By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
3-4 minutes
The Left Party MPs filed their criminal complaint against Merkel in late February.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a joint news
conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (not pictured) at the
Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2019
(photo credit: MICHELE TANTUSSI/REUTERS)
BERLIN - The office of Germany’s federal prosecutor dismissed a
criminal complaint filed by the Left party against Chancellor Angela
Merkel for allegedly aiding the US government in its targeting killing
of the Iranian general
Qasem Soleimani.
The German paper
Die Welt reported
on Saturday about the dismissal, noting that eight Left party members
of parliament claimed the German government “aided in the murder” of
Soleimani by failing to take action to stop the US drone attack that
eliminated Soleimani in January.
The US and the EU both
designated Soleimani a foreign terrorist, who, according to the US
government, played a key role in the murders of over 600 American
service personnel in the Middle East. Soleimani has also played a role
in terrorism operations that let to the murder of Israelis and planned
attacks against European Jews, pro-Israel advocates and Israelis.
The
Left Party MPs filed their criminal complaint against Merkel in late
February. The prosecutor’s office said there were no indication points
to start an investigation against the Merkel administration.
According to
Die Welt,
the Left party claimed that the US used its air force base in Ramstein,
Germany as a point for data streams to coordinate its drone attacks.
The Left party opposes a ban of the entire Lebanese organization
Hezbollah in Germany.
The US, the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, the Arab
League and a number of Latin American countries have classified
Hezbollah’s movement a foreign terrorist entity.
Last year, the
Left party rejected a resolution deeming the Boycott, Divestment,
Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel as antisemitism. The
mainstream Bundestag parties supported the anti-BDS resolution.
The
Left party has issued many statements and resolutions against the
Jewish state over the years.It recently condemned Israel in a resolution
for the “violent approach of the Israeli government and the Israeli
military against the majority of peaceful mass protests of the
Palestinians in Gaza in the course of the Great March of Return, which
started on March 30.”
The Left party MP Christina Buchholz
reportedly supports Palestinian terrorism against Israel as a legitimate
form of “resistance.” She is a zealous campaigner for the Lebanese
terrorist organization Hezbollah and Hamas.
Claudia Haydt, a Left
party politician, was included by the Wiesenthal Center in its list of
worst outbreaks of antisemitsim and anti-Israelism in 2014. She joined
her fellow Left party politicians Annette Groth, Heike Hänsel and Inge
Höger on the list for support of BDS activity and a violent outbreak of
anti-Israelism in the Bundestag.
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