One of the few states that blindly support Israel in whatever it does in Gaza is Germany, to the extent that it refuses to obey the arrest of the international criminal court for Netanyahu if the Israeli prime minister visits the country. This attitude is due to the “memory culture” a policy established after the end of World War II, so that the country apologizes for the Germans’ crimes against the Jews. Since then, all Germany has been filled with monuments of the Holocaust, introducing special activities that teach young Germans for the crimes committed by their ancestors. According to the Economist, Germany’s attempt to receive remission of sins has led to a German peculiarity: treatment of Israel’s security as staatsräson, or “speech of the state”. This term entered the German dictionary in 2008, when Angela Merkel used it in a speech in Kneset. Following the attacks of 7 October 2023, Saltz, […]
Source: News Beast
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