Geht es um Geschäfte mit Regimes, denen Menschenrechte nur dann wichtig sind, können sie gegen Israel in Stellung gebracht werden, sind deutsche Unternehmen stets präsent. Diktaturen aller Art sind schließlich durchaus zuverlässige Garanten steter Profite. Wie diese garantiert werden, will man dann gar nicht so genau wissen. Schließlich will man hinterher ja überzeugend Überraschung und ‚Nie wieder!‘ heucheln können.
Auch das hat Tradition:
„While European oil corporations such as the French company Total are backing away from production in Iran because of Teheran’s political instability, Linde is developing a project with the National Iran Oil company to liquefy natural gas and earned a total revenue of 91 million euros from Iran in 2008.
Speaking at the Munich International Congress Center before 2,000 stockholders and the Linde board of directors, Dr. Kazem Moussavi, an Iranian who fled the Islamic Republic due to political repression and lives in Germany, asked the Linde top management whether ‚you can as a board of directors… conduct business with a regime that destroys the human rights of its population and denies the Holocaust and has repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel off the map?‘
Wolfgang Reitzle, the chief executive officer of Linde, said he did ’not want to respond in detail to such topics as the Holocaust.‘
When asked if Linde has a special responsibility to the Jewish state because of the Shoah, Uwe Wolfinger, Linde’s spokesman, told The Jerusalem Post that the company ‚will not provide a societal or political statement‘ because that is ’not our mandate.'“