The events of 1972 were a telegram from the future. A political class motivated only by perception, not reality. The subversion of security to virtue signalling. Kowtowing to Islamic terrorism. And Germany proving to be an utterly deaf, self-interested “ally”.
Last edited 1 year ago by Nell Clover
Simon Melville
1 year ago
Thanks for the article, I think the relationship between Germany and Jews and Israel and Palestine is a great deal more complicated than we see it from the UK. The first half of Hans Kundnani’s “Utopia or Auschwitz” is a really eye-opening (and hair-raising) review of the German radical left’s view of post-war West Germany and Israel as a continuation of Nazi Germany – recommended for anyone not familiar with the alphabet soup of leftist splinter groups that emerged with terrifying views and actions in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bullfrog Brown
1 year ago
Let’s not forget that TransJordan / Jordan was the occupying power of the West Bank & East Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967.
Chuck Pergiel
1 year ago
“Germany’s funding of the corrupt, inefficient, and undemocratic Palestinian Authority is in Israel’s interest.” Wait, what? This subject is more deserving of a story than a rehash of Munich.
I have read about the generations of Germans after the war maintaining a silence about what dad or grandad did during the war. I wonder if young Germans are being more querulous about their family history now it’s longer in the past, and how they feel when they find out something bad?
The events of 1972 were a telegram from the future. A political class motivated only by perception, not reality. The subversion of security to virtue signalling. Kowtowing to Islamic terrorism. And Germany proving to be an utterly deaf, self-interested “ally”.
Thanks for the article, I think the relationship between Germany and Jews and Israel and Palestine is a great deal more complicated than we see it from the UK. The first half of Hans Kundnani’s “Utopia or Auschwitz” is a really eye-opening (and hair-raising) review of the German radical left’s view of post-war West Germany and Israel as a continuation of Nazi Germany – recommended for anyone not familiar with the alphabet soup of leftist splinter groups that emerged with terrifying views and actions in the 1960s and 1970s.
Let’s not forget that TransJordan / Jordan was the occupying power of the West Bank & East Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967.
“Germany’s funding of the corrupt, inefficient, and undemocratic Palestinian Authority is in Israel’s interest.” Wait, what? This subject is more deserving of a story than a rehash of Munich.
Yeah fascinating point.
I have read about the generations of Germans after the war maintaining a silence about what dad or grandad did during the war. I wonder if young Germans are being more querulous about their family history now it’s longer in the past, and how they feel when they find out something bad?