The ongoing blockade of aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip and the renewed expansion of hostilities are “unacceptable,” Green Party leader Franziska Brantner said.
Brantner said the German government must “make clear its position on compliance with international humanitarian law.”
Populist politician Sahra Wagenknecht meanwhile demanded an immediate halt to Germany’s arms deliveries to Israel, describing its actions in the Gaza Strip as “a campaign of destruction and a gigantic war crime.”
Wagenknecht, who leads the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, said the German government must immediately end its “policy of solidarity” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
isnt a Knecht more like a servant (to knights) but not a knight?
Fun fact: Knecht and knight share the same origin but actually mean very different things.
The German Knecht is a (lowly) servant while the higher class defined themselves by their ability to provide their own armor, weapons and horse as “Ritter” (lit. Rider).
In English the same people defined themselves as their liege’s highest servants (=knights).
So in the end both “Knechte” and “knights” an indeed servants but the cultural context and their position in a feudal hierarchy are extremely different.
PS: The personal servant of a knight would be a “Knappe”, the German equivalent to a “squire”. Basically a knight’s apprentice…
It’s exactly the same in Dutch as in German with ‘knecht’ and ‘ridder’. Also, apparently ‘Ritter’ is a loanword from Middle Dutch ‘ridere’.
Yes, Wagenknecht literally means “wagon servant” (probably somone servicing coaches? It’s not really a word that exists).