“While Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s announcement that Germany is stopping arms deliveries to Israel made international headlines as a shocking policy reversal, the details tell a different story.”
“While Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s announcement that Germany is stopping arms deliveries to Israel made international headlines as a shocking policy reversal, the details tell a different story.”
It’s better than nothing.
It’s whitewash than nothing.
It‘s not, because it‘s nothing more than a lie to calm down public sentiment. In effect, nothing changes. It‘s worse than nothing.
Nope, it breaks even just as a gesture the idea that Germany has to support Israel no matter what. That has been the position of a lot of German politicans, especially from the conservative party of which Merz is a member. That pretty much gurantees that if/when Israel gets convicted of genocide, that that relationship is dead.
That‘s, ya, I get what you are saying, but that‘s not a conclusion that you can claim today. It‘s really not guaranteed, like you hope. It also doesn‘t matter now, since what Merz implied is not at all, what actually happens; every possible backdoor is still open and every shipment is still being done, which in reality will further aid Israel with its genocide and therefore Germany persists in being complicit.
But what it does in reality is giving supporters of said genocide another talking point to deflect responsibility away from the German state. And it gives the regime the talking point, that it „has done something“. Although, it really hasn‘t.
And it gives people like you another reason to rationalize genocidal complicity.
Meanwhile, flights from German airports (Leipzig/Halle) continue to deliver armaments to Israel on a daily basis and forces workers to also become complicit in genocide, because it‘s not being made transparent what kind of stuff they‘re handling and as wage slaves they have little recurse against that, even if they become aware of it. They need to organise and shut down these operations, just like port workers all over europe have done already. Merz won‘t support that.
Action is needed now, stop fantasizing about future political plot twists. Humans are being slaughtered daily, and Germany remains an active participant.
Typical leftist not understanding what winning looks like. It is not a total victory, but the German government can no longer easily claim that they should not stop weapon deliveries, when they promised it. This means if weapons are delivered besides those promises using those loopholes, then he gets public backlash for that.
Same story for stuff like Leipzig/Halle airport. If you shut it down to stop arms deliveries to Israel and those are indeed happening from there, then he looks like a liar.
Again it is not a total victory, but it is a win and it is really bloody stupid to claim that it is “worse then nothing”
Not sure where to go from here, as you frame your whole comment like that and through that deconstruct any veneer of seriousness you thought you might have.
Nothing of what I said is untrue and I also assured you, that I understand your angle and laid out reasons for why I disagree with your conclusion.
But your reaction is repeating your point, ignoring the arguments laid out and adding a bit of ridicule. Really, fabulous substance.
I even agree with you, that what you proclaim as a win has a small potential to end up having a positive effect in some fictional future.
What I‘m saying is that using that possibility as foundation to call that a win (for whom, anyway? Surely not for the Palestinians) or to feel some kind of relief, because it emits that appearance that yes, finally, something has been done, is naive.
Although, with candidates like you, I also have to wonder, if it‘s really naivety or rather malice.
There is no working mechanism to hold any lying politician accountable through the nature of them having used the morally bad thing called „lie“. It really does not matter if Merz lies. Merz is a deeply insincere person, anyway, always was. How „really fucking stupid“ is it, to think that his dishonesty is a „win“, sorely because of the mere possibility, that he could end up looking like a liar. lol.
If Merz actually stopped anything, then you would have a case. What happened until now, is political maneuvering to appease the critical populus. It‘s cute that you feel like that‘s a win, I‘m saddened by your ignorance to actually call this a win.
But winning seems to be a very important aspect of your inner workings, so w/e. Have a good day.
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But far from the international law obligations Germany has and thereby making the German government and the relevant companies complicit in crimes and subject to international prosecution as the German justice system refuses to properly prosecute the suspects.