• celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I was listening to German news this morning, and you could hear the anchor drooling when they were speaking about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Like, holy fuck, can we stop pretending all of this is normal and okay?

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          1 hour ago

          Most European far right parties are backed by israel

          2021 - Far-Right Parties in Europe Have Become Zionism’s Greatest Backers

          Last year, Yair Netanyahu, son of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, became the literal poster boy for the German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).

          Netanyahu’s eldest son had provoked controversy when he called for the abolition of the “evil” European Union, which, he argued, was an enemy to Israel and “all European Christian countries.”

          Far-right support for Israel is not unique to Germany but is developing across Europe. Alongside the AfD’s Alice Weidel, far-right leaders like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France, Nigel Farage in the UK, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary have all openly sided with Israel.

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          15 hours ago

          You have basically two sites. One loves the fact that Arabs and Jews kill each other and want the war to continue. They support ending German aid to Palestine and so forth. The other wants to end US warmongering in the region, caused by US support of Islamic terrorist in attacking Israel. Yes I did not mix that up, the US according to some in the AFD Biden supports Hamas.

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            Thanks for this. I have a German friend that can’t talk about this without whining about how it’s upsetting and oh the jewish people in Germany are reminded of the holocaust and they’re afraid now and Hamas aren’t perfect victims and nobody is allowed to protest because protests are antisemitic so we just have to let Israel flatten Palestine and continue their apartheid with our tax dollars. And oh man I don’t really know anything about it but I still disagree with you and my perfect english is suddenly not good enough to explain my non position because everyone just wants to be right.

            I stopped talking to that German friend, but I’d like to know how to get past that brick wall if we ever do talk again.

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            4 hours ago

            But afaik they support continuing aid to Israel. That ensures the greatest suffering inflicted on the greatest number of muslims

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            13 hours ago

            OK, I wasn’t sure about German politics and thought that maybe AFD is not so bad, if they are against the establishment and so on.

            Now I’m sure they are the same shit, just boiled.