She can’t be flawless and indeed, her Israel
policy is flawed. It is the result of her profound awareness of German guilt
for Jewish death that translates into German responsibility for Jewish life, be
it in Germany or in Israel.
During Netanyahu’s recent visit to Berlin,
Merkel astonishingly said that “now is not the time for a significant step
forward.” When will the right time come?
Ms. Merkel is wasting the leverage, which
the supply of u-boats to Israel could have given Germany. This is where guilt
produces bad policy. Indeed, what Israel needs, what Israel’s security needs
even more than u-boats, is pressure to get out of the occupied territories.
Without external pressure it will not be able to get out of the pernicious spiral
into which occupation has propelled it.
Of all the controversial things she has done recently you find her decision to give a couple of U-boats to Israel the MOST controversial?
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