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Why is Germany so Pro-Israel?
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Since October 7th, Germany has been one of Israel’s staunchest allies, with widespread support coming from both sides of the political spectrum. So in this video, we’ll break down the history of their relations and whether it’s politically sustainable.
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1 – https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/64264/how-germanys-history-shapes-its-relationship-with-israel#:~:text=In%20March%202008%2C%20Angela%20Merkel,essence%20of%20the%20German%20state.
2 – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/04/germany-israel-hamas-war-peace
3 – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/28/germany-israel-right-left-turkey-truth
4 – https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aussenpolitik/laenderinformationen/israel-node/israel/228212
5 – https://blog.nli.org.il/en/reparations-agreement/
6 – https://www.ft.com/content/1a09622b-91cf-4527-a887-f8f328bd7cad
7 – https://en.haberler.com/germany-condemns-israeli-plans-to-displace-1914561/
8 – https://apnews.com/article/germany-antisemitism-attacks-jews-israel-hamas-berlin-1000dd76d3a4c4fcc75ea28e4bae0b89
9 – https://www.dw.com/en/german-state-citizenship-applicants-must-support-israel/a-67651248
10 – https://www.ft.com/content/e415c935-690f-4340-91ee-0d0bfedef7b2
11 – https://yougov.co.uk/international/articles/26131-70-germans-say-country-has-atoned-nazi-past
12 – https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germanys-role-in-the-middle-east-foreign-minister-baerbock-sees-an-opening-for-mediation-a-8709141d-3213-4bd8-a50a-c4275b209621
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Context
03:20 German Government’s Position
05:11 Why is Germany so Pro-Israel?
07:20 Incogni
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@_selim_38
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
As a German born and raised in Germany I can say: we are calling our FM „Fähnchen im Wind“ witch means flag in the wind because she hasn’t a consistent political opinion especially in issues like Israel Palestine
@_selim_38
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
But why are the Golan heights shown as Israeli territory when it’s actually Syrian by international law. It’s occupied and Britain doesn’t recognise the Israeli sovereignty over Golan either🫠
@prembulex6833
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Antisemitic, everything is antysemitic for Israel.
@SimoneDesignsGaming
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Good for Germany! Idiots who just left the school have been brainwashed with false ideals which are to support all criminals. Total freedom is a LIE. International laws are abuse of intelligence. But you will soon come to that conclusion all on your own.
@aristidesg11
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Germany has no option than to support Israel. It is a historical debt from Holocaust. No discussion about that.
@Nick-zp3ub
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Birds of a feather flock together
@maximmeyer1901
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
This episode clearly stands out in quality
@blitzy3244
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
88k views lol
@MP-ut6eb
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Because N word people likes other N word people 😉
@0fficialdregs
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Fuck that.
@ordinarynet6694
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
My family has had route's to Israel since the beggining, They prayed in Hebrew in europe and always prayed torwards Jerusalem. The Notion that the Holy land belongs to some Arab's who conquered it some 400 years ago and call themselves "Native". The Holy Land and Jerusalem are Holy to all three Religion's and should be open to all three religion's, But Jew's have 0 countries to their own and have been regularly hunted down in both Muslim and Christian countries before and after Zionism. The holy Land should belong to the people who made it holy in the first place, Its a shame alot of Muslim's cannot begin to grasp this idea and would rather have generations of their children die in endless war then come to an agreement in Israel (Agreements which would have given Jews only 49% of the land that did not Legally belong to anyone)
@tancreddehauteville764
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Why is Germany so pro-Israel? The answer is so obvious that it need not be even stated.
@CliffCardi
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Okay…..elephant in the room, much?
@user-sd3hq2dt5n
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
"despite the fact that thousands of civilians died" its not a proof of war crimes, only killing civilians in the perpuse of killing civilians is a war crime. There are military lawyers in every war room that orders strikes, that their purpose is checking that the strike is legal, which means it has a military target, and that there if there are expected civilian casualties that they are proportional for the cause. People imagening random airstrikes on the city dont understand modern equipment. Every weapon platform in israeli military whether its f15 or an artillery cannon can shoot in precision of 5 meters max. Its also really a great way to spend all your money, especially when we are running out of shells. The targets come from intelligence or troops on the ground ordering the strike. Gaza is still a very populated area and any war in it would cause a lot civilian casualties. Its inevitable.
The really messed up part of it is that hamas also knew that on October 7s. Well their leader, sinuwarr served 5 life sentences in Israeli jail all of them for killing Palestinian "cooperators". Thats the five that court was able to prove. He was known as the butcer of khan yunis, and was released in the 2011 prisoner exchange. He wanted israel to kill them so the saudi peace deal will die. He doesnt give a fuck. Now he can free more terrorists for the hostages.
@user-nn8cw6nv6g
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
3:45
WHAT. THE. FU CK. This video is full of bs, but that ""plan"" is just something you made up. It's like saying that Germany wants to invade Poland because someone in the AFD ever suggested that.
@paolomartinelli345
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
I feel like It Is about what happened in the 30s of the 20th century
@rainbowotic
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
they also cut funding to the UNRWA after baseless allegations by israel targeting a few of their members
@PeleSahota
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Funny how neither Germany nor Austria created a jewish homeland in their own territories… Austria accepted very little responsibility for the holocaust and both countries are more than happy calling Palestinians terrorists, militants, rapists and engaging Göbels style dehumanisation in the service of Isisrael.
All German & Austrian press, media & politics is built on historical ignorance, cultural backwardness & gullible acceptance of anything Isisrael say.
It shouldnt surprise anyone that Germany has accepted blind duty to Israel, even though Hamas and all Palestinians clearly know Israel better, and the whole world can see 'never again' (nie wieder) didnt mean this at all to Germany and Austria; it basically means: never again for the new Übermensch but always again for the Untermensch (anyone called 'terrorist' by US and Isisraeli propaganda).
@tilaNmanx
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Yes I wonder why
@OZOZOZ968
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Because the past they now lick ass because they feel forever in debt to Jews because of the previous generations sins .
Forgive but not forget Germany stop apologising !
@Lol779
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Arab israeli war not palestine war wtf man😂
@geofflepper3207
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
German political leaders feel guilty about how German Nazis
invaded and occupied the lands of people they saw as inferior
and oppressed those people and committed war crimes and genocide
so those German politicians give unequivocal support to
Zionists behaving like Nazis and invading and occupying
the land of people they see as inferior and oppressing those people
and committing war crimes and genocide.
And in some bizarre twist of logic they think that makes sense.
If German politicians and other European politicians felt guilty
about how their countries had badly treated and persecuted
European Jewish people for centuries then they should
have given their own European land to European Jewish people
for a Jewish state, not envouraged European Jewish people
to invade Palestine and steal the land of Palestinians.
@MyApps-uf1dz
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
How do you explain Germany's completely absurd support for apartheid, genocide and war crimes? Corruption? Utmost stupidity? I don't get to it. This seems to be a nation of murderers and sheep – first they killed Jews, now they support the killing of Palestinians – they just do whatever they're told and whatever fills their pockets.
@Moroccanman
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
The reason is simple, The zionist and the allies propaganda influenced Gemrany's media and educational system after WW2 and made next German generations guilty of something they didn't do like they are born with a sin, and that make them try to avoid anything that could upset the Zionist jews, the irony is that many zionist jews opress and dehumanize Palestinians the same way Nazis did to them.
@nosferatuoddz7974
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Why is this comment section mainly focused on her pronunciation of German words rather than the actual topic itself
@hermaeusmora2945
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
It's hilariously ironic isn't it? In the 40's the claims in Germany that the Jews were secretly controlling the world and the media and all that…well those were just anti-Semitic "propaganda". But look what we have here today? A Germany that bends over backwards to kiss Israel's ass lest they be labelled "anti-semitic" or Israel screams that Germany is doing another holocaust (because Israel's use of that tactic definitely isn't abusive propaganda…) against the Jews.
@Rigoosh
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
The map shown at 3:08 is very misleading. (from left to right) The first 2 maps depicting the land are from the British mandate showing in black the land privately owned by Jewish people and where most of the Jewish population was settled (the local arab population has sold it to the Jews). Still, the total land is not an independent "Palestine" but population centers under the British mandate. The 3rd map has 2 problems, 1st The land in the north marked in blue was under Israeli control after the local arab population (back then they hadn't identified as Palestinians, that only came up later in the 1950s when the "Palestinian national identity" was born) and the surrounding arab nations declared war on the newly independent Israel in 1947/48, 2nd The West Bank and the Gaza Strip were under Jordanian and Egyptian control respectively, not Palestinian like the map suggests. the 4th map is after the Oslo Accords of the '90s, still showing Palestinian control in the north (which is false, it has been a part of Israel since 1948) and the black land mass in the West Bank is the agreed Israeli control areas in the Oslo Accords. The map is trying to show the concentration of Jewish and nonJewish (not necessarily Palestinians) populations in the land but it is doing it in a very misleading way.
This kind of misinformation can be very harmful to many people and encourages antisemitism propaganda, especially when you present it like that out of context. I hope you can correct that mistake, I usually rely on your channel and trust your fact-checking abilities but seeing stuff like that really harms your credibility.
@friedlmitderleerentasche386
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
The Germans have a guilt complex…. The idea of exterminating 6 million people has to be born first – how can something like that happen? I think even the Germans no longer understand this.
@Bulletproof_ice_cream
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
It's probably fueled by the fact that a lot of Germans f***ing hate Muslims
@tobiasharstel7941
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
was one video without any mistakes like usually on TLDR, but you still missed an important point. Vergangenheitsbewältigung might have been the major driver in the past but today this relation has simply grown into a wide spread partnership on any imaginable level.
Science, Culture, Economy, Security, we are dependend on each otger and frankly i dont know many other countrties outside Europe that we have such a deep relationship on so many levels with. We had build the isrealy navy and they now deliver us the arrow 3 ABM system we need against Russia. As we say in german, Eine hand wäscht die andere (one hand washes the other)
@hydra7427
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
It's literally illegal to say anything bad about Israel in Germany.
@RudolfStern3399
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
„Why is Germany still backing up Israel“ .
For a „newsletter“ your opinion is very showing .
Germany and the western world backs up Israel because we are stand with whats right in this world 🇪🇺🇩🇪❤️🇮🇱
@Tyln93
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
Because Germany has a very beautiful and happy history with Jews. (1939-1945) 😄😄
And Europe is under the control of Rothschild Family!!!
@twocentcoop9683
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
"increasingly sympathetic towards Palestine" (shows barely 10%)
@bezkintsakintsa357
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
82 billion dollars reward to displace almost a million people, then the money goes to people involved in war crimes ( land theft ) this is insane, the holocaust victims would be horrified what is being done in their names. Isreals ruling class is absolutely disgusting
@breakfast00club..11
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
America
@dazpatreg
February 17, 2024 at 11:52 am
One word: guilt