Germans will walk out if Ahmadinejad speech involves Holocaust denial. Huzzah.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 09:30 AM  | 

(Via Hot Air Headlines) I have a problem with this. Germany will walk out of the U.N. General Assembly if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust in a speech he will give Wednesday, and it wants other European Union countries to do the same, the foreign ministry said. My problem with this is that intolerance to Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism should be so instinctive | Read More »

Germany disinclined to acquiesce to Obama’s Uighur request.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 9th at 06:52 AM  | 

As Track-A-’Crat notes, the administration is at best spinning its difficulties to get anybody else to take the Uighurs. The President is claiming that there have been no hard commitments, which implies that negotiations for giving some over to Germany are still going on: Strictly speaking, that may be true. But according to information obtained by SPIEGEL, Germany has long since blocked the idea of | Read More »