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Die Grünen and the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
Author(s) -
Humphreys Andrea
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00343.x
Subject(s) - german , political science , foreign policy , palestine , position (finance) , power (physics) , government (linguistics) , german government , economic history , public administration , law , ancient history , history , politics , economics , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
This paper discusses the German Greens' recent policy on Israel and Palestine, from the beginning of the first red‐green federal government to the present. It looks at Green Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer's diplomatic role in the Middle East, and the Greens' current very “mild” policy with regards to Israel, especially when compared to earlier Green attitudes to the region. This is explained with reference to both the continuing relevance of German history to German foreign policy, and the constraints that participation in the federal coalition — and supplying Germany's Foreign Minister — place on the Greens. The influence of history and power on the German Greens is further illustrated by a comparison of German Green attitudes to Israel with the US Greens' much more critical position.