An awkward scene without ordinary greetings was expected, the foreign minister has said.
The refusal of Syria’s de facto leader to shake hands with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was expected, the top German diplomat has admitted.
Baerbock and her French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, made a surprise visit to Syria on Friday, meeting the country’s de facto leader, the head of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist group, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, best known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani.
The meeting started off with an awkward scene when al-Sharaa offered a handshake to Barrot but explicitly avoided shaking hands with Baerbock, placing his right hand on his heart instead. The new Syrian leader is known for refusing to shake hands with women due to his hardline Islamist views. The French foreign minister almost managed to dodge al-Sharaa’s hand, while Baerbock appeared to initially reach for the new Syrian leader, clapping her hands in the air instead.
“As I traveled here, it was clear to me that there would obviously be no ordinary handshakes,” Baerbock told German media late Friday.
“But it was also clear… that not only I, but also the French foreign minister, did not share this view. And accordingly, the French foreign minister did not extend his hands,” she said.
During the meeting with al-Sharaa, the two ministers raised the issue of women’s rights in the country, receiving acknowledgement “from the new Syrian authorities that there will be broad participation – particularly by women – in the political transition,” Barrot said in a post on X.
Militant groups spearheaded by HTS jihadists launched a surprise offensive against the government of now-former President Bashar Assad in November last year. The attack resulted in the collapse of the Syrian military in a matter of days and the downfall of Assad’s government.
Oh, look, the “moderate” leader of the new Syrian government snubs the German Foreign Minister’s handshake.
But no worries, Annalena Baerbock, the beacon of progress, is still more than happy to funnel German taxpayers’ hard-earned money to this “moderate” regime…..
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/cTafhHb0T3— Richard (@ricwe123) January 3, 2025
Who wants to shake hands with a murderer ? only politicians.
Further, the ” lady” has no clue how to dress as a representative of a government.
Tight trousers no very flattering on a fat a**.
Surprise visit, yeah right!!
Syria is headed now by Zionist J3w$ posing as Muslims.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/al-jawlani-head-of-hts-that-overthrew-syria-president-is-jewish
AND-
Here’s another ‘end result’ of the new Syrian Regime which Israel is now imposing itself upon.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/behold-the-results-of-assad-overthrow-in-syria
Syria becomes ‘Greater Israel’ via yet another genocide and holocaust / holodomor.
Yep, typical empowered liberal woman, shows her arse off to the enemy and thinks she won something.
Your comment stunned me
for a moment
because it’s so true
and the application so ever pervasive.
There was a time in old-world culture,
permeating through all human existence,
until actually not that far ago 😉
when this attire would have led to worse than stoning.
But then, civilization was not portrayed by the fringe but maintained by the survivors/coordinated/righteous.
Both being part of the whole, wasn’t that conglomerate a most wholesome in a maelstrom of civilisations? A fringe and the righteous? An eternal family feud?
But then something happened.
Some truly evil creatures divided us because that meant profit.
However, these creatures do not divide ‘others’.
We all are goyim.
We all are cattle.
The scandal is this immoral meeting……Western politicians make me sick……….