Kommentar von Honestly Concerned
"...The news comes as relief to Israel advocate Sacha Stawski, chair of the Honestly Concerned media watchdog group and organizer of next month’s “Israel Congress” in Frankfurt.
“I was a personal fan of Angela Merkel for a long time, but I have to admit that she overstayed her position, and that has had the consequence that people have been looking for alternatives. And since there weren’t too many alternatives available, people in my opinion have chosen the wrong alternatives,” said Stawski. “For the AfD to be jumping into the Hesse parliament with 13 percent are shocking results.”
Stawski shares the disdain of the established Jewish community, particularly the Zentralrat (Council of Jews in Germany), towards the AfD, and believes that Jews are misguided in downplaying what he considers their extremist views. He hopes a new CDU leader will return the party to its conservative course.
“People need to see that there is a true conservative, political mainstream party which they can elect, in which they can expect things to be handled differently than the way Angela Merkel has been handling them,” he said. “I understand that she has taken the stand of wanting to help refugees coming into this country, but unfortunately, she did not have a plan in place on how to handle the situation. This has resulted in the political chaos we have today.”...
...Eldad Beck, author of Chancellor Merkel, Israel and the Jews, and Berlin correspondent for Israel Hayom, is unsure that Merkel’s successor would be as historically and politically engaged with Israel and the German Jewish community.
“I profoundly believe that with the departure of Merkel we’re losing one of the best or the best friends we ever had in Germany,” said Beck. “Even if there is some criticism of the way her government is financing problematic organizations and foundations, and went into open conflict with the Israeli government on the issue of settlements and Iran, I do believe that she brought the relations between both countries into a new dimension of cooperation on all levels, and we should not forget her statement according to which Israel’s existence and security are a part of Germany’s raison d’être.”..."
(October 30, 2018 / JNS) For German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s opponents, defectors and even supporters, the announcement that she will not seek the chancellery in 2021 is not yet cause for either celebration or concern. Her exit as Chancellor is predicted to be just like her 13-year-long reign: dragged out.
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