Jurgen Moellemann

By Khaled Schmitt, IOL Germany Correspondent

BONN, January 9 (IslamOnline) – The prominent German politician Juergen Moelleman appealed to the U.N. to issue punitive resolutions against Israel and deal with it on an equal footing with Iraq.

Indifferent to being sacked as a leader of the Free Democratic Party – after depicting Israel as a terrorist state and supporting resistance operations in occupied Palestine – Moelleman said that he called upon the international organization in his political capacity as a member of both the German parliament and the parliament of North Rein state as well as head of the German-Arab Association.

In a statement published by German newspaper, Frankfurter Zeitung, on January 9, Moelleman said that the U.S. war on Iraq is inevitable as Bush's administration has been planning it a long time ago.

Moelleman, ex-Minister of Economy and Transport in the former governments of Chancellor Kohl, described the intensive U.S. movements on both political and military arenas as a well-knitted play that aims at spreading U.S. influence and marketing sophisticated U.S. armament systems worldwide.

In his statement, Moelleman said that the continuous submission of the government of Chancellor Schroeder to the U.S. administration would force Germany to provide the largest portion of Iraq’s reconstruction bill once the war ends.

In a related development, a program televised by a German TV channel on Monday, January 8, claimed that the Iraqi weaponry report submitted to the UN, December 7, revealed that 98 German companies have exported different types of weapons to Iraq, including equipment that can be used as components of mass destruction weapons.

The “Report from Munich” program, televised by the semi-official ARD Channel, indicated that the total German exports of weapons to Iraq since 1980s were far more than double the exports of the world companies collectively.