Chancellor Merz powerfully on Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip

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The German Chancellor has spoken more harshly than before about the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip. The press is commenting.

"The Chancellor is right erstwhile he says that Israel's last offensive can no longer be justified by fighting Hamas. Even if all the inhumanity and ruthlessness that characterises this terrorist organization are taken into account, this is no reason to treat the Gaza Strip population in the way that has occurred in fresh weeks," writes the Frenchfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on Tuesday (27.05.2025).

It considers that ‘the interruption of the supply of aid was already unjustified’. "The conflict in the mediate East is not easy to grasp in moral terms, which are usually utilized in Germany to analyse events in the world. But Israel is in the process of crossing borders that were erstwhile observed in the enlightened West. Democracy must save the civilian population as much as possible during the war, and surely cannot drive it away. Criticism of Israeli leadership by Merz is appropriate to the seriousness of the situation, even for the German Chancellor," stresses “FAZ”.

The diary "Nuernberger Nachrichten" points out: "Even if it comes to small understanding, the current situation in the Gaza Strip is not about "great politics" or anti-Semitism, but alternatively about human life. Thousands of children are at hazard of death if adequate humanitarian aid, whether food or medical products, does not scope people eventually," adds the Nuremberg newspaper.

Arms export dispute

"Sueddeutsche Zeitung" calls for the cessation of arms exports to Israel. “This is simply a moral bankruptcy that is most likely more visible to people than to politicians in Berlin,” writes the newspaper. “Berlin delivers weapons to a war that knows no end. Which, according to Netanjah, should never end. The German government fulfills his wishes. It does not even require adequate aid to scope Gaza or that journalists will analyse what is happening to German weapons. It is bitter and there will be many who will remember it for a long time" – he estimates.

"Frankfurter Rundschau" writes that Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticised military operations in the Gaza Strip and thus joined the choir in Europe. "Better late than never," says the newspaper. "The crisis of the actions of the government of Benimina Netanyahu, any of which violate global law, is absolutely justified, but not full considered. This gives emergence to the suspicion that any are not even curious in solving the problem, but alternatively to score points among the national public. The proposed ban on German arms exports to Israel would possibly let any in Germany to sleep calmly and support any critical forces in Israel, but this would not impress Netanyahu and his supporters. Nor does this aid erstwhile 20 European and arabian states call for a two-state solution, not to mention how this is to be achieved. In order to dissuade the Israeli government from taking the path, Germany and another EU countries would gotta do more than just say a lot but do little," writes "Frankfurter Rundschau".

Pressure from abroad and coalition

According to the paper ‘Augsburger Allgemeine’, Chancellor Merz, who ‘clearly criticized Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip and pointed to the violation of global law by the government of Benimina Netanyahu, showed individual courage on the 1 hand’. ‘On the another hand, his message was necessary. The global force from countries specified as France and the United Kingdom to take a stand in the face of terrible events in the Gaza Strip has increased in fresh days, as has the force inside its own coalition," writes the paper from Augsburg.

And “Rhein-Neckar Zeitung” writes: “However, there is simply a difference between whether it is called by name or whether it is called to halt arms supplies. The another Merz didn't do. For good reason: Israel has more enemies than ‘just’ Hamas. Israel is simply a western base in the mediate East, which would have been wiped out if it had not already been supported by the US (and only secondaryly by Germany). (Palestine-red.) ‘From the river to the sea’ is not a slogan that provides for an global agreement, but a genocide of Jews. Merz knows that. So criticism remains. And stopping Netanjah remains the task of the Israelis."