"In Arab countries it could make us look as if we're the handmaidens of the United States and Israel," Ernst Uhrlau, the head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said.
But being "handmaidens" of Saddam Hussein and Hamas, that's a-okay to the Germans. Good job guys. Maybe you need to tell the Arabs it was America, not the Arabs, that liberated your country in the 40s and spent our precious national treasure rebuilding Germany.