“We abide by the law,” said Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit. Ja, ja, you are very gut at following orders!
“Israel slams German government’s vow to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu over ICC warrant,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, May 23, 2024:
JERUSALEM – A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration for stating on Wednesday that his country would arrest and deport the leader of the Jewish state if the International Criminal Court implements a warrant for Netanyahu’s detainment and extradition.
“I am old enough to remember the German leader coming here days after October 7, and stating the Hamas are the new Nazis. They seek a genocide against the Jews. Many in the world need to check their moral compass and be on the right side of history.” Avi Hyman, a spokesman for Benjamin Netanyahu, told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, was asked on Wednesday whether the German government would execute an ICC arrest order against Netanyahu for alleged war crimes during Israel’s efforts to defeat the Hamas terrorist movement in the Gaza Strip. Hebestreit responded, “Of course. Yes, we abide by the law.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, told Fox News Digital, “It is beyond comprehension that any German government would arrest the democratically elected PM of the Jewish state on blood libel lies. It should be arresting all the antisemites attacking Jews on the streets of its nation. Never, never again.”
Scholz’s administration’s targeting of Netanyahu has sparked comments about Germany’s failure to have internalized the lessons of the Holocaust, in which the Nazis arrested, deported and murdered six million European Jews.
A day before Scholz’s spokesman said Germany would implement the ICC arrest order, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, wrote on X, “The Chief Prosecutor [of the ICC] equates a democratic government with Hamas, thereby demonizing and delegitimizing Israel and the Jewish people. He has completely lost his moral compass. Germany has a responsibility to readjust this compass. This disgraceful political campaign could become a nail in the coffin for the West and its institutions. Do not let it come to that!”
Prosor, who was Israel’s former Ambassador the U.N., said, “This is outrageous! The German ‘Staatsräson’ is now being put to the test—no ifs or buts. This contrasts with the weak statements we hear from some institutions and political actors. The public statement that Israel has the right to self-defense loses credibility if our hands are tied as soon as we defend ourselves.”…
somehistory says
It is now unsafe for Mr. Netanyahu or his cabinet members to travel outside Israel. If Germany is willing to arrest and extradite the members of Israel’s government, which governments could be trusted to refuse to submit to the mozlums demand for the arrests?
biden has said the warrants are wrong, that Israel has not committed genocide….but how long will he stick with those statements?
The members of the international criminal’s court are just that….criminals, attempting to put on trial those who would have them arrested and prosecuted.
As Isaiah said, “Woe to those putting evil for good, bitter for sweet and darkness for light.”
the “never again” Germany and the world once proclaimed, has come to have new meaning: never again to fail to reach the “final solution.”
With malice aforethought.
Wellington says
I’m of German ancestry and I have long contended that my great-great grandfather emigrating to America amidst the 1848-49 revolutions, which convulsed almost all of Europe, was a simply great decision by him and for all his descendants here in the USA, including me.
After all, and in the final analysis, and especially viewed through an historical lens, German-Americans overall have been far better for mankind than have Germans per se (e.g., Eisenhower and Truman v. Hitler and Himmler). No contest actually and yet another tribute to America which has again and again bettered what Europe did. And Europe bettered what the rest of the world did, no exception whatsoever, so consider this as well. But I digress.
Greg says
We were only obeying orders!
maria says
Yes exactly like the nazi murderers when they said I only obeyed my orders.
Germany will never change especially with the leftist government.
However you can boycott Germany don´t buy any German product, do not go on holiday to Germany and never forget what they did and still do to the Jews
Joe says
Hamas is only obeying the Quran. Yet, regardless of government orders or sacred text, everyone is responsible for their own decisions.
rick says
The new “Bad” Germans, almost as bad as the old ones.
aum says
Disgraceful.
Phil Copson says
“Meet the new boss – same as the old (Hugo) boss…”
Goofy says
Chancellor Scholz is a double minded man, unstable in all his ways! (James 1:8)
Like Brainless Biden he takes orders from somewhere and he cares nothing about his people, and the consequences of his decisions.
Under the US Mafia regime he has not reacted to the US terror attack on the North Stream I and II pipelines even if the consequences are that that the country’sindustrial base is irreparably destroyed!
On top of that he has no problems fueling the US initiated and wholly owned Ukraine war by sending weapons to Ukraine to fight its traditional economic partner Russia which with its affordable and reliable energy made the German economic success possible. A very real risk of a nuclear confrontation has been added for good measure!
In the streets of Hamburg we constantly hear calls for the German Caliphate to be introduced to “solve all problems” and Chancellor Scholz does less than nothing. He supports the Muslim enemies of Germany by making this announcement that he will execute any ICC ruling that might find Benjamin Netanyahu guilty of defending his people against the Palestinians who have done nothing wrong according to the unholy Qur’an How incompetent and how undiplomatic and how detrimental for his German people to discuss the hypothetical question of guilt by the victim?
abu taleb says
No arrest for Ismail Haniyeh or other Hamas elites who lead the 10/7 massacre? I guess, it is not a war crime according to the German government.
jerry glenn says
Germany surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
OLD GUY says
And here I thought the German people were among the educated and more intelligent people. WRONG Germany making the same mistake over and over is a sign of stupidity.
Beneath The Veil of Consciousness says
Germany has plumbed the depths of the cesspool that is Islam to further protect and promote Sharia Law.
https://youtube.com/shorts/_scv2W-i9x8?si=zm_s_UmCvnawJBlj