Germany’s chancellor just did what was once unthinkable: openly condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza.

His rebuke marks a historic break from decades of silence rooted in Holocaust guilt, and a shift in how Germany balances its past with present-day human rights.

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German chancellor’s rebuke of Israel marks a shift in state policy that has long put such criticism out of bounds

Germany’s ‘Staatsräson’ has long held Israel’s security as its ‘reason of state.’

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