The infamous interview of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, thanking and praising Israel for doing “the dirty work for all of us,” is one of those historical moments of revelation. A statement that will be remembered as undeniable proof of the moral collapse of the so-called “collective West.”
His comments were made on June 17, 2025, to the German broadcaster ZDF during the G7 summit in Canada. Merz openly expressed his support for Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran, which began in the early hours of the previous Friday.
“This is the dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us. I can only say I have the greatest respect for the fact that the Israeli army and the Israeli government had the courage to do this,” he said.
For us, who? For Germany? For the West? For the Global North?
While Merz was thanking Israel for its genocidal campaign, Donald Trump was posting messages ordering the “immediate evacuation” of Tehran, a city of more than 10 million people. At the same time, Netanyahu was talking about “burning Tehran.”
These are not rhetorical threats. Under Netanyahu’s command, the Israeli army has already killed, as of June 11, 2025, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 55,720 Palestinians in Gaza — in addition to 1,706 Israelis. The UN estimates that 70% of those killed in residential areas are women and children. Eighty percent of Palestinians killed are civilians.
The dead also include 180 journalists, 120 academics, and 224 humanitarian workers — 179 of them employees of the UN’s own agency, UNRWA.
How is it possible that Germany — or any country — supports a humanitarian catastrophe of this magnitude?
The words of Merz, Trump, and Netanyahu demonstrate, once again, how Nazism was possible. Dehumanization, lies, normalization of barbarism, a cult of death.
What explains this total absence of empathy? The name for it is racism. Racism in its most brutal form. Colonial, imperial, supremacist racism. The same logic that sustained centuries of looting and domination now manifests in the genocide in Gaza, the war against Iran, and the permanent siege of China, Russia, and any nation that dares to resist submission.
It is the same racism that defines the West’s relationship with China. When European powers dominated supply chains, accumulated wealth, and imposed their order on the world, it was called “progress.” But now that China achieves, through its own efforts, productivity, technology, development, and sovereignty, it suddenly becomes a “threat.” Why? Because for Western elites, it is unbearable to see a non-white nation occupy the same spaces of sovereignty that they have always reserved for themselves.
This has nothing to do with democracy, human rights, or international order. It is about racial, imperial, and colonial supremacy. This explains Gaza, Iran, the siege of China and Russia, and the criminal sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and any people that dare to stand up.
In Germany’s case, what we see is submission so humiliating, so degrading, it can only be described as psychosis.
Who destroyed Germany’s most strategic infrastructure in the 21st century — the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines?
It wasn’t Iran. It was the United States. And Germany didn’t even have the courage to demand an independent investigation. It bowed its head and accepted the damage and the humiliation.
Who lied to the world, promising that NATO would never expand to Russia’s borders — a lie thoroughly documented — and then, breaking that promise, produced the war that has already killed more than 500,000 people in Ukraine?
Was it Russia? Or was it the United States and its European satellites?
Now, Israel attacks Iran based on the same lies that destroyed Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. The accusation that Iran is building nuclear weapons has been disproved even by the US intelligence community itself.
In March 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, US Director of National Intelligence, testified under oath before Congress that Iran has had no active nuclear program since 2003.
Neither Israel, nor the United States, nor any international agency has presented a single piece of concrete evidence.
We’ve seen this movie before.
In Iraq, more than 1 million dead. In Libya, over 500,000. In Afghanistan, 240,000. In Syria, 600,000. In Yemen, 400,000. All killed in wars that have nothing to do with democracy, human rights, or security. They are about plunder, control, and domination.
The cost of these wars exceeds $8 trillion — money burned in the destruction of countries, in the deaths of millions, and in the permanent manufacturing of refugees and misery.
Are we going to let this happen again?
From the first strikes, Israel assassinated Iranian negotiators who were in talks with the Americans about the nuclear program. This is not coincidence. It is method. Israel and the US do not want peace. They want war. They want destruction.
The case of Iran is crystal clear. The historical record of the 1953 coup, organized by the CIA and MI6 that overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh and installed a pro-Western dictatorship, is public, vast, and irrefutable.
The Western public cannot remain silent.
Peace must be preserved.
There is no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons. And we already know, from recent history, what happens when the West fabricates lies to justify wars. It was Iraq. It was Libya. It was Syria. It’s always the same.
It is unacceptable that European servility drags its leaders, its media, its universities, and its intellectuals into total moral degradation. How can they ignore all the reports from the world’s largest humanitarian organizations? How can they ignore not just the reports, but the facts? The deliberate assassination of humanitarian workers, of UN employees, of UNRWA, the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders — coldly hunted and murdered by Israel. How can they ignore the assassination of 180 journalists? Ignore the systematic destruction of hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, cultural centers? How can they normalize the militarization of food distribution — now handled by private, armed organizations that, instead of delivering food, shoot, bomb, and massacre starving Palestinians who are seeking food?
The Iranian people must be protected from this monstrosity. The live-broadcast genocide in Gaza is already more than enough — and it continues to accelerate.
What moral standing does Israel have today? After massacring more than 55,000 people in Gaza, killing over 20,000 children, destroying universities, hospitals, libraries, murdering UN staff, journalists, doctors, teachers, and turning food distribution into yet another extermination field?
How can European leaders not see what is happening in the United States — a government that attacks its own Constitution, promotes fascist militias, threatens judges, journalists, and opponents, and is actively dismantling its own democratic institutions?
Is this the morality that Europe is going to defend? A war against Iran, propped up by the same recycled anti-Iranian propaganda that’s been pushed for decades, while the empire leading this war rots from within — morally, institutionally, and politically?
Can they not see that their own populations are in the streets — millions — protesting against the genocide in Gaza, against the war, against the massacre? Can they not see that Israel’s moral standing is destroyed, and that this war against Iran is nothing but a desperate attempt by Israel and the United States to forcibly impose an international order that is already collapsing economically, politically, and morally?
It cannot be allowed to happen again.
Barbarism today is not in Iran. Barbarism resides in the political leadership of the United States and Europe. That is where the machine of death lives.
Once again, it is clear that the good sense, the rationality, and the hope for humanity now reside in the Global South.
The statements of the leaders of the Global South — Lula, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, Cyril Ramaphosa, among others — are, almost always, for peace, for multilateralism, for sovereignty, for negotiation, and for equality among peoples.
Except, of course, for a few humiliating exceptions like the current government of Argentina, kneeling to Trump’s fascist narrative, playing a disgraceful role in the history of South America.
It is in the Global South where humanity’s civilizational resistance now stands.
