German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday he no longer understands the Israeli army’s objective in Gaza amid a stepped-up offensive in the Palestinian territory.

“Honestly speaking, I no longer understand what the Israeli army is now doing in the Gaza Strip, with what goal,” he told public broadcaster WDR.

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    Man who chose between being called closet antisemite and aiding and abetting genocide deflects blame with new tactic: I am not the face of evil, I am actually just unbelievably stupid.

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    The goal is simple: Kill all Palestinians. If you did not realize this before, you have been ignoring reality.

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    The goal in Gaza is incredibly clear, as it always has been.

    Merz is possibly being honest about not understanding it (although I somewhat doubt he’s that naive). If he doesn’t understand it, it is because anyone that tries to talk sense to him, he calls “antisemitism” and tries to deport them.

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          That argument is hilarious. “Polish antisemites assisted the Holocaust.”

          “YOU WANT TO BLAME A SUBJUGATED PEOPLE FOR YOUR OWN GENOCIDE”

          No, mate, pointing out that parts of the Polish population gladly turned in Jews and participated in killings does not diminish the responsibility of Germans, it just drags Poles out of the “We were just Victims, no Pole ever did something bad during WW2” narrative.

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            It’s not even that. Going one step further back, he is saying that all these crazy Germans / Israelis are now trying to say that Poland did the holocaust and the Germans were just helpers. When I got confused and said mate, no one is saying that, that was when he started this whole conversation where people including me who were pointing out Polish antisemitism were actually saying that other thing, and daring me to find some quotes meeting his criteria to try to prove to him that that wasn’t going on.

            It’s very weird. Like I say in the punchline I linked to, I have some subtle theories about why a person would do something like that, because it’s hard to see a good reason for it on the surface.

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    Total annexation had been the stated goal from the start.

    It has been the goal ever since Zionists forced themselves into global politics during the reperations of WW2.

    It’s manifest destiny

    Divine right of kings

    Deus Vult

    God restoring the promised land to the Jews