When ambiguity isn't an option

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Dear Reader,

Much of the rest of the world decided that, at the point when the Palestinian death toll exceeded the Israeli one, Israel had become the perpetrator. 

That is a childish and gullible reaction that Hamas had calculated into its despicable plan. Yet, six weeks into the war, it seems increasingly clear that Germany is one of the few countries that is yet to fall for it. 

While other Western partners have buckled to international pressure and attempted to present themselves as peacemakers, Berlin has doubled down.

Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck published a must-watch video in which he clearly set out why Hamas needed to be defeated: “Hamas is a terror organisation that fights for the destruction of the state of Israel and the death of all Jews,” he stated in a simple comment that boiled the conflict down to its essence.

Olaf Scholz, meanwhile, has resisted increasing calls for a prolonged "humanitarian" ceasefire.

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