/ world today news/ German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was on a tour in the Middle East. In Qatar, the president waits 30 minutes at the plane door to be greeted. Not a single Qatari official showed up at the airport on time.
During a visit to Germany in early November, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, standing next to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, said Germany was too consumed by historical regrets to understand the reality of the Middle East.
The two leaders avoided a public spat in Berlin, but back in Ankara, Erdogan told Turkish media that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apparently had a “crusader mentality.”
Germany’s pro-Israel position eventually brought Berlin into conflict with many of its important partners. Just last year, Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habek visited Qatar to purchase large quantities of liquefied natural gas as compensation for sanctioned Russian gas.
At the same time, it was extremely imprudent for the Germans not to take into account the position of Qatar, which is the most important supporter of Hamas, which was actually demonstrated during the visit of the German president to the country.
Germany stubbornly insists on respecting Israel’s right to self-defense, turning a blind eye to the destruction and extermination of civilians in the Gaza Strip. The roots of Germany’s current Middle East policy are not in German-Israeli but in German-American relations.
The post-war German elite, carefully nurtured in the “American greenhouse”, was the most reliable European ally of the United States, in the position of “junior partner”.
Meanwhile, the Germans, who are interested in energy supplies from the Middle East, were not only one of the initiators of the nuclear deal with Iran, Berlin was the main sponsor of the agreement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Germany refused to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization to save the deal.
However, the Ukrainian conflict raised the question of choosing a side for Berlin: maintaining partnership relations with Russia or allied relations with the United States. The German elite presciently chose the US. There is one more point: Germany considers Ukraine as its potential raw material base.
It was Angela Merkel who openly expressed displeasure when exactly 10 years ago, at the end of November 2013, President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.
Germany actively promoted the Minsk agreements, trying to bring the Kiev regime into its sphere of influence as much as possible. The activation of Russia in the Ukrainian direction in 2022 completely destroyed Germany’s plans. Iran unexpectedly sided with Russia.
Thus, the previous directions of German foreign policy collapsed as a result of the Ukrainian conflict, and the interaction with Russia and Iran, previously envisaged by the German elite, failed.
Therefore, Berlin, through the hands of Israel, seeks to defeat Hamas in order to weaken the positions of Iran and, accordingly, Russia, and deprive our country of a potential ally, or at least significantly limit its options. This is the first reason for Germany’s staunch support for Israel’s war against Hamas.
Moreover, we must not forget that Berlin, if not devoid of political subjectivity, is significantly limited in its freedom of maneuver in the field of foreign policy by its senior American comrades, and for this reason alone is forced to support Israel.
So neither Erdoğan’s irritation nor Qatar’s show of contempt can fundamentally change anything in Germany’s Middle East policy.
Translation: SM
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