As the region transforms after October 7, Berlin needs both empathy for Israel and the courage to rethink its own foreign policy doctrine.
Author: Jörg Lau
Born in Aachen in 1964. Studied German and philosophy in Bochum. His work includes articles for “Merkur”, “taz” and the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. From 1993 to 1996 he was literary editor of the “taz” in Berlin, and since the beginning of 1997 he has written for DIE ZEIT. His biography of the writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger was published in 2001.
Calls for negotiation between Russia and Ukraine are growing louder. But peace would require strong security guarantees for the invaded country.
Ukraine is not allowed to attack Russian territory. Israel, on the other hand, has free rein. These are the would-be restrictions of Western weapons in two wars that might seem to have little in common.