LENA OBERMAIER—Unlike other geopolitical issues, Israel is not up for discussion among Germany’s main parties. Although the left party Die Linke criticised Israel’s attempt at illegally expelling families from Sheikh Jarrah, it conveniently circumvented directly addressing Israeli state violence by strongly denouncing Hamas’ aggression and advocating for a two-state solution. At the same time, Annalena Baerbock, who is hailed as The Green Party’s promising Chancellor candidate, expressed her solidarity with Israelis and the State of Israel whose “security is part of Germany’s raison d’être.” What stands out the most, however, is the outright silence across all parties on Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip as well as Israeli police violence inside Israel and the West Bank, which Doctors Without Borders has called“unbearable and unacceptable.”
GERMAN & European complicity
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PETER KOENIG—In some European countries, covid-unrest already clearly visible, i.e., Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Spain – and of course, in the very Germany. Civil and societal unrest is also boiling hot in France, currently one of the most repressive regimes in the western world.
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TONY CARTALUCCI—Consider the much worse and absolutely verified crimes against humanity the US and NATO are guilty of – with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2011-onward military interventions in Libya and Syria as just two examples. Poisoning Navalny – a failed investment as a living, breathing opposition figure and turning him into a martyr – is a relatively small act of false-flag violence to create a difficult impasse for the German government regarding Nord Stream 2.
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Lukashenko Claims Intercept of Warsaw-Berlin Call Shows Merkel Made False Statements About Navalny
19 minutes readSOFIA CHEGODAEVA—A call between Warsaw and Berlin was intercepted, showing that German Chancellor Merkel’s statements about Alexei Navalny were false, President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, claimed during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday. A Telegram channel Pul Pervogo shared a video showing Lukashenko during the meeting with Mishustin. The Belarusian president can be heard saying that the call which Minsk had intercepted proves that Merkel’s statements were false and Navalny was not poisoned.
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German ‘Novichok poisoning’ claims over Navalny will prompt familiar circus of sanctions & Russia demonisation. But who benefits?
28 minutes readGEORGE GALLOWAY—Wearisome though it may be to point out the bleeding obvious, I must do so. If the Russian state had attempted to assassinate Navalny, they would never have allowed his stricken comatose body to be flown out of the country to Germany in the first place. He would have died on the operating table in Russia, where nobody could “detect traces of Novichok” in a NATO capital. If the Russian state was responsible for trying to kill Navalny, surely the LAST weapon in the whole world it would have chosen with which to do so would be Novichok? A butter knife, a gun, a speeding car, a car crash – any one of a hundred methods would surely have been preferable in the post-Skripal era. And more reliable, it would appear: Navalny, for now mercifully, is the THIRD Russian in a row to be attacked by a DEADLY “military-grade nerve agent” and mysteriously fail to die.