Germany and Israel; 2 Genocide in Gaza on a coin

According to Isna, a year has passed since the beginning of the Gaza war and the repeated air, ground and artillery attacks of the Zionist regime against this strip; Attacks described by experts as “one of the largest air strikes in human history”.

In this one year, the Zionist regime has not reached any of its predetermined goals, including the “complete destruction” of Hamas, and on the contrary, this regime has committed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza and its attacks against this barricade, which resulted in more than 130,000 martyrs and wounded. has left, revealed the depth of its nature, the absurdity of humanitarian slogans of the West and the dual policies of European and American countries.

Following the Al-Aqsa storm operation on October 7, 2023, many countries under the leadership of the United States turned to unconditionally supporting the crimes of the Zionist regime. By providing political, economic and military support, many even prevented the United Nations from taking a serious action against the Zionist regime.

Among the staunch supporters of the occupying regime, America and Germany have attracted the attention of many critics due to their extensive military support to the Zionist regime, and these growing criticisms have become a political challenge for the statesmen in Berlin and Washington.

According to the report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 69% of the 99% of Israel’s arms imports between 2019 and 2023 were provided by the United States and 30% by Germany.

Germany’s unconditional support for the Zionist regime

Last year, the German government issued a license to export weapons worth a total of 326.5 million euros to Tel Aviv. Of this amount, 20 million euros were earmarked for “weapons of war” and the remaining 306.3 million euros for military equipment.

According to media reports, this equipment includes 3,000 portable anti-tank weapons, 500,000 bullets for fully automatic and semi-automatic firearms, as well as other equipment and weapon propellants. Also, more than 300 million euros were spent on armored vehicles, military trucks and safety glasses.

Until the fall of 2023, only 38.5 million euros of military exports to the Zionist regime were approved in Germany, but this figure increased sharply after October 7.

Sending German weapons to the occupied territories has been criticized many times. Earlier this year, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a complaint against the German government to the local court of Berlin in an attempt to stop arms exports to the Zionist regime, which was rejected by the court on “Berlin’s compliance with international law”. faced and no case was opened in the court.

Gold war of Berlin and Tel Aviv

At the end of September, after internal criticism of Berlin intensified again for its support of the Zionist regime despite its attacks on Lebanon in addition to Gaza, German media such as Bild newspaper claimed that the German federal government ignored Tel Aviv’s requests to purchase weapons from It has turned.

On the other hand, in early October, Zionist media sources claimed the occurrence of a verbal conflict between Benny Gantz, the head of the Zionist Government Camp Party, and the German National Security Advisor regarding the export of military systems to the occupied territories.

The Hebrew newspaper “Israel Hum” wrote that Gantz asked the German side to remove the obstacles on the way to the export of the combat systems needed by Tel Aviv, while the German national security adviser said that Tel Aviv did not provide documents to prove that it does not use these weapons to commit genocide.

Schultz’s emphasis on unconditional support for the Zionist regime

However, despite the reports of the Zionist and German media about the reduction of Berlin’s support for Tel Aviv and its genocide in Gaza, following the intensification of criticism from the opponents of the government of German Chancellor Olaf Schultz and their demand for “intensification of support for Israel”, he persisted last Thursday. On Berlin’s “unconditional” support for Tel Aviv, he denied any reports of an arms embargo on the Zionist regime by Germany.

“We have sent weapons to Israel and we will continue to do so,” he said in a session of the German Parliament (Bundestag).

Berlin’s support for the Zionist regime is one of Germany’s major policies, which is not limited to recent developments and the Gaza war. According to German experts and media, “Berlin has always adopted a policy of unconditional support for Israel in an attempt to compensate for its crimes in the world wars” and despite the extensive crimes of the Zionist regime and genocide in Gaza, this issue hinders Berlin’s support for Tel Aviv is not.

Berlin’s struggle to make up for old crimes

Of course, Schultz’s statements fueled a new wave of domestic criticism. In a dual policy, the German chancellor, while expressing his military support for the Zionist regime, claimed Berlin’s desire to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, and his one-and-done approach made “Zara Wagenknecht” one of the main critics of the policies of the German Left Party. to openly declare that “Berlin is supporting and participating in war crimes.”

According to his statements, it can be said that Berlin is deliberately and knowingly participating in a new crime in justifying and compensating for its crimes during the world wars.

According to the report of the Associated Press, Wagenknecht added: “Israel has the right to defend itself, but this right does not make the international laws silent against the razing of Gaza and the burying of Palestinians under the rubble.” Israeli atrocities are repeating in Lebanon. The extreme right government of Israel is a serious threat to the region and its actions have brought the Middle East into the abyss of collapse. “Germany should not support these measures.”

Referring to Berlin’s contradictory policies, he further stated: “If Berlin is sincere in its desire for a ceasefire and a two-state solution, it must immediately stop supporting Israel’s atrocities.”

The demand for an arms embargo on the Zionist regime is not limited to German politicians. On October 7, 2024, on the eve of the anniversary of the Al-Aqsa storm operation, French President Emmanuel Macron called for the cessation of arms shipments to the Zionist regime, which is accused of genocide in Gaza.

On the other hand, according to German media sources, Schultz’s ignoring of Macron’s request for an arms embargo on the Zionist regime has had a negative impact on the relationship between these two European politicians.

Berlin’s disregard for international law

Nevertheless, the German Ministry of Economy, in an attempt to justify Schultz’s support for the Zionist regime and to reject the German media’s report that Berlin imposed a silent arms embargo on Tel Aviv, reported that the reason for the interruption in sending military weapons to the occupied territories was “the examination of each request according to international law.” “

A spokesman for the German Ministry of Economy recently told Deutsche Welle: “The current situation in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel’s attacks on Hamas and Hezbollah are taken into account in the process of reviewing the issuance of a license to send weapons to Israel.”

The speaker’s statements were criticized by Deutsche Welle. This German media wrote in its report: “Despite the accusations against Israel regarding violations of international law and committing genocide, the German government, as always, at home and abroad is downplaying its military support for Israel and ignoring and rejecting it. These are the charges.”

Deutsche Welle added: “The contradictory statistics published by Berlin are very shocking and opaque. “Only the process of sending military cargoes under the title of “arms of war” has decreased, and other military cargoes that do not have this title are still being sent to Israel.”

Berlin continues to support the killing machine of the Zionist regime

A German analyst also clarified Berlin’s claim of reducing military arms shipments to the Zionist regime and said: “The German government’s claim is that many of Israel’s requests to purchase weapons from Germany in 2023 and after October 7, 2023 were registered and accepted by the government. Germany is confirmed. “The main reason for the current decrease in the process of sending weapons to Israel is that no new request for the purchase of weapons has been registered to be approved and finally sent.”

He also added that in Germany, many media are “censoring the crimes” of the Zionist regime, and the German public cannot see the reality of the Gaza war and the crimes of the Zionist regime through the media of this country.

In such a situation, despite the increasing domestic and international criticism of the supporters of the Zionist regime, including Germany, it can be said that Berlin’s policy of providing unconditional support to the occupying regime has not changed a bit, and as Deutsche Welle reported, Germany is “a It is and will remain one of the biggest supporters of Israel in the world.”

According to “Anders Craig”, a German analyst and one of the professors at the University of London, the only way to force the supporters of the Zionist regime to stop “supporting the lives” is internal pressure and protests.

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