Germany's Foreign Office: No Mention of Hamas

Transatlantic Intelligencer features Matthias Kuentzel's lucid analysis of Germany's Israel-Palestinian policy under the helm of Joschka Fischer.

Excerpts:

...none of the 56 Middle East press releases published by the German Foreign Office between January 2001 and November 2003 contains a single reference to Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Hizbollah. (...)

Astonishingly, the German government has persistently chosen to ignore an element that is all too familiar from Germany's own past: namely, rabid anti-Semitism, such as that which gets continuously expressed by Hamas. It is symptomatic, for instance, that the Hamas Charter has yet to be translated into German. (...)

German foreign policy under the direction of Joschka Fischer has not merely refused to join the battle. It has deliberately turned a blind eye, proceeding as if hating Jews were a normal feature of the Oriental world – like hookahs or mosques. Consequently, the “red-green” government has not treated the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad as combatants waging war on Israel. Islamist suicide terror

has instead been presented as a false, though, in the final analysis, comprehensible reaction to poverty and hopelessness. “It is not the violence of the second Intifada which has caused the failure of the peace process,” the Green Party member of parliament Christian Sterzing remarked in a discussion of the Fischer proposal, “it is rather the failed political process which has caused the violence.” (...)To the nonchalance displayed by German foreign policy toward the anti-Jewish suicide attacks, there corresponded energetic support for Yasser Arafat. After the SPD/Green government came to power in September 1998, Germany became of all states the single most important supplier of funds to the Palestinian Authority. In per capita terms, no other population group in the world receives more substantial German aid.

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Comments

[Sock Puppet of Doom]

This shouldn't be a suprise. The Green's have no problem with any of the islamo-fascists or Palestinian terror groups. This is true of the left, communists and socalists in the US as well. They share core ideology. If they had their way most of the west would live as the Palestinians do.

[Sisyphos]

Nowadays it's the left-wingers that are the worse and the most fanatic opponents of Israel. The roles are assigned. Israel is the bad guy and will always be. It seems to me that some people just need that. I think for them it's a way of feeling better themselves. If therefore you have to choose terrorists as allies, why not?

http://sisyphosmount.blogspot.com/2005/09/its-been-five-years-now.html

[PacRim Jim]

Those familiar with colors know that
RED + GREEN = YELLOW

[FranzisM]

The German foreign office also is anticipating the decisions of the new government:

China will continue to give priority to its relations with Germany and is willing to make coordinate efforts to deepen relations with the country, a senior Chinese official has said.

During a meeting on Wednesday with Klaus Scharioth, State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign Office, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui said that bilateral ties are in good shape.

For his part, Scharioth said that Germany and China enjoy a very close relationship in political, economic and other fields, according to a press release issued by the Chinese embassy in Berlin.

The new German government will stick to the one-China policy, which is shared by all main parties in Germany, Scharioth said.

Never mind that CDU, FDP and Greens oppose Gerhard Schröder's appeasement of China. It was only Joschka Fischer who sacrificed his party's criticism of China to the prolongation of the "Red-Green project". But Klaus Scharioth already seems to know that Gerhard Schröder will be able to continue his China and Russia policies.