PNN – In a report, Al Jazeera network discussed the reasons for Berlin government’s stubborn support of the Zionist regime and the severe repression of Palestinian supporters in this European country.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from this TV channel, the answer to the question “Why does Germany support Israel’s genocide in Gaza?” It lies in the history of this European country.
According to this media, the root of the Berlin government’s support for Tel Aviv is not, as many think, to compensate for the Nazi holocaust.
Al-Jazeera writes: No country has been as steadfast as Germany in attacking the Palestinian solidarity movement and supporting Israel’s ongoing genocide. Today we see that it is impossible to hold demonstrations in support of Palestine in Berlin or other German regions without police attacks, government intimidation and accusations of anti-Semitism from the press.
We also saw in April, the “Palestinian Assembly” as a well-known meeting of Palestinian supporters in Berlin was crushed and shut down by hundreds of police officers. Even Ghassan Abusita, the head of English at the University of Glasgow, who is of Palestinian origin, was forbidden to participate in this meeting and was sent back to England only shortly after arriving in Germany. After this incident, he was banned from entering the entire Schengen area.
Meanwhile, Abusita, as a surgeon, only intended to give a speech at the aforementioned meeting about the dire situation that Israel’s attacks have brought to the health system of the Gaza Strip.
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The former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, is also among other officials who have been banned from Wood to Germany on charges of anti-Semitic speeches, and the Berlin government has not provided any documentation to prove these claims.
According to Al Jazeera, the German government does not silence the voices of Palestinian supporters by claiming to support Jewish rights and fight against anti-Semitism. He is even hostile to anti-Zionist Jews who speak in support of the rights of the Palestinian people.
For example, Iris Hefts, a German-Israeli psychoanalyst living in Berlin, was arrested last October on charges of anti-Semitism. His crime was participating in a protest march and holding a placard that read: As an Israeli and as a Jew, stop the genocide in Gaza.
It was after this incident that more than a hundred German-Jewish artists, writers, academic figures, journalists and employees condemned the suppression of the speech of the supporters of Palestine by Germany and the accusations of anti-Semitism.
After the Cold War, the West strongly opposed German rearmament. According to the Morgenth plan of 1944 (a plan presented by Hans Joachim Morgenth, an American theoretician of German descent) and supported by Franklin Roosevelt, the President of the United States at the time, the complete elimination of the German arms industry and other industries that could be involved in the reconstruction of the country’s military was presented. In fact, Germany after the war was supposed to be a country based on agriculture and livestock industry. But with the onset of the Cold War, the West needed Germany as part of its alliance.
Therefore, in 1953, in the heat of the Cold War, the German government began to pay compensation not to Holocaust survivors, but to Israel in the form of industrial goods, including weapons. In the meantime, the West focused on the Soviet Union and finally, with Germany joining the Western military alliances and NATO in 1955, de-Nazification was quietly forgotten.
Therefore, instead of eliminating Nazism, Germany opened its arms unconditionally to Israel, and in fact, the government considers the support of Tel Aviv as the current existence of its government.
Therefore, the author notes at the end: the open arms of the German government towards Israel, not because of regret for the Holocaust, but because of the need to normalize and relativize Berlin’s relations with the outside world.