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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…

„Ruhe liegt über dem Kibbuz Or-Haner im Süden Israels. Die nahöstliche Sonne wärmt noch an diesem späten Novembertag. Vögel zwitschern. Der Wind hat die Autos in einen Schleier aus Sand gekleidet. Äußerlich deutet nichts darauf hin, dass die Menschen hier mit einer unberechenbaren und tödlichen Gefahr leben. Der Gazastreifen liegt keine drei Kilometer entfernt. Auf der anderen Seite der Grenze…

Von Khaled Abu Toameh Während der Feierlichkeiten zum 52. Jahrestag der Gründung der Fatah in Ramallah erklärte der Präsident der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde (PA) Mahmud Abbas, 2017 werde das „Jahr der internationalen Anerkennung des Staates Palästina“ werden. Abbas, der die jüngste Anti-Siedlungs-Resolution 2334 des UN-Sicherheitsrats begrüßte, sagte, er sei zur Zusammenarbeit mit der neuen Regierung Donald Trumps bereit, „um Frieden in der…

„The nearly two million residents of Gaza have been suffering through a cold winter of crippling power cuts, receiving electricity for only three or four hours a day. The popular anger over the cuts erupted on Thursday in a large protest. In a rare display of defiance against the Hamas authorities who control the Palestinian territory, about 10,000 people took…

„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…

„Israel’s second-largest Arab city asked the Culture Ministry to ban the screening of a new film about a conservative Muslim woman who gets swept up in the liberal lifestyle of Arabs in Tel Aviv. On Sunday, the cultural arm of Umm al-Fahm’s city hall wrote a letter to the Culture Ministry, asking that the movie ‚In Between‘ – which premiered…

„Would a Palestinian state serve the cause of Mideast peace? This used to be conventional wisdom, on the theory that a Palestinian state would lead to peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, easing the military burdens on the former and encouraging the latter to address their internal discontents. Today the proposition is ridiculous. No deal between Jerusalem and Ramallah…

„A saying attributed to Golda Meir comes to mind: ‚Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.‘ We agree. If al-Qanbar had cared for himself, his children and his family – not to mention the soldiers he rammed into – he never would have carried out his attack on Sunday. While we still…

„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…

„Four IDF soldiers – three women and a man in their 20s – were murdered and 13 wounded when a Palestinian truck driver deliberately rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday. The truck, which has Israeli license plates stolen from a private vehicle, sped towards pedestrians waiting at a bus stop…

„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…

„Islamic authorities managing the Temple Mount attempted to have a veteran Israeli archaeologist ejected from the Jerusalem flashpoint holy site on Sunday for using the term ‚Temple Mount‘ in a lecture to American students. Waqf guards brought him to Israeli police at the site to complain, and the police, while saying there were no legal grounds to eject him, advised…

„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…

„Israeli soldiers killed Santa Claus and then falsely accused him of trying to stab Israelis, according to a cartoon published in the official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority. The cartoon, published on December 28 in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, shows a bleeding Santa who has just been shot by an Israeli soldier. The caption reads “He tried to carry out a…

„Even if the new Trump administration does its best to reverse its predecessor’s policies, international support for the Palestinian effort to avoid direct negotiations with Israel will likely continue to build. But the question those backing this end-run around the Oslo peace blueprint must ask is: Which Palestinian state is it that they want to recognize? There are already two…