Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close to the Economy Ministry.
Last year, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($363.5 million), including military equipment and war weapons, a 10-fold increase from 2022, according to data from the Economy Ministry, which approves export licences.
But various bros told me here on Lemmy that action at the international law level is meaningless.
I guess they have enough now.
Now US.
I hope this is s turning of the tide and other nations will pressure the US to be better.
The discussion around this isn’t differentiated enough. Germanys foreign Minister has explicitly stated that what was exported, is stuff whose purpose is defensive in nature, e.g. Ground to air missiles. I can’t say if that is true, though there is some corroborating material. Nevertheless arms exports is too general as a category in my opinion.
Shortly after Oct. 7 Germany sent 3000 “MATADOR” Anti-Tank rocket launchers to Israel. Hamas doesn’t have any tanks or armored vehicles…
This is why the ICJ cases matter.
The Israelis will reciprocate. I’m not convinced the net flow of weapons of war is towards Israel, especially when you count the “cyber” domain stuff.
I guess better late than never. Although, I do begin to wonder how much of this is in response to Israeli’s tax base getting eviscerated by the war
Israel will have to remind them of their eternal obligation
Of never participating in genocide again, right?
And hopefully, the Germans will respond with something along the lines of “our eternal obligation to you does not give you carte blanche to perpetrate the same evil our forefathers perpetrated upon you”. But we’ll see, I guess. I am fully aware that it’s an understandably touchy subject in Germany.
our eternal obligation to you does not give you carte blanche to perpetrate the same evil our forefathers perpetrated upon you
I can guarantee you right now, that that sure will never be the response. In fact, that will get you labeled an antisemite.
Which, bluntly, is absolutely insane, and betrays a fundamental (and for some, likely intentional) misunderstanding of the true intent and meaning of that eternal obligation, to the extent that it has deeply disturbing jingoistic echoes of the Nazi party itself.
It’s odd you mention jingoism, because I was surely thinking about jingoism and revanchism in this context, over the last couple of weeks.
It’s been such a shit show. Even my beloved tagesschau is just going fully blind on it. It’s been a disgrace. Never again my ass.
It would have actually been a great opportunity to show where full support of Jewish people and support of a government differ. It was the perfect opportunity to back out of this card blanche idea which was too vague to be a good idea to begin with. Instead Germany decided to assume its citizens have no cognitive ability to differentiate these two ideas - Jewishnes and Israel.
Ich kann dir nur das aktuelle Interview der Lage der Nation mit Baerbock empfehlen. Es werden die Waffenlieferungen kritisch angesprochen. Ich finde es wichtig, ihre Position zu diesem Thema zu hören, um so die eigene Meinung besser bilden zu können. Hier der Link zur Online Version, falls kein Spotify genutzt wird.
Danke, ich werds mir anhören!
In the long run they are doing so much damage to the Jewish people. Effectively they’re (and by they mean anyone who is shouting “antisemitism” now) creating a situation where you are either supportive of Israel’s actions, or against Jews. It’s such a destructive approach.
Deutsche Welle isn’t much better btw. They still call it “Israel-Hamas war”, although the Israeli fascist government has clearly shown that their highest priority is committing genocide against innocent Palestinian civilians, not fighting Hamas
Damn, hit him with the Swanton Bombs. Poor guy
