Martin Henze: Enough is enough!
The socialist government in Berlin appears to be withdrawing military support from Israel.
Every German government and every German chancellor was committed to Germany’s special historical responsibility for Israel’s security.
The background to this was the bestial genocide of Israelites, ethnic groups and political dissidents.
The German raison d’état towards Israel concerns:
- firstly, it can be read as an obligation to make a German contribution to Israel’s military support or superiority;
- secondly, it can be understood as a task for the German government to work towards shaping a regional environment that favours Israel’s security. This concerns the Arab-Israeli conflict, which must be moderated and resolved peacefully in the interests of both Arabs and Israelis.
- but also, and above all, the international negotiations aimed at preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapons programme. Finally, thirdly, it includes Germany’s policy in international organisations, which is equally aimed at Israel’s security.
No one will primarily consult Germany if Israel’s security is directly threatened by an aggressor – not the Israeli government, which has such military capabilities at its disposal that the country’s territorial integrity or political sovereignty are not seriously jeopardised, and certainly not a potential aggressor.
The secure existence of Israel is in Germany’s national interest and is therefore part of our reason of state.
The refusal of the socialist Federal Government in Berlin to support Israel and the disastrous foreign policy and the moderate treatment of Hamas and the parallel lack of support for Fatah by the current government have probably led to a further escalation in the Middle East, now also between Israel and Germany.
The socialist Scholz, who seems to be thinking only of his election campaign, is throwing the good principles of Kurt Schumacher’s SPD overboard with his current refusal, just as he is doing in Ukraine.
I quote Gerhard Schröder: “I want to make it quite clear: Israel will get what it needs to maintain its security, and it will get it when it needs it.”
As we can see, socialists cannot be trusted.
It is time for the German people to react: Economy in chaos, education policy and defence capability on the verge of collapse, infrastructure in chaos, bridges and roads being closed or collapsing, unemployment and short-time working on the rise, international investors leaving Germany, AfD and BSW, pro-Moscow actors, growing stronger, Green-Red politics in Berlin sinking into chaos and now the betrayal of the reason of state against Israel.
Enough is enough.
New elections and a centrist government by the CDU/CSU, which already rescued Germany from the mire of history in 1949, are now indispensable.