Report: Germany considering stopping 'unconditional support' of Israel

[Luiz 4,253]

 

Senior politicians of both ruling parties, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the joint Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union, told Der Spiegel that there is a concern in Berlin that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "instrumentalizing" Germany's friendship.

"Israel's current policies are not contributing to the country remaining Jewish and democratic," Norbert Röttgen, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, told the weekly.

"We must express this concern more clearly to Israel," added Röttgen, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, Germany's parliament.

According to Der Spiegel, an evidence of a change in the German Foreign Ministry's attitude towards Israel is the refusal of then-foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to grant Netayahu's request to raise objections to a document authored by the EU's foreign ministers that criticized the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

"I'm counting on you," Netanyahu is quoted to have told Steinmeier at the end of his call to the German foreign minister.

Steinmeier, however, ignored the Israeli prime minister's pleas and threw Germany's support of the EU document, which states that "Settlements are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible."

According to the weekly, this incident points to the weakening influence of Israel's friends within the German Foreign Ministry.

The Chancellery has also reportedly lost hope that Netanyahu would work to advance the peace process.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4797661,00.html

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Netanyahu is a mess   ... Does he think people are going to stand for illegal settlements? 

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,366]

10 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

Netanyahu is a mess   ... Does he think people are going to stand for illegal settlements? 

 Apparently so.  Netanyahu has never really cared about a two state solution, let's just be real here... 

 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

2 minutes ago, En_Sabah_Nur said:

 Apparently so.  Netanyahu has never really cared about a two state solution, let's just be real here... 

Oh I know. Israel needs a less partisan leader if it hopes to solve its problems.

[Miracle 14,068]

Israel support should stop RIGHT NOW!

 

[lego 44,165]

I'm shocked. 

[PaperIz 7,354]

I was always raised to support Israel unconditionally  christian household idk lol. but of course sometimes they suck. You can't always support everyone or everything. It has to depend on their actions.

[River 127,318]

Netanyahu is a mess.. the point is that he's doing nothing on purpose.. he's keeping the situation messy so people will vote for him and he will stay the "king of Israel" with his little Miss Piggy wife..

Germany can complain until the zombie apocalypse will start, Netanyahu will not listen to them.. oh and he will use the holocaust against them at any moment just to shut them up..

[Melech 9,900]

7 hours ago, River said:

Netanyahu is a mess.. the point is that he's doing nothing on purpose.. he's keeping the situation messy so people will vote for him and he will stay the "king of Israel" with his little Miss Piggy wife..

Germany can complain until the zombie apocalypse will start, Netanyahu will not listen to them.. oh and he will use the holocaust against them at any moment just to shut them up..

Though I think Germany should still support in cases of security