The German government, however, can unilaterally designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but Merkel has vehemently opposed a full ban of Hezbollah. The German government and the EU have merely outlawed Hezbollah’s so-called military wing.
By admitting millions of Muslim economic migrants into Germany (with one million arriving in 2015 alone), Merkel has done great damage to the country she presumes to protect. It is particularly shameful that she has admitted people who, because of their faith, spread the virus of antisemitism; she has thus contributed to endangering Germany’s Jews. And her politicking on behalf of Hezbollah, a terrorist group intent on destroying the Jewish State, is even more intolerable.
Merkel has visited Yad Vashem twice, in 2008 and 2018. During her 2018 visit she wrote in the Yad Vashem Guestbook:
“Nearly eighty years ago, during the Kristallnacht pogroms on the 9th of November, the Jewish people of Germany were confronted with hate and violence in an unprecedented manner. What followed was the unparalleled crime that ruptured civilization, the Shoah. It is from this point that Germany’s everlasting responsibility to remember this crime and oppose antisemitism, xenophobia, hate and violence arises.”
Does Merkel oppose the murderous antisemitism, the hate and violence toward Jews Hezbollah? Apparently not, to judge by her deference of Hezbollah’s “political wing.” What do all those speeches about the need to atone for the Nazi genocide, those solemn visits to Yad Vashem, with those pledges written in the Yad Vashem Guestbook, to oppose antisemitism, those endless remarks about “Never Again” amount to, if Germany refuses to ban the terrorist organization that, together with its ally Iran, now constitutes the greatest threat to the well-being and survival of the people and state of Israel? Some atonement, some solemn promises, some “everlasting responsibility…to oppose antisemitism.”
Hezbollah’s “political wing” operates in Germany by raising funds, recruiting new members and spreading antisemitic and jihadi ideologies.
Without that foreign fundraising by the “political “ wing, without its ability to recruit new operatives and to spread propaganda for the cause (including antisemitic propaganda worthy of the Nazis), the supposedly separate and distinct “military wing’” of Hezbollah could hardly exist.
Benjamin Strasser rejected the anti-Hezbollah bill on behalf of the Free Democrats. His Free Democratic colleague Frank Müller-Rosentritt tweeted on Saturday in response to the pro-Iranian regime, pro-Hezbollah al-Quds Day march: “Thousands demonstrate for the expulsion of the Jews from Jerusalem and the destruction of Israel. Hezbollah and Nasrallah are celebrated. Because Germany does not classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, it may continue to collect donations and propaganda. That must have an end.”
The United Kingdom outlawed all of Hezbollah in February. The US, Canada, the Arab League, Israel and the Netherlands have classified all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The US Congress has called on Europe over the years to designate all of Hezbollah a terrorist entity.
The 192-page intelligence report authored by the intelligence agents from Lower Saxony’s state security service noted 150 Hezbollah operatives are situated there. The report covering 2018 was released on May 22.
“Hezbollah denies the right of existence of the State of Israel and fights it with terrorist means,” the intelligence report stated. “In Germany, the followers of Hezbollah maintain organizational and ideological and cohesion in local mosques associations that are financed primarily by donations. Hezbollah is against the idea of international understanding and the peaceful coexistence of peoples. The ‘party’ of Hezbollah was founded under the authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran, representing the most radical party of the Lebanese Shi’ite community.
Hezbollah is an organization with a single obsession, which it has repeatedly stated: the complete destruction of the Jewish state. It has been crystal clear about this goal; its leader Hassan Nasrallah repeats it on every conceivable occasion.
The banning of Hezbollah’s “political wing” has not been a merely symbolic gesture of disapproval. Such a ban has real consequences, preventing Hezbollah from conducting propaganda, planting operatives, gaining new members, and most importantly, raising funds, in the countries where it has been banned. Among those countries that have imposed a total ban — aside from Israel and the United States — are the U.K., Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and the members of the Arab League. The E.U., having banned the military wing six years agonies now discussing a total ban.
Because of Iran’s economic woes, following the reimposition of American sanctions, And it has had to cut way back on aid to Hezbollah. A report in The New York Times this March painted a desperate picture:
Even employees of Hezbollah, the Lebanese group that has long served as Iran’s closest Arab ally, say they have missed paychecks and lost other perks.
Iran’s financial crisis, exacerbated by American sanctions, appears to be undermining its support for militant groups and political allies who bolster Iranian influence in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.
“The golden days are gone and will never return,” said a fighter with an Iranian-backed militia in Syria who recently lost a third of his salary and other benefits. “Iran doesn’t have enough money to give us.”
This makes the terrorist group much more reliant on foreign fundraising. A total ban on Hezbollah by Germany — which might then convince the E.U. to do the same — would damage Hezbollah, already reeling from financial problems, still further. It also would make it harder for Hezbollah to recruit new members — who would have to be paid — among the Shi’a communities in Europe, and to spread its anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda.
Hassan Nasrallah has always been clear about Hezbollah’s intentions. He has said the “Israel is an illegal usurper entity, which is based on falsehood, massacres, and illusions.” He considers that the elimination of Israel will bring peace in the Middle East: “There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.” In an interview with the Washington Post, Nasrallah said, “I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called ‘Israel.’ I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful.” Apparently those remarks, and many others of that murderous ilk, were insufficient evidence for German politicians to ban the organization.
It is shameful and indecent that only one of Germany’s political parties, the AfD, supported a complete ban on Hezbollah, a terror group dedicated to destroying the Jewish state. Those Yad Vashem remarks by visiting German politicians, their heads bowed in expressions of deep remorse, who then write in the Yad Vashem Guestbook about Germany’s special responsibility to fight antisemitism, do not impress. If the Germans in the Bundestag cannot even bring themselves to ban Hezbollah, the terrorist organization that is the greatest current threat to the Jewish state, then they should at least have the decency not to pretend to care so much about what happens to Jews in Israel today and tomorrow, because of what happened to Jews in Europe yesterday, thanks to Mr. Hitler and his many enthusiasts.
Angemon says
Indeed.
Christianblood says
Contrary to US’s malicious propaganda, Hezbollah is NOT a terrorist organization
but is an indigenous Shiite resistance militia formed to protect its own people from the US, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Israel and their ISIS and Al-Qaeda proxies which I call the Evil Allies! Without the presence of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Lebanon would be overrun by the Evil Allies and millions of innocent Christians and Shiites would be lying dead or wounded by now and the black of Al-Qaeda would be flying not only in Beirut but also in Damascus as well!
Christians in Lebanon and Syria have only hate and disrespect for the US and its genocidal allies but have a deep respect for Hezbollah! Watch the telling photos below and see Hezbollah fighters protecting Christian shrines in Syria from ISIS and Al-Qaeda jihadists and from their US, Saudi Arabia and Nato sponsors!
https://thesaker.is/a-very-telling-picture-of-a-hezbollah-fighter/
gravenimage says
More spam from christianblood:
Contrary to US’s malicious propaganda, Hezbollah is NOT a terrorist organization
but is an indigenous Shiite resistance militia formed to protect its own people from the US, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Israel and their ISIS and Al-Qaeda proxies which I call the Evil Allies! Without the presence of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Lebanon would be overrun by the Evil Allies and millions of innocent Christians and Shiites would be lying dead or wounded by now and the black of Al-Qaeda would be flying not only in Beirut but also in Damascus as well!
………………………..
christianblood has said this before–that Jihad has nothing to do with Islam, but is instead waged by Americans and Jews.
He likes to pretend that if it were not for Hezb’allah invading and violently taking over formerly Christian-majority Lebanon that Jews would have committed genocide against the Christians there.
Of course, this makes no sense–Jews have not been a threat to Christians in Lebanon, and Israel is the *only* place in the Middle East where Christians have equal rights.
More:
Christians in Lebanon and Syria have only hate and disrespect for the US and its genocidal allies but have a deep respect for Hezbollah! Watch the telling photos below and see Hezbollah fighters protecting Christian shrines in Syria from ISIS and Al-Qaeda jihadists and from their US, Saudi Arabia and Nato sponsors!
https://thesaker.is/a-very-telling-picture-of-a-hezbollah-fighter/
………………………..
Christians in Dar-al-Islam are threatened dhimmis.
And the Muslim Jesus has nothing in common with the Christ of the Gospels, despite what christianblood likes to pretend.
Angemon says
“Contrary to US’s malicious propaganda, Hezbollah is NOT a terrorist organization
but is an indigenous”
*ahwm*
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/irans-ties-to-the-islamic-state-and-al-qaeda
Syrians and Iranians – not Lebanese. In any case, you’re just copying/pasting posts now – textbook spam – while pretending “saker”, a Russian expat in the US, living on US welfare while saying of the US what muhammad was too prude to say of bacon and called for Orthodox Christians to ally with muslims to defeat “the West”, is an unbiased source. Par for the course, of course…
Christianblood says
Graven & Angemon
Jesus have more respect for Hezbollah which protects Christians than the satanic and godless US and its allies who empower jihadists to start a religious genocide against Christians! Shame on you! You are like whitewashed tombs
filled with bones of dead bodies!
St. Matthew 23
Christianblood says
Graven & Angemon
Thousands of Christians, Shiites and Druze people came out in Beirut to praise Hezbollah resistance for the protection it offers their communities against the Evil Empire which are the US, Nato, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Al-Qaeda and ISIS! Go to mark 4:00 of the video and see how the Christian singer electrifies the audience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdZgkGI5h0A
Angemon says
“ Evil Empire which are the US, Nato, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Al-Qaeda and ISIS”
Al-qaeda and ISIS being partly funded by your favourite shiites, Iran. As for the “evil Empire”, Israel is the only safe haven for Christians in the entire Middle East, and NATO and the US were fundamental in bringing down what was actually an empire of evil – your very own USSR. It’s no accident or coincidence that former Soviet provinces, after turning independent, sought to join NATO to protect themselves from possible Russian invasion… No, the Pollacks, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Romanians, etc., know how you act, and they don’t want to end up like Ukraine…
Angemon says
christianblood posted:
“Graven & Angemon
Jesus have more respect for Hezbollah”
Ah, now you’re supposed to be a prophet – someone who speaks for God. Doesn’t the Bible say anything about taking the Lord’s name in vain?… And to say that Jesus has respect for the murderers of innocent civilians – the preferred targets of Hezbollah, particularly single-aged children and the elderly. Just how morally bankrupt are you? Do you not possess a shred of shame or have the minimum of human decency?
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Graven & Angemon
Jesus have more respect for Hezbollah which protects Christians than the satanic and godless US and its allies who empower jihadists to start a religious genocide against Christians! Shame on you! You are like whitewashed tombs
filled with bones of dead bodies!
St. Matthew 23
……………………………….
christianblood has said before that Hezb’allah murdering Jews is somehow “protecting” Christians.
Then, he has also said that Anti-Jihadists are “hypocrites” for opposing Jihad. He has said that my not wanting to be gang-raped and beheaded by Jihadists is resisting the Truth of Christ. Sick stuff.
More:
Graven & Angemon
Thousands of Christians, Shiites and Druze people came out in Beirut to praise Hezbollah resistance for the protection it offers their communities against the Evil Empire which are the US, Nato, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Al-Qaeda and ISIS! Go to mark 4:00 of the video and see how the Christian singer electrifies the audience:
……………………………….
christianblood has also posted this thing scores of times. He does not say, of course, that in Islam kissing your abuser’s feet is the sign of greatest humiliation–but he loves to see Christians in dhimmitude. Very disturbing stuff.
And of course she “electrifies” the audience–Muslims *love* to hear of the abasement of Christians and other Infidels. *Ugh*.
Again, his claim that it is actually America, Europe, and Israel that are waging violent Jihad is ludicrous.
Christianblood says
Angemon
The real murderers are the US and its Evil Allies who invade countries and use their jihadist proxies to mass-murder innocent peoples! US alone
invaded and bombed close to 40 small countries since 1945 killing over 20 million innocent civilians and this is a FACT an immoral beast like you wouldn’t even acknowledge it let alone condemn it!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051
Angemon says
“The real murderers are the US and its Evil Allies who invade countries”
Eh. Just now I mentioned Ukraine – last time I checked, the litle green men who invaded it were Russians, not Americans.
“and use their jihadist proxies to mass-murder innocent peoples!”
Citation needed – if I were to believe you, I’d think that, somehow, the jihadi groups attacking Americans and their allies were, in fact, being used by Americans and their allies to kill their own citizens. That’s the trite you’re triyng to pass.
“US alone
invaded and bombed close to 40 small countries since 1945 killing over 20 million innocent civilians and this is a FACT”
No, it isn’t. Not by a long shot. The site you bring up (a site that, as I mentioned before, RationalWiki describes as “…to fully believe that the West can do no right, and anything which opposes the “West” (i.e., the US and its allies) can do no wrong. “) is filled with incomplete info. From the beginning:
Afghanistan – all the deaths there are blamed on the US, not one is responsibility of the USSR, who actually invaded Afghan. Global Research goes as far as to say the the US lured the USSR to invade Afghanistan!
Angola – the USSR supported the communist MPLA in the Angolan civilian war, which lasted for nearly 30 years, but somehow, all the estimated deaths are being blamed on the US. This Soviet support included over 10,000 troops on the ground but, were I to believe Global Research, every and any individual murdered by Soviets, with Soviet weapons or under Soviet guidance was, in fact, responsibility of the US. Somehow.
Two out of two so far. No need to continue and make this post excessively long – I believe this proves my point – the site you bring up (as I mentioned, an infamously anti-Western and especially anti-US website) is not only filled with incomplete info it also outright lies and blames the US for deaths they had nothing to do with. Is simple anti-US propaganda, period.
“an immoral beast like you”
The only immoral beast here is you. You, who have praised child murderers. You, who refuses to acknowledge marital rape. You, who make a mockery out of Christianity. And you, who have yet to answer my question: are you still living in a Western nation?
gravenimage says
christianblood keeps spamming this thing, as well, claiming that Jihad is fine but that the real evil is the US having defeated Fascism, saved South Korea from Communism, and ended the Caliphate of the Islamic State.
Christianblood says
gravenimage posted
(…christianblood keeps spamming this thing…)
20 million human beings dead, bombed and killed by the US and you are calling it “this thing”? What are you? You are heartless and beyond atrocious, hideous, vicious, wicked and Evil!
Angemon says
“20 million human beings dead, bombed and killed by the US and you are calling it “this thing”?”
It should be clear to those with at least two brain cells to rub together that by “it” GI was referring to the blatantly false number of deaths you’re trying to pin on the US – some of which, that as I pointed out above on my Jun 21, 2019 at 4:25 am post, were direct responsibility of the USSR. Shame on you for promoting lies. When you call yourself a Christian you make a mockery of the Christian faith.
“What are you? You are heartless and beyond atrocious, hideous, vicious, wicked and Evil!”
Says the shadow of a person who cheers child murderers, refuses to acknowledge marital rape and promotes easily disprovable lies while claiming to be a devout Christian – ladies and gentlemen, I give you “christianblood”, our “moral superior”!!!
christianblood says
Graven & Angemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCuHbK_V9dQ
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote, for my not swallowing his grotesque propaganda:
20 million human beings dead, bombed and killed by the US and you are calling it “this thing”? What are you? You are heartless and beyond atrocious, hideous, vicious, wicked and Evil!
………………………
What crap. Global Research is a notorious anti-Western and antisemitic site.
This article sneers at 9/11, and condemns the West for daring to try to defend against Jihad.
It specifically slams America for keeping South Korea safe from Communism–but then, christianblood has previously lauded Kim Jong Un for oppressing and starving his people, because Americans and other Westerners don’t like it. Insanely, it blames the US (and Israel) for the Jihad against Israel.
This article was written by Michel Chossudovsky, who also founded the site. He is a 9/11 “Truther” who claims that there is no Jihad terror, but was done by the US against her own people.
Similarly, other articles published on the site have asserted that the 7 July 2005 London bombings were perpetrated by the United States, Israel, and United Kingdom.
It is rife with denial of the threat of Islam.
christianblood is accusing me of being “heartless…wicked and evil” for not accepting this vicious tripe.
jewdog says
In my latest letter in jpost, I mention this issue:
Shmuley Boteach laments that Americans didn’t die on D-day for France to become antisemitic, but the perilous situation in France and elsewhere calls for a practical strategy beyond pleas for decency.
Jews and other minorities have achieved their safest status wherever Western civilization has been strongest, for example, in the US. Not that Westerners have never fallen off the wagon and lapsed into barbarism, but at least those lapses are generally acknowledged as such by a conscience based on Judeo-Christian values.
This is not the case in Islamic culture, which divides the world by belief and is unrepentant toward the unbeliever. Some of the consequences: According to a report from the Central Criminal Intelligence Service of France’s gendarmerie, over the past three years there have been an average of three church attacks per day there, mostly in Muslim migrant areas. Where is the Muslim outrage?
These abuses, in addition to other crimes, most notably rapes and attacks on Jews, have been endemic wherever Muslim migrants have changed the local demography. The Westerners least tolerant of this situation are those with the strongest religious and national identities. They are the ones that Jews need to ally with against a common scourge in order to preserve the frail protections of Western civilization. These parties, largely pro-Israel, are snidely labeled “far right,” but nowadays, perversely, anyone pro-Israel is called a Nazi.
Observe the allegedly antisemitic AfD party in Germany, which recently tried but failed to have Hezbollah condemned in the Bundestag for its violence against Israel. Such parties (Dr. Daniel Pipes calls them “civilizational”) are our best bet.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
That fool Merkel and other simpleminded senseless politicians as her are ,even if they don’t know it, are being used a tools for Iran
For Hezbollah is Iran’s stooge jihad group and the jihadists of this entity are the members of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish , Islamic terror organization. Their Muslim jihad agenda of destroying the Jewish State of Israel and replacing her with an Islamic “state, are dangerous deluded violent wicked and irrational .
So much so that they are similar to the characters in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. This reads “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.”
The jihadists of Hezbollah in Germany as well as in other nations are ,somewhat, reflected in Psalm 83:2-4 . Which reads “See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. With cunning, they conspire against your people: they plot against those you cherish. ‘come’ they say , ‘let us destroy them as a nation ,so that Israel’s name is remembered no more…’ Further in this very same chapter in verses 16 -18 it is also written. “Cover their faces with shame, Lord so that they will seek your name. May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord – that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” [N.I.V.]
Merkel and her friends are leading Germany astray. For God will not bless Germany when she allows Hezbollah to be in that country.
Christianblood says
Most of you claim Hezbollah is a terrorist organizations, I say let us deal with the evidential facts, not with malicious cheap, US and Israeli baseless propaganda spoon-fed to you by MSM and the state department! My challenge to you this:
According to (thereligionofpeace.com) there are 35186 Islamic jihad attacks around the globe since 9/11, prove me a single one of them carried out by Hezbollah?
Please understand this: when I say prove me a terrorist attack that was perpetrated by Iran or Hezbollah, I mean show me a real terrorist attack like a suicide bombing in a mosque, a cinema, a bar, a church or a school like the one that killed dozens of Christians in West Africa 3 days ago!
Show me Hezbollah members beheading Westerners or Christians or Sunnis on video while screaming allahu akbar! Show me Hezbollah terrorists gunning down people in night clubs or bombing trains, or attacking news paper offices and killing journalists or using vehicles and killing hundreds of civilians as happen in Europe for the past two years or flying planes into buildings! That is what I mean a terrorist attack which is a daily occurrence around the globe! So go, show me a single one of these proven, verifiable terror attacks perpetrated by Hezbollah! Prove it!
gravenimage says
Hezb’allah was responsible for what is still South America’s worst terror attack–but christianblood doesn’t care.
christianblood says
gravenimage
All you accuse Hezbollah is one single incident which is South America Jewish center bombing without any prove and which is just an allegation. I still ask you to show me a clear terror attack carried out by Hezbollah since 9/11? You can’t prove this because such a thing don’t exist and all you believe is a malicious US and Israeli propaganda against Hezbollah and Iran!
Why do you have to believe US and Israeli propaganda Graven?
These rogue morons lie, deceive, steal and cheat all the time and they themselves will tell you this candidly. Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfrhATD4nM0
Angemon says
christianblood posted:
“All you accuse Hezbollah is one single incident which is South America Jewish center bombing without any prove and which is just an allegation. I still ask you to show me a clear terror attack carried out by Hezbollah since 9/11?”
I gave you dozens from a site you brought up to defend your assertion that were are no Hezbollah terrorist attacks. Twice, since you brought that up on two separate articles. That you refuse to acknowledge them and, instead, carry on as if nothing happened and no one gave you what you asked for does a great deal more to reveal your character than anything I could possibly say.
gravenimage says
Like Angemon, I have also listed dozens.
I have also pointed out christianblood’s reactions on this thread:
“Hizballah operates ‘Museum for Jihadi Tourism’ in South Lebanon”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/hizballah-operates-museum-for-jihadi-tourism-in-south-lebanon
Where he refuses to consider the Jihad against Israel to be Jihad, and instead applauds this murdering of Jews as “resistance”.
Angemon says
Copy/pasted from here:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/in-its-failure-to-ban-hezbollah-germany-undoes-itself-part-1#comment-2111427
See my response below, where I use CB’s supposed defense – the site “the religion of peace” – to show that Hezbollah is, in fact, a terrorist group who regularly engage in terrorist attacks, mostly targeting Israeli civilians, especially elderly, women and children. That he never answered me there and, instead, opted to spew the same nonsense elsewhere should be enough evidence of his vile character and agenda…
gravenimage says
Thank you, Angemon.
Paul N Silas says
I live in the State of Florida. I have spoken to a few refugees from Communist Venezuela who have told me that their Capital is crawling with Jihadis from Iran. The Commie government is very anti-Jewish and some of the motorcycle thugs that gun down Protesters there are suspected to be from Hezbollah
Christianblood says
Paul N Silas
How is it going with the puppet ‘president’ Guaido that the imperialist US chose for Venezuela? Why are US plans always end up in failure, in carnage and in bloodshed?
https://www.rt.com/news/462175-guaido-aides-embezzled-aid/
gravenimage says
Guaido is not president, despite what christianblood pretends.
Instead, Maduro is still starving his people–which christianblood has lauded before, since the ‘evil’ Americans are not happy about it.
gravenimage says
I know, Henry.
Despite it giving christianblood more attention, I feel it is important to counter his vicious, pro-Jihad bs.
christianblood says
gravenimage
The US and fifty of its European and Latin American puppets recognized Guaido as the Venezuelan president. Are you denying this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7vAqle5oo
gravenimage says
This is just an acknowledgement that Guaido–unlike Maduro–was actually honestly elected to his position.
But this just represents moral support–Maduro is still in power, and still starving his people, just the way christianblood likes it.
The idea that a large number of nations actually embrace freedom is inconceivable to christianblood–he assumes they must be “puppets”. This is how someone who identifies with the Soviet system thinks.
Anjuli Pandavar says
I’m just wondering, are we missing the wood for the trees?
“It is shameful and indecent that only one of Germany’s political parties, the AfD, supported a complete ban on Hezbollah, a terror group dedicated to destroying the Jewish state.”
Instead of seeing, “Hezbollah, a terror group dedicated to destroying the Jewish state.” and being shocked at the refusal to ban Hezbollah by all but one of Germany’s political parties, we might understand that refusal better by seeing, “the AfD supported a complete ban on Hezbollah.” So toxic is the appellation “far-Right”, that even if the AfD claimed that the sun rises in the East, every other German political party would claim that the sun rises in the West. My conjecture is that all the German political parties threw their Jewish fellow citizens and Israel under the bus to avoid association with Nazis, as they see it.
Battle says
Free Germany.