With the slogan “Never again is now” after the mass murder of around 1.100 people on October 7, 2023, including 36 children, solidarity with Israel. Almost two years later, this sentence seems appropriate again: In Gaza, at least 60.000 people, including 18.000 children, with bombs, other weapons and food deprivation. According to independent studies, the number of victims could even be well over 100.000 lie. A Genocide with announcement. In addition to the USA, Germany in particular is supporting the perpetrators.
Nearly two million people, about half of them minors, confined in an area smaller than the German state of Bremen, largely dependent on food aid. This was the bleak reality in Gaza long before October 7, 2023.
Due to Israeli control over land borders, maritime access, airspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum, the Gaza Strip is considered occupied. Movement of people and goods into and out of the area is very limited, leaving the population highly dependent on international aid and with few prospects for economic or personal development.
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After October 7, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointed to the brutal reality of the occupation, saying that the massacre "did not occur in a vacuum." This interpretation, as expected, was met with scandal in Germany.
But as the “war progresses” (if one ignores the bombing terror against Residential buildings, schools and hospitals because I would like to call it that) and the use of Hunger as a weapon against men, women and children, more and more people in Germany are realising that the lesson of the Holocaust can hardly be the support of another genocide:
According to a Forsa survey, 74 percent of people in Germany want the federal government to put more pressure on Israel.
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Population is far ahead of politics and media
Chancellor Friedrich Merz, however, missed the opportunity in July to join an appeal by 28 states for an immediate end to the war. Even the largely symbolic restriction of German arms deliveries to Israel met with furious resistance from his own party and the CSU. Its leader, Markus Söder, was able to ARD summer interview boast of his unconditional support for Israel without being bothered with critical questions. For example, whether 18.000 children killed aren't really enough?
On the contrary, many German media still willingly accept almost every propaganda the armed forces of a country whose Prime Minister and former Minister of Defence were convicted of war crimes with arrest warrant are wanted by the International Criminal Court. Journalist Fabian Goldmann has compiled some particularly hair-raising examples:
- Verifiable casualty figures are questioned as “Hamas information”
- The legend of “human shields"
- Perpetrator-victim reversal in a Massacre of over 100 people
- 1:1 adoption of propaganda for Attacks on hospitals
Hunger as a weapon and murders of journalists
The Israeli government meanwhile mocks the starving dead, also by means of specially flown in influencerThe “most moral army in the world” kills tens of thousands of women and children to hundreds of journalists, which they can use either as “terrorists” or in the frame “tragic mishaps“ was taken from life. A Outcry their German colleagues are largely absent.
Against this background, the shameful discussion about the partial suspension of the EU Association Agreement with Israel is downright absurd. According to the Concept of the International Responsibility to Protect It would be the task of the UN Security Council to take measures, including military intervention, to stop the genocide.
However, this fails because of the most important ally of the openly right-wing Israeli government: the USA. The Trump administration not only delivers Lots of weapons for the genocide of the Palestinians, including those heavy bombs that particularly kill many civilians, but also leads a campaign against important international institutions such as the UN and the International Criminal CourtThe massacres in Gaza continue daily.
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