When Angela Merkel started to fail the Jews and Israel

In November 2005, Merkel became chancellor. In January 2006, she visited Israel and the Palestinian Authority. In 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2014 she also came to Israel. In the latter year Merkel was accompanied by 16 German ministers to discuss collaboration between the two countries. She had no problem in admitting German guilt toward the Jews…

Merkel’s attitude greatly differed from that of several senior leaders of the Christian Democratic Union’s junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD). Their previous leader, Sigmar Gabriel, currently German foreign minister, is a consistent anti-Israel inciter.

Recently he again accused Israel of apartheid.

Israel first had problems with an SDP leader decades ago. In 1981 then-chancellor Helmut Schmidt visited Saudi Arabia. Afterwards he said that Germans have a moral commitment to the Palestinians.

Prime minister Menachem Begin reacted furiously, saying, among other things: “From a moral point of view, Schmidt’s statements certainly rank as the most callous ever heard.”

He added: “It seems that the Holocaust had conveniently slipped his memory, and he did not make mention of a million-and-a-half small children murdered, of entire families wiped out. The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. The entire nation cheered on the murderers as long as they were victorious. But what do we hear? We hear of a commitment to those who strove to complete what the Germans had started in Europe.”…

A major proof of the widespread demonization of Israel in Germany is that after 10 years of Merkel’s chancellorship, more than 40% of Germans still believe Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians.