If anyone else comes here - go watch the posted video but stay away from this comment section.
I have absolutely no idea how such a level-headed and well-put-together speech appealing at human decency and respect towards each other devolved into such a vile comment section.
I assume most of the commenters either didn’t watch the video or purposefully ignored its content to instead incite more hate.
Because Habeck did not confirm their biases.
commenters be biased and brownpilled 😎
what is wrong with brown pilled :( Isn’t silent quitting the sane thing to do?
Please report any comments you deem unacceptable. Its not possible to screen anything proactively
Very good and level headed comment, rightfully met with wide acclaim across the political landscape in Germany.
Comments are disabled until I’ve got time to moderate them. It’s normal to have strong feelings about the current situation. But you need to stay in scope of the Server Rules, it’s also unacceptable to deny the right of Existence in Israel, post antisemitic and/or racist stuff. In Germany it’s also a criminal offence to endorse or approve criminal offenses
I posted this before as an reply, but I think this is relevant for everyone: Hamas doubles down and says it was only the first October 7 attack of many to come
This could have been expressed in a single sentence: The fact that Israel is punishing all citizens of Ghaza for Hamas attacks does not mean that Germans should act the same towards the Jews (but we don’t mind if you do towards Iranians and such). Tragic.This is objectively false.
Habeck says in the video that he has seen a terrifying growth in antisemitism in Germany where members of the Jewish faith are scared to leave the house on their own or publicly display religious symbols due to open hostility. He talks about a responsibility of Germans due to the central role in the holocaust but also how the Islamic world has not distanced itself enough from the atrocities committed by the hamas. He even remarked that one doesn’t have to agree with some of Israel’s politics - even explicitly naming the settlements in the Gaza / West Bank region - but that this should not be any excuse for antisemitism.
I will say again what I said in another comment - The video is an appeal to human decency and respect. Shame on you for willfully and stubbornly ignoring that and derailing the conversation to incite further hate.
Yes, life in Gaza is life in poverty without prospects for the future. Yes, the settler movement in the West Bank is fomenting discord and robs the Palestinians of hope and rights and, increasingly, lives. And the suffering of the civilian population now at war is a fact, a terrible fact.
You are right and I am wrong I haven’t read the whole video. I am ashamed. Insert whichever invective you like - I have few. There is no excuse.
I respect you for admitting you were wrong. That takes courage.
Also maybe it wasn’t smart leaving that part out of my reply.
Thanks for acknowledging your mistakes. We should all learn from this post.
Don’t feed the troll
Unfortunately it’s hard to tell trolls apart from real people in here.
It somewhat reminds me of the height of covid in online discussions - people turn off their brains and fall back on basic emotions and empty phrases.
Doesn’t matter if it is his actual opinion or not. You still helped to clarify disinformation that someone might’ve just believed.
I have dealt with those people quite often on Lemmy.ml and even Lemmy.world
They are not here to discuss. They are here to spread hate and do their virtue signaling to Hamas apologists - because most of the time they are Hamas supporters themselves.
He’s clarifying blatant disinformation (something the Greens suffering a lot of thanks to various propaganda campaigns against them). A lot of people might read it and take their comment for granted.
I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t know if he said more than what you write.
What you describe is that he asks of Muslims everywhere to identify with Hamas and then to distance themselves from them. Does he address growing anti-muslim racism? Because from what you write it indeed sounds as if he appeals to human decency towards one side while ignoring the other.
No one except antisemites blames Jews for what Israel does, but on the other hand the Islamic world is blamed for Hamas terror and asked to distance themselves from it. Those are double standards.
So instead of writing long texts, you maybe should watch the video instead of accusing him of being „one sided“?
Lovely idea and guess what, in the meantime I did. That doesn’t change anything about the other comment’s content and that it depicts one-sidedness.
The speech was slightly better than the summary in the comment I replied to. I have different remarks and criticism of the speech now, but I don’t really want to discuss those.
Call out the genocide. Looking away while saying “never again” is the utter peak of cynicism. You and your government are complicit in this genocide. Step down.
Habeck literally calls out both sides wrongdoings instead of ignoring one for the other, while differentiating Hamas & Palestinians, and the Israeli government & Jews as a whole. Something a lot of people wanted from other leaders & countries as well. But you do you with your anti-Green propaganda shit.
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Isreals security is Germany’s obligation - fair enough.
What is Germany’s obligation to the people of Palestine?
It doesn’t exist.
one would think that murdering 50 million people of which 6 million were jews would lead to a more general responsibility to protect human lifes and international rule of law.
EDIT: It is truly amazing that human rights and international law get downvoted, when it is in the context of Israel. We are back on the way to barbarism i guess.
Well, personal political opinion as a German, is that it does and that we should obviously be opposed to the killing of any innocent person, but
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there’s multiple conflicts going on on this planet. We won’t be able to solve all of them.
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we also have an obligation to use our military defensively, not build up a massive army that can start WW3.
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not everyone here holds the same opinion. This may come as a surprise, but there’s nazis in Germany. Nazis that pay taxes and vote in our democracy.
There’s also people who are younger than 80 years old. They may understand this obligation on a theoretical level, but when push comes to shove, they cannot possibly feel a personal obligation.
there’s multiple conflicts going on on this planet. We won’t be able to solve all of them.
But in those where we are involved we should take care of human life without being partisan. And most certainly not send weapons to actors comitting war crimes. This of course is not limited to Israel. Germany kept sending weapons to Saudi Arabia to commit terrible atrocities in Jemen. Heck Germany exported chemical plants and chemicals for the production of nerve gas to Saddam Hussein, whcih he subsequently used to murder Kurdish people in what remains the most devastating use of nerve gas since WW1.
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✋ International law
👉 Rules-based international order
And not blindly support a criminal state like Israel.
The average German is really unable to critize jews or Israel. They just follow blindly because that’s how you get in less trouble.
It’s sad, state media here is 95% pro Israel and 5% articles that acknowledge the humanitarian crisis, but never seem to grasp that it’s Israel that is throwing 18000 bombs into an apartheid Ghetto.
So Germany is willing to look the other way as Israel is butchering thousands of innocents. The fact that I even voted for this guy’s party…
You should volunteer yourself as a human shield for Hamas then, so a Palestinian doesn’t have to be a human shield for Hamas.
We all know you didn’t.
How is that? I’m a gay, partly jewish guy, that is strongly left leaning and cares a lot about the climate and social issues. I have voted for the green party. I agree with their stance on Ukraine and Russia, which is why I am so confused by their stance on Israel. I never expected them to act in such a way. I agree with their climate policy. I agree with their urbanism policies. But the complete disregard they have shown towards palestinian lives is simply disgusting. But whatever, you tell me who I voted for.
Downvote all you want. The green voters aren’t a monolithic voice and not all of us stand with the words of Robert Habeck. Antisemitism is horrible, everyone can agree with that. But his statements of full support for Israel… not even a word of real criticism for the way they’re butchering little children and entire families. Disgusting. What the world has become. The left has now gone full circle. Literally finding excuses for the murder of civillians.
Yes, this bullshit definitely makes your story and disinformation even more believable. You understand that people can actually check his words for themselves, right?
Look. I went and listened to the speech again, because I don’t want people to claim that I’m spreading misinformation here.
What I gathered from his speech, the main points:
- antisemitism is bad. Yes, every single moral human being should agree with that. Hating people based on their ethnicity and other traits they cannot change is absolutely never acceptable.
- people should condemn acts of terrorism. Again, yes. I fully agree with that. Killing innocents is absolutely never acceptable, be it terrorism or not. It’s horrible.
- the right is holding back from attacking jews. I agree with that, but I don’t think it’s the time and place for these comments. He’s talking about horrific acts of terrorism, he’s talking about the fear some people live with right now and at the same time he’s talking his opposition. It feels like he’s hijacking the situation for political points and feels insensitive
- iran is somehow behind this. I don’t think anyone has produced any evidence regarding that yet which just makes it sound like a weird conspiracy theory, and again, it feels out of place for a speech about antisemitism and acts of violence against innocents
- he’s doing everything he can along his American partners to protect the lives of civillians in Gaza. This is where it’s getting nasty in my opinion. The US has vetoed a call for a ceasefire in the UN security council. That is definitely not what I’d consider to count as “protecting the lives of civillians”. And the fact taht he associates with the US here is even worse, since they were the only ones to veto any form of intervention on the side of the UN. This is why I left my original comment. I guess it was fairly inflamatory of me to comment that, but it felt extremely insensitive to see him say that while looking at the reality of the situation on the ground in Gaza right now, with so many innocents dying. Just “making sure water and medicine gets to Gaza” won’t save those kids from being blown to pieces. Mind you, the water, food, electricity, and medicine that was cut off from these civillians by Israel in the first place. Not only that, but he goes as far as to say that he is reminding Israel of their commitment to international law, BUT no one expects that from Hamas… I’m sorry? He is literally relativising the deaths of civillians here just because Hamas are a bunch of fucking genocidal maniacs. He is litearlly adding a BUT after saying how Israel should respect human rights. You can’t make this shit up. There should be absolutely no buts after talking about respecting human rights.
- all muslims in Germany are expected to publicly denounce Hamas. This one is straight up weird. It’s like asking all jews to publicly denounce Israel for bombing kids. Hamas, a terrorist organization, doesn’t represent all muslims and it’s straight up racist to expect every muslim to talk about whatever Hamas is doing. Which brings me to the next point I gathered from his speech
- Germany has to support to Israel. Here he starts equating all jews with Israel somehow. Which is again, straight up weird, and partly antisemitic. Jews aren’t all the property of Israel. Just as not all muslims are the property of Hamas. Treating an entire ethnic group as a monolithic collective is extremely problematic to me. I am partly jewish and german-romanian and do not agree with that. I feel more German and Romanian than I feel Israeli. I’ve never been to Israel and wouldn’t call Israel my home country. Even though I could get an israeli citizenship any day by proof of my ancestors and gain access to live in a land my ancestors didn’t even know to point on a map probably. With that being said, I fully support helping civillians affected by violence everywhere, anywhere, on all sides of this horrible conflict. I fully support the fight against antisemitism and stand by it, and stood by it for ages now. But offering critique of Israel is somehow problematic. One can easily condemn acts of terrorism while also putting them in a historical context. That doesn’t mean you are relativising anything. One can condemn the state of Israel for the shit they’re doing to civillians in Gaza and the West Bank. I know he also says that everyone is allowed to criticize Israel, but for some reason his government falls short of doing so. Sure, individual civillians can, but I’d expect government officials with a spine to actually do it too when they see all the completely unjust suffering in Gaza right now.
- the two state solution. He then briefly mentions the two state solution, but falls short of going deeper into that highly complex subject. He throws all the blame on Hamas here while conveniently ignoring that Israel is also straight up refusing the two state solution, just as Hamas does. Not only that, but Israel even has hopes in expanding their illegal settlements (which he of course briefly criticizes, but again, not much substance there). This can be easily found in their government’s policy guidelines where they clearly state that “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan and Judea and Samaria.”. Germany is hereby supporting a full on far-right theocratic regime of ultraorthodox lunatics that are openly calling for the expansion of their lands in the detriment of the innocent civillians living there that happen to be non-jewish.
I’d rather have a Germany that works towards a humanitarian solution, not a Germany that is straight up supporting some very horrible people and supports the US in blocking any kind of UN intervention. I don’t mind calling out antisemitism, I’ve been doing that my entire life. And I have read more than enough books on jewish history, dug through archives to learn about my great great grandparents that died in the holocaust, and much more. I don’t mind calling out terrorism either, every sane human should. But I very much mind this kind of rhetoric towards unconditional support for a far-right expansionist regime. Especially one represented by a far-right religious zionist coalition, that claims that some biblical lands that currently happen to be under palestinian control should be owned by them because their book says so. Here you can read more about them. Is this really who we want to throw our unconditional support at? A cabinet filled with people like Itamar Ben-Gvir that literally has a poster of a terrorist that killed a bunch of people in his office? The guy that put a billbioard of arab opposition politicians in a town and called for their expulsion? Man I’m so over this. Believe what you want. I voted green for a reason. Now I don’t know who to vote for anymore. I sure as hell don’t want to vote for the putinists further to the left, and the more to the right you go than the green party the worse it gets.
@febra @DarkThoughts First of, kudos for taking the time to watch the entire thing and writing a comprehensive answer. It’s stuff like this that makes me appreciate this platform. So a sincere thanks.
Two, actual substance: For all its faults and sometimes procecutable actions I dont think Israël is pursuing the eradication of the Palestine people, this as opposed to the attempted eradication of the Israelie AND Jewish (Kindly note the two of them) populace by Hamas/Hezbollah/ISIS/etc. Survival
I used to have a very similar opinion up until the far-right has hijacked the Israeli government, and thereby officially making it state policy that the Land of Israel is first and foremost jewish. That the government should first and foremost work by jewish laws and traditions. That the state policy will be that of settling all the jewish lands, and keep in mind, we’re talking about the ultraorthodox religious zionist coalition here, so those lands are the ones described in the holy texts. This means settling even in territories that currently count as palestinian. This government has made expansionism state policy. This same government talks a lot about the jewish identity, promoting that. All of these policies do not scream diversity to me in any way shape or form, and they surely don’t seem intended to make the lives of non jews easier. “The government will preserve the Jewish character of the state”. Settlements are mentioned everywhere throughout their official policy.
Please, I beg you to go read that link. It’s not even from a weird anti-Israel website. It’s on the Times of Israel website. We are looking at a far-right theocratic state in the making here. Israel already had too many disturbing laws, and this will only make it worse.
With that being said, you’re right, they might not try to eradicate the palestinian people, but they sure will try to make their lives hell under the current government. And by state policy, since they don’t represent “the jewish character” of the state, they surely won’t have a nice life there either.
They live in the past and don’t understand that Israel became a state not worth supporting. Genocidal criminals that got their 9/11 after torturing Palestinians for long enough.
They will do to every non-jew what the US did to the Middle East.
