Germany says will intervene at The Hague on Israel’s behalf, blasts genocide charge
www.timesofisrael.com
Berlin suggests will intrude in South Africa's primary case in which ICJ will decide if Israel violated Genocide Convention; PM speaks with Scholz, praises 'stance on side of truth'
      • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
        23·
        10 months ago

        Germany’s a wanna be settler colonial country, fortunately they failed in WWII. In general they’re just floundering imperialists like the rest of the west.

        • relay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          They’re trying to succeed this time in WWIII. They’ll likely fail though.

            • relay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              Last time they couldn’t build a Lebensraum style empire colonizing the baltics/Russia. Helping fascist Isn’treal get away with genocide is only “fair” in their eyes. Colonial powers will see the limitations of what brutality can give them.

    • AdeptusPrimaris@lemmy.ml
      11·
      10 months ago

      You know, someone joked about the ICJ finding Israel guilty and setting off a cascade of events eventually leading to… the US declaring that they’re invading the Hague, Germany giving Israel a base to join the attack on the Hague. NATO breaking and ww3.

      I thought it was funny at the time, but damn i didn’t think that Germany would be defending Israel this hard against documented crimes against humanity

      • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        10 months ago

        The worst part is that none of this is really a “defense”. Israel is killing innocent people, they know it, we know it, everyone knows it. The only response they care to give is that the alternative is that it’ll happen to them, which is impossible on several levels anyway. This “trial” is basically just the West vs South Africa in a tug of war over who gets to declare right and wrong.

  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    10 months ago

    Archive link for anyone who doesn’t want to give clicks to zionist publications: https://archive.ph/Wv8qB

    So apparently this is using some sort of legal mechanism in the court for them to appear and give evidence/rebuttal on the case.

    I really have to hope it doesn’t work and they don’t bog it down for 6 months to allow the zionists time to complete their genocide and destroy more evidence.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    10 months ago

    Somewhere I really think these people believe they are on the right side of this. Because even though the capitalist overlords have their own benefits of Israel existing, defending it this much surely isn’t worth the PR drama, right? Like, it’s one thing not taking a stance on the topic like many other European countries do, but to actively defend Israel this hard is something else.

    • porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      10 months ago

      They’re just worried about the possibility of having to accept Jewish refugees back into Germany if the settler-colony fails. Any “PR drama” they’re getting from this is only from countries outside the imperial core, and none of those countries will do anything for fear of US intervention.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      10 months ago

      It’s easy to imagine the rich and powerful as this group of evil villains sitting in a dark boardroom somewhere and plotting sinisterly, but the reality is that they are just people, and people want to think that they are good guys, doing the right thing. People are also really good at justifying their own actions, and convincing themselves that they are doing things for moral reasons, and not for personal benefit.