BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday defended Germany’s voting record on Israel at the United Nations, arguing that supporting the country doesn’t mean backing all of its actions.
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The Jerusalem Post reported last week that the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized Germany’s ambassador to the U.N., Christoph Heusgen, for casting “anti-Israel votes” among other things. The German government strongly backed Heusgen, who previously served for years as Merkel’s foreign policy adviser.
“A commitment to the state of Israel … does not mean 100% agreement with all of Israel’s political actions,” Merkel said during a regular question-and-answer session in the German parliament.
She noted that European Union countries consult on how to vote at the U.N., where Germany is currently serving a two-year stint on the Security Council.
Germany works to try to ensure that “all tendencies that we can influence that could embody an anti-Israel stance” are removed from resolutions, she added. “So I think we are doing good work.”
Germany and other European countries haven’t joined the U.S. in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and continue to criticize Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.
Sad that head of the country which had a Hitler ymsh, a Hyedrich ymsh and a Himmler ymsh has a good rexord towards eretz Yisroel
as long as there is a single survivor alive, I wish Germany should burn continuously. that they are not, just another indication that true justice, hopefully, happens in the next world
Took the hag 15 years to visit Auschwitz where her family members mass murdered Jews
I’m waiting for the day she needs to defend Germany’s voting record on Israel, in front of the Ultimate Judge.
You all have it wrong as a Jew hater she’s right like hitler she wants us yo all to go to the promised land
Why is this controversial?