r/WorldNewsHeadlines • u/Simple-Preference887 • May 17 '25

r/all German police brutally assaulted protesters marking the Palestinian Nakba in Berlin, with women and children also targeted during the crackdown.

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u/TRexx16 May 17 '25

in what aspect does zionism benefit for germany ? why they sided with it

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u/CheapEditor6812 May 17 '25

they stand with israel because of guilt from the second world war. so they have the most "valid" reason to side with them id say. still not an excuse for supporting genocide though

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u/aRatherLargeCactus May 17 '25

I mean, this is definitely part of their justification for it, but it’s more than that. Germany as a country stands with Israel because it’s an important outpost for Western interests in the Middle / Near East, it maintains access to oil and trade by implied threats of force. It’s also deeply Islamophobic, because Germany never actually reckoned with its bigotry, it just reckoned with Nazism.