Earlier this month, talks between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire and hostage release agreement collapsed, once again, due to the terror group’s intransigence. Hamas walked away from the negotiating table while still holding 50 hostages, including seven German citizens. After another failed attempt to free the remaining hostages from Hamas captivity, the Israeli cabinet decided to increase the military pressure on the terror group.

Yet at a time when maximum pressure on Hamas and its enablers, including from Israel’s allies, is more vital than ever, Germany has chosen to impose an arms embargo on Israel.

This is not a minor shift in policy. It is a fundamental break with one of the main foreign-policy concepts and a guiding principle of the Federal Republic almost since its founding in

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