I'm really looking forward to that. I live in Berlin. Germany took in a million Ukrainian refugees. My next door neighbour is a lovely Ukrainian family (a young boy, his mother and grandmother). In February 2022, German volunteers were at the Hauptbahnhof advising newly-arrived refugees and supporting them to find accommodation as soon as they stepped off the trains. There was a huge outpouring of solidarity. People cut down on energy, endured spikes in inflation, and economic instability to support Ukraine and its people - and often got insulted for the privilege by the rather rabid Ukrainian ambassador to Germany at the time who, with some justification but little diplomatic tact, accused the government of dithering (often correctly, sometimes oblivious to historical reality, but always offensively). Having a hot shower was funding Putin's war machine, we were told.
A lot of those volunteers and people, in general, who felt instinctively that supporting these refugees and an occupied country under siege was the right thing to do will now be bemused at why the Palestinians are to be treated differently. Germany's "historical responsibility" to Israel is now perilously close to being an invisibility cloak that covers flagrant human rights abuses, a blank cheque to "do what you like because we are guilty and in no position to admonish you." If there were no votes in helping Ukrainian refugees, there will be less in helping Arab refugees. This may suit the general body politic here as they continue their one-eyed support of Israel. However, it will, in my view, decimate Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats and utterly hobble the Green Party - both of whom have people of conscience in their ranks.
The CDU and AfD will thrive now. There are votes for them in their contradictory position of supporting Israel - unquestioningly - while rejecting any notion of taking in any Arab refugees. Germany will turn more rightward, but any moral leadership that, say, Angela Merkel might have had when she took in over a million Arabs fleeing war in Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan is gone. Ursula stands with Israel without a mere mention of the Palestinian civilians, while Olaf Scholz is a weak disaster as chancellor. You might as well have the real thing - the CDU/CSU - if the nominal "left or centre" is going to behave as cravenly as this.
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