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“voting AfD is so 1933”

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Article by The times of Israel (2017):

Loathed by Jews, Germany’s far-right AfD loves the Jewish state

Candidates for nationalist Alternative for Germany, derided as anti-Semitic, overwhelmingly profess to hold pro-Israel positions, poll shows

But, like many far-right parties in Europe and elsewhere, the AfD presents itself as staunchly supportive of Israel.

According to a wide-ranging poll commissioned by a group promoting German-Israeli relations, most AfD politicians profess to care deeply about Israel’s security, support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, reject unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state, and generally support a stronger relationship between Jerusalem and Berlin.
Nearly 90% of the 35 AfD members who were surveyed totally or somewhat support Chancellor Angela Merkel’s dictum that “Israel’s security is Germany’s raison d’etre.” Two said they oppose the statement and two had no opinion.

A quarter of those polled had been to Israel.

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They love Israel, because Israel kills the people they hate even more than Jews in modern Germany: Muslims and “brown people” as it were. That’s all there’s to it. Enemy of my enemy and everything. Their whole platform is about stopping immigration and deporting foreigners.

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They love Netanyahu and his fascist Likud party. Not necessarily Israel.

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That’s the reading I got as well. I will add that colonialists tend to support each other.

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I think an additional aspect is that if Jews all leave for Israel, there are no more left in Germany, which they are striving for very much. I don’t think that most German Nazis absolutely want to kill them, they just want them to be gone out of their lives.

That was the reason why modern Israel was founded in the first place, nobody in the West wanted to keep the Jews at home, so they made them a place where they could stay. That was better publicity than killing them.

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I figure I should link this post on The Correctiv article referenced here:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/9412791

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Now Nazi Germans are teaming up with Israel and other Germans against the Arabs and the Browns, As long long as they find an inferior race to hate, they are fine with whoever are their allies.

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