If you want to read the official press statement and not something from “Straitstimes” from Singapore, who are not the experts for german politics:
The German government remains convinced that only a negotiated two-state solution will bring lasting peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians.
It continues to regard the recognition of a Palestinian state as one of the final steps on the way to realizing a two-state solution. Israel’s security is of paramount importance to the German government.
In this respect, it is not planning to recognize a Palestinian state in the short term.
The German government’s priority now is to achieve overdue progress on the most urgent issues:
There needs to be a ceasefire in Gaza now. The hostages, including German nationals, must be released. Hamas must be disarmed; its terror unleashed not just on October 7 must end.
Israel must immediately and drastically improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. It must provide the suffering civilian population with urgently needed supplies in a humane manner.
A viable political perspective for Gaza is necessary to turn a temporary ceasefire into lasting peace.
There must be no further steps towards an annexation of the West Bank.
The German government is in constant contact with the Israeli government and its international partners on this issue. It is prepared to increase the pressure if no progress is made. The German government is continuing its aid to create the conditions for Palestinian statehood; this includes supporting the Palestinian Authority. These steps are absolutely necessary to end the suffering of the civilian population. They are also necessary in order to keep open the prospect of a two-state solution and thus lasting peace in the Middle East. The German government agrees with France and the UK on this, as do its partners in the region. This applies regardless of the well-known differences of opinion on the question of the right time for recognition.
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/suche/2290066-2290066
This means:
“we will not move a finger and we are happy with the status quo. We know full well that Israel will never accept a two state solution and we intend not to put any pressure on Israel. Instead we will support Israel until the last Palestinian is either killed or ethnically cleansed.”
Germany has been blocking most measures in the EU and UN to put any tangible pressure on Israel. The current chancellor Merz had announced his plan to defy the ICC arrest warrant on Netanyahu and invite him to Germany. The German president has shaken hands with Netanyahu in Israel as the total blockade on Gaza had been reestablished and the ceasefire broken by Israel. Germany continues to deliver military equipment to Israel and repress protest against the genocide. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories was threatened with arrest in Germany and Universities were pressured to cancel events where she was supposed to speak.
All these statements by the German government are empty lies. I have watched the federal government press conference for the past two years. It is always the same statements, always the same lies, always the same trope of declaring claims from Israel as the ultimate truth that is parroted by the government speakers, always saying “Israel needs to investigate” when there is overwhelming evidence of yet another Israel war crime such as the execution of the 15 medics in March by an Israeli death squad.
If the words of the German government were printed on toilet paper, using that paper would make you more dirty even when you have explosive diarrhea.
“If at first you don’t succeed…”
- Germany for the past 110 years
They will wait for their friends to finish the job, then go: What Palestine?
They called for a ceasefire, improvement of the humanitarian situation and a stop of annexations in the West Bank. Not sure how you came to your conclusion, maybe you want to explain?
I’m sure asking while making it clear there will be no consequences if they are ignored will change the situation on the ground. /s
They should call for an end of genocide and apartheid, a ceasefire is meaningless because this isn’t a war this an extinction campaign supported by the West and Germany at the forefront along with the US.
Edit: ok OP is a Zionist
If they’re supplying weapons, they are supporting the genocide
When did Germany supply weapons? Or is it companies based on Germany? There’s a big difference.
Welcome to capitalism.
The German government has to approve of arms exports. The approval process is secret and the government refuses even to release information on what has been approved. When people from Gaza and their German relatives sued against it, the courts said that since the claimants cannot specify which weapons are sent and how that would put them at risk, they cannot sue against it, while the government has no obligation to provide that information to the courts.
This is not just capitalism. This is German bureaucracy and the pretense of lawfulness weaponized for killing people out of hatred again.
Even if it were just companies simply based in Germany, no there fucking isn’t. Funding genocide is funding genocide. Stopping arms shipments isn’t even the bare fucking minimum.
In 2023, Germany’s military exports were almost ten times higher than in 2022 after it extended sales to Israel in November 2023. Human Rights Watch reported that since 2015, the United Kingdom has given Israel military export licenses worth at least 474 million pounds ($594 million), tanks, ammunition, and components for the F-35 stealth bomber that was used in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/15/which-countries-have-stopped-supplying-arms-to-israel
Germany has continued its military exports to Israel in recent months despite signs of worrying genocide in Gaza.
As reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, Wednesday, July 16, the German government confirmed that it had approved the delivery of military equipment and weapons worth 250.5 million euros (around Rp4.7 trillion) to Israel between January 1, 2024 and June 26, 2025.
According to official data, the approved export license amounted to 161.1 million euros (around Rp3.03 trillion) in 2024 and 28 million euros (around Rp526.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2025.
I’m actually quite surprised about those numbers. I’ve seen all those posts here about “Germany is supporting genocide” and I’ve seen people here insulting all Germans as “pro-genocide” and… do people even realize how little that support is in terms of military equipment? Yeah, people might say “every little bit counts”, but 250 millions in 1,5 years of war is almost nothing in terms of military equipment. And they have given more money to UNRWA and PA in this timeframe? And people are going around posting that Germany wants to eliminate all Palestinians? I’m actually quite surprised right now because the numbers really do not match how aggressive people here are posting.
Germany is the second largest arms supplier to Israel after the US, period.
If you delivered only a little bit of gas or a little bit of fence to Auschwitz or just a little bit of ammunition to be used in the Warsaw Ghetto to suppress the uprising, it doesn’t matter. Even if you claim the gas or the fence or the bullets were used for self defense only. You chose your side and you are now complicit in genocide.
It’s very easy, either you are complicit in genocide or you aren’t. And Germany is.
No need for Holocaust comparison here, dude
Germany’s military support for the genocidal apartheid state of Israel is behind only that of the US. Nor is the support limited to only military aid. It includes decades of diplomatic cover, of suppression of any opposition, and wholesale endorsement of Israeli propaganda.
See:
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/234763
The PA is an arm of Israeli Apartheid, Occupation, and Suppression. See below
The PA creates the appearance of Palestinian autonomy, but in fact, much like the governments of the Bantustans of apartheid South Africa, it is simply an extension of the colonial state, a tool of counterinsurgency that is highly effective for the repression of local rebellions, because it makes the native population police itself. Fatah, which was a revolutionary movement in the early days of the armed struggle, is now mostly contained by the PA.
Israel’s stabilization strategy, inspired by modern counterinsurgency doctrine, has rested on two pillars: the employment of pacification measures to co-opt Palestinians and reliance on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to police its population on Israel’s behalf. However, many Palestinians are now fighting back against this approach, while the PA’s eroding legitimacy has only hardened the population’s refusal to accept its restrictive methods.
It is presented here as it has been perceived by the Israeli policymakers and bureaucrats down the years. For them the PA was an integral and crucial component in the open-air prison model suggested in the 1990s, and one which the pragmatic elite of Israel still hopes to instate in the West Bank, at least in the near future.
- Ilan Pappe - The Biggest Prison on Earth
In appearance, the PA has all the trappings of a state, with ministries and a civil service, but Israel wields the real power, turning the tap on tax revenue, and controlling access to the shrinking territories – a status quo often compared with the Bantustans of apartheid-era South Africa.
The PA has actively helped Israel to keep tight control over the Palestinian population. Many perceive the body as a tool of the Israeli security apparatus, its US-trained forces not only targeting those suspected of planning attacks on Israelis, but also arresting union figures, journalists and critics on social media.
Israel relies on this division of the West Bank to foster the fiction that the Palestinian Authority is the entity primarily responsible for administering the life of the majority of Palestinians in the West Bank. In practice, however, Israel still retains control over the entire West Bank and all its residents.
So … what would your solution be? People are talking about recognizing Palestine as a state. You do think that the PA is an arm of Israel. Hamas is a murderous islamistic group. So where is the road to peace?
Germany. Instead of protecting Jewish people as a backlash for the horrible things you did… Protect people from ever being submitted to that horrible treatment. Whether they are Jewish or not.
Germany are part of this problem, a bigger part than most. They committed the holocaust and then set in motion this genocide only to now defend it and morally grandstand to those who have a pair of balls and recognise the reality.
Germany shouldnt give any “we are not the nazis” shit when this is how they still carry themselves.
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The way government treat others is a preview of how they will treat you, when you are “the other”.
Go back to r/incels or something
