Germany's Friedrich Merz says Israel attacks on Gaza no longer justified

Germany toughens rhetoric toward Israel, but maintains policy stance

Long a staunch supporter of Israel due to its responsibility for the Holocaust, Berlin has begun issuing increasingly firm criticisms of the war in Gaza. However, it continues to deliver arms to Israel.

Under Merz, more Continuity than Change in German Policy toward the Middle East • Stimson Center

Germany is likely to be one of the European states blocking a suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement over the Gaza war. The post Under Merz, more Continuity than Change in German Policy toward the Middle East appeared first on Stimson Center.

For decades, Germany stood firmly on the side of Israel, and its dark history of persecution of Jews has shaped the modern policy of almost unreserved support.

Gaza war testing Germany's long unconditional commitment to Israel

German Chancellor Merz in Historic Rebuke of Israel: Attacks on Civilians not Justified by Hamas Terror

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Because of the Nazi Holocaust in which six million European Jews were murdered, German governments have felt a need to provide Israel with unqualified support. Without German persecution of Jews in the 1930s and then the genocide of the 1940s, arguably Israel would never have come into existence. There were Zionist immigrants to Ottoman and then British Palestine, but not in the numbers that would have made for a s…

For decades, Germany has strongly supported Israel: its dark history of Jewish persecution during Nazism has determined its current policy of virtually unconditional support.