05/26/2025May 26, 2025
Germany: SPD lawmakers call for a stop to supplying weapons to Israel
A foreign policy spokesperson for Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD), one of the two parties in the ruling government coalition, has called on Israel to return to the negotiating table.
“German weapons must not be used to spread humanitarian disasters and violate international law,” Adis Ahmetovic, foreign policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, told Stern magazine.
“Therefore, we call on [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s government to be willing to agree to a ceasefire and return to the negotiating table.”
Ralf Stegner, also from the SPD, echoed similar sentiments. “The humanitarian catastrophe for the Palestinian civilian population and the violation of international law by the Netanyahu government must end immediately and must not be prolonged with German weapons,” he said.
The German government had, for good reasons, made an exception for Israel from the practice of not supplying weapons to conflict zones, Stegner said.
Germany feels responsible for Israel’s security of the Holocaust, where the German Nazi regime killed 6 million Jews from 1933 to 1945
The weapons served Israel’s security and defense but “there can be no question of that in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank at present,” Stegner added.
The European Union is also currently reviewing a pact governing its political and economic ties with Israel.
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