The mayor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/berlin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berlin, Germany</a>, gave a no-nonsense answer when asked why his office had Israeli flags flying in front of it.
The questioner claimed Israel was perpetrating a “genocide,” asking Mayor Kai Wegner, “The genocide taking place in Palestine does affect us, even if geopolitics is now perhaps more important than the office of a small mayor, I say. Nevertheless, we cannot duck away from a genocide. But why, why, for example, are there Israeli flags hanging in front of our Berlin town halls?”
Wegner decried those who have called Israel’s actions “genocide,” firing back, “So it’s not happening. Period. And I won’t allow it, either.”
Wegner implicitly referred to the effort by Germans to atone for the terrible crimes of the Nazis against the Jews in World War II, saying, “This is a massive, one-sided propaganda campaign by certain circles, where I simply say, I thought we were further along. I thought we had moved on and learned other lessons from our history, too. So apparently, some people haven’t yet. And I can tell them that the Israeli flag will hang outside my red town hall until we know the fate of the hostages, who are being held in the most cruel, atrocious conditions, in agonizing suffering in the tunnels of Hamas terrorists. As long as there is still hope that one of these hostages will be returned to their families, the Israeli flag will hang in front of the ruling mayor’s official residence.”
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Seit fast einem Jahr hängt die israelische Flagge vor dem Roten Rathaus. Es gibt Menschen, die dieses Symbol der Solidarität ablehnen. Einige von ihnen waren bei „Kai Wegner vor Ort“. Der Reg. Bürgermeister <a href="https://twitter.com/kaiwegner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaiwegner</a> hat klar gemacht, welche Haltung er bei diesem Thema hat. <a href="https://t.co/UZFgzz5vYZ">pic.twitter.com/UZFgzz5vYZ</a>
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In February, Wegner stated on X, “Berlin has a clear stance when it comes to freedom. Berlin stands firmly on Israel&#8217;s side. There is no doubt about that. Full responsibility for the deep suffering in Israel and the Gaza Strip lies with Hamas.”
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Berlin hat eine klare Haltung, wenn es um Freiheit geht. Berlin steht fest auf der Seite Israels. Darüber gibt es keinen Zweifel. Die volle Verantwortung für das tiefe Leid in Israel und dem Gazastreifen liegt bei der Hamas.
&mdash; Kai Wegner (@kaiwegner) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaiwegner/status/1761777008483181045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In May, Wegner defended police who had removed pro-Hamas demonstrators from buildings at Humboldt University. He accused the demonstrators of supporting Hamas; Germany, as well as the United States, considers Hamas a terrorist organization. “I will not let this pass, we do not tolerate anti-Semitism, hatred and agitation at our universities,&#8221; Wegner <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/berlins-mayor-defends-police-crackdown-153005527.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>. “Jewish students must be able to study at universities without fear. &#8230; I attach great importance to academic freedom and freedom of opinion, but anti-Semitic crimes are not an opinion.”

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On Thursday, the United States and its allies secured a deal with Russia in order to return some 16 people, including multiple Americans, from the Russians. The Russians have basically taken several Americans hostage over the course of the last several years, and the United States traded a bunch of murderers as terrorists and spies for these hostages.
This is being treated as a massive win for the Biden administration by the media and the Biden administration itself. In return for Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan, Russia retrieved eight people, including a convicted murderer who shot dead a former Chechen rebel leader in Berlin, a Russian agent accused of helping give sensitive American electronics and ammunition to Russia, a man involved in what American authorities <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/world/who-are-detainees-russia-us-prisoner-swap-intl/index.html">called</a> “an elaborate hack-to-trade scheme that netted approximately $93 million through securities trades based on confidential corporate information stolen from US computer networks,” and four other convicted spies.
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/lawyer-ex-us-marine-whelan-jailed-russia-says-she-cannot-confirm-his-whereabouts-2024-07-31/#:~:text=%22I%20remain%20concerned%20that%20continuing,Committee%2C%20said%20in%20a%20statement">said</a> in a statement, “I remain concerned that continuing to trade innocent Americans for actual Russian criminals held in the U.S. and elsewhere sends a dangerous message to Putin that only encourages further hostage-taking by his regime.”
It&#8217;s great that we&#8217;re getting back our people; that is a wonderful and good thing.
But the treatment of this as a massive triumph by the Biden administration betrays an enormous amount about the way that Americans think about foreign policy, particularly on the Left and in the hallowed precincts of the State Department. The West has become accustomed to looking at foreign policy as though the best foreign policy ends in trading murderers and spies for innocent people. That is the best-case outcome.
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That is an extension of a generalized world view that the best foreign policy for America is to lose slowly and with the least possible cost, not to actually push to victory. It&#8217;s part and parcel of a broader worldview that says, for example, that Afghanistan was a triumph, which is something Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said, despite the fact that pulling out of Afghanistan left 13 American service people to be killed, hundreds of Americans behind, tens of thousands of American allies to be slaughtered by the Taliban, and millions of women to be dragged back into basements so they can&#8217;t go to school.
According to Biden, his State Department team, and Harris, that was a triumph. To them, the best form of foreign policy involves losing very, very slowly and with the least amount of cost; the worst foreign policy is where you win.
This is not unique to Biden or Harris. This has been an essential element of American foreign policy strategy on the Left for decades. It&#8217;s why America has not won a full-scale victorious war since World War II. It&#8217;s been a long time in America since we won a full-scale victorious war because we&#8217;re always fighting to stasis; we&#8217;re always looking for a way out.
What this did was incentivize Vladimir Putin to take more Americans hostage.
The West has been sucked into the morass of never winning victories and treating what are, by any standard of the imagination, losses as victories.
Two things can be true here: It is incredibly good that Americans are coming home, and it is a diplomatic loss to trade murderers for innocents.
Diplomacy is a tactic. It is not a strategy. The foreign policy establishment is constantly suggesting that diplomacy is in and of itself a strategy, that talking is a strategy.
Talking is a means to an end. Sometimes it’s useful; sometimes it’s not.
When you treat diplomacy as the strategy, what you end up with are bad deals and lost wars.
Which is the name of the game when it comes to Joe Biden.
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Jewish-owned houses are being marked with the Star of David by anti-Semites in Berlin in images <a href="https://mjhnyc.org/blog/jewish-badges-during-the-holocaust-the-othering-of-jews-across-nazi-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reminiscent</a> of 1930s Nazi Germany, according to multiple reports. 
German outlet Tagesspiegel <a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-staatsschutz-ermittelt-unbekannte-spruhen-davidstern-auf-eingangstur-10619689.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Friday that Berlin Police confirmed it was aware of an incident where a Star of David was painted on a Jewish woman&#8217;s door. German State Security is investigating the marks on suspicion of incitement and hatred. The Jewish resident whose house was graffitied said she called the police, but authorities told her to report it online. 
“They advised me to remove the Star of David because leaving it at the door could cause further reactions,” the woman said. She explained that she has a mezuzah on her doorframe, which is a piece of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah in Hebrew. The Jewish woman said she is now afraid to go to synagogue and to be seen in public wearing her necklace that has a Star of David pendant. 
“And I won’t speak Hebrew on the street today,” she added. 
Three more incidents involving the apparent intimidation of Jewish residents were reported on Saturday.
“It is now the subject of our investigation to find out whether the other houses have a Jewish resident and whether the incidents are connected,” the police said, <a href="https://archive.ph/vcKPd#selection-2963.126-2963.271">according</a> to The Telegraph.
Posts on social media showed multiple other doors in Berlin being marked with the Star of David. 
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More and more reports of an ongoing intimidation campaign in Berlin targeting Jews.
People are marking houses were Jews live and Jewish-owned stores with a Star of David. <a href="https://t.co/2yVxze4oQL">pic.twitter.com/2yVxze4oQL</a>
&mdash; Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) <a href="https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1713182090068726246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein posted another photo of a door that had been marked.
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“In Berlin, Jewish homes are being marked by pro-Hamas Jew haters. IN GERMANY, 2023,” Goldstein wrote. 
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In Berlin, Jewish homes are being marked by pro-Hamas Jew haters. 
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&mdash; Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1713159172563341420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The reports of anti-Semitism out of Berlin come as anti-Israel protestors gather in cities across the world to voice their support for Palestinians after Hamas brutally attacked Israel, slaughtering over 1,300 Israelis.
A large group of demonstrators hit New York City streets on Thursday to condemn Israel. Anti-Israel rallies were held at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Columbia University, where a Jewish student <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-feel-safe-jewish-columbia-student-says-he-was-attacked-by-pro-palestinian-activist">told The Daily Wire</a> he was attacked on campus by a pro-Palestinian activist who was tearing down fliers raising awareness about Israelis who have been taken hostage by Hamas.
Hamas terrorists invaded Israel last Saturday, slaughtering Israeli families. Over the course of the week, the scale of Hamas’ atrocities against the Israelis has become more evident. During their attack, the terrorists targeted the most vulnerable, including raping and killing young women and slaughtering children and infants.

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In the latest address to world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the German parliament to tear down the new &#8220;wall&#8221; being built by Russia in Europe, dividing Western and Eastern Europeans over the subject of freedom.
&#8220;Dear [German chancellor Olaf Scholz], tear down this wall,&#8221; Zelensky <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-ronald-reagan-scathing-speech-germany-1688930">pleaded</a>, echoing Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 speech when the American president called on the then-President of the Soviet Union, ​​Mikhail Gorbachev, to bring down the Berlin wall.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not a Berlin Wall — it is a wall in central Europe between freedom and bondage and this Wall is growing bigger with every bomb,&#8221; Zelensky said, also calling on Scholz to “​​give Germany the leadership role that you in Germany deserve.”
Zelensky then argued that Germany was more concerned about its own economy than the security of Ukraine prior to the Russian invasion.
“We turned to you,” Zelensky <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10622875/Zelensky-urges-Germany-tear-new-Wall-Europe-that.html">said</a>. “We told you that Nord Stream was a kind of preparation for the war.”
“And the answer we got was purely economic — it is economy, economy, economy but that was the mortar for the new wall,” he said.
Zelensky also discussed the slogan “never again,” in reference to the Holocaust.
&#8220;I address all of you who heard politicians say every year &#8216;never again,&#8217; but I can see these words are worth nothing. Now, our whole nation is being exterminated in Europe, why?&#8221; Zelensky said. &#8220;I address the older people among you who have survived the Second World War, who were rescued during the occupation, who survived Babyn Yar, where President Steinmeier visited last year for the 80th anniversary of the tragedy, and where Russian missiles struck.”
&#8220;It was there that families were killed. Again, 80 years later,&#8221; Zelensky continued. &#8220;You are also behind the wall, a wall that separates you from Ukrainians that are dying in Ukraine with every bomb that is landing on our land.&#8221;
Zelensky’s speech to Germany was notably more critical than his address to the British and American governments. However, Zelensky did invoke the memory of Pearl Harbor and September 11 in his speech to the United States Congress, as part of his call for a no-fly zone.
&#8220;Friends, Americans, in your great history, you have pages that would allow you to understand Ukrainians, understand us now, when we need you right now,&#8221; Zelensky said in his speech to Congress, according to a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/zelensky-speech-congress-read-address-transcript-b2037126.html">translation</a>. &#8220;Remember Pearl Harbor, terrible morning of December 7, 1941, when your sky was black from the planes attacking you,&#8221; Zelensky said. &#8220;Just remember it, remember, September the 11th, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn US cities into battlefields, when innocent people were attacked from air, just like nobody else expected it and you could not stop it. Our country experiences the same, every day, right now.”
“Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people,” Zelensky continued. “Russian troops have already fired nearly 1,000 missiles at Ukraine, countless bombs they use drones to kill us with precision. This is a terror that Europe has not seen, has not seen for 80 years and we are asking for a reply for an answer to this terror from the whole world is there’s a lot to ask for to create a no fly zone zone over Ukraine to save people.”
“Is this too much to ask humanitarian no fly zone, something that Ukraine it that Russia would not be able to terrorize our Free Cities,” Zelensky asked. “Is this too much to ask? We offer an alternative: you know what kind of defense systems we need. 300 and other similar systems, you know how much depends on the battlefield on their ability to use aircraft. Powerful, strong air aviation to protect our people with freedom or learn aircraft that can help Ukraine help Europe and you know that they exist and you have them but they are on earth not in Ukraine in the Ukrainian sky.”
“They don’t defend our people. I have a dream,” Zelensky added. “These words are known to each of you today. I can say I have a need. I need to protect our sky. I need your decision. Your help. Which means exactly the same. The same you feel when you hear the words. I have a dream.”
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A large chunk of the Berlin Wall placed at Chapman University in southern California to serve as a symbol of freedom has been defaced, university officials announced earlier this week.
According to <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/27/chapman-universitys-piece-of-berlin-wall-is-vandalized/">The Orange County Register</a>, Chapman University officials revealed this week that someone vandalized the memorial with brown paint, which covered the historical graffiti on the bottom portion of the wall.
“I am outraged by this senseless attempt to destroy a priceless piece of history and heartbroken that this can happen on our own campus,” Daniel Struppa, president of the university, said in a statement, reports the news agency.
Back in 1998, when the wall fragment was first put up, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-29-me-27513-story.html">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported that Chapman President Jim Doti got the idea for it after seeing another piece of the Berlin Wall standing at the Ronald Reagan Library.
“It’s a symbol of the end of the Cold War and a symbol of freedom,” Doti said at the time. “I was asking students about it and they said, ‘We were just little kids when this came down.’ Well, I was just a little kid when this went up.”
“I remember Ronald Reagan standing at this wall and saying, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,’” said a university finance professor at the time, reports The L.A. Times. “And now a piece of it is sitting in our backyard.”
“Let this terrible act of vandalism be turned into a time to celebrate how fortunate we are to be the home to an important piece of history,” said Struppa, The Orange County Register reports.
While Chapman officials have not determined a motive, the act of vandalism has emerged amidst a national trend whereby left-wing activists target statues of historical figures or national leaders in the name of fighting oppression.
For example, in the past couple of months, activists have set their sights on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-leftists-topple-george-washington-statue-burn-american-flag-on-it-twice">statues</a> of President George Washington, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-california-tear-down-statue-of-ulysses-s-grant-he-defeated-the-confederacy-devastated-kkk">Gen. Ulysses S. Grant</a>, who helped win the Civil War, and President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-weighs-removing-replica-emancipation-memorial-of-lincoln-freed-slave-slaves-paid-for-the-original-memorial">Abraham Lincoln</a> himself.
While not technically a national figure, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus has also been the subject of ire for radical activists, despite the fact that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-gop-senators-propose-recognizing-juneteenth-as-federal-holiday-swapping-out-columbus-day">Columbus Day</a> was first federally recognized in the 19th century as an homage to Italian Americans.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, vandals toppled a statue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-columbus-statue-destroyed-pelosi-says-people-will-do-what-they-do-mccarthy-responds">Christopher Columbus</a> near Little Italy in Baltimore and then tossed the fragment into water connected to the nearby harbor. About a week later, a Columbus statue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-tear-down-christopher-columbus-statue-in-minneapolis-an-immigrant-built-it-gave-it-as-a-gift">gifted by</a> Italian Americans was destroyed.
Even more recently, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot temporarily removed a Columbus statue from Grant Park after dozens of officers were injured defending it against extremists the week prior. According to <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-christopher-columbus-statue-grant-park-lori-lightfoot-20200724-2hsbobbt7ndmpmkgyh6vfl7cvq-story.html">the Chicago Tribune</a>, the mayor removed the state “in part to avoid another high-profile confrontation between police and protesters.”
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A college in Florida had an interesting idea: build a replica of a segment of the infamous Berlin Wall that separated East and West Germany for 44 years. The wall was scheduled to be destroyed with sledgehammers by students on Friday to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the actual Berlin Wall.
But the professor who organized the project at New College in Florida, Lauren Hansen, apparently has another message she also wants to impart. According to <a href="https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/articles/2019/11/7/remembering-the-berlin-wall">Sarasota Magazine</a>, she wants the fall of the wall to represent “national and international experiences of separating groups of people, cities and countries.”
Hansen stated about the replica wall, “It has become a place where students and faculty from the entire university can come to discuss borders and the divisiveness we encounter today in the U.S. and other parts of the world.”
Sarasota Magazine reported:
<blockquote>The project was organized by professor Lauren Hansen, who is currently teaching a course called The Berlin Wall in German Literature and Film. In January, Hansen led an independent study about the portrayal of the Berlin Wall in German literature, and the idea for the replica wall was created by her small group of students. While other universities have created replica walls in the past, New College students also reenacted historical speeches, presented film screenings, and held graffiti sessions and poster presentation sessions. Creating the wall also turned into a timely project about national and international experiences of separating groups of people, cities and countries, notes Hansen.</blockquote>
The replica stands eight feet tall and 16 feet wide and was placed so that students would be forced to walk around it to get to class. As radio host Rod Thomson <a href="https://therevolutionaryact.com/mangling-truth-berlin-wall/">cogently noted </a>regarding the college&#8217;s project:
<blockquote>Germany was formally divided in 1949 and the wall went up in 1961. The East German communist party never had popular support, distrusted its citizens and ruled with an iron fist. Refugees left East Germany for economic and political reasons, causing a brain drain. In the intervening years, more than 3 million East Germans “voted with their feet” by moving to West Germany.
To equate that wall to our border wall would have meant the West Germans would have put up the Berlin Wall to keep the East Germans out. But it was the East Germans who did so, to stem the flow out of East Berlin. There’s a fundamental difference between a wall that locks people in like a prison wall and the Berlin Wall, and a wall that protects and establishes legal borders, such as movie theaters, sporting events, Disney and national borders.</blockquote>
The New College of Florida states on its <a href="https://news.ncf.edu/news/with-public-event-new-college-students-will-commemorate-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/">website</a>:
<blockquote>New College of Florida has educated intellectually curious students for lives of great achievement since its founding in 1960. As the State of Florida’s designated honors college, New College provides an exceptional education that transforms students’ intellectual curiosity into personal accomplishment. The 110-acre campus on Sarasota Bay is home to more than 800 students and 80 full-time faculty engaged in interdisciplinary research and collaborative learning.</blockquote>

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Two young men wearing yarmulkahs on the streets of Berlin were attacked by three young thugs, one of whom, an Arabic-speaking man, whipped out a belt and started to whip them, but there was one additional piece of evidence the attackers didn&#8217;t know: one of the victims was <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/jewish-man-attacked-in-germany-admits-he-s-an-israeli-arab-1.6012220">a young Israeli Arab</a> who was testing his friend&#8217;s statement that wearing a yarmulkah in Germany is dangerous.
That young Arab, Adam Armoush, told the Israeli broadcaster Kann, &#8220;They kept cursing us and my friend asked them to stop cursing. They started to get angry and one of them ran to me and I knew it was important to film it because there would be no way to catch him by the time police arrived. Honestly, I&#8217;m surprised a thing like this could happen.&#8221;
Amoush told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, &#8220;I&#8217;m not Jewish, I&#8217;m an Israeli, I grew up in Israel in an Arab family.&#8221; He said he had been skeptical when his friend suggested that wearing a skullcap out put him at risk, adding, &#8220;I was saying it&#8217;s really safe and I wanted to prove it, but it ended like that.&#8221;
A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mike.delberg/videos/10155388848788309/">video</a> of the attack in the city&#8217;s trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood went viral. It showed the attacker yelling &#8220;Yahudi!&#8221; or &#8220;Jew&#8221; in Arabic.

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On Sunday, German officials evacuated hundreds of travelers from one of the largest airports in the country after reports of eye irritation and breathing difficulties began circulating. People gathered in the security and luggage-check area of the Hamburg Airport reported symptoms consistent with pepper spray irritation, causing authorities to shut down the airport temporarily.
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hamburg-airport-briefly-closed-after-dozens-injured-by-unidentified-substance/2017/02/12/7371809c-f129-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.7a3ca207df30">The Washington Post</a>, 68 people were injured. None of the injuries were life threatening.
Based on initial assessments, police don&#8217;t believe that the incident was related to terrorism.
There was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that the airport was struck by a terror attack, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/hamburg-airport-briefly-closed-after-dozens-injured-by-unidentified-substance/2017/02/12/7371809c-f129-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.7a3ca207df30">said</a> Hamburg police spokesman Rene Schönhardt, adding that a cartridge of pepper left inside a trash bin near the security check was likely the cause of the incident.
&#8220;Nothing else has been found,&#8221; he emphasized. &#8220;The fire department didn&#8217;t detect any dangerous substances.&#8221;
Hamburg fire department spokesman Werner Nölken echoed what the police said, reassuring the public that no terrorist links have been identified.
&#8220;We are not assuming a terrorist attack,&#8221; the spokesman affirmed. &#8220;Some clown, for whatever reason&#8221; may have dumped pepper spray into an air-conditioning vent in the airport, allowing the the irritant to permeate through the air and injure travelers.
&#8220;The cartridge found in the bin was only the size of a lipstick&#8230;so it wouldn&#8217;t have been possible to injure so many people without the air-conditioning system diffusing the gas,&#8221; the Post reported, citing Nölken.
Germany has been in a state panic since last spring when <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/652765/Terrorist-attacks-Germany-Terrorism-Foiled-plots-Threat-Security-Islamic-State-ISIS">a slew of Muslim refugees conducted terror attacks throughout the country</a>. From Berlin to Munich, Islamic radicals, using knives, machetes, and motor vehicles, have killed German citizens with unprecedented brutality. The most horrific attack occurred on Dec. 19, 2016 when a terrorist rammed his truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12.
While Sunday&#8217;s incident wasn&#8217;t a terror attack, the ease at which an unknown person was unable to release an irritant gas into an air-conditioning vent and injure nearly 70 people should alarm authorities considerably. At the very least, German airports should reassess security protocol.

German Airport Evacuated After Irritant Gas Released Into Air. 68 Injured.

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The West’s self-induced castration is nearly complete. Political correctness and multiculturalism have infected the powerful ruling class in both in Europe and the United States to such an extent that the oppressed are ignored for the sake of the oppressor. Following the Islamic terror attack on Berlin last Monday, one German politician even went out of his way to make sure that police didn’t circulate photos of the Muslim terrorist out of fear that such images could exacerbate supposed Islamophobia, a politicized term that has become a catch-all phrase to preemptively dismiss any and all criticism of Islamic theology.
The Daily Mail <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4062438/He-s-concerned-Facebook-comments-catching-terrorist-German-politician-faces-resignation-calls-preventing-police-sharing-image-Berlin-truck-killer.html">reports</a> that the head of Hamburg, Germany’s judicial authority, Till Steffen, prevented law enforcers in Hamburg from releasing pictures of Anis Amri, despite him being the most wanted man in the world after Monday&#8217;s terror attack.” 
“Police were able to give a description of the killer but not show the public what he looked like because of privacy concerns,” The Mail adds. “The Green politician only granted an exception after a call from the newspaper, following a 12 hour delay. Amri was later killed by Italian police after he fled the country.”
As The Daily Wire noted last week, terror analysts and national experts were bewildered at Germany’s slowness to release information regarding the Berlin Christmas market attack, despite the presence of multiple witnesses.
It looks like there may be an explanation now. Berlin’s suicidal political correctness has been a problem ever since Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the floodgates to nearly 900,000 Muslim asylum-seekers from predominately Islamic countries.
The German political elite’s latest attempts to obscure the reality of radical Islam may have gone too far, however. This time, police are pushing back.
&#8220;It is incomprehensible that investigating authorities are thrown such truncheons,&#8221; Joachim Lenders, chairman of Hamburg&#8217;s regional police force, said, according to Germany’s Bild newspaper.
The ruling class’s unwillingness to offend the Muslim community is coming back to bite them.
Far-right politicians, namely from Germany’s AfD party, are gaining more popular by the day and getting closer to the levers of power.
Without a doubt, Merkel’s political grip on Berlin is waning as the German mothers and fathers clutch their children closer out of fear that the next successful jihadist may be lurking near the refugee quarters right around the corner.

This German Politician Wouldn’t Show A Picture Of The Berlin Terrorist Because He Didn’t Want To Spread Islamophobia. Yes, Really.

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Refugees being generously provided a safe home in Berlin showed their appreciation by lighting a homeless man on fire and laughing as they watched him burn. 
A total of seven male refugees&#8212;six from Syria and one from Libya&#8212;were arrested on Monday after the reported attack on the homeless man at Schönleinstraße subway station on Christmas Eve, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4067902/Seven-migrants-arrested-homeless-man-set-fire-Christmas-Eve-Berlin-subway-station.html#ixzz4U1xfKlkK">reports </a>The Daily Mail. CCTV surveillance footage at the station captured the seven males, ranging from 15 to 21 years of age, celebrating the attack as they were leaving the crime scene, laughing and pointing at the helpless man as he burned. 
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Das sind die Typen, die in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Berlin?src=hash">#Berlin</a> versucht haben, einen Obdachlosen im Bahnhof Schönleinstraße anzuzünden. Mordkommission: 030-4664-911444 <a href="https://t.co/jrAu44LRRg">pic.twitter.com/jrAu44LRRg</a>
&#8212; Max Schneider (@MaxxSchneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxxSchneider/status/813398757396115460">December 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Thankfully, the victim was helped by witnesses in the area and was able to escape without injury. 
According to Berlin Police officials, an investigation has been launched into the attempted murder and all seven suspects have been arrested. The unnamed 21-year-old suspect is assumed to be the main perpetrator in the crime, says Vice Chief of the Press Office at Berlin Police Thomas Neuendorf. 
The German capital has been plagued with crime and acts of terrorism carried out by European admitted refugees. Last week, Anis Amri <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/11735/breaking-truck-rams-christmas-market-berlin-joshua-yasmeh">murdered </a>12 people and injured 48 others on behalf of ISIS by driving a hijacked truck into a busy Berlin Christmas market. Amri, originally from Tunisian, was later killed in Milan by two police officers while attempting to flee.

VIDEO: Syrian Refugees Light Homeless Man on Fire, Laugh As They Watch Him Burn

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On Thursday, Richard Barrett, former head of counter-terrorism at the UK&#8217;s foreign intelligence agency MI6, told BBC Radio 4 there were 7,000 live cases in Germany, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4057824/Germany-7-000-terror-suspects-large-finding-impossible-monitor-former-UK-intelligence-chief-says.html">stating</a> there were 550 &#8220;really extreme potential terrorists on the books &#8230; In addition to that though if you include all the Lander (local regions) in Germany they have about 7,000 live cases. As you can imagine, that is an almost impossible number to control.&#8221; Barrett added that wider group of suspects were people who had &#8220;come to attention in this context of radical extremism&#8221; and were &#8220;worthy of investigation.&#8221;
Barrett was interviewed following the attack in Berlin truck attack in which the suspect, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/berlin-attack-suspect-anis-amri-under-monitoring-since-january">Anis Amri</a>, was already known to the security services through traditional forms of intelligence. Amri used at least six different aliases under three different nationalities. He was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/europe/berlin-anis-amri-killed-milan.html">killed by police</a> on Friday near Milan, Italy.
After the attack, the German cabinet parliament <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/germany-to-expand-cctv-network">passed a bill</a> allowing the use of the CCTV network for video surveillance for shopping centers, sports arenas, car parks and other public areas.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/22/berlin-terrorist-attack-surveillance-intelligence-agencies">The Guardian</a> points out, &#8220;In almost every terrorist act since the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/9-11-the-10th-anniversary">9/11 attacks</a>, those responsible were already on the radar of the intelligence agencies: the Boston bombers, the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby in London, the attackers in Paris and Brussels. And now, Amri, the Tunisian being hunted by intelligence agencies across Europe as the prime suspect for the Berlin attack.&#8221;
Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at London&#8217;s Royal United Services Institute, commented regarding the Berlin attack: &#8220;Clearly, there has been an intelligence failure.&#8221; He opined that Germany&#8217;s attempts at gathering information on the ground were not as successful as the National Security Agency in the US or the UK&#8217;s GCHQ at intercepting bulk communications.
The U.S. and the UK share information with Germany and France, but among European countries, that is not as widespread.
On Thursday, a senior foreign German politician today blamed the Berlin attack on &#8220;institutional political correctness.&#8221;

Report: Germany Has Lost 7000 Possible Terror Suspects

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