One thing in front: Friedrich Merz cannot make any right with the partial weapon stop to Israel. Many people in the country have long been calling for a harder gait compared to the Israeli government. The decision now announced will hardly be sufficient. Others are considered frowned upon and potentially anti -Semitic.
In particular, these people are now massively raising Merz. They had put on him.
The big problem of this Chancellor is now that a large part of the unconditional Israel friends from the CDU and CSU are recruited. With the restriction of weapon exports, Merz has not only decided to turn a time in German Israele policy. He also shakes the foundation of the Union, on the deep, unbreakable connection with the state of Israel. On the “State Räson”, which once announced Angela Merkel.
Friedrich Merz spoils his own party
The Chancellor may have had the majority of the Germans behind in his decision, including the coalition partner SPD. In parts of the Union, however, the delivery stop causes horror, especially among the younger ones. “State Räson ticked off? A break with the principles of Union policy,” posted the Junge Union on Instagram.
Their chairman, the member of the Bundestag Johannes Winkel, said: “As of today, Israel does the dirty work for us, only without German weapons.” The chairman for foreign policy of the Union faction, Roderich Kiesewetter, said: “I personally consider the suspension of arms deliveries to Israel to be a serious political and strategic mistake in Germany. “He is disappointed.
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They are massive attacks on their own chancellor who have the stuff to trigger deep faults within the CDU and the entire coalition.
Many others do not want to comment on Friday, with regard to the Chancellor. The discussion should first be carried out internally. But the anger for many is great, the words that fall behind the hand are clear: “How can you shrink from the hope of hope to Hampelmann in such a short time?” Asks. “Disaster,” says another. “The horror is huge,” writes a MP.
Harsch is particularly criticized in the CDU that the decision is obviously – again – was not discussed in the party committees at all. According to information from star Also became the CSU did not participate in the decision and only learned about it afterwards.
The Union was therefore apparently completely surprised by this turn of the time of its Chancellor. Many times on vacation.
In the party, it is therefore also assumed that his own party leader had let the SPD drive to this decision. However, little speaks for this reading. Rather, the decision has a longer history.
The tone opposite the Israeli government has been increasing and sharper for months. The alienation had started at the end of May with a appearance by Merz at the Digital Mass Republica. “This is a human tragedy and a political disaster,” said the Chancellor there about the situation in Gaza. He “no longer understood the goal” the Israeli government is with the goal. At that time, Merz also spoke of international violations for the first time.
Nevertheless, Merz has so far remained hard with sanctions towards Israel. Instead, Germany put its good wires into the government. Week after week, Merz and his Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul were on the phone with their Israeli. Merz ‘phone calls to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are said to have become more frosty from time to time. Once it should have become loud between the two.
At the beginning of last week, Merz called the security cabinet for the location in Gaza. The reason was the reports of starving people, warnings of a mass extinction. The Federal Government also ensured that the increasingly obvious annexation plans for the West Bank. Sanctions against the Israeli government were discussed for the first time in this round. Nothing has been decided yet. Instead, Merz sent his foreign minister to Israel on an exploration mission. Wadephul should find out whether you can still talk to the Israelis, they can be persuaded to insight.
At the latest now, Merz would probably have had to involve his party. But he apparently failed to do that.
Last weekend WadePhul informed the security cabinet by phone. After that, Merz is said to have emphasized the progress in humanitarian aid in internal rounds. In the Union, the signals were interpreted by many as if the Federal Government was satisfied with the promises of Israelis to have more help in the fighting zone again. Merz is also said to star-Information about the help stolen from Hamas, less about possible sanctions.
For Merz, the border was apparently exceeded with the decision of the Israeli cabinet on Friday night, now also in Gaza City. Shortly after 12 noon, he personally announced on Friday that from the Federal Government’s point of view, this could be recognized less and less, how the war goals should be achieved: “Under these circumstances, the Federal Government approved no exports of armaments that can be used in the Gaza Strip until further notice.”
The increasing international isolation of Germany should also be on this question behind the turning point. So it was heard in diplomatic circles. The closest partners France and Great Britain have long pursued a much more restrictive course. The stance of the federal government to criticize Israel’s approach more and more sharply, but still not to act politically, was less and less explained. This also applies to the German population: an overwhelming majority recently called for a surveys Increased diplomatic pressure to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip. It was also 77 percent for the Union supporters.
No, Friedrich Merz is not alone in his party either. For example, he knows experienced foreign politicians like Norbert Röttgen at his side. But his standing in the entire party will now also depend on how he makes his decision understandable. After all, it is the second pillar of Christian Democratic Politics that the party leader falls within a few months. Shortly after the election, when he had the debt brake grinded in the Bundestag, he said that he was already clear that he had used a “very high loan”. “Also as far as my personal credibility is concerned.”
The loan that he takes with his change of policy in Israel policy is likely to be assessed similarly. Even higher for many in the party. It affects not only the DNA of the parties of the CDU and CSU, but also the moral self -image of many MPs, for some of them the whole self -image as a political person.
If he doesn’t gamble there, this Chancellor. His parliamentary group showed him in the election of judges how a revolt works.
Source: Stern
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