{"id":60943,"date":"2018-04-25T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60943"},"modified":"2018-04-24T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T05:34:48","slug":"28-00-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60943","title":{"rendered":"GERMAN CEO: ISRAEL SHOULD NO LONGER RELY ON GERMANY FOR ITS EXISTENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>GERMAN CEO: ISRAEL SHOULD NO LONGER RELY ON GERMANY FOR ITS EXISTENCE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

BENJAMIN WEINTHAL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018Better to not rely on us,\u2019 wrote D\u00f6pfner, regarding Germany providing military assistance to Israel, should she be in need.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mathias Dopfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE, speaks at the 2017 Business Insider Ignition: Future of Media conference in New York, U.S., November 30, 2017. (photo credit: LUCAS JACKSON\/REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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In an eye-popping commentary in the\u00a0Die Welt<\/em>\u00a0newspaper last week, Mathias D\u00f6pfner, the pro-Israel CEO of the Axel Springer media conglomerate in Berlin, wrote that the Jewish state should no longer depend on Germany if it is attacked and its existence is on the line.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u00f6pfner wrote that in the past, he would answer \u201cYes\u201d to the inevitable question while visiting Israel about whether Germany would send weapons and soldiers if the Jewish state faced attacks that threatened its survival. However, over the last few years, he has started to hesitate. \u201cToday, I would say: \u2018Better to not rely on us,\u2019\u201d wrote D\u00f6pfner.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CEO of Europe\u2019s largest media company listed a bill of particulars in his commentary outlining Germany\u2019s failure to learn the important lessons from the Holocaust. He said for the 70th year anniversary of Israel\u2019s founding, \u201cGermany distinguishes itself as the world master of paying lip service. The solidarity to Israel and the fight against antisemitism take place on paper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The media giant took Germany to task for its pacifism in the face of Syrian children being gassed.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u00f6pfner said one frequently hears on the streets and in offices more criticism of US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May for their bombing of military sites and airports in Syria than they do of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The US, Britain and France accused Assad of using poison gas in April that murdered scores of Syrian in the city of Douma.<\/span><\/p>\n

He summed up the practical effect of Germany\u2019s Holocaust remembrance culture: \u201cIn remembrance we are giants. In action and help we are dwarfs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jerusalem Post<\/em>\u00a0reported in April that the Merkel administration continues to allow the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg-based German company Krempel to\u00a0conduct business with Iran<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, after it sold material to Iranian companies that later turned up in Iranian chemical rockets in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, .<\/span><\/p>\n

Merkel has rejected the US administration\u2019s push over the last few months to get Germany outlaw Hezbollah, which the US classifies as terrorist organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to German intelligence reports, there are 950 Hezbollah operatives in the Federal Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u00f6pfner blasted the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign) in Germany. He wrote \u201cAn international lobby organization calls for a boycott of Israeli products and no one gets upset in a country that 75 years ago scrawled \u2018Don\u2019t buy from Jews\u2019 on the walls.\u201d<\/span>
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\nThe Post<\/em>\u00a0exposed the Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy\u2019s\u00a0vigorous defense of BDS accounts<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0used by groups to undercut Israel\u2019s existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sammy Endzweig, the president of the pro-Israel group Keren Hayesod Germany, told the Post by email on Sunday that his organization is dissatisfied with the bank\u2019s response to the BDS accounts it maintains.<\/span><\/p>\n

Endzweig said he plans to send a new letter to the bank demanding clear answers about the bank\u2019s alleged antisemitic activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keren Hayesod Germany has an account with the Bank for Social Economy. On Friday, the German LGBT organization Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation pulled the plug on its account with the bank to protest the bank\u2019s enabling of BDS. The Post sent media queries to the three members of the bank\u2019s executive committee: Harald Schmitz, Oliver Luckner and Thomas Kahleis.<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u00f6pfner\u2019s criticism of German society\u2019s failure to take action against BDS was mirrored in his criticism of anti-Israel politicians who are largely met with indifference. Tamer Sert, the chairman of the Free Democratic Party in the city of Delmenhorst, wrote on Facebook: \u201cTerror-State Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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