• dotslashme@infosec.pub
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    Germany’s Central Council of Jews has sharply criticized the government’s decision to suspend exports of military equipment to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip, announced by Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday.

    Israel is attacked daily by enemies and bombarded with missiles, Schuster said.

    “Depriving Israel of the ability to defend itself against such threats endangers its existence,” he added.

    Using weapons inside Gaza is not defense though.

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      And the export ban is specifically in weapons that can be used offensively. Anti-Air weaponry is not part of that

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    Note that the central council is government funded. It also runs a “newspaper” called Jüdische Allgemeine which regularly spreads disinformation like denying starvation in Gaza, denying Israeli war crimes and in its opinion pieces sometimes advocating for the committment of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    Germany is probably the only developed country that is paying for propaganda by a foreign government against its own interests, in particular the interest to uphold a rules based international order that Germany helped building.