Israel, which has recently been condemned by the UN Human Rights Council because of their war crimes, asks Germany to build them two new warships – for free.

After the German chancellor Merkel argued in front of the US congress that “whoever threatens Israel, threatens us”, it seems as if Israel will get what it wants. This wouldn’t, however, be anything new: At the turn of the millennium, Germany financed three submarines spending 560 Million Euros on them. In 2012, there will two additional submarines, this time German tax payers will have to pay 333 Million Euros.

As Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who had entered the Gaza strip during the Israeli war, recently said: “We must be patient… history taught us that many empires that lasted for centuries had collapsed in the end… We must be optimistic because if we let down that means that we betrayed the Palestinian people.”

from Campo Antiimperialista

And British EU Foreign Minister says: ….

Until she says anything worth quoting you might read some more in What’s Germany Up to Now?:

“Conspicuously absent in the debate over two big-hitting EU posts up for grabs on Thursday, heavyweight Germany has aroused suspicions that it wants another job—president of the European Central Bank. … [O]bservers believe Germany could be saving itself to push for the top job at the ECB—arguably the most influential EU post, as the president governs monetary policy for all the countries that share the euro”