Yesterday, in acknowledging his country’s defeat in the bid for the UN Security Council, the German Foreign Minister attributed the result to the fact that Berlin had taken positions in solidarity with Israel. He also stated the obvious: that Germany’s contemporary stance continues to be shaped by the historical memory of the atrocities committed against Jews by a far-right government it once had.
What is truly extraordinary is that, in saying this, the political leader seems not to realize that he is implicitly admitting that this attempt to come to terms with a past crime leads Germany to turn a blind eye to the massacre that Israel has been carrying out in Gaza, as well as to its expansionist policy in the West Bank and Lebanon—as if historical guilt could produce a kind of inverted complicity in the face of crimes against humanity of a similar nature, as the International Criminal Court, of which Germany is a member, unequivocally recognizes, and in the face of repeated violations of international law.
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