Israel – Internationale Beziehungen

[caption id="attachment_16578" align="alignright" width="300"] Abu Marzouk[/caption] „Das Eidgenössische Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten (EDA) ist im Nahen Osten, wieder einmal, auf Friedenssuche. Während zwei Tagen waren Vertreter der radikal-islamischen Hamas und der Fatah in der Schweiz, um an einem Workshop Möglichkeiten einer nationalen Einheitsregierung zu diskutieren. Das EDA ermöglichte das innerpalästinensische Meeting, ohne sich allerdings an den Diskussionen zu beteiligen. Ziel…

„Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, aka Doctors Without Borders) has risen to international stature as a result of the volunteer medical assistance it provides to people in underdeveloped countries and in crisis areas around the world. However, over the last few years, the group has branched out to include political advocacy targeting Israel as a component of its international activity. The…

„Dramatically breaking ranks with participants from 70 other countries, the United Kingdom criticized Sunday’s Middle East peace conference in Paris, arguing that it might harden Palestinian negotiating positions and refusing to sign a joint statement issued after the summit that called for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A Foreign Office spokesman said London had ‚particular reservations‘ about…

Von Michael Wyss Diese Artikelreihe beruht auf einem überarbeiteten Referat, welches der Autor im Oktober 2016 auf Veranstaltungen an der Universität Innsbruck sowie des Jungen Forums DIG Frankfurt an der Goethe Universität in Frankfurt a. M. präsentierte. Der dritte Teil beschreibt die Entstehungsgeschichte der Hamas und analysiert ihre Israelfeindschaft und Antisemitismus. Der erste Teil erschien am 27. Dezember 2016, der…

„The Americans implied that their Israeli colleagues should ‚be careful‘ as of January 20, Trump’s inauguration date, when transferring intelligence information to the White House and to the National Security Council (NSC), which is subject to the president. According to the Israelis who were present in the meeting, the Americans recommended that until it is made clear that Trump is…

„However, [Rafsanjanis] death and the hagiography accompanying it does provide a ‚teachable moment.‘ Why is it that U.S. officials and analysts feel the need to find significance to factionalism among adversaries? In the Iranian context, this errs because it assumes that the spectrum from reform to hardline among Islamic Republic politicians is the end-all and be-all of political debate and…

„Even as Ya’alon signaled optimism in those areas, his comments about US President-elect Donald Trump, ISIS and ‚the main enemy‘ of Iran were much more sober. Pointing at the possibility that US policy on the Middle East may change after Trump takes office on January 20, Ya’alon stated that ‚In recent years, the current American government decided to be very…

„What has been lost, again, in Barack Obama’s final venting against Israel through his abstention in the United Nations Security Council resolution against all Israeli settlements on the West Bank and Jewish homes in East Jerusalem is how disconnected American foreign policy on this imbroglio has been from the larger issues riling the Middle East. The truth about Fatah’s security…

„The U.S. must clearly declare that Israeli settlements do not violate international law. The Security Council resolution says that Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem are illegal and that the Israeli government must prevent them. But the council is neither a legislature nor a court. It cannot create international law. But while Resolution 2334 is not binding, it does contribute to…

„Hezbollah remains the most serious conventional threat Israel is facing, more than Hamas or Iran, a report released Monday by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) determined. According to the report, submitted to President Rivlin by INSS head Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, Hezbollah has rockets that can reach any range, precision-guided missiles, attack and suicide drones, the best…

Von Florian Markl Wer die Berichterstattung hierzulande über die am 23. Dezember verabschiedete UN-Sicherheitsratsresolution 2334 und die Rede John Kerrys wenige Tage danach verfolgt hat, muss den Eindruck gewonnen haben, Israels Premier stehe mit seiner Kritik völlig allein da und begehe einen diplomatischen Amoklauf gegen den Rest der Welt. Es wiederholt sich, was bereits anlässlich des Wiener Abkommens im Streit…

Von Michael Wyss Diese Artikelreihe beruht auf einem überarbeiteten Referat, welches der Autor im Oktober 2016 an Veranstaltungen an der Universität Innsbruck sowie des Jungen Forums DIG Frankfurt an der Goethe Universität in Frankfurt a. M. präsentierte. Der israelische Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu sorgte im Spätsommer 2014, wenige Wochen nach dem Ende der Operation  Protective Edge („Fels in der Brandung“), für…

US-Außenminister John Kerry redet über den israelisch-palästinensischen „Friedensprozess“, als hätten die vergangenen dreiundzwanzig Jahre nicht stattgefunden. Er spricht von einer „Zwei-Staaten-Lösung“, als wäre die nicht schon alleine deshalb illusorisch, weil der Gazastreifen von der islamistischen Hamas kontrolliert wird, mit der ein Frieden niemals möglich sein wird. Er belehrt die Israelis, denen die Jahre seit dem Oslo-Abkommen 1993 vor allem mehr…

„In the Obama administration’s waning days, global challenges to American interests abound. In Syria, which will be a bloody stain on the reputations of Barack Obama and John Kerry, the killing continues. The effort to free Mosul from ISIS is slowing. The rise of Iranian influence in the Gulf and the Levant, of China in Asia and the western Pacific,…

„What if the Secretary of State gave a policy speech and no one listened? Because Secretary Kerry’s speech Wednesday came after the U.S.’s abstention on the Security Council vote, nobody in Israel will pay any attention to anything he said. Had the speech come before the abstention, there would have been some possibility of it influencing the debate within Israel.…