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Exclusive: Germany has stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, source says (www.reuters.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Sorry but this is way too apologetic considering how Germany has provided weapons, rhetorical and judicial cover for this ongoing genocide.

Which weapons. Name them. I suppose sanctioning Kahanites is "rhetorical and judicial cover"?

defend Israel in the ICJ

Everyone needs a defence lawyer. Also Germany's line of arguing is more or less "These are clearly war crimes, but genocide? That requires intent".

They are still violently cracking down on pro-Palestine protestors

There were and are plenty of pro-Palestine protests in Germany. Yes, there's also police force used -- what do you expect, if some people start out a protest by setting trash cans on fire, that the police turns a blind eye because they're protesting genocide? Doesn't work like that in Germany. And then certain people with certain interests take those kinds of instances and spin it into "Germany is violently cracking down on the pro-Palestine movement" instead of "Germany doesn't really have much of a taste for breaches of public order". We're not France where burning trash cans are considered sporting.

and they are still defunding NGOs that are anti-genocide

And also still funding them. Maybe this whole thing is, you know, a bit more nuanced than you are willing to acknowledge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

There you go: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68737412

Last year, the European nation's weapons sales to Israel were worth €326.5m ($361m; £274m), external - a 10-fold increase compared with 2022 - with the majority of those export licences granted after the 7 October attacks. The German government said in January that the sales comprised €306.4m worth of military equipment and €20.1m of "war weapons". According to the DPA news agency, external, the latter included 3,000 portable anti-tank weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for automatic or semi-automatic firearms. It also said that most of the export licences were granted for land vehicles and technology for the development, assembly, maintenance and repair of weapons.

Israel has their own lawyers they can defend themselves. Germany didn’t need to step in, they did anyway because of the Staatsräson and basically all mainstream parties and media are Zionist.

By now it’s very clear that Israel is committing genocide, the courts are gonna need a long time to finish the processes but it’s really not disputed anywhere except Germany and in the Zionist mass media in general.

As for the rest, I just see a lot of mental gymnastics to justify beating up or defunding people and organizations who go against the political mainstream. The police does the same against climate protestors and does nothing when literal Nazis are marching. People like you who are trying to justify this behavior are the useful idiots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

the latter included 3,000 portable anti-tank weapons

Not useful for a genocide, really.

and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for automatic or semi-automatic firearms

That was training ammunition. I'm kinda surprised to not see the "artillery rounds" in that list -- which weren't rounds, but propellant charges, and like a couple of handful because they were sent over for testing and development, not to the army but industry.

Israel has their own lawyers they can defend themselves.

No they can't because they're denying facts. That's not a defence strategy, that's digging your own hole.

As for the rest, I just see a lot of mental gymnastics to justify beating up or defunding people and organizations who go against the political mainstream.

Acknowledging that Israel is doing all kinds of shit is not "against the mainstream". Heck, watch DW news for a while it's full of Israeli war crimes. DW, in case you don't know, is run directly by the German federal government.