Germany\u2019s complicity in the boundless cruelty of the genocide in Gaza, its unconditional support for the ongoing Nakba in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, and its backing of Zionist wars of aggression against Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran have led to a dramatic collapse of political integrity among the country\u2019s leadership \u2014 both in its international obligations and in its respect for its own citizens.<\/p>\n
Having made itself an accomplice of the Zionist regime, Germany\u2019s highest representatives have adopted its \u201cpolitical\u201d style, pursuing policies that lack decency and drift ever further from democratic ideals.<\/p>\n
Former German political leadership: Lies about a non-existing video<\/b><\/p>\n
In summer 2024 both former<\/a> German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and former German chancellor Olaf Scholz<\/a> claimed publicly to have seen a video showing Hamas fighters raping Israeli women on 7 October 2023. No such video has ever been produced<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was difficult to imagine that this deliberate misleading of the German public would soon be overshadowed by even more brazen actions on the part of Germany\u2019s highest representatives. Yet since then, political decency and integrity have eroded further<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Lawsuit before the Constitutional Court in Germany against arms exports to Israel fails<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Last week Johann Wadepuhl<\/a>, Germany\u2019s foreign minister, who unconditionally follows the Zionist regime, proved willing to adopt the repugnant strategy of smear campaigns<\/a> that have long been one of Israel\u2019s most popular strategies against human rights and civil society organisations<\/a>.<\/p>\n Smearing and slander have become standard tools used to denigrate those who accuse the settler-colonial regime of genocide and ethnic cleansing, criticise its daily dehumanising policies towards Palestinians, or highlight its violations of international law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In the same manner as his Zionist counterparts, and alongside his French colleague, Wadepuhl demanded the resignation of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. This followed a claim by French politician Caroline Yadan that Albanese had called Israel \u201cthe common enemy of humanity\u201d at the Al Jazeera Forum in Qatar on 7 February, a statement Yadan described as anti-Semitic and indefensible<\/p>\n However, Albanese had said<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe who do not control large amounts of financial capitals, algorithms and weapons. We now see that we as a humanity have a common enemy\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n This statement is simply true \u2013 even if the European foreign ministers do not agree.<\/p>\n Wadepuhl and his ministry apparently saw no reason to verify the accuracy of the source. Delighted that another EU foreign minister had slandered and accused Albanese of anti-Semitism, the minister, in a typically German Pavlovian reflex<\/a>, jumped on the bandwagon of anti-Semitic denunciation.\u00a0<\/p>\n This attempted character assassination, based on a misrepresentation of Albanese\u2019s words, represents one of the most troubling episodes in recent German foreign policy. Baerbock\u2019s lies pale in comparison.\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, German foreign policy has sunk to the level of Zionist smear campaigns, with Wadepuhl playing the anti-Semitism card internationally while similar accusations are directed at those within Germany who oppose Zionism or criticise Berlin\u2019s support for Israel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The president of the Bundestag as an agent of Zionist propaganda\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n When Julia Kl\u00f6ckner, the President of the German Bundestag and \u201ca friend\u201d of the Zionist regime<\/a> went to visit them from February 10 to 12, it became clear how far even the second most important representative of the German state is willing to humiliate herself in the service of the war criminals.<\/p>\n Kl\u00f6ckner appeared on the German public television station ARD, standing somewhere on the Yellow Line \u2013 the front line of the ongoing genocide \u2013 submissively repeating the IOF\u2019s- (Israeli Occupation Forces) \u2013 war propaganda. Her entire report was not only an official silence on the genocide, but also a sign of intellectual poverty.<\/p>\n Kl\u00f6ckner said<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOne sees settlements, one sees tents and houses that are destroyed and that are not destroyed. Of course, I looked upon a part that is not as destroyed as other parts, because many of the hostages have been hidden there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Really? Does Kl\u00f6ckner seriously want to convince Germans that she can see houses that were not destroyed during the Zionists\u2019 perverse air raids because Israeli prisoners were held there? So the Zionists knew all along that they were there and didn\u2019t free them but chose to destroy everything else?<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Extremist Israeli minister \u2018stepped on prisoners\u2019 heads\u2019 during Ofer Prison raid, rights group says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n She continues:<\/p>\n \u201cWhat you also recognise, of course, is an incredible underground tunnel system, which is like a second Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n Really? How can Kl\u00f6ckner recognise a tunnel system when she is standing somewhere on the Yellow Line looking towards Gaza? Was she in one of these tunnels? Can she at least show a single picture of the tunnel system? Or a short video? Nothing \u2014 without any evidence, Kl\u00f6ckner makes a claim that Germans are expected to believe.<\/p>\n Regrettably, this is the same \u201cpolitical\u201d level as when the Israeli military, after destroying hospitals in Gaza, claimed that medical staff work schedules were lists of Hamas fighters\u2019 names.<\/p>\n And finally, to make it even worse:<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we have heard and also received confirmation of from the International Red Cross, with whom I have spoken, is that since the Yellow Line has been in place, there has been a cessation of shooting and fighting, there has also been an increase in the amount of aid supplies, i.e., food, coming into the Gaza Strip, and medicine too, but medical equipment is getting through very slowly due to the regulations on dual-use goods. \u2026 And on the other hand, we also see that Hamas fighters are sending their own people ahead, letting them suffer, and not necessarily sending them to places where they would be better off.\u201d<\/p>\n Really? Despite Kl\u00f6ckner\u2019s distortion of the facts, the world knows that Israel is committing genocide and that it continues even after what the West calls a \u201cceasefire.\u201d The world knows that the Zionists are blocking aid deliveries, whether food, water, tents, or medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Kl\u00f6ckner spreads propaganda about the end of \u201chostilities\u201d and repeats the IOF\u2019s mendacious claims about dual-use goods as if she had been trained by them \u2013 and of course she talks nonsense about Hamas letting the Palestinians suffer \u2013 what is Kl\u00f6ckner talking about. Yet, she doesn\u2019t say anything about those who dropped the bombs on Palestinians and evaporated thousands of them<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n What a pathetic kind of propaganda in the service of the genocidal regime.<\/p>\n German policy towards Israel, the world and the German people has reached an absolutely deplorable level.<\/p>\n The Zionist regime has undoubtedly inspired the reduction of politics \u2014 which sociologist Max Weber once described as \u201ca strong and slow boring of hard boards\u201d \u2014 to a practice defined by lies, smear campaigns, slander and the shameless dissemination of war propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n With this course, Germany is turning into \u201cLittle Israel\u201d \u2014 always ready to play what critics describe as the hypocritical anti-Semitism card \u2014 just as the Israel lobby expects from the country\u2019s leadership, which appears only too willing to do so.<\/p>\n\n
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