Helmut Kohl was proud of his chancellorship and would have rebuked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Berlin. He certainly wouldn’t have pushed his way into our bathrooms with money-saving tips – like Winfried Kretschmann is doing now.
These days I’m thinking of Helmut Kohl. How would he have acted if a Palestinian president in office had accused the state of Israel of 50 holocausts? He would certainly have reacted spontaneously and immediately. I don’t want to speculate whether Chancellor Kohl would have prevented the visit of the world-famous Jew-hater Mahmud Abbas 50 years after the assassination of Palestinians at the Olympic Games in Munich, but I am convinced that he would not have shaken his hand silently after the scandalous lapse like Olaf Scholz.
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The doctor of history Helmut Kohl would have been prepared and would have rebuked the guest immediately with strong words.
He was proud of his chancellorship and also of his role as master of the house. He would never have ducked behind the pathetic excuse that his chief of press had already ended the conference before he could react.
Abbas was still in the room and all the journalists were still ready to take notes.
Kohl would have rumbled in the interests of Germany, without paying attention to trifles. Scholz, who likes to veil and forget, lacked sovereignty.
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In the previous week everything was different and sympathetically justified. My city of Munich was unrecognizable in many districts for a habitual person.
I couldn’t drive to my son’s as usual via the magnificent Königsplatz, because sand had been piled up there for volleyball courts.
My dentist’s practice was blocked by marathon runners. I had to explore new routes to the state parliament because racing cyclists were on my familiar routes.
Everywhere the athletes were accompanied, supported, cheered on and inspired by an enthusiastic audience.
Those who didn’t have the chance to be there on the streets could follow the rousing atmosphere on television for several days.
These European championships were an advertisement for Munich, for competition and for fair sport. We cheered the German winners, but other pictures moved me even more: how rivals from all nations congratulated or comforted each other after the competition.
The audacity of the political staff is unstoppable. Above all, the Greens want to intervene in our lives with prohibitions and commandments. In ever new variants.
The latest recommendation comes from Stuttgart. After the Green Economics Minister Robert Habeck recently advised fellow citizens to shower faster, his party friend Winfried Kretschmann is now turning the savings screw one step further.
If the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg has his way, we shouldn’t shower at all. In an interview, the Upper Swabian explained that the washcloth was also a useful invention. The washcloth, which the textile industry has recently dubbed soapcloth, takes society back 50 years. Some use it voluntarily. But the fact that a politician with a company apartment and a six-figure annual salary wants to force his way into the public bathroom is arrogance.
