German city stages concert for Israel’s Hamas victims
NewsThe Staatstheater Cottbus has put on a solidarity concert with Israel, specifically commemorating the 1,400 men, women and children who were murdered by Hamas invaders on October 7.
The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra also put on a solidarity concert last night, as did Weimar and some other towns.
In Vienna, a Jewish cemetery was set on fire and daubed with swastikas.
pictured: poster in Hamburg’s St Pauli district
This is a great initiative, especially in the part of Germany where there repeatedly are difficulties with … if nicely said, intolerable groups of people!
Good. Bravo, Cottbus.
Not hard to foresee The criticism: How dare they ignore the Gazza victims?
Well, the “gazza victims” are paying (again) the price for supporting and paricipating in an attempted Genocide. Just like other nations who happend to be on the recieving end of wars they unwisly initiated.
Israel is doing much to reduce civilian casualties – but Hamas is using them as human shields. Yesterday, as IDF forces entered a Hamas stronghold – about 100 palestinian children and wemen were deliberatly placed in between.
Also yesterday, Hamas spokesman promised more october 7th style attacks – and declared the organizations’ goal as “obliterating Israel”.
PLO “moderat”, Ehad Tamimi tweeted “We will slaughter you all” and expressed her dietary preference with the hope to “drink your blood and eat your skulls.”
Reaching a “just settlement” looks now highly unlikely.
Is there any way to effectively combat such people in a manner westerners will accept? I doubt it. Westerners will no longer tolerate war – no matter how defencieve its aims are. Many in the west will now probably condemn even steps taken to secure their own countries.
Finally no moral relativsm. The Germans got it right on this one.
Bombing innocent people is not self-protection.
Unfortunately, the former does become a part of the latter when “gentler” methods do not work.
Innocent? The voted for Hamas, they harbour Hamas terrorists, and the scream along with them. They allow Hamas to use them as human shields. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Bombing innocent peoplr in order to kill innocent people is a war crime: That is was Hamas is still doing right now. Bombing combatants who chose to operate from within noncombatant is the sole alternative to letting them go. When that happens, sometimes the innocent suffer. This is unfortunate but legal. Those are the laws of war. But also, there is common sense: War is a two way street. The side who initiates war does not have the power to stop it at wiil. Hamas knew what they were starting – and the Gazza “innocents” rejoiced’ and participated in the murder, rape and looting orgie. The Gazza “innocent” – people who worked inside Israel, people that got medical treatment in Israel – used the opportunity to collect information. Some led the killers to the homes of people they personaly knew. Some pointed the killers to survivors of the initial attack, and had them killed. They declared a war of anninhilation – did they expect it to be one sided?
The people who raided the KIbutzim did not act randomaly. They knew the adresses of the people they were targeting: An 85 year old peace activist, who spent the last 20 years escorting people from Gazza to Israeli hospitals. A 70+ year old human rights activist of Bezelem. They knew perfectly well they were targetting the Israeli left, the peace and human rights activists and their communities. People with whom I marched in numerous demonstrations.
Many of the people that in recent conflicts called for Israeli restraint will not do it now. They and there kin were butchered.
The political party AfD is now polling at 20% nationally in Germany and over 30% in much of East Germany which is where Cottbus is located. In its platform and alliances, it has been directly linked to neo-Nazism. So when I see events like the above, me thinks they doth protest too much. A slight insincerity, a bit of a cover, a calculated posture. Hence the seemingly one-sided view of the horror of the current war. May peace and justice soon come that will bring friendship and cooperation to the region.