I guess more Polish and Ukrainian people should have made swiss accounts for tax evasion.

It is not a matter of a German court to do the arrest. It is a matter of the Police, which is part of the executive branch and hence under the government.

That is not what they said. They have questioned the jurisdiction of the ICC, explivtly saying that they didnt make any comment towards acknowledging it since the ruling in 2021.

There is also no procedural problem that would have to be solved. If he is on German soil police arrests him and he gets extradited to the Netherlands. There is well established procedures in regards to international arrest warrents for normal criminals. It is a farce.

Saying they are among the greatest supporter of the court doesnt mean shit, if they cannot directly say that they will uphold a specific ruling.

And the specific ruling is extraordinarily clear. If Netanyahu, Gallant or Deif (if he is still alive) are within German jurisdictiom they have to be arrested and handed over to the ICC.

There is no hypotheticals or ambiguity. Saying there is any and denying to explicitly state upholding this ruling by executing the warrants is denial of it.

And it is a very strong oppositiom to the court, contrary to what the spokespeople claim.

Wanting to uphold international law and clearly supporting the institutions of international law is terrorism now?

Wanting war crimes to be prevented and punished is terrorism now?

Not wanting millions of people to be starved, ethnically cleansed or murdered is terrorism now?

Diring the press conference yesterday the government speaker Hebestreit said that an “examination” is necessary as the jurisdiction of the ICC would be “not uncontested” despite this having been discussed and ruled by the court in 2021. When asked what Germany did in those three years he said they havent declared to recognise that ruling hence now they have to examine…

Here is the conference to watch. The arrest warrants come up at around minute 4

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NRl3X5nN4R4

DW is run by the German government to further the image of Germany abroad.

The mere fact that the government refuses to acknowledge the ICCs competence to issue the warrant and the obligation to enforce it as a member state, instead saying it needs to examine first, is an attack on the court.

When pressed on the matter in todays press conference they said the ICCs jurisdiction to be " not uncontested" despite the ICC having ruled this in 2021. And stating Germanys historical responsibility and calling arrests “hypothetical” and “difficult to imagine” show a warped understanding of what courts and laws are.

There is no exception. There is no individual alteration by a state. The orders of the court are to be respected and enforced if possible.

This is an “only yes means yes” kind of situation.

I am already worried that France talked about a “complex” situation.

The only acceptable answer for any ICC signatory worth their salt is: “We will arrest anyone on our soil the ICC issued arrest warrants for and hand them over to the court to do its job.”

Well there is plenty who do not consider people living here as Europeans, even if their families are in Europe since 2, 3 or more generations. So tye ones who think in these terms are the “white” Europeans trying to shift the blame for their antisemitism away to immigrants.

It definetely exists and existed outside of Europe but it is predominantlz an European concept. Especiallz the genocidal antisemitism, brought to the extreme by nazi Germany with collaborateurs all over Europe, already has its root at least in the times of the crusades. Pogroms were coined as a term in Eastern Europe as they became more popular their. The whole “race theory” nonsense to somehow make racism “scientific” also included concepts of what would be physical traits of Jews and the British Lord Balfour supported Zionism to get rid of British Jews he deemed “not able to integrate”

The last point deserves special attention imo. as it shows how the way Jews were perceived in the 19th and 20th century are now transferred to how Muslims are perceived.

It is a convenient cover to deflect them blame of antisemitism, which is an European invention and concept for the most part, as well as it is alive and well in “white” Europeans.

By shifting the blame to Arab and other immigrants and anti-imperialist leftists this serves to further the rise of the far right, while downplaying their antisemitism.

A Jewish professor who opposes the recent “anti-antisemitism” resolution in Germany put it very well. He noted that the resolution does not refer to the most obvious antisemitic crime in Germany of the past years. An attempted massacre at a Synagogue in Halle by a Neo-Nazi. Instead it mentions the least clear “antisemitic” event, the description of Israel as an apartheid state, by the Israeli and Palestinian directors of the documentary “No Other Land” at the Berlinale 2023.

So literal Neo-Nazis trying to slaughter Jews seems to not be relevant to mention for the German lawmakers as antisemitism, while calling Israel an apartheid state apparently is an attack on all Jews for these lawmakers. Jews are once again used as a bargaining chip for nationalist politics.

So Netanyahu is illegaly occupying the Westbank, East Jerusalem and Gaza since 1967 all by himself?

That man must make biblical Goliath look like an ant.

Weird. Despite the huge growth over the past decades, the social systems mostly became worse. What did they do different in 1990 that they managed to make more oit of the lower economic output?

Note that it was the FDP that denied Ukraine aid, unless social spending was cut. In 2022 the FDP was also quick to give up on Ukraine, so that business would not be affected.

For them Ukraine is an expendable chess piece for national politics.

The dutch article, that AA refers to:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/zorgen-bij-ministeries-over-ongewenste-inmenging-israel-in-nederlands-debat~baa860e8/

Shameful of Reuters not to mention the video of Maccabi Fans chasing arabs through the streets that was misbranded as Maccabi fans being chased. The whole events were presented with a strong pro Israeli distortion by western politicians and media.

Especially as Reuters misbranded that video in question a decent approach would be to own up to and mention it.

It is both. Increase the costs of doing business -> price goes up and demand goes down. BotH local customers and external company loose.

This can be sensible if you need to protect a small economy so that the customers profit from having work and businesses grow to become competitive. E.g. all the industrialized nations had protectionist measure to indistrialize and then pushing “free trade” after was a ploy to keep emerging economies down and their natural ressources easily exploitable.

Between two industrialized (or post industrial) economies this does not make sense.