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Implying everything up to this point was justified.
I guess even the German stomach for genocide has limits.
not a chance that this is on moral grounds
It must be coming from German society.
The average German has finally had enough and the Chancellor is concerned Germans might become ungovernable. There's only so much repression they can do before the repression, itself, creates further resistance.
They probably saw this:
Translation: “Are the military acts of Israel against Hamas justified?”
They probably just got scared of go against most other European countries, because merz definitely does not give a single damn about palestine.
you know that a country is sehr demokratisch when 80% of the people are against the official enforced policy
Democracy is when your only option is rule by people that the majority hate, who do things the majority don't want.
They cant allow people to form their own opinions on that matter, especially if they diverge from elite opinions. Thats why even in 2019 they literally cut the live-feed during an interview once a Palestinian man called out Israeli oppression. And libs wonder why their "democratic organs" are delegitimized and "misinformation" is widespread.
A recent poll has found that Germans just want to go back to genocides happening quietly, not where people might actually hear about them regularly.
Sample size: my parents
I haven't seen any evidence there's widespread outrage in Germany; the government, media, bureaucracy, police and schools are 99% supportive of the genocide
Protests seem limited to a couple dozen people to occasionally a couple hundred spread out ineffectively across the country
Over a thousand people took part in the most recent protest I can find. But, yeah, that's still not very many.
I guess the Chancellor got spooked?
I have no idea what caused him to change his stance otherwise.
There's a recent video of an injured child stumbling through flames after Israel bombed a school, it's became viral everywhere except the west
The German slime didn't change his stance, his statement is just a one time release to offset international outrage should the video become viral IN THE WEST like the burning videos of last year
I'm going to regret asking but where is this video
I think it's on the worldnews comm
It was sickening.
I'm assuming the guy got some non-public info on how that ICJ case is doing and doesn't think it ends well if you have to explain how no, actually, we don't give a shit about the geopolitical order. I think that'd be a tough sell to lots of germans, you don't really get the kind of jingoistic approaches like, say, the US or Britain that much, it's much more along the lines of being "the only sane man" doing technocratic aid
Maybe I’m overly cynical, but maybe EU is going to withdraw support for Israel to use as leverage against Trump admin in their dumb tariff negotiations.
Doubt, it’s definitely going to be more hidden away. Especially with the ICJ ruling soon.
No fucking chance. The EU is already bending the knee