Posted on 04/25/2018 5:29:40 AM PDT by SJackson
‘Better to not rely on us,’ wrote Döpfner, regarding Germany providing military assistance to Israel, should she be in need.
In an eye-popping commentary in the Die Welt newspaper last week, Mathias Döpfner, the pro-Israel CEO of the Axel Springer media conglomerate in Berlin, wrote that the Jewish state should no longer depend on Germany if it is attacked and its existence is on the line.
Döpfner wrote that in the past, he would answer “Yes” to the inevitable question while visiting Israel about whether Germany would send weapons and soldiers if the Jewish state faced attacks that threatened its survival. However, over the last few years, he has started to hesitate. “Today, I would say: ‘Better to not rely on us,’” wrote Döpfner.
The CEO of Europe’s largest media company listed a bill of particulars in his commentary outlining Germany’s failure to learn the important lessons from the Holocaust. He said for the 70th year anniversary of Israel’s founding, “Germany distinguishes itself as the world master of paying lip service. The solidarity to Israel and the fight against antisemitism take place on paper.”
The media giant took Germany to task for its pacifism in the face of Syrian children being gassed.
Döpfner said one frequently hears on the streets and in offices more criticism of US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May for their bombing of military sites and airports in Syria than they do of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The US, Britain and France accused Assad of using poison gas in April that murdered scores of Syrians in the city of Douma.
He summed up the practical effect of Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture: “In remembrance we are giants. In action and help we are dwarfs.”
The Jerusalem Post reported in April that the Merkel administration continues to allow the Baden-Württemberg-based German company Krempel to conduct business with Iran, after it sold material to Iranian companies that later turned up in Iranian chemical rockets in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, .
Merkel has rejected the US administration’s push over the last few months to get Germany outlaw Hezbollah, which the US classifies as terrorist organization.
According to German intelligence reports, there are 950 Hezbollah operatives in the Federal Republic.
Döpfner blasted the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign) in Germany. He wrote “An international lobby organization calls for a boycott of Israeli products and no one gets upset in a country that 75 years ago scrawled ‘Don’t buy from Jews’ on the walls.”
The Post exposed the Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy’s vigorous defense of BDS accounts used by groups to undercut Israel’s existence.
Sammy Endzweig, the president of the pro-Israel group Keren Hayesod Germany, told the Post by email on Sunday that his organization is dissatisfied with the bank’s response to the BDS accounts it maintains.
Endzweig said he plans to send a new letter to the bank demanding clear answers about the bank’s alleged antisemitic activity.
Keren Hayesod Germany has an account with the Bank for Social Economy. On Friday, the German LGBT organization Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation pulled the plug on its account with the bank to protest the bank’s enabling of BDS. The Post sent media queries to the three members of the bank’s executive committee: Harald Schmitz, Oliver Luckner and Thomas Kahleis.
Döpfner’s criticism of German society’s failure to take action against BDS was mirrored in his criticism of anti-Israel politicians who are largely met with indifference. Tamer Sert, the chairman of the Free Democratic Party in the city of Delmenhorst, wrote on Facebook: “Terror-State Israel.”
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Not militarily, he's talking about diplomatic defense. The objective of BDS and terror groups with support in Europe being the destruction of Israel.
i wonder what has changed in the last five years. hmmmmm.
I'd say that Israel exists despite the best efforts of Germany.
Piss off, krauts. Keep humping moslem legs.
Germany builds Israeli Navy subs...
Germany has been transformed. 10% of its population is foreign born. An additional 20% of the “German” population are the children of those immigrants. The endemic German population is simply not procreating and will be a minority within Germany by 2060.The new Germany will have a far different perspective regarding its past, Jews and Israel. The man is right. Israel cannot, if it ever has, depend on German support for its well being.
And we will know that the Muzzies have taken over when those orders are no longer fulfilled, because today Germany will sell refrigerators to Eskimos if a Deutchmark can be made.
Old habits die hard for the Germans. Jews are now being told not to wear kippahs in public, congregate in places for too long and stay out of specific areas of the city at night. They’re stores have been firebombed, people murdered in cold blood and all the government can say is.....nothing.
And Jewish Americans vote for these Jew haters because they’re nature leans towards socialism for thee but not for me. As a Jew and a Zionist I am embarrassed by what I see and hear coming out of the mouths of Jewish Americans.
I bet Israel pays for them. Also, German subs don't allow Israel to exist.
That would be like saying China allows America to exist because we have a trade deficit with them and they make our computer chips or whatever they make for us.
C'mon, man. Part of the reason Israel was even founded in 1948 was because Germany went all genocidal on the Jews. Right? F Germany. And F Merkel. And F the EU.
Apparently, Germans aren't relying on Germans for their existence either.
There is an ongoing assumption that indeed, Germany has allowed Israel to build these subs as part of a Nuclear triad. That is to say that indeed, the Germans help Israel survive against insurmountable odds.
The subs are loaded with (supposedly) nukes in the Persian Gulf and if Iran goes bonkers on Tel Aviv, Tehran is smoke. It’s known as the “Samson option”...
Dopfner is pro Isreal. He is bashing his fellow Germans for NOT supporting Isreal. He is bashing Merkel for allowing German companies to do business with Iran. He does not like that Germans complain about Trump and Macron but have nothing to say about terrorist leaders.
Correct
When you abandon Christianity you never know what you will get, but it won’t be good.
Since when has anybody been able to count on Germany? Their military is a complete joke and they haven’t done anything other than a couple of token deployments in which they’ve done almost no actual fighting.
As for so-called “constructive engagement” with Iran.....I remember having this debate with one of my German professors when I was an exchange student (the first time) in Germany when Ivwas in college.
I graduated from college 25 years ago. Iran is still a menace to the whole region and is still a thuggish theocracy that oppresses it’s own people. “Constructive engagement” is just an excuse for pocketing as much profit as possible by German companies.
Same old Germany....
Germans and muslims share a common history: hatred of the Jews. Genes are stubborn things. Realistically, Israel doesn’t completely rely on any country for their existence. Not even the USA.
Why are people attacking him? He’s pro-Israel.
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Mathias Döpfner, the pro-Israel CEO of the Axel Springer media conglomerate...
2060 is an estimated year for a MAJORITY muslim population but as soon as they get to 25% all hell will break loose. Not too far off I’d guess
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