SAEDNEWS: As Tel Aviv rains bombs on Iran and Gaza, Berlin reasserts unconditional allegiance to Israel—revealing a dangerous fusion of historical guilt, geopolitical hypocrisy, and renewed complicity in war.
According to Saed News, Germany’s pledge of “100% support” for Israel’s recent military campaign against Iran marks a disturbing reversion to historical patterns of imperial complicity. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, visiting Tel Aviv just days after the war’s cessation, joined Israeli officials in branding Iran’s retaliatory strikes as “civilian attacks”—while sidestepping the war’s toll of over 900 Iranian lives, mostly non-combatants.
Berlin’s position, however, extends far beyond diplomatic alignment. Chancellor Friedrich Merz went so far as to praise Israel for “doing the dirty work for all of us”—an unguarded admission of the West’s strategic outsourcing of violence to regional allies. In this division of labor, Washington and Tel Aviv deliver kinetic warfare; Berlin and its European partners provide political cover, economic sanctions, and control of the narrative.
The invocation of “Staatsräson”—Germany’s official policy of defending Israel’s existence—has effectively become carte blanche for war crimes. While Germany blocked EU accountability measures against Israel and expanded arms exports to €161 million in 2024, it simultaneously invoked Holocaust memory to justify unconditional support, even as Israel leveled Gaza and assassinated Iranian scientists.
This duality is not new. Germany’s arming of Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons in the 1980s—used against Iranians in places like Sardasht—stands as a grim precedent. Today, the same machinery of repression is visible in Berlin’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech, from university bans to cultural censorship at the Berlinale.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned Germany’s stance as a “moral collapse,” reminding the world that Iran sheltered Jews fleeing Nazi persecution—a historical irony made all the starker by Berlin’s failure to acknowledge its own complicity in current atrocities.
By framing Iranian self-defense as terrorism and shielding Israel from consequence, Germany reveals itself not as a guardian of peace or rationality, but as a faithful steward of a neocolonial order. The conscience it claims to uphold now stands hollow—its legacy stained not only by memory, but by modern action.
