TEHRAN – In an exhibition of moral bankruptcy, German Home Minister Alexander Dobrinz declared Germany’s “100% support” of the Israeli regime’s military action against Iran.
Along with the administration’s foreign minister Gideon Sarl, Dobrint denounced the administration’s 12-day act of self-defense on the country as an “attack on civilians” while ignoring the systemic massacre of Israel’s Palestinians and the unattacked aggression against Tearan.
“There is no justification for attacks on civilians,” he declared in Tel Aviv. This drips with hypocrisy in light of the Israeli genocide in Gaza allowing for the German Israeli massacre, giving support for the recent attacks on Iran, which killed more than 935 Iranians, mostly civilians.
The “dirty work” of imperialism
Dobrinz Visit – The first visit by foreign officials has been simply not symbolic since the Israeli imposed war with Iran ceased. It crystallized Germany’s role as a patron of Israeli war crimes.
Just a few days ago, Prime Minister Friedrich Merz aloud a quiet part. Israel is “dirty work for all of us” by attacking Iran.
Meltz praised the regime’s unprovoked attack “courage” and framed it as a service to the West.
This admission bares the ironic division of labor within the Western Imperialist project. Germany (along with Britain and France) has long been portrayed as a defender of rationality and international law, but in fact it has revealed that it plays the same role that older colonial powers did in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This rhetoric repeats historical alignment with German historical colonial violence and colonial violence, from protecting Israel from today’s accountability from the chemical attacks of Baasist Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.
This accurate, unwritten division of labor, depicting the form for decades, assigns the US and Israeli regimes a major role in the movement wars and artillery fire, with Europe administering political pressure, media narratives and questionable legal sanctions.
Esmaeir Bakaei, a spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has demolished Germany’s moral stance on the issue.
In a recent post on X, he urged German officials to “keep silent” rather than justifying the crimes of the Israeli regime.
Complicity and “Statrason”
Dobrindt vowed solidarity with Tel Aviv, but his government actively hampered efforts to hold Israel accountable.
On June 23, Germany blocked Spain’s move to suspend the EU-Israel Association agreement (agrees subject to human rights compliance), despite the European Commission’s discovery that Israel had violated its obligations in Gaza and the West Bank.
The decision coincided with the regime’s relentless bombardment of Gaza city. This is a strike that tragically claimed the lives of 80 Palestinians in a day, causing widespread forced evacuation.
Germany’s “Statrason” (national reason) was attacked by Mertz to justify its unwavering support for Israel and became a genocide license.
When Mertz argued that Germany’s duty was to “protect the Israeli state in its existence,” he ignored the regime’s “being” relied on erasing the Palestinians and wreaking havoc in Western Asia.
The Israeli regime has killed more than 56,500 Palestinians since October 2023, with a much higher broader estimate suggesting that the true figures, including those who are missing or estimated to be dead, are considerably higher. However, Germany increased its arms exports to the regime to 161 million euros in 2024.
Dobrindt’s visit even announced that it had strengthened its “cyber defense cooperation,” and eradicating German accomplices, which were even more aggressively funded and politically protected.
Nuclear hypocrisy and Saddam’s ghosts
Dobrindt said Iran’s nuclear program “threatening” Europe. This is an argument amplified by Mertz, who argued that Iran “should not have nuclear weapons.”
This division of labor has led European officials to fill their global platforms with recycled claims about “Iran’s nuclear and missile threats” rather than condemning the attacks in Iran’s exercise of its right to self-defense.
This ignores three terrible realities:
I. Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and as the most tested nation in IAEA history, Israel owns undeclared nuclear weapons, while still under strict security measures.
ii. Israel bravely attacked Iran, bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, killed scientists, and violated international law.
ii. Germany armed Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons used to massacre Iranians in the 1980s, including the 1987 attack on Saldasht.
As Iranian FM spokesman, Fukaray, emphasized, Germany is “legal and moral liable” for making Saddam’s war crimes possible.
But now he is funding Israeli atrocities, lectures on Iran, a country that has never launched an aggression war, and faithfully performs the role assigned to him in Western pressure campaigns by amplifying unfounded threats.
The wrong side of history, once again
Berlin’s consistency with Tel Aviv reflects a broader pattern of Western imperialism, where it actively supports the division of colonial roles.
Germany’s function as an instrument of Western imperialism permeates many spheres.
Culturally, censoring the pro-Palestinian voices at the Berlin Film Festival avoids the systemic oppression of German dissent, as long as they report staff to police for solidarity with Gaza.
But this oppression goes far beyond mere cultural censorship. In the perversion of the principle that “Never again will be for everyone,” Germany distorted its “special responsibility” to Holocaust victims into a blank check of Israeli crimes decades after the Luxembourg Agreement (1952) and the establishment of diplomatic relations (1965).
This insidious reality, ignoring Israeli genocide, proves the warnings of Iran’s FM spokesman, framing the self-defense acts of terrorism, “history does not easily tolerate, and the memories of the people are long.”
But while many countries in the Global South have demanded accountability for Israeli atrocities, Dobrinz and Mertz are stubbornly stricken by failing policies that taint Germany’s moral status and reaffirm their commitment to a neocolonial order.
By performing the designated roles of political cover, sanctions enforcement and narrative manipulation, Germany allows for the worst excess of our and Israeli aggression, and proves its advocacy law and rationality claims, is nothing but a modern veneer on the agenda of old imperialism.
Until Berlin confronts Israel’s horror, its own bloody history, and its accomplice in its active participation in this ironic Western Imperial Labor Department, it is accused of staying on the wrong side of history and claiming the champion fraudulently by its very conscience.