Israel's terror regime and the Western media

Why do almost the entire political class, including the Greens and up to parts of the left, support Israel's brutal repression of the Palestinian people? And their media interpreters applaud; the media play down every bonbon drop over Palestine as an “air strike”. The more than fifty demonstrators shot at the demonstrations to mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the state were only mentioned by the Springer press to the bourgeois-liberal newspapers, only to quickly get back to business. But the media report a lot when politicians undergo the usual rituals on their inaugural visits. The media reported happily when the German Foreign Minister did not deceive himself to declare that the German and Israeli governments have the same goals. And the German Chancellor's assurance is quoted again and again that supporting Israel would be part of Germany's reasons of state.

It is well received in the western world that the former fascist state is now playing the democratic model boy. But the fact that the Palestinians have to pay the price for European anti-Semitism is deliberately ignored.

In order to preserve its image as a bourgeois liberal, the Süddeutsche Zeitung dismisses its caricaturist on the grounds that although he is definitely not an anti-Semite, he has used symbols of the Nazi regime. because he had drawn the Israeli chief gangster with big ears and bulging lips and thus used the ciphers of the Nazi regime. This is how far the unprocessed negative identification of bourgeois circles with the “Stürmer” and the Nazi ideology goes.

Without having to fear criticism, the political class exports its racism by supporting Israel's racist actions with secret glee and bypassing the oppression and humiliation of Palestine as a permanent, racist-based act. In fact, one of Zionism's leading ideologues, Jabotinsky, justified it with the following words:“Culturally, the Arabs are five hundred years behind us. Spiritually, they do not have the stamina or strength or will. They look at Palestine with the same instinctive love that every Aztec looked at Mexico and every Sioux looked at its prairie ”.

Outwardly, the Federal Government sets itself apart from the Christian-Zionist fundamentalism, from which the American president can be promoted, but proceeds according to the same paradigm in merely adapted wording. This is the secular equivalent of the belief of American evangelicals that the occupation of Palestine by Jewish settlers was divine willful.

In fact, however, the Middle East, after having long served as the Europeans' disposal, has become a point of friction in the East-West conflict. According to the thinking of the great American strategists, Israel protects the oil wells of Saudi Arabia, which are important for industrial society, and seals them off from Russia's influence. And should the Egyptian army no longer be able to hold down the North African population, who demand their share of the mineral wealth, in a renewed uprising, the Israeli army is ready; Germany didn't need to get its own hands dirty.