Namibian President Hage G. Geingob blasted Germany on Saturday for defending Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, pointing to the genocide Germany itself perpetrated on Namibians in the early 1900s.
Namibian President Hage G. Geingob blasted Germany on Saturday for defending Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, pointing to the genocide Germany itself perpetrated on Namibians in the early 1900s.
While I disagree with the German and Israeli governments, “you did genocide too” is not an argument for anything. You will be hard pressed to find a country that never participated in one and the current situation hardly compares to randomly invading and colonizing a country not even on the same continent as your own.
There are plenty of arguments you can find against the Israeli and my own Government, no need to resort to populist speeches.
Actually that’s not the argument.
The argument is: first recognize all your genocides, before attempting to defend one.
We recognize the genocide against hereros and Namas as genocide though. We even started paying reparations recently finally.
Which would still be a stupid argument, because these two alleged genocides are very different in nature, scale and also completely unrelated. I disagree that that’s the argument tho.
From the article posted here:
Yes, thank you, I’ve read the article.
Slovenians never commited genocide.
I don’t think it’s that hard to find a genocide free nation. Shared experiences make up your culture and that informs your politics.
Germany would likely be on the right side of history if they had incinerated millions of men women and children.