(May 23, 2024 / JNS) - Germany will detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant against him, a German government spokesman said Wednesday.
Asked by reporters in Berlin if Germany would execute an ICC warrant against Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Steffen Hebestreit, a spokesman for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said, “Of course. Yes, we abide by the law,” Politico reported.
Germany is turning itself into the reliable arsenal of democracy.
Don’t jump there just yet, they’ve just gone through a wave of suppression of freedom of speech related to the conflict. This response is welcome and surprising because their other actions were pretty questionable.
We have freedom of opinion and it stops when you call for the destruction of countries or genocide.
Marching against a currently occurring genocide isn’t calling for genocide. Germans have a freedom of opinion as long as it’s the one approved opinion.
Thats simply not true. Its just that Germany has rules against demanding the extinction of the state of Israel – you know – due to historical reasons and mainly against Nazis.
The claim ‘from the river to the sea’ calls for the extinction of Israel, because it calls for a Palestinian state between Jordan and Mediterranean, therefore Israel has be desolved. Therefore ‘from the river to the sea’ is a prohibited phrase in Germany and you are not allowed to chant it at demonstrations. If you do so, the demonstration might get cancelled.
Freedom of speech in Germany is just more restricted compared to the US. There are a lot of things you are not allowed to say – mainly things associated with Nazis.
