Polyglot 84.POLYGLOT 84.WHAT LEGACY IS GERMANY'S MERKEL LEAVING BEHIND?(2) |
POLYGLOT 84.WHAT LEGACY IS GERMANY'S MERKEL LEAVING BEHIND? |
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15.Q: What about the refugee crisis?
"Merkel made a series of mistakes in that area too. For example, the number of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa was never monitored. No one knows exactly how many of them have arrived in Germany since 2015.
16."Some estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in Germany without registration, and the authorities are doing nothing about it. People know that they can live in Germany without registration. Merkel has created a huge problem. Germany simply did not have the tools to undertake such an extensive project."
17.Q: And how did Merkel's rule affect the Jewish communities in Germany?
"She caused great damage to it. From the 1990s until 2005, more than 200,000 Jews moved to Germany from the former Soviet Union. They could have moved to Israel, but instead, chose to move to Germany. That was a great expression of confidence in this country.
18.Before Merkel took office, "the German government invested a lot of money in the Jewish communities. It built community centers even in places where no Jews lived since World War II.
19."Merkel ruined all that in one day, when she let hundreds of thousands of the Jews' worst enemies into the country. Safe to assume, she made her decision without thinking about the Jews at all, and created a constant threat for them.
20."Jewish schools have become strongholds, and students are accompanied home by guards. Jews have become prisoners in their synagogues and community centers. This isn't life. Many are leaving Germany and moving to other countries. The situation is not as bad as in France yet, but if it continues this way, it might soon be.
21."Merkel doesn't understand Islam. She and her ministers have German advisors, who get paid for telling lies about the Middle East and Islam. Some tried to explain to her the dangers of her decision, but she was unwilling to listen. When you let hundreds of thousands of Muslims into your country, it only makes sense to understand the basics of Islam, doesn't it? But do you think anyone in the German government read the Quran?
22."Merkel thought these were pleasant people, like the Polish or other foreigners. She wanted to portray Germany as a country that stands up to xenophobia. But those who took to the streets to protest the mass immigration of refugees did not do so because of xenophobia, but because refugees have a completely different mentality and values. They treat women differently, as second-class citizens, and hate Jews and Christians.
23."Merkel does not keep her promises. She disappointed a lot of people, including those who worked with her. She assured the Jews Germany would be a safe haven for them, and ended up going back on her promise."
24.Q: Yes, but she also said that the existence of Israel is a prime national interest for Germany.
"I do not understand the meaning of such a statement. Merkel is a smart and opportunistic woman, who understood what Israel could offer Germany. She realized that many young Israelis did not find their niche in Israel, and because of the demographic growth, many also couldn't find a job. The government then allowed young Israelis to easily obtain working visas in Germany, causing thousands of young Israelis to move there.
25."She also made it easier for descendants of German Jews to receive citizenship. They can study in Germany for free. What a clever move.
26.Nevertheless, "slowly slowly, she started to adopt pro-Palestinian views. The word "betray" might not be the right one to describe what Merkel did, but she definitely became less concerned with Israel."
27.Q: Why?
"Merkel kept quiet during the anti-Israel protests that took place in Germany during the latest Israel-Hamas conflict. She should have spoken up, for those people marched by synagogues and screamed racial slurs.
28."None of them were ever arrested. Law enforcement claimed it could not find those responsible, even though there are cameras everywhere. If Merkel had said, 'I want the German legal system to bring to justice the people who called for the murder of Jews,' it would have happened. But she kept quiet. That was a true betrayal.
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30.She moved to West Germany, but returned home immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Upon return, she was elected as an independent delegate to the first (and only) Democratic parliament of East Germany. In 1996, she joined the German Christian Democratic party and witnessed Merkels' meteoric rise. When Langsfeld was not elected to the Bundestag in 2005, the year Merkel was appointed chancellor, the two parted ways.
31.Still a member of the Christian Democratic party, Lengsfeld does not hide her criticism of Merkel.
32."Merkel took over a functioning, strong and good economy," Lengsfeld told Israel Hayom. "but after 16 years, she is leaving behind a country that is in urgent need of recovery. Whoever becomes chancellor after her, will have a lot of difficulties to handle.
33."Germany has been hurt by the energy revolution that Merkel declared when she decided to shut down nuclear reactors, following the disaster in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. Germany's electricity is one of the most expensive in the world, if not the most.
34."Germany constantly needs to buy electricity from abroad, which creates dependency. For an industrialized country this can be very challenging.
35."And now, this monstrous failure with handling the pandemic. From the very beginning, Merkel responded incorrectly. She made every mistake possible. At the start, the government reacted with ignorance, saying there was no need to panic and no need for masks. Then, out of nowhere, it made masks mandatory, only there were none to buy in stores.
36."The government encouraged private suppliers to import tons of masks from China and promised to finance the purchase, but never paid the suppliers, a total of about 600 million euros, and they are now threatening to sue.
37."Mask prices were astronomical. Parliament members became rich by illegally advancing the interests of mask makers. The government is sitting now on a mountain of masks.
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39."The vaccine campaign was a failure too. By now, all of Germany's citizens should have been vaccinated, but we are not even close to that. I am in an at-risk group. I live in Berlin, and I still have not been immunized.
40."When the government finally adopted a mass testing policy, it sent lots of funds to testing centers, but they fabricated tests that were never administered in the first place.
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