- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
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.
For anyone who’s curious about what this is about: https://ponder.cat/post/3033529/3291214
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.
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.