Israel's Great Friend and Supporter Nation : Germany

"Seventy years ago today — 24 years before the Federal Republic of Germany’s admission to the United Nations — Israel was admitted to the UN as a full member." 
"The Federal Government would like to take this 70th anniversary as an opportunity to reiterate the fact that Germany stands at Israel's side in the United Nations."
"Germany’s historic responsibility for the Jewish and democratic State of Israel and its security is part of our raison d’être. Germany will always work, including in the UN, to ensure that Israel’s right to exist is never called into question."
"[Berlin was] most concerned about the fact that, to this day, Israel continues to be criticized inappropriately, treated in a biased manner and marginalized in the bodies of the UN."
"In  its profound solidarity with the Jewish people and the state of Israel, Germany will continue to do its part in strengthening Israel's representation in t he United Nations."
German Foreign Office

"We've had this discussion at a senior level for some time with our German counterparts and informed them that we hope to see changes in their [UN] voting patterns."
"[There were times when the German government acted to improve the texts of some resolutions], which was helpful."
"There are certain circumstances where we think Germany should disagree and take its own independent position. Ultimately the unique relationship between Israel and Germany should be reflected in the multilateral arena."
"But in the end there is also the effort by Germany to fit in with the consensus at the EU [European Union]."
Jeremy Issacharff, Israeli diplomatic envoy to Germany

"It will be nice if you stop interfering in our internal business and stop funding hundreds of radical left wing NGOs in Israel that seek its destruction."  
"Use the hundreds of millions of [Euros] you use for this to fund hospitals, schools and churches in Germany!"
Yair Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, on March 26, 2018. (GPO / Kobi Gideon)

There is irony in history. And in Germany's history in particular. Where the fascist National Socialist Party under Adolf Hitler began a world war of monumental proportions leading to tens of millions of deaths throughout Europe, and the targeted, organized genocide of European Jewry, failed in the end to achieve its goal of world domination. The Nazi Party did, for at least six years however, dominate Europe through occupation while it pursued its agenda on a larger world scale.

What the Nazis failed to achieve in the first half of the 20th Century, another German party with a socialist orientation has managed to achieve through its membership in and domination of the European Union. Where Germany has become the wealthiest and most influential of European countries, guiding the rest of Europe on a trajectory of peaceful relations and financial stability and reaching out to the rest of the world in support of good governance everywhere.

And Germany, under its long-time political leader, child of the communist East Block and a Lutheran pastor father, has recognized its past dysfunction in two world wars and in particular its horrendous and lethal persecution of the European Jewish minority in pursuit of its goal of annihilation of Judaism; succeeding to the degree of exterminating the lives of six million men, women and children, along with the killing of Roma, Homosexuals, and the developmentally handicapped.

Today, Germany poses itself as the conscience of Europe, its leader in matters fiscal, conservative but progressive, anti-exclusion, willing to embrace the world's refugee populations and exerting its influence on other European countries to follow suit. It has also vowed to collaborate with Israel, where the world's diaspora-era Jews have flocked to rejoin their fellows in the ancient land of Judea; to pay war reparations, to support Israel's right to exist.

Perhaps the second irony is that in its campaign so fondly called the "Final Solution", so hugely successful in destroying half of world Jewry, Germany was the catalyst, through the Holocaust, of spurring Zionism, a return to Judaism's native soil for the intention of re-establishing the State of Israel. Were it not for the Holocaust and its hugely destructive finale, it is possible that the dreamers of a return to Zion might still be dreaming of its existence. But it is now a reality.

So, how helpful has Germany, which has pledged itself in support of Israel's legitimacy and rightful place in the United Nations, been in fact, when all is said and done? Not .. very .. much .. actually.
In the hallowed, political, cliquey and non-aligned/Organization of Islamic Cooperation, halls of the august institution where Israel has been metaphorically hauled continually before the General Assembly and its various arms for censure, Germany has predictably voted with the majority, against Israel's interests.

Germany has gone out of its way to press other EU states to maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv rather than transfer them as the United States has done, to Israel's actual heritage and current de facto capital, Jerusalem. While Chancellor Angela Merkel is fond of reciting Germany's "special historic responsibility for Israel's security", when push comes to shove she is in favour of holding Israel's feet to the fire of uncertainty. When German President Frank-Walter Steinmeir's visited Israel in 2017 he took a side-trip, to lay a memorial wreath at the grave of the man who incited Palestinians to maim and murder Israelis, Yasser Arafat.

Germany approved 16 of 21 anti-Israel UN resolutions in 2018, abstaining for four others, and voted for a UN resolution singling Israel out at the annual assembly of the World Health Organization as a violator of "mental, physical and environmental health", commissioning a WHO delegation on "the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory" and "the occupied Syrian Golan", to investigate and report back to WHO. Israel is not responsible for the health of West Bank Palestinians.

Germany provides "millions of euros" to groups promoting boycott and "lawfare" campaigns against Israel, according to NGO Monitor. Which reports also that Germany's funding frameworks "severely lack[ ] in terms of transparency and public scrutiny". Yet this is the same Germany that released a report just recently through its domestic security agency titled Antisemitism in Islamism. A report that details hate crimes, ascribes numbers and degree of seriousness to group identities both left-wing and Islamist.

Officials in the city of Mainz on Monday withdrew the license of the only Muslim kindergarten in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate amid allegations that the facility was promoting Salafism.

A report significant for its unprecedented frankness where no European intelligence agency has before published such a specific report focusing on Muslim anti-Semitism, stating what people are loathe to express in anyone's hearing for fear of being charged with Islamophobia. Anti-Semitism represents "one of [Islamism's] essential ideological elements". Data declaring that children in the Middle East and North Africa which discharged into Germany a million migrants between 2014-17 are raised from the cradle on anti-Semitic indoctrination.

So aside from Jews in the Middle East suffering from episodic attacks from Palestinian Arabs whose fervent desire is to kill Jews because this is the ideology they have been raised with and continue to be encouraged and incited to perform by the Palestinian Authority, the Islamists who have migrated to Europe to find better lives for themselves bring this anti-Semitism with them to Europe where diaspora Jews settled a millennia earlier, now find no respite anywhere from lethal Jew-hatred.

The third irony is that Germany now hosts Muslims equal in number to the Jews slaughtered by Germany during the Holocaust.

Germany's security chief has told the BBC that radical Islamists are trying to groom vulnerable refugees.
He warned that Germany had become a target for so-called Islamic State and that an attack could happen there at any time