{"id":20467,"date":"2023-01-26T04:46:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20467"},"modified":"2023-01-26T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T04:00:35","slug":"neutrality-was-not-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=20467","title":{"rendered":"„Neutrality was not an option“"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baerbock at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are the words of Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner. His experience of the horrors of the Shoah and the Second World War made him a lifelong believer in the need to stand up for human rights, regardless of where violations occur and to whom. Wiesel was convinced that when human rights are violated, that is a warning signal for what there is to come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Baerbock-declares-war.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

I find Baerbock<\/a> pretty unlistenable. She’s banal, formulaic, as if her address was produced by the same staff cut-and-paste plagiarism that her book was. She begins a speech on Europe responding to an invasion by saying national borders have become irrelevant? „Sensitivities“ are irrelevant? Sensitivities like concern about nuclear war? The headlines<\/a> are filled with Baerbock’s declaration of war, and rightly so. Germany’s shipping tanks and its foreign minister announcing that Europe is fighting a war against Russia is certainly cause for headlines, but as important to me is the level of mediocrity evident in Scholz and Baerbock’s utterances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baerbock at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: \u201cWhen human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.\u201d These are the words of Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}