"Batter up!"
Posted on 07/31/2025 1:02:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Germany's foreign minister said on Thursday recognition of a Palestinian state should come at the end of talks on a two-state solution but Berlin would respond to any unilateral actions, after citing "annexation threats" by some Israeli ministers.
Johann Wadephul issued the statement before heading off to Israel and the Palestinian territories on a trip Berlin has billed as a fact-finding mission amid heightened alarm over starvation in Gaza.
His remarks marked Germany’s strongest warning yet to Israel as Western nations intensify efforts to exert pressure. In recent weeks, Britain, Canada and France have all signaled their readiness to recognise a Palestinian state in Israeli-occupied territory at the United Nations General Assembly this September.
However, critics argue that Germany’s response remains overly cautious, shaped by an enduring sense of historical guilt for the Holocaust and reinforced by pro-Israel sentiment in influential media circles, weakening the West’s collective ability to apply meaningful pressure on Israel.
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the krauts should just sit this one out
“Juden Raus!”
Germany could end up poking a hornet nest with a result Germany could not contain.
Yeah, Germans killing more Jews is a bad look.
Hitler finally got his alliance with the muzzyBrits.
(Germany’s foreign minister said on Thursday recognition of a Palestinian state should come at the end of talks on a two-state solution but Berlin would respond to any unilateral actions, after citing “annexation threats” by some Israeli ministers.)
Whatchoo gonna do, Germany?
(Germany, land of most of my ancestry)
Germans are gonna be busy battling the Russians, Israel as well as their own banned domestic opposition party.
Israel has done such reputational damage to themselves that even Germany is backing away from unconditional support.
But Israel is stiff-necked and stubborn. And you can’t tell them anything.
Any criticsm, and they immediately devolve to ancient “Nazi” tropes. Even though Germany has simped for them for the past 80 years.
“annexation threats” by some Israeli ministers.”
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Annexation is ‘a bridge too far” for Europe and probably for the majority of Americans too. Any forced evacuation of the Palestinians out of Gaza means we lose the midterms.
“They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites...”
>> Berlin would respond to any unilateral actions [by Israel]
I did nazi that coming! So out of character for that gentle “Liebensraum”-oriented folk...
It does seem like a turning point has been reached
>> Annexation is ‘a bridge too far” for Europe and probably for the majority of Americans too. Any forced evacuation of the Palestinians out of Gaza means we lose the midterms.
SO HAVE YOU SPOKEN!
SO SHALL IT BE!
lol. What a presumptuous, ignorant windbag.
Shoshanna should have shot the sniper several more times
I never saw the movie though - just clips
More whining?
But, where will the new German fatherland be?
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