Berlin, the Foreign Office said, was ‘most concerned about the fact that, to this day, Israel continues to be criticized inappropriately’
On May 11, 1949, the United Nations adopted the motion that admitted Israel as a member state. To mark its anniversary, Germany’s Foreign Office issued a startling statement: “The Federal Government would like to take this 70th anniversary as an opportunity to reiterate the fact that Germany stands at Israel’s side in the UN.”
Steinmeier also sent a congratulatory 40th-anniversary telegram to Iran, Israel’s arch enemy and no friend to any law-abiding country, for which he was criticized by many human rights activists, with Germany’s public TV channel ARD deploring the country’s “dangerous pandering to the mullahs.” With this history, is Germany’s new overture to be trusted? Jerusalem’s envoy to Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, expressed somewhat equivocal optimism about the gesture: “We’ve had this discussion at a senior level for some time with our German counterparts and informed them that we hope to see changes in their voting pattern,” he said, adding “But in the end there is also the effort by Germany to fit in with the consensus at the EU.
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