tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8658124253959613474.post1007532133694494880..comments2023-05-20T16:17:46.138+01:00Comments on GermanyWatch: Dodgy NGOs And The Arab SpringGermanyWatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570553763885954627noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8658124253959613474.post-69845938001744757832013-01-07T11:35:41.694+00:002013-01-07T11:35:41.694+00:00As it happens, the FNS, "Friedrich Naumann St...As it happens, the FNS, "Friedrich Naumann Stiftung", also is the FDP's, the German "liberal" party's, main think-tank. For several generations now, the FDP also was the "political" party in charge of German foreign policy. Historically, it may well be the most intensely "de-nazified" political organisation in post-war Germany... Yet, more often than not this particular "party" headed the German foreign ministry, also the main employer of their cadre. <br /><br />It should come to no surprise then if there was indeed some personal overlap and/or continuities between the "advisers" of the Nazi-inspired Pan-Arabism of old and fractions of its more up-to-date cousin, today's Arab Spring; at least not as far as German foreign policy and its epitome, the FDP, should play a role in it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com