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The Future Extermination Of The Jews

By the Shoebats
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“He [Roosevelt] was strengthened in this [political diversion] by the circle of Jews surrounding him, who, with Old Testament-like fanaticism, believe that the United States can be the instrument for preparing another Purim for the European nations that are becoming increasingly anti-Semitic.” — Adolf Hitler
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“I have never seen such a systematic attempt to influence the Bundestag … It is obviously ultimately a matter of shifting the German position in the Middle East conflict in the interests of Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu and thus dividing the EU on this issue.”— Andreas Nick, member of the German Bundestag, talking about the pro-Israel lobby in Germany.
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But ships shall come from Kittim
and shall afflict Asshur and Eber;
and he too shall come to utter destruction.”
— Balaam (Numbers 24:24)
There is a struggle taking place that does not meet the superficial eye. On one side you have the Americans and the Jews, and on the other the Europeans and the Turks. Diplomatic language is definitely being maintained, but underneath it all, when one reads between the lines, there is a will to break free from American control, and in this longing for independence, there is a rage that points to the Jew as a threat to this aspiration.
Germany wants to do business with Iran, but there is a pro-Israel lobby in Washington that intensely worked to make sure that the US leave the Iran Deal and, in turn, the Americans threatened sanctions on European countries for insisting to maintain business ties with the Iranians. Moreover, there is a strong pro-Israel lobby within the German government that has pressured members of the Bundestag to purge out the anti-Israel BDS movement under the threat of accusations of antisemitism. This has been to the ire of many German MPs because this lobby is seen as a foreign influence that is there to pressure Germany to the will of Israel which (and this too has caused a stir in Berlin) sent tens of millions of dollars to fund this lobby. All of this is an impediment to Germany’s goal of independence from the Americans. Thus, Germany’s struggle for autonomy will eventually be a struggle against the Jews — be they in Israel or within the lobbying apparatus. In the midst of all of this, there is a growing hatred against the Jew. Holocaust denial is disturbingly popular, and a greater support and sympathy for fanatical, nationalistic ideologies has seen a surge within recent years.
We can talk about antisemitism in the Muslim world, but we would simply be pointing to the obvious. What we strive to do is get people to see what their cultural conditioning refuses to show them, and that is that the European can turn back to the demons that once possessed him in the first half of the 20th century. This hatred is not just in the Middle East, where the world is accustomed to seeing anti-Jewish sentiments, but has seen a resurgence in the Western world. We say resurgence because hatred toward the Jews in Europe was once common, and the Germans butchered millions. Who is to say, then, that with Germany’s will to freedom from the American yoke being hindered by a pro-Israel agenda, in the atmosphere of intensifying nationalism and pan-Europeanism, that the European will not turn on the Jew again? Even the Bible foretold that Europeans will butcher the Hebrews. Balaam made the prophecy that “ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction.” Eber denotes the Hebrews, and according to Josephus “all islands, and the greatest part of the sea-coasts, are named Cethim by the Hebrews,” (Hist., 1.6.1) and in this he is referring to European coastlands. The fact that the greatest extermination of the Jews was done by a European nation — Germany — is telling. And since history does rhyme, perhaps the chaotic symphony that the world has been composing will lead us back to the grim past, when the European tried to exterminate the Jew.
One of the most polarizing events between the US and Germany was the American withdrawal from the Iran Deal (known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). Germany wants to do business with the Iranians while the Americans continue to pressure other countries not to do so. This anti-Iran policy is greatly influenced by the pro-Israel lobby and by Israel itself. Thus, if Germany is pursuing independence, then it will have to ultimately collide with the Jews, be they in Israel or the ones pushing for Israeli interests within the German government.
The Iran Deal limited Iran’s nuclear activities and in exchange allowed the Iranians to conduct commerce with other countries in the Western world. The United States left the Iran Deal, resumed sanctions on Iran and pressured other countries to not do business with the Near Eastern country, which was to the ire of the Germans who still wish to maintain commerce with Tehran. This stoked up tension with the Germans because America was imposing its will on them. The anger towards America’s pressure truly comes from the desire to be autonomous from US control. Hence why after the US withdrew from the Iran Deal, Germany’s Federal Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/deutschland-usa-zahlungsverkehr-maas-idDEKCN1L61LR">wrote</a> that it is essential “that we strengthen European autonomy by setting up payment channels that are independent of the USA, creating a European Monetary Fund and building an independent Swift system”.
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Heiko Maas
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Maas also called for Germany to have more responsibility in security issues “In which we counterbalance where the US crosses red lines,” and “In which we bring our weight to where America withdraws.” In a 2020 interview with Der Spiegel Maas complained that America’s policy against Iran has been not helpful at all, and he specified against the US’s threats of sanctions on European companies who do business with Iran:
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“There has been no progress on any issue with Iran – on the contrary. We have seen how little the nuclear deal is worth when the U.S. fights against it from the sidelines – with sanctions against Iran and threats against European companies doing business in Iran.”
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Maas, in the same interview, spoke of the need for European autonomy from American global power, stating: “The U.S. will not return to the role of global police force.” And: “European sovereignty – or strategic autonomy, as the French call it – is currently a motto of our German EU presidency. It is a prerequisite for the trans-Atlantic relationship to function again, not a contradiction.” It is clear that the contention for Germanic autonomy from American power is underscored by American pressure to have no business with Iran and German desire to have commerce with the Iranians.
The Germans want to do business with the Iranians and the Americans are demanding them to stop. This upsets the Germans, not because they really care about the Iranian economy, but because it presents American control over Europe. What we are essentially witnessing is a German rebellion against the American empire. This rebellion was expressed in 2018 by then President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker,  when he declared in a speech some of the most hardline rhetoric that we have lately been seeing coming out of Europe: “At this point, we have to replace the United States, which as an international actor has lost vigor, and because of it, in the long term, influence”.
Germany’s drive for independence is also underscored by the conflict between it and Germany over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Germany wants a pipe line that will transport natural gas directly to it from Russia. The Trump administration responded to this by imposing sanctions on any European companies involved in the construction of the pipeline. In the midst of this situation, there was talk in Germany about America acting like a mafia against the Germans. German parliamentarian, Klaus Ernst, <a href="https://www.rt.com/business/507945-us-nordstream-eu-fight-mafia/">stated</a>: “Their [the American’s] actions resemble those of a mafia … It’s not about our security; it’s about Americans seeking to sell us their liquified gas, their slate gas that harms the environment… and is more expensive”. He then went on to say that the US “does not see its partners as partners but… as unwelcome competitors or as servants … This must be stopped once and for all. We cannot stand anything like this …  Everything else leads either into a dead end or into submission.” (Ellipses and brackets mine). In other words, the Germans no longer want to be in a state of submission under the Americans and want to break free to pursue its own business dealings, be it with the Russians or the Iranians.
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Klaus Ernst
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There is a <a href="https://www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2019S02/">report</a> from 2019 that expresses this desire for independence from American power. It is entitled, Strategic Autonomy of Europe and it was written by numerous researchers for the European Union. In this report, the desire for autonomy sparked by America’s withdrawal from the Iran Deal is made clear: “the dispute with the Trump administration over the nuclear deal with Iran makes it clear how difficult it is for the EU to defend its own security and regulatory ideas against political and economic pressure.” It speaks of a deepening of Franco-German ties as a response to America’s spite towards the Iran Deal: “Since the US administration terminated the Iran nuclear deal, Berlin and Paris have come closer to each other on essential foreign and security policy issues.” The report gives further remonstrance: “The US government is currently forcing European companies out of the macroeconomically insignificant Iran business, but this is already undermining the credibility of European foreign policy.”
The report describes America as a rival to a rising autonomous Europe that will be a pole of power in the emerging multipolar world where America is no longer the sole global force: “With the claim to strategic autonomy, Europe defines itself as a pole in an unstable multipolar world order that is increasingly determined by a Sino-American rivalry.” It also talks about a more contentious political atmosphere between the US and Germany wherein the Germans must be conditioned to having conflicts with the Americans: “Europe and Germany have to adjust to increased controversies, more open and contentious debates and also conflicts with the USA.” So, we know that the Germans don’t expect relations with the US to return to normalcy; that conflict will continue, that tensions will increase; and we know that one of the major points of contention is doing business with Iran. And what country has influenced the US against the Iran Deal more so than any other country? It is obviously Israel, the biggest influencer for the US leaving the deal. When Marko Papic, a geopolitical analyst, was working for Stratfor (a think-tank that specializes on conflicts between countries) he <a href="https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/17/1704842_re-breaking-down-iran-and-germany-.html">made</a> the observation in an email revealed by Wikileaks that it was Israel, and not just the US, that was pressuring Germany to leave off trading with Iran:
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“Trade with Iran is not something Germany throws away easily. Data we have point to a robust trade relationship, particularly in this one sector. HOWEVER, pressure from the U.S., plus also Israel (we need to at least mention it…) is forcing Merkel to shift here.”
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Israel is thus becoming a hinderance to Germany’s aspiration for being independent, since it is Israel’s opinion that influences the  US’s pressure against Germany’s business with Iran. Thus, if Germany wants to be autonomous from American control, it also has to assail Israeli outrage. It is not only Israel that pressures Germany, but a very active pro-Israeli lobby within Germany. This has been the case even before the Iran Deal. In 2008, Germany wanted to establish several liquid natural gas (LNG) plants in Iran, but his was opposed by the pro-Israel lobby within Germany which consists of two organizations — the German-Israeli Friendship Society and the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin — as was observed by a <a href="https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/18/1839177_re-mesa-iran-germany-did-germany-strike-a-gas-deal-with-iran.html">report</a> referenced in Wikileaks:
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“critics of the Islamic Republic including the German-Israeli friendship society say the deal’s approval was unnecessary and even harmful. They have urged the gas contract be rescinded to further isolate Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities.
“The Steiner deal just shows that existing sanctions have been ineffective,” said Jonathan Betkerle of the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin, a nonprofit group supported by Jewish organizations.
Betkerle said his group will lobby German politicians to help overturn the government decision.”
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There has been a growing frustration in Germany with these two pro-Israel lobbying groups, so much so that Der Spiegel wrote an in depth article on this subject entitled, H<a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/lobbyismus-im-bundestag-wie-zwei-vereine-die-deutsche-nahostpolitik-beeinflussen-wollen-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000164871539">ow two clubs want to influence German Middle East policy</a>. This article had a particular focus on the controversy regarding the anti-Israel BDS movement. BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanction, which is what this movement wants to impose on Israel. The German parliament (Bundestag) already made a joint declaration against antisemitism in which the BDS movement was condemned. But, in May of 2019 the Christian Democrats, alongside the SPD, FDP and Greens collectively voted in favor of a statement condemning the BDS movement specifically and not just in a general statement against antisemitism. The statement was titled, “Resolutely opposing the BDS movement – fighting anti-Semitism”. While the support for the resolution was overwhelming, there were 103 parliamentarians who looked upon it with suspicion. Why, they asked, was it necessary to have this separate resolution when they had already condemned antisemitism? While they were incredulous, they still voted in favor of it since to do otherwise would have meant bad publicity, more specifically accusations of antisemitism.
One of the movers pushing the resolution on the Bundestag was Elio Adler, a dentist and the chairman of the “Values Initiative”, an association founded in 2018 which, according to its own information, represents “Jewish-German positions”.  Adler is also on the board of the “Middle East Peace Forum”, which was founded in 2009, and lobbies in favor for Israeli demands. According to the Der Spiegel article: “The organization questions German Middle East policy and promotes positions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” Such an article denotes a foreign — Jewish — influence on Germany which, desiring to be autonomous from outside power, would definitely find it in its interest to neutralize such an influence. Months before the vote transpired, the Values Initiative of Adler lobbied aggressively for the Bundestag to classify the BDS movement as antisemitic and to prohibit its funding. One German MP was offended by this and described it as “systematic influence”. The Der Spiegel article speaks of how funding in the tens of millions from Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs & Public Diplomacy has financed the Middle East Peace Forum in Germany, and even ties in the Mossad with this operation:
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“The ministry has provided the equivalent of around 30 million euros, and even the Mossad secret service is said to be involved, according to media reports. Pressure was exerted on banks, particularly in Europe and the USA, to close the accounts of groups that support BDS. So-called front organizations in the countries are said to have helped.”
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Elio Adler
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Since Germany has been adamant about rising above American control, it would not be surprising that they also would work against the influence of pro-Israel lobbying. This countering against Israeli influence was expressed by major Christian Democrat parliamentarian Andreas Nick when he stated, regarding pro-Israel lobbying: “I have never seen such a systematic attempt to influence the Bundestag … It is obviously ultimately a matter of shifting the German position in the Middle East conflict in the interests of Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu and thus dividing the EU on this issue.”
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Andreas Nick
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Germany’s longing for freedom can thus be perceived as being impeded by Israel and a group of Zionists with a loud voice. Merkel spoke of how “we Europeans must fight for our own future and destiny,” but it appears that this fight will ultimately be against Israel and her acolytes within Germany. The anger towards the Jew is not only at the governmental level, but in the street as well.
<a href="https://archive.is/vCvdu">Recently</a>, in Germany, around 3,500 people gathered together to demonstrate against Israel and express support for the Palestinian cause. People shouted, “Muhammad’s army will return” and “Take aim at Tel Aviv!” Many of the demonstrators wore the Palestinian kaffiyeh and some even wore camouflage clothing or Salafist attire. Left-wing fanatics also attended, marching with the red, communist flag with its hammer and sickle. Others waved the flag of Turkey and made the hand sign of the Grey Wolves (Bozkurt), a Right-wing ethno-nationalist group that believes in the superiority of the Turkish race. Just to demonstrate how racist this latter group is, the official magazine of the Grey Wolves, Bozkurt, once said:
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“What is our ideology? The Turkism of the Grey Wolf (Bozkurt). What is the creed of the Bozkurtcu? They believe, that the Turkish race and the Turkish nation is superior. What is the source of this superiority? The Turkish blood.”
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So what we have in such a rally are a mix of Islamist, Turkish nazis and Communists, all against Israel. Turkish anti-Jewish sentiment can be a mixed bag between Islamism and Nazi ideology, hence why Mein Kampf was a best seller in Turkey in 2005.
Rageful hatred against the Jew is very prevalent in the internet. One Jewish person who lives in Berlin received a comment on Instagram saying: “I miss Hitler. He should come back for a quick extermination.” Der Spiegel quotes an anti-Israel comment made on social media by a German born Muslim that reads: “You sons of whores, you schmucks, Hitler didn’t f**k you enough!”
Anti-Jewish violence has been increasing in Germany. According to central crime statistics, attacks on Jews have risen each year since 2015. In that year the number of violent attacks on Jews was 1,366 and now in 2021 it is at 2,351, a two-thirds increase. While police believe that almost 95% of the attacks have been done by Right-wing radicals, when the assaulter cannot be identified they are frequently believed to be Right-wing extremists (according to a survey by the Independent Expert Group on Anti-Semitism in German parliament, most Jews in Germany believe that the majority of these attacks have been by Muslims).
Levi Israel Ufferfilge, a 32 year old German Jew who runs an elementary school, has described the persecution he has endured in his country, such as being called a “sh*t Jew” in places as common as a supermarket, the train and at the bus stop. He recounted how he was chased by a gang of Arab men who threw rocks and bottles at him as he was walking home from a cinema. He was more disturbed by the reaction from police officers when they asked him if he had “given the youths a reason” to be violent towards him.
However, Ufferfilge specifies that it is not just Muslims who have attacked him, but Germans as well who have expressed hatred towards him. Rebecca Seidler, a German Jewish woman who heads a liberal Synagogue, recounts of how a man with an Arabic accent called the parish office and threatened to light the synagogue on fire. She also recalled how congregation members have been scolded at work, at school and on the streets with statements like: “What you are doing in Gaza is just as bad as what the Nazis did to the Jews,” or “If Israel didn’t exist, we would have peace in the world.”  She spoke of recent protests against Israel and “how many Turkish flags are also being waved.”
Dervis Hizarci, an educator who works to dissuade Muslim and Turkish youths from anti-semitism was an observer at the recent anti-Israel demonstration that took place in Neukölln and he knew many of the youths present there: “There were more of them than in past years at similar events, and the anger was greater”. Burak Yilmaz, another educator who tries to persuade youths away from antisemitism lays the blame on Turkish clerics who are influential in Germany: “Fundamentalist clerics, in particular, have lots of followers and call for hatred there. There are imams whose content is shared thousandfold.” In some Turkish TV shows, he explains, the Jew is always the enemy. “These are the things that shape people.” One of those influences is the major imam Ali Erbas, Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) in Turkey, who spoke in Ankara: “The tyranny of Israel, the baby killer who mercilessly destroys and annihilates houses of worship, must be stopped as soon as possible.” A few days later Derbas entered the Hagia Sofia with a sword.
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Ali Erbaş with sword in Hagia Sofia
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Anti-Jewish sentiment is very common amongst Turkish youths in Germany, and its fashionableness is illustrated in the soccer culture of young Turks. For example, the Turkish soccer club team, Fenerbahçe, was warming up while wearing shirts that read “Ozgur Palastina” or “Free Palestine.” One of the players wearing the shirt was the German born Mesut Ozil, who used to play for the German national team and is a strong supporter of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ozil is very popular amongst ethnic Turkish youths in Germany and his rage against Israel is a reflection of a wider animosity towards the Jewish state. There were 1.4 million Turks in Germany who voted in the most recent Turkish presidential election, and of those, 65 percent put in their vote for Erdoğan.
There are Turks who are also involved in stoking Nazi fury. Attila Hildmann is an example of this. An ethnic Turk who was adopted by German parents, Hildmann was once a celebrity vegan chef who now describes himself as an “ultra right-winger” and overtly shows his hatred against Jews. He recently <a href="https://shoebat.com/2021/04/02/one-of-the-faces-of-german-neo-nazism-is-a-turkish-vegan-who-considers-jews-parasites/">made</a> a poll for his followers asking if Jews are humans or parasites. 2,500 people responded and 60% of them said that Jews are parasites.
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Atilla Hildmann speaking at Right-wing event
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Enmity towards Israel in Germany can also be found within the political sphere of the country. In 2019, the official Twitter account (“Germany in Ramallah”) for the representative of Germany’s mission to the Palestinian territories “<a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/german-diplomat-for-palestine-liked-antisemitic-and-neo-nazikkk-tweets-596088">liked</a>” posts made by American white nationalist David Duke and other antisemites. The one directing the account, Christian Clages, “liked” as a “must read” an article that compared the Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem to the historical accounts of “totalitarian states” . Clages also “liked” a post by David Duke in which the former klansman told a Palestinian follower that “Jewish racists” would have “mutilated innocent Palestinians, raped and led through Jewish villages before they were executed”.
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According to Bild, Clages praised a tweet showing “a video of a two-minute mob attack on Israeli soldiers captioned with the words ‘Hats off!’” The fact that the representative for Germany in the West Bank is a fan of David Duke tells us that support for the Palestinian cause can most definitely have a Nazi underpinning that positions itself at the governmental level. In Germany, there is a growing sense of aggravation towards the emphasis on remembering the Holocaust that has been so maintained in the society given the fact it was the country who orchestrated the genocide of the Jews and other ethnicities.
This frustration was <a href="https://archive.is/yeH12">expressed</a> by the biggest Right-wing nationalist party in the country, the Alternative for Deutschland party or AfD. In 2017, in a beer hall meeting in Dresden, AfD leader Bjorn Hocke praised his party as the last hope for Germany: “The AfD is the last revolutionary, the last peaceful chance for our fatherland”. His words were greeted with “Jawohl!” (“Yes sir!”) from the crowd. He then began to reflect the simmering animosity towards the country’s focus on Germany’s Holocaust history: “German history is handled as rotten and made to look ridiculous,” to which the crowd replied with cries of “Deutschland, Deutschland.” Vexing against his country’s national guilt for the Holocaust, Hocke lamented that Germans were “the only people in the world to plant a monument of shame in the heart of its capital,” referring to a memorial to murdered Jews in Berlin, adding that Germans had the “mentality of a totally vanquished people.”
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Mr. Hocke’s agenda against Germany’s national guilt was also seen when he disavowed a famous 1985 speech by Richard von Weizsacker (then the German president) that declared that the victory of the Allies should be esteemed as the liberation of Germany. Hocke described Weizsacker’s speech as “a speech against his own people, and not for his own people.” Hocke’s words assume that his people are Nazis. That a leader for a major political party in Germany is raging against the emphasis on the Holocaust is an indication that such sentiments are growing. When people want to belittle genocides, it is because they wish to repeat them. We see this in Turkey where the official narrative of the government is that the Armenian Genocide did not take place, and yet Armenia is still the enemy in Turkey’s eyes, signifying the desire to resume the extermination of that nation. We have also seen this in Japan where major parliamentarians deny that there ever was a massacre of the Chinese.
The denial, or the minimizing of massacres and genocides is only done by those who aspire to have the evil repeated. Hocke’s beliefs are shared by Thomas Schlick, Chairman of the AfD in Wolfsburg, who <a href="https://taz.de/Angriffe-auf-KZ-Gedenkstaetten/!5684941/">expressed</a> his desire for Germany to say “nein” to demands for reparations to Jews for the Holocaust: “We have heard quite often recently that the past and the lessons learned from it are important and that this may not be forgotten. …  The fear of saying ‘no’ to an association from time to time [ … ] must not lead to economic considerations no longer playing a role out of pure guilt!” This is another thing that must be factored when analyzing the simmering anger against the Jews: how the European (more specifically, the German) are growing vindictive of the many calls for reparations for the Holocaust. There has been an intensification of the ‘get over it’ attitude towards the Holocaust in Germany in recent decades. Christoph Schult, who has been quite active in studying German-Israeli relations, <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/essay-time-for-honesty-in-german-israeli-relations-a-1067171.html">wrote</a> of this growing sentiment:
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“A large share of Germans — perhaps even the majority — offer their one-sided support to the Palestinians, not seldom as a way of trying to relativize Germany’s responsibility for the Holocaust.” At some point we need to get over it,” is one popular refrain.”
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An enmity towards monuments commemorating Germany’s past crimes is definitely present within these nationalists. For <a href="https://taz.de/Angriffe-auf-KZ-Gedenkstaetten/!5684941/">example</a>, the AfD parliamentary group for the city of Braunschweig collected signatures against the planned establishment of a “Garden of Remembrance” to commemorate war crimes committed by soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Regiment from Braunschweig in Roselies, Belgium during the First World War. The AfD parliamentary group lamented the “nonsensical monument cult” and rejected the memorial site: “To this day, there is no clearly proven connection between the events in Roselies and those in Braunschweig or our city. A memorial is therefore out of place. “   
There have been AfD politicians exposed as blatant Nazis. One politician, who has gone unnamed (because of Germany’s privacy laws) had to resign because pictures came out <a href="https://archive.is/a4c56#selection-1357.52-1361.118">showing</a> him on a “pilgrimage” to sites connected with Hitler. In one photo he is holding a candle in front of Hitler’s birthplace in the Austrian town of Brannau am Inn. He is also seen near swastikas and SS rune-bearing banners as well as being photographed near the Berchtesgaden Alpine retreat frequented by Hitler. Another AfD politician, Jessica Biessmann, had photographs of her posing next to wine bottles bearing Hitler’s image.
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Lars Steinke had to resign from his position as the leader of the AfD’s youth organization in Lower Saxony, after he <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/hitler-forced-to-invade-poland-afd-youth-leader-claims/a-45774237">said</a> in a leaked conversation that Hitler was justified in invading Poland, stating that “every politician would have acted just like Hitler.” And given all of this, with such people growing in numbers, perhaps they, too, will act like the tyrant they praise. 
 
 
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She Was The Last-And Only-Foreign Scientist In Wuhan Lab. Her Story

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Danielle Anderson was working in what has become the world's most notorious laboratory just weeks before the first known cases of Covid-19 emerged in central China. Yet, the Australian virologist still wonders what she missed.
An expert in bat-borne viruses, Anderson is the only foreign scientist to have undertaken research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology's BSL-4 lab, the first in mainland China equipped to handle the planet's deadliest pathogens. Her most recent stint ended in November 2019, giving Anderson an insider's perspective on a place that's become a flashpoint in the search for what caused the worst pandemic in a century.
The emergence of the coronavirus in the same city where institute scientists, clad head-to-toe in protective gear, study that exact family of viruses has stoked speculation that it might have leaked from the lab, possibly via an infected staffer or a contaminated object. China's lack of transparency since the earliest days of the outbreak fueled those suspicions, which have been seized on by the U.S. That's turned the quest to uncover the origins of the virus, critical for preventing future pandemics, into a geopolitical minefield.
The work of the lab and the director of its emerging infectious diseases section-Shi Zhengli, a long-time colleague of Anderson's dubbed 'Batwoman' for her work hunting viruses in caves-is now shrouded in controversy. The U.S. has questioned the lab's safety and alleged its scientists were engaged in contentious gain of function research that manipulated viruses in a manner that could have made them more dangerous.
It's a stark contrast to the place Anderson described in an interview with Bloomberg News, the first in which she's shared details about working at the lab.
Half-truths and distorted information have obscured an accurate accounting of the lab's functions and activities, which were more routine than how they've been portrayed in the media, she said.
"It's not that it was boring, but it was a regular lab that worked in the same way as any other high-containment lab," Anderson said. "What people are saying is just not how it is."
 Now at Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Anderson began collaborating with Wuhan researchers in 2016, when she was scientific director of the biosafety lab at Singapore's Duke-NUS Medical School. Her research-which focuses on why lethal viruses like Ebola and Nipah cause no disease in the bats in which they perpetually circulate-complemented studies underway at the Chinese institute, which offered funding to encourage international collaboration.
A rising star in the virology community, Anderson, 42, says her work on Ebola in Wuhan was the realization of a life-long career goal. Her favorite movie is "Outbreak," the 1995 film in which disease experts respond to a dangerous new virus-a job Anderson said she wanted to do. For her, that meant working on Ebola in a high-containment laboratory. 
Anderson's career has taken her all over the world. After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Deakin University in Geelong, Australia, she worked as a lab technician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, then returned to Australia to complete a PhD under the supervision of eminent virologists John Mackenzie and Linfa Wang. She did post-doctoral work in Montreal, before moving to Singapore and working again with Wang, who described Anderson as "very committed and dedicated," and similar in personality to Shi. 
"They're both very blunt with such high moral standards," Wang said by phone from Singapore, where he's the director of the emerging infectious diseases program at the Duke-NUS Medical School. "I'm very proud of what Danielle's been able to do."
On the Ground
Anderson was on the ground in Wuhan when experts believe the virus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, was beginning to spread. Daily visits for a period in late 2019 put her in close proximity to many others working at the 65-year-old research center. She was part of a group that gathered each morning at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to catch a bus that shuttled them to the institute about 20 miles away.
As the sole foreigner, Anderson stood out, and she said the other researchers there looked out for her.
"We went to dinners together, lunches, we saw each other outside of the lab," she said.
From her first visit before it formally opened in 2018, Anderson was impressed with the institute's maximum biocontainment lab. The concrete, bunker-style building has the highest biosafety designation, and requires air, water and waste to be filtered and sterilized before it leaves the facility. There were strict protocols and requirements aimed at containing the pathogens being studied, Anderson said, and researchers underwent 45 hours of training to be certified to work independently in the lab.
The induction process required scientists to demonstrate their knowledge of containment procedures and their competency in wearing air-pressured suits. "It's very, very extensive," Anderson said.
Entering and exiting the facility was a carefully choreographed endeavor, she said. Departures were made especially intricate by a requirement to take both a chemical shower and a personal shower-the timings of which were precisely planned.
Special Disinfectants
These rules are mandatory across BSL-4 labs, though Anderson noted differences compared with similar facilities in Europe, Singapore and Australia in which she's worked. The Wuhan lab uses a bespoke method to make and monitor its disinfectants daily, a system Anderson was inspired to introduce in her own lab. She was connected via a headset to colleagues in the lab's command center to enable constant communication and safety vigilance-steps designed to ensure nothing went awry.
However, the Trump administration's focus in 2020 on the idea the virus escaped from the Wuhan facility suggested that something went seriously wrong at the institute, the only one to specialize in virology, viral pathology and virus technology of the some 20 biological and biomedical research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Virologists and infectious disease experts initially dismissed the theory, noting that viruses jump from animals to humans with regularity. There was no clear evidence from within SARS-CoV-2's genome that it had been artificially manipulated, or that the lab harbored progenitor strains of the pandemic virus. Political observers suggested the allegations had a strategic basis and were designed to put pressure on Beijing.
And yet, China's actions raised questions. The government refused to allow international scientists into Wuhan in early 2020 when the outbreak was mushrooming, including experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who were already in the region.
Beijing stonewalled on allowing World Health Organization experts into Wuhan for more than a year, and then provided only limited access. The WHO team's final report, written with and vetted by Chinese researchers, played down the possibility of a lab leak. Instead, it said the virus probably spread via a bat through another animal, and gave some credence to a favored Chinese theory that it could have been transferred via frozen food.
 Never Sick
China's obfuscation led outside researchers to reconsider their stance. Last month, 18 scientists writing in the journal Science called for an investigation into Covid-19's origins that would give balanced consideration to the possibility of a lab accident. Even the director-general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the lab theory hadn't been studied extensively enough.
But it's U.S. President Joe Biden's consideration of the idea-previously dismissed by many as a Trumpist conspiracy theory-that has given it newfound legitimacy. Biden called on America's intelligence agencies last month to redouble their efforts in rooting out the genesis of Covid-19 after an earlier report, disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, claimed three researchers from the lab were hospitalized with flu-like symptoms in November 2019.
Anderson said no one she knew at the Wuhan institute was ill toward the end of 2019. Moreover, there is a procedure for reporting symptoms that correspond with the pathogens handled in high-risk containment labs.
"If people were sick, I assume that I would have been sick-and I wasn't," she said. "I was tested for coronavirus in Singapore before I was vaccinated, and had never had it."
Not only that, many of Anderson's collaborators in Wuhan came to Singapore at the end of December for a gathering on Nipah virus. There was no word of any illness sweeping the laboratory, she said.
"There was no chatter," Anderson said. "Scientists are gossipy and excited. There was nothing strange from my point of view going on at that point that would make you think something is going on here."
The names of the scientists reported to have been hospitalized haven't been disclosed. The Chinese government and Shi Zhengli, the lab's now-famous bat-virus researcher, have repeatedly denied that anyone from the facility contracted Covid-19. Anderson's work at the facility, and her funding, ended after the pandemic emerged and she focused on the novel coronavirus. 
It's not that it's impossible the virus spilled from there. Anderson, better than most people, understands how a pathogen can escape from a laboratory. SARS, an earlier coronavirus that emerged in Asia in 2002 and killed more than 700 people, subsequently made its way out of secure facilities a handful of times, she said. 
If presented with evidence that such an accident spawned Covid-19, Anderson "could foresee how things could maybe happen," she said. "I'm not naive enough to say I absolutely write this off." 
And yet, she still believes it most likely came from a natural source. Since it took researchers almost a decade to pin down where in nature the SARS pathogen emerged, Anderson says she's not surprised they haven't found the "smoking gun" bat responsible for the latest outbreak yet. 
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is large enough that Anderson said she didn't know what everyone was working on at the end of 2019. She is aware of published research from the lab that involved testing viral components for their propensity to infect human cells. Anderson is convinced no virus was made intentionally to infect people and deliberately released-one of the more disturbing theories to have emerged about the pandemic's origins.
Gain of Function
Anderson did concede that it would be theoretically possible for a scientist in the lab to be working on a gain of function technique to unknowingly infect themselves and to then unintentionally infect others in the community. But there's no evidence that occurred and Anderson rated its likelihood as exceedingly slim.
Getting authorization to create a virus in this way typically requires many layers of approval, and there are scientific best practices that put strict limits on this kind of work. For example, a moratorium was placed on research that could be done on the 1918 Spanish Flu virus after scientists isolated it decades later.
Even if such a gain of function effort got clearance, it's hard to achieve, Anderson said. The technique is called reverse genetics.
"It's exceedingly difficult to actually make it work when you want it to work," she said.
Anderson's lab in Singapore was one of the first to isolate SARS-CoV-2 from a Covid patient outside China and then to grow the virus. It was complicated and challenging, even for a team used to working with coronaviruses that knew its biological characteristics, including which protein receptor it targets. These key facets wouldn't be known by anyone trying to craft a new virus, she said. Even then, the material that researchers study-the virus's basic building blocks and genetic fingerprint-aren't initially infectious, so they would need to culture significant amounts to infect people.
Despite this, Anderson does think an investigation is needed to nail down the virus's origin once and for all. She's dumbfounded by the portrayal of the lab by some media outside China, and the toxic attacks on scientists that have ensued.
One of a dozen experts appointed to an international taskforce in November to study the origins of the virus, Anderson hasn't sought public attention, especially since being targeted by U.S. extremists in early 2020 after she exposed false information about the pandemic posted online. The vitriol that ensued prompted her to file a police report. The threats of violence many coronavirus scientists have experienced over the past 18 months have made them hesitant to speak out because of the risk that their words will be misconstrued.
The elements known to trigger infectious outbreaks-the mixing of humans and animals, especially wildlife-were present in Wuhan, creating an environment conducive for the spillover of a new zoonotic disease. In that respect, the emergence of Covid-19 follows a familiar pattern. What's shocking to Anderson is the way it unfurled into a global contagion.
"The pandemic is something no one could have imagined on this scale," she said. Researchers must study Covid's calamitous path to determine what went wrong and how to stop the spread of future pathogens with pandemic potential.
"The virus was in the right place at the right time and everything lined up to cause this disaster."
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Furious Patriots: China's Diplomatic Makeover Backfires

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Beijing, China:
For over a year they have whipped up outrage against the West, but as China's "wolf warrior" diplomats are told to tone down the fury, they face an unexpected source of opposition: nationalists at home.
Under fire in recent years over issues ranging from human rights abuses to blame for the Covid-19 pandemic, Beijing unleashed a new breed of diplomat that became known as "wolf warriors" -- a popular term for belligerent nationalism inspired by a Chinese blockbuster film.
Foreign ministry spokespeople and officials abroad adopted a strident and indignant tone to loudly defend the Communist-led country and even promote conspiracy theories or openly insult foreign counterparts.
But in something of an about-turn, President Xi Jinping this month urged top political leaders to help cultivate a "reliable, admirable and respectable" international image in a bid to improve China's soft power.
Officials and state media, he said, should help to "better tell China's stories".
For some analysts, the comments spoke to a growing realisation that years of stoking nationalism at home has left Beijing with little room to make more complex diplomatic manoeuvres.
While the change shows a "broader realisation at the top of the party that China's recent diplomatic strategy... has not been well received abroad, including among potential allies," said Florian Schneider, director of the Leiden Asia Centre in the Netherlands, the new approach requires a delicate balancing act.
"China's leaders have manoeuvred themselves into somewhat of a trap. On the one hand, they have promised the world a mild and benevolent China -- on the other hand, they have promised domestic audiences a strong and assertive China."
'Traitors'
Officials and intellectuals calling for subtler messaging have faced nationalist pushback -- leaving them torn between their domestic and international audiences.
"Patriotic" Weibo influencers in June turned against prominent Chinese intellectuals who participated in a Japanese government-sponsored study exchange programme, branding them "traitors" for accepting Japanese money and writing positively about the country.
Beijing eventually stepped in, calling the programme a way to "build up trust and deepen friendship" -- in stark contrast with Weibo users who called one writer a "Japanese running dog undeserving of sympathy".
The online campaign against the exchange programme coincided with a visit by US senators to the democratic island of Taiwan to donate coronavirus vaccines, to which the foreign ministry gave an uncharacteristically mild rebuke that prompted the scorn of nationalist internet trolls.
"Why aren't we shooting them down, they've violated our airspace!" one furious Weibo user wrote, a sentiment shared by a number of other users.
"So weak and incompetent," another lamented.
Beijing has often encouraged nationalism when convenient, including online campaigns that flared this year for boycotts of foreign clothing brands that made statements about avoiding cotton from China's Xinjiang, due to allegations of forced labour.
But even some of China's most strident apologists have admitted that toned-down rhetoric would be more fitting of the major-power status the country claims.
Hu Xijin, editor of the nationalist tabloid Global Times, wrote last month that government social media accounts should "hold high the banner of humanitarianism" after a Communist Party-run Weibo account posted a mocking comparison between a Chinese rocket launch and the cremation of Covid-19 victims in India.
"Sometimes this 'wolf warrior' sentiment can get out of hand," Jonathan Hassid, a professor of political science at Iowa State University told AFP.
"(But) if China tries to soften its image, patriots at home will be furious. If it plays to the patriots, the world community reacts negatively."
Conflicting goals
A change in tone has not equalled a change in approach.
Beijing rolled out a law in mid-June that will allow it to hit back at companies that comply with foreign sanctions, and has stepped up incursions into Taiwan's air defence identification zone.
China also made global headlines this week after a national security law imposed by Beijing was used to crush a popular Hong Kong tabloid that offered unapologetic support for the city's pro-democracy movement.
The paper's senior executives have been arrested, as well as owner Jimmy Lai.
Adam Ni, an analyst at the China Policy Centre in Canberra said Beijing is grappling with goals that are "in tension with each other".
"Beijing wants a better international image," he told AFP.
"But the domestic political drivers, as well as the need to assert its interests, means that it will continue to take actions that run in the opposite direction."
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Around 70% Australians Under Covid Restrictions Amid Delta Variant Surge

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Australia's COVID-19 response committee is due to hold an emergency meeting on Monday as outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant across the country prompted a lockdown in Sydney and renewed restrictions elsewhere.
Around 18 million Australians, or around 70% of the population, are now under some form of lockdown or COVID-related restrictions as officials grapple with COVID-19 flare-ups in almost every state or territory.
"I think we are entering a new phase of this pandemic, with the more contagious Delta strain," federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told the Australian Broadcasting Corp on Monday, adding Australia was facing a "critical time" in its fight against COVID-19.
The national security committee, chaired by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, will be briefed by the country's chief medical officer later on Monday, Frydenberg said.
Sydney, Australia's most populous city, was plunged into a two-week lockdown over the weekend, while the northern city of Darwin entered a two-day shutdown, as officials grapple to contain the outbreaks.
Australia's Queensland state on Monday reintroduced mandatory masks and limited home gatherings in several areas, including state capital Brisbane, following a similar move by Western Australia officials for state capital Perth. Restrictions remain in place in Victoria state capital Melbourne and national capital Canberra.
A health alert was issued over the weekend for hundreds of passengers after an infected Virgin Australia cabin crew member worked on five different flights covering Brisbane, Melbourne and Gold Coast.
In Sydney, New South Wales state capital, dozens of venues including cafes, shopping centres and public transport routes scattered across the city have been added as virus-exposed locations.
The Darwin lockdown was prompted by the detection of the Delta variant of the virus in a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) worker at a gold mine after he had left the facility.
Australia has so far fared much better than many other developed countries in tackling the spread of the coronavirus, with just over 30,450 cases and 910 deaths.
Lockdowns, tough social distancing rules and swift contact tracing have helped the country successfully suppress prior outbreaks but the fast moving Delta variant has alarmed health authorities.
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10 Cabin Cruisers Sink In Hong Kong Marina Fire, No Casualties

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Hong Kong:
A fire swept through a marina in Hong Kong in the early hours of Sunday, igniting fuel tanks as it passed along a line of closely moored cabin cruisers, and resulting in at least 10 sinking before firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Authorities in the Asian financial hub said at least 16 vessels were set ablaze, including those that sank, but there were no serious casualties.
The fire at the shelter in the city's Aberdeen district began 2.30 am (1830 GMT Saturday) and took firefighters more than six hours to put out.
Fuel tanks could be heard exploding as thick smoke billowed skyward, covering the marina and neighbouring tower blocks, video footage shared with Reuters by the government showed.
Around 35 people were rescued from the vessels, RTHK public broadcaster reported, citing the fire services department.
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South Africa Hardens Lockdown To Combat Delta Variant Surge

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South Africa now has 1,928,897 cases after recording 15,036 new cases on Sunday(Representational)
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Pretoria:
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday reimposed restrictions for two weeks to combat a surge in the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant.
The worst-hit country on the continent "is facing a massive resurgence of infection," the president said in a televised address to the nation.
"Our health facilities are stretched to the limit... ICU beds are in short supply," he said as he placed the country on alert level four, just one level below a full lockdown.
Ramaphosa banned all gatherings, except for funerals where numbers will be capped at 50, and also ordered a ban on the sale of alcohol.
Eateries and restaurants will not be allowed to serve sit-down meals, and will only be allowed to sell food for take-away or delivery.
A nighttime curfew has been lengthened by an hour - starting at 9pm till 4am, while all schools should be shut by Friday.
Authorities say the peak of the third wave -- fuelled by the Delta variant first identified in India -- will surpass that of earlier waves as the country struggles to quickly roll out vaccinations.
"We are in the grip of a devastating wave that by all indications seems like it will be worse than those that preceded it," Ramaphosa said.
South Africa now counts 1,928,897 coronavirus cases after recording 15,036 new cases on Sunday, a drop from the previous day when 18,762 new infections were diagnosed.
The Covid-19 death count stands at 59,900.
Leisure travel in and out of the densely populated province of Gauteng -- encompassing Johannesburg and Pretoria, the nation's economic and industrial heartland -- has been outlawed.
The province which accounts for around 60 percent of national infections, has become the epicentre of the outbreak.
The country's vaccination drive has been slow. Around 2.7 million people have been immunised since February, but Ramaphosa said the innoculation exercise has gained momentum.
Meantime most business will forge ahead operating at full capacity, a move he said was to enable as much economic activity to continue as possible.
The economy of Africa's most industrialised country slumped by seven percent in 2020 compared to the previous year.
Health officials across the world have been alarmed by the rapid spread of the Delta variant.
The World Health Organization said on Friday that the Delta variant had reached at least 85 countries.
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