Genocides are only a concern when they're in the past

mpr21
October 28th

In June, Annalena Baerbock, a leader of the Greens and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the German government, gave a speech on former African colonies (1). In it, she said that her country had a “historical responsibility” for the “genocide inflicted on the Herero and Nama people” of Namibia at the beginning of the last century.

Baerbock, a minister with Nazi ancestors, considers the famous “holocaust” to be the worst crime the world has ever known. Germany must face its past, says the minister, but the present is another matter. Current genocides do not count and it will be another hundred years from now before bad conscience, guilt and remorse set in.

So far this century, the worst crime known to humanity is that of Gaza, but the problem with current crimes is that they are not yet history and to atone for guilt they must cease to be political. Crimes are only acknowledged when they are harmless, and when nothing can be done to prevent them. Never a moment before.

Today, Germany is jointly responsible for the war crimes Israel is committing in Gaza. In the past three months, the government to which Baerbock belongs has approved arms shipments to Israel worth more than $100 million.

About a third of the weapons imported by Israel between 2019 and 2023 came from Germany. Only the United States has been a larger external supplier of arms to Israel during that period.

In public, the Greens hypocritically claim that they will not approve any more arms deliveries to Israel and - with consumate absurdity - demand a written guarantee that German weapons will not be used to commit genocide in Gaza.

For his part, German Chancellor Scholz says something different: his government will continue to send weapons to Israel, without the need for written or verbal guarantees. And the Greens have not opposed their chancellor on this, at least not in public.

In addition, Germany is protecting Israel from the accusation of genocide. When South Africa went to the International Court of Justice claiming that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, the Berlin government was quick to indicate that it would intervene on Israel’s behalf. Baerbock herself said in January that she did not view Israel as committing genocide in its war against the Palestinians in Gaza, Instead, she describes their actions as “self-defence”.

In an interview with Deutsche Welle in November last year, Baerbock explained that “we are determined to fulfil our responsibility as Germans”. This is the bad conscience that has been manufactured in post-war Germany, where Israel is an extension of the Federal Republic itself, sanctified by the expression “Israel’s security is Germany’s raison d’état” (3).

In short, the German Nazis have replaced their brown uniforms with Green ones. 

 Notes

(1) https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/rede-kolonialismus/2660400
(2) https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/germany-approves-over-100m-arms-exports-israel
(3) https://www.dw.com/en/baerbock-israel-has-to-protect-its-population/video-67512516

Source: https://mpr21.info/solo-preocupan-los-genocidios-cuando-ya-no-tienen-remedio/