What Is Behind the German Government’s Frenzy Towards the Palestinian Cause and Immigrants?

Many deem that the most shameless position within the West in its hostility towards the Palestinian people is the US position, but the truth is that the German position is more shameless and direct.

Many did not contemplate the German position regarding what happened in occupied Palestine, perhaps simply because Germany’s actual weight in the international arena, and in the Middle East arena, is secondary and it cannot be considered a major side that can tip the balance in any of the region’s equations. This is despite Germany being very active behind the scenes and through civil society organizations, in particular, and through other formats.

However, we believe, because its role has some weight, especially in connection with the Syrian issue due to the large number of Syrian refugees therein, it is important to examine its position on what happened in Palestine, not only to understand the already known position of the German government, but also to understand its real position from what is happening in Syria. In our opinion, its position is nothing more than an extension of the Zionist position, just like the French position, and even more shameless and direct than the French and US positions.

The Position on Palestine

Shamelessly and stripped of all human value, Germany declared its full support for the Zionist entity in its war against the Palestinian people. This was evident in the German Parliament (the Bundestag), in the European Parliament, and in various other forums, not the last of which was the visit of its Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his surveying of to the destroyed homes in Tel Aviv.

In the Bundestag, during the session on Wednesday, May 19, all the parties represented in Parliament from those on the “left” to the far right declared their support for what they considered “the right of Israel to defend itself”. The slight difference in rhetoric in the language of the parties did not deviate from the framework of impudence in dealing with the Palestinian issue. For example, according to Gregor Gezi, the Left Party noted that “bombing a place crowded with civilians is against international law”, and acknowledged that “there is a reason behind Hamas’s rockets”, but added that is not “to justify them”. He then he followed that with an extraordinary suggestion, where he literally said: “Both Fatah and Hamas are failures, but Hamas has more respect among Palestinians because it is considered more resistant”. Then he asked, “Why do the Israeli government, Western governments, and our government not give a chance for success to Fatah to improve its reputation among the population?” It is clear that the German Left Party has not yet understood that the uprising that raises hell does not take the path led by losers, who by going the path of Oslo allowed him and his likes to speak about the Palestinian Authority without the slightest respect for the diplomatic considerations of a sovereign state.

The Neo-Nazis, Like the Old, Champion Zionism

As for the radical right represented in parliament by the Alternative for Germany (AFD) party, which has long supported the demonstrations of the so-called Querdenker, which roamed the streets of Germany last year denying the existence of the Coronavirus and carried out many offenses, among them anti-Semitic offenses by insulting the Jews by describing as Jews and accusing them of conspiring with China to control the world through the invention of the Coronavirus. This party demanded, through Armin-Paul Humpel, its representative in the Bundestag, to stop support for UNRWA, saying, “Stop the flow of money paid from the pockets of German taxpayers to finance terrorists in Palestine”.

The Green Party’s candidate for the German Chancellery, Annalena Baerbock, was the target of a brutal attack last week, because she had criticized Germany a few years ago for exporting weapons, and she included “Israel” in the course of this criticism. At the time, “her words were not at issue” and it seems that aimed to attract the support of peace-loving people, but now she realizes that she cannot reach the position of German Chancellor unless she is committed to protecting the security of “Israel”. Thus, she retracted this criticism regarding the Zionist entity and said that in 2018, when she made that statement, she was not sure whether the submarines exported to the Zionist entity would be used in nuclear activities. She also declared her commitment to what she called “the national interest in unconditional support for Israel”.

In the Media Too!

In harmony with this mentality that expressed itself in the Bundestag, the media led a campaign of social tension against immigrants in an attempt to spread hatred towards them, accusing them of anti-Semitism (within the Zionist definition of Semitism as being equivalent to Judaism, while a large portion of immigrants accused of anti-Semitism are themselves Semites, although the anthropological sciences have thrown aside, decades ago, all the talk of Hamites and Semites). The Bundestag had adopted a definition of anti-Semitism coined by the so-called International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which itself was criticized by Jewish groups and organizations, yet it was adopted by a number of countries, including Germany.

Nevertheless, Germany was not satisfied with adopting this definition as is, so it added to it a sentence stating that “anti-Semitism includes attacking the State of Israel, which is understood as a gathering of Jews”. Accordingly, the Bundestag took decisions on 17 May 2019 against the movement to boycott Israeli goods (BDS), which rejects the colonization. In this context, Angela Merkel was one of the most extremists in drafting Germany’s foreign policy, where on 18 March 2008, she said before the Knesset, “This historic responsibility for Germany is part of the national interest (Staatsräson) of my country. This means that the security of Israel for me is something that is nonnegotiable”.

The Same Nazi Wand is Being Used Today Against the German People!

The truth is that not all Germans committed crimes during the Nazi era. Rather, the Nazi Party did. It is no secret that behind the rise of the Nazi Party was primarily the unrivaled financial support of German and British capital. Heinrich Brüning, the Chancellor of the German Reich (Weimar Republic) between 1930 and 1932, wrote in a private letter that he sent to Churchill in 1937: “The real rise of Hitler began in 1929, when leading German and non-German industrialists refused to continue financially supporting a large number of national organizations”. He went on saying that as far as these organizations were concerned, the capital was “too progressive with regard to their social orientations”, and said: “They were happy that Hitler wanted to radically deprive workers of their rights, as all the money that used to flow to other organizations was redirected to Hitler, and this was the beginning of fascism”. This is how Nazism began, and as such they want to incriminate the entire German population with the crimes committed by the capitals. Then, they want to incriminate the immigrants and the Palestinian people as well.

Today, the German capital wants for immigrants, to the destruction of whose countries the German government has contributed through arms, its intelligence apparatus, sanctions, and its commitment to support the American-Zionist creative chaos recipes, to be expatriate laborers without political rights to express their position from their colonizers, and wants to spread hatred between them and the German workers by making accusations of them being anti-Semitic. The German government seeks to preemptively destroy every possible rapprochement among the workers, so it does not miss any chance without exploiting it to advance social conflicts through false dichotomies like Muslim / non-Muslim, immigrant / German, anti-Semitic / pro-Semitic, colored / white, etc., and in that trying to push the secondary contradictions to the forefront to obscure the fundamental contradiction of capital vs. the peoples, which may radically threaten the interest of capital as the awareness of workers and their union increase.

In the Syrian context, we cannot turn a blind eye to the German policy towards the Palestinian people, because it is in no way detached from the German policy towards the entire region, including our country. This puts forth for examination the task of quickly reviewing all kinds of empty humanitarian claims that the German government throws around, especially for those who with good intentions are oblivious to the German government’s objectives.

(Arabic version)