed with Israel at the same time as Erdogan incites its Muslim population to “confront” the West. European countries that are increasingly being labelled by Islamists as areas of future “demographic conquest” should be firming up their cultures of freedom and justice and support for Jews and other minorities.

In the July, 2016, terror attack by a German/Iranian young man in a Munich mall that killed 9, there was a rush to assure the public that he acted alone and was probably mentally ill. Despite the fact that this happened during a security high alert for terrorism, the Germans did not want to admit that this was terrorism.

book, The Ideological Path to Submission . . . and what we can do about it (Mantua Books), Islamic terrorism seeks to force submission to the Islamist agenda, which includes Sharia law, a world-wide caliphate and, of course, murder of Jews world-wide and especially in Israel. To the extent that terrorism conduces to submission, it is irresponsible for the media, academics, and politicians not to explain this and work against it.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel in 2017 was irked that Israel scrapped a planned meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu because Gabriel was in the same trip meeting with Israeli Leftist groups.

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ith the Jews killed or expelled, as has been the case in almost all Muslim majority countries. In addition, the Israeli gift of Gaza to the Palestinians resulted in an election putting the terrorist Hamas in power, with its main policy being to fire rockets on Israel and support terrorism through underground attack tunnels and incendiary kites.

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adopted a resolution that the “disproportionate condemnation of Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East” is a problem affecting UN bodies “that is carried on not only by states of the Middle East, but also European states, who pass, or abstain from anti-Israel resolutions.” They urged the leadership to “dissociate from the initiatives and alliances of antisemitic member states in the bodies and specialized agencies of the United Nations. Chancellor Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union, together with the SPD, has refused to change Germany’s anti-Israel voting, rejecting an attempt by the Free Democratic Party to reverse this anti-Israel bias.

foe with a “normalized” EU-type of relationship with Israel and the Arabs.

I hope it makes the right choice.

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