✍️ By Malik Mukhtar
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While one million Palestinians in Gaza edge toward famine, while hundreds of thousands of children cry themselves to sleep with bloated bellies and empty bowls, we are finally told what keeps German officials up at night.
Not the starvation. Not the corpses. Not the blockade.
But the diplomatic isolation of Israel.
Yes, you heard right. As the streets of Gaza reek of death and desperation, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is disturbed—not by the genocidal siege—but by the possibility that the global community might start treating Israel like the apartheid regime it has chosen to become.
"The situation must fundamentally improve for the people in the Gaza Strip," he says—
But not because people are dying.
Because it might make Israel look bad.
For Mr. Wadephul, starving children are not a moral red line. They are a PR disaster. The flattened hospitals, the deliberate targeting of aid convoys, the UN’s latest report that famine in Gaza has officially reached IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophic Famine)—none of that was enough to shake the West’s ironclad allegiance.
Until now.
Now, the concern is not "How do we stop this engineered famine?"
It’s "How do we stop Israel from being isolated?"
"This cannot leave Germany indifferent," Wadephul says.
No, of course not. The death of 18,592 children in Israeli airstrikes apparently could. The destruction of Gaza’s health system? The denial of baby formula and IV fluids? Indifference is policy. But isolation of Israel? Now you’ve got Berlin’s attention.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz, equally troubled, now hints that the German government may “soon decide” its next steps. No urgency. No condemnation. Just a little chin-stroking and a weekend wait for Wadephul’s trip report, as if this were a tourism review, not a war zone where humanitarian agencies are warning that children are dying of starvation at unprecedented rates.
Let’s be clear: Germany is not worried about Palestinians. It’s worried about the optics of complicity. Worried that the mask of Western “values” is slipping too fast. That too many are noticing the hypocrisy of a continent that once said “Never Again” with tears and candles—only to now arm and shield a regime committing those same atrocities in real-time.
Wadephul wants a ceasefire—not for peace, but to manage perception. He wants hostages released—not to save lives, but to ease pressure on an ally now openly accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice.
It’s a shameful moment for a nation that could have led with moral clarity. Instead, Germany clutches its alliance while Gaza clutches the bodies of children bloated with hunger and buried in rubble.
Every time a Western official speaks of "concerns" while Palestinians are being starved and slaughtered, a new chapter is written—not in the history of diplomacy, but in the history of betrayal.
Germany has chosen its side.
It is not with the hungry.
It is not with the truth.
It is not with the victims.
It is with the architect of the famine.
And history, as it always does, will remember.
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📸 Image idea: German foreign minister standing with Israeli leaders while a child behind barbed wire holds an empty bowl.
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