(May 23, 2024 / JNS) - Germany will detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant against him, a German government spokesman said Wednesday....
Thats simply not true. Its just that Germany has rules against demanding the extinction of the state of Israel – you know – due to historical reasons and mainly against Nazis.
The claim ‘from the river to the sea’ calls for the extinction of Israel, because it calls for a Palestinian state between Jordan and Mediterranean, therefore Israel has be desolved. Therefore ‘from the river to the sea’ is a prohibited phrase in Germany and you are not allowed to chant it at demonstrations. If you do so, the demonstration might get cancelled.
Freedom of speech in Germany is just more restricted compared to the US. There are a lot of things you are not allowed to say – mainly things associated with Nazis.
A viral video shows people singing racist lyrics and performing Nazi salutes at a club on the northern German island of Sylt. The club has condemned the incident...
In comparison to other countries far right positions are far less common. The post-war generation really changed the society. For example the far right AFD has less than 15 % of public votes (compared to ~30 % in other European countries) and racism – while present – is far less common than for example in China, Russia, US or Japan.
Its not perfect, but the fact that people shouting far right phrases making national news, shows that the german society hasn’t shifted as far to the right as other countries.
There was actually news that an Egyptian spy manipulated the peace process. His task was to talk with Israel and Hamas regarding a ceasefire. He manipulated the Hamas offer – which Israel accepted – without talking to Hamas with the goal to make Israel back off from the agreement.
So far no one knows why he did that. If he was Putin’s puppet or if it was orders from Egypt. But it shines a bad light onto Egypt’s role.
Thats simplifying the problem. You know what helps with getting better with EVs? Subsidies and cheap credits. And China does that. We can now start to race which countries and tax payers give EV manufacturers the most money or we can ban companies who aren’t playing fair.
So yes, get better at EVs is a valid damand. But if your competitor gets an unfair advantage, you simply can’t reach his level, no matter how hard you are trying.
Thanks for the nuanced comment. Of course the signs don’t only say ‘stop killing of children in Gaza’, but often ‘from the river to the sea’, which of course is antisemitism. Still, the way the IDF behaves has to be condemned – and more and more countries are acting. The support of Europe is crumbling due to Israels actions.
You can call for anti colonialism without calling for the eradication of Israel. And no, Israel is not a colonial state. Jews have lived there since forever and Jews have not taken part in the colonialism, but instead were victims of the Europeans, too.
I don’t like the Zionist position either. Both people lived in that area for thousands of years and either they get their shit together and live in a single country without discrimination against Palestinians and Arabs or there will be two states. But neither ‘from the river to the sea’ nor ‘west of Jordan’ are unproblematic statements.
Thats no colonialism, but simply contrary to international law. Also your statement is BS, since the jews ‘from all over the world’ lived in that area before, but where expelled during Ottoman times.
Its actually also a media problem. For example, the largest Tiktok account of a german politician belongs to Maximilian Krah, of the far right party AFD. Just yesterday it was revealed that his personal assistant is actually a Chinese spy. Krah himself voiced a lot of pro-Chinese opinions before, like being pro annexation of Taiwan and denying the genocide on the uigyurs.
This begs the question if his Tiktok popularity is based on a non-biased algorithm or if the CCP made a deal with him, boosting his Tiktok popularity in exchange for being pro-China.
Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft. Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war
I personally think the role of the soviet union in WW2 is underappreciated, too! But thats my point: soviet union, not Russia! The majority of victims in WW2 where Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, Poles, Belarusians and Lithuanians – the same countries now fighting Russia (except for Belarusia)!
Russia never was the good guy and Putin deserves nothing of the praise for the soviet unions role in WW2. Maybe invite the Poles, Ukrainians or Baltics insteac!
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday that Beijing would “strengthen strategic cooperation” with Moscow during a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov....
Thats not how embassies work. Embassies aren’t a ‘you get out of jail free’ card. Hitler or Putin couldn’t just hide at an embassy and thats it.
Itt works in a way, that one state offers a second one a piece of land under its protection. That piece of land belongs to the second state as long as the first state allows it. If they want to claim it back, they have to go through a formal process.
Thats why the actions of Ecuador are unheard of: they offered Mexico a piece of their land under their protection. And then they violated it.
Israel attacked an embassy of Iran under Syria’s protection. Thats not off the limits but of course can be seen as an attack from both countries.
After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs (arstechnica.com)
Germany: We will execute ICC warrant against Netanyahu (www.jns.org)
(May 23, 2024 / JNS) - Germany will detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant against him, a German government spokesman said Wednesday....
German police investigate 'racist' video on vacation island (www.dw.com)
A viral video shows people singing racist lyrics and performing Nazi salutes at a club on the northern German island of Sylt. The club has condemned the incident...
On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers (arstechnica.com)
An international institution doing something based for once (sopuli.xyz)
Growth as an end (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
US announces higher China tariffs, including 100% for EVs (www.dw.com)
„Hätten sich Ökonomen nicht eingemischt, wären wir zwanzig Jahre weiter“ (krautreporter.de) German
Tariffs on China aren't the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is (electrek.co)
Police raid far-right German MEP’s office in China espionage probe (www.politico.eu)
Spy investigation into the AfD’s Maximilian Krah and his assistant ramps up in Brussels....
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Produktion von Fleischersatz 2023 um 16,6 Prozent gestiegen (www.tagesschau.de) German
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft (www.bloomberg.com)
Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft. Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war
Vladimir Putin not welcome at French ceremony for 80th anniversary of D-day (www.theguardian.com)
France says Russia can be represented but president will not be invited because of war in Ukraine...
China and Russia agree to boost ties in opposition to West (www.dw.com)
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday that Beijing would “strengthen strategic cooperation” with Moscow during a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov....
Are embassies off-limits? Ecuadorian and Israeli actions suggest otherwise − and that sets a dangerous diplomatic precedent (theconversation.com)
Germany faces genocide case over Israel weapon sales (www.bbc.co.uk)
Nicaragua accused Berlin of “facilitating” genocide by selling over $300m worth of weapons to Israel....