This is Germany

The German state is finding it rather difficult to let go off its Nazi proclivity, which has reared its ugly head during the Gaza genocide.

I woke up this morning to a friend’s text about his argument with a seemingly German diplomat in China. He wrote about her justifying every Israeli atrocity in Gaza because of Hamas’s “slaughter” on October 7. She even claimed — like Joe Biden did — to have seen videos of Israeli babies being burnt in ovens, and when my friend asked her to provide proof, she said she couldn’t find them right then — not unlike the ZAKA fraud Yossi Landau making a damn fool of himself on camera looking for non-existent photos of never-burnt children. She kept hammering about how October 7 was a Holocaust and needs to be condemned by everyone. But that’s not all. My friend wrote to me that she thinks that the Chinese are brainwashed by their government into supporting Palestinians and the said brainwashing makes China akin to Nazi Germany.

That’s just one example of the German lunacy. The very day my friend messaged me, I saw updates from

Hebh Jamal

’s social media accounts about German authorities disrupting a pro-Palestine event in Berlin.

Then I saw a video of Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu-Sitta, who spent 43 days in Gaza during the early days of the Israeli genocide and witnessed the mid-November rampage at Al-Shifa Hospital first-hand, recounting the heavy-handedness of German authorities while he was making his way to the same event to speak about his account of the Israeli Nazi horrors. He was prevented from attending the Palestine Congress, packed back to the UK, and warned against even sharing a Zoom or a Facetime link or a video of his lecture to the conference in Berlin as that would apparently violate German law.

Within the first month of the ongoing genocide, I wrote in these pages about Germany’s reprehensible and authoritarian behaviour towards pro-Palestinian activists, including the hounding of Dutch footballer Anwar El Ghazi and the subsequent termination of his employment contract by his German club, FSV Mainz, for the dastardly crime of calling genocide by its name; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s persistent statements fully backing the Zionist atrocities in Gaza and the accompanying unfettered supply of weapons to help commit them; and the attacks, arrests, and criminalisation of pro-Palestine protesters (including conscientious Jews) across Germany.

Nothing has changed in Germany’s stance in the five months since. If anything, the German authorities have become even more deranged in their rhetoric and brazen in their support of the live-streamed Gaza Holocaust, notwithstanding the fact that the 10,000 Palestinian death toll from November 5 (when the article was published) has since risen to over 33,000.

There’s something about the twisted moth-to-the-flame attractiveness of a genocide that the German state finds irresistible. Having engineered and administered genocides of the Herero and the Namaqua people in Namibia in the early 20th century and then the European Jews in the middle of the 20th century, the Germans want all the action they can get on the first genocide of the 21st century as well. Talk about German persistence (and not just their engineering).

The Germans so want in on the Gaza extermination campaign that they announced opposition to South Africa’s genocide charge against the Israelis at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January and intended to intervene at the court on Israel’s behalf. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit had no shame in rejecting out of hand South Africa’s thoroughly-prepared case: “[T]he German government decisively and expressly rejects the accusation of genocide brought against Israel before the International Court of Justice,” Hebestreit said. “The accusation has no basis in fact.”

The fact that the ICJ found a plausible case of genocide against the Israelis and ordered them to halt their genocidal actions and facilitate movement of aid into the besieged enclave didn’t seem to matter an iota to the Germans as they continued their trenchant support to the Zionist enterprise. Their complicity in the genocide has now seen Nicaragua drag them to the same court on charges of “facilitating the commission of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza in aid of its ally, Israel. Nicaragua presented its case on April 8, demanding the judges to stop the Germans from supplying the Zionists with anymore weapons to facilitate the extermination of Palestinians. Needless to say, the case has had no impact on German behaviour, just like its earlier provisional measures didn’t impact Israel’s behaviour one bit.

Germans are only second behind the genocidaires extraordinaire the United States of America in supplying weapons to the Israelis.

Furthermore, while it has defunded the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on fraudulent Israeli allegations thereby further accelerating the Gaza Holocaust by means of starvation, it is now sending extra money to the Jews who escaped its other Holocaust in the 1940s.

After the fall of the Nazi regime at the end of the Second World War, the Americans — unwilling to prosecute such geniuses at devising methods of industrial-scale slaughter — airlifted hundreds of German and Austrian Nazis to the United States and and gave them cushy jobs in various arms of the US government through a project known as Operation Paperclip. Those Nazis took plum posts, worked for the advancement of advanced weaponry and surveillance techniques for the Americans and their allies and went on to win accolades and awards for their efforts.

Scientists after making the short step from German Nazis to American Nazis.

Even the establishment’s handy tool, Wikipedia, has a rather comprehensive entry for some of the prominent Nazis who made their way to the United States via Operation Paperclip. The introduction to the article — which lists the Nazis by the areas of their expertise — says, “Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these Germans were former members and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party.”

If Germany’s behaviour during the Gaza genocide is anything to go by, the Americans didn’t airlift enough Nazis out of their former stronghold during Operation Paperclip. They are rearing their ugly heads everywhere and appearing in all sorts of disguises in German societies both at home and abroad: jackbooted thugs, sports club owners, football fans, politicians, diplomatic officials on assignment in China. You name it.

There are, of course, many voices of dissent within the German society. Around 600 civil servants recently wrote to Scholz and other government officials, urging them to “cease arm deliveries to the Israeli government with immediate effect.” There have been consistent protests against the genocide across most German cities since October 7. Moreover, a poll in January revealed that a majority of Germans thought the Israelis were unjustified in their actions in Gaza.

But their government, corporations, and persons in positions of power don’t and won’t tolerate anti-Nazi voices at all. Germany’s only concern is satiating the bloodlust of the illegitimate state its actions helped create. Nothing will stop it. Not international laws. Not internal criticisms. Not humanitarian considerations. Not wailing mothers. Not starving children. Not rotting bodies under tonnes of rubble. Not mountains of Palestinian corpses. This is new Germany, same as the old Germany.

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