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Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close to the Economy Ministry.

Last year, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($363.5 million), including military equipment and war weapons, a 10-fold increase from 2022, according to data from the Economy Ministry, which approves export licences.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    32·
    19 hours ago

    I hope this is s turning of the tide and other nations will pressure the US to be better.

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    37·
    21 hours ago

    The Israelis will reciprocate. I’m not convinced the net flow of weapons of war is towards Israel, especially when you count the “cyber” domain stuff.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      551·
      21 hours ago

      And hopefully, the Germans will respond with something along the lines of “our eternal obligation to you does not give you carte blanche to perpetrate the same evil our forefathers perpetrated upon you”. But we’ll see, I guess. I am fully aware that it’s an understandably touchy subject in Germany.

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        21 hours ago

        It’s been such a shit show. Even my beloved tagesschau is just going fully blind on it. It’s been a disgrace. Never again my ass.

        It would have actually been a great opportunity to show where full support of Jewish people and support of a government differ. It was the perfect opportunity to back out of this card blanche idea which was too vague to be a good idea to begin with. Instead Germany decided to assume its citizens have no cognitive ability to differentiate these two ideas - Jewishnes and Israel.

        • dlatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          201·
          20 hours ago

          In the long run they are doing so much damage to the Jewish people. Effectively they’re (and by they mean anyone who is shouting “antisemitism” now) creating a situation where you are either supportive of Israel’s actions, or against Jews. It’s such a destructive approach.

      • Mîm@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9·
        20 hours ago

        our eternal obligation to you does not give you carte blanche to perpetrate the same evil our forefathers perpetrated upon you

        I can guarantee you right now, that that sure will never be the response. In fact, that will get you labeled an antisemite.

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          20·
          20 hours ago

          Which, bluntly, is absolutely insane, and betrays a fundamental (and for some, likely intentional) misunderstanding of the true intent and meaning of that eternal obligation, to the extent that it has deeply disturbing jingoistic echoes of the Nazi party itself.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            6·
            19 hours ago

            It’s odd you mention jingoism, because I was surely thinking about jingoism and revanchism in this context, over the last couple of weeks.

    • modifier@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      19 hours ago

      The best way to honor that obligation is to do everything possible to prevent the Israel government from following the path that led to that obligation. They honor the memory of those they slaughtered.