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Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 11/19 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. Juni Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Israel zwischen zwei Parlamentswahlen ....................................................................................................................... 1 2. Startschuss für Trumps Jahrhundertfrieden ................................................................................................................ 4 3. Angriff auf syrische Ziele ................................................................................................................................................ 7 4. Medienquerschnitt ........................................................................................................................................................... 8 1. Israel zwischen zwei Parlamentswahlen ner Nominierung unter harsche Kritik, u.a. aufgrund Drei Monate vor den geplanten Neuwahlen in Israel seiner Aussage in einem Interview vor einigen Mo- beginnen die Parteien damit, sich neu aufzustellen. naten, dass nicht alle Entscheide des Obersten Avi Gabbay, bis vor kurzem Chef der Arbeitspartei, Gerichtshofs respektiert werden müssen. zog die Konsequenz aus dem fatalen Ergebnis für die Sozialdemokraten, die lediglich sechs Mandate Netanyahu's coalition failure was really a secret bei den Wahlen im April 2019 erreichten. Er gab success seinen Rücktritt bekannt. Meretz und die Arbeitspar- (…) Under normal circumstances, Netanyahu would tei geraten unter Druck, die Kräfte vor dem nächsten have banged his fist on the table and explained the Urnengang zu vereinen. Zusammengehen werden political reality to his ultra-Orthodox coalition part- mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit die arabischen Par- ners: the alternative to a Netanyahu government teien. Die Vereinte Liste war bei den vorvergange- was a Yair Lapid government. And that was the very nen Wahlen auf drei Mandate mehr gekommen als last thing that their constituents would ever want. die beiden arabisch-antizionistischen Listen, als sie Netanyahu also promised, off the record, that even if im April getrennt antraten. Grund für erneute Wahlen the draft law were - God forbid - approved by the ist, dass es Regierungschef Benjamin Netanyahu Knesset, he would find a way around it for them. nicht gelang, fristgerecht eine Regierungskoalition After all such things had already occurred in the auf die Beine zu stellen. Bis zum Wahltermin past. (…) Netanyahu knew it, the spiritual leaders of 17. September 2019 wird er die Regierungsgeschäf- the ultra-Orthodox parties knew it and so did Avigdor te weiterführen. Einen Wechsel im Kabinett gab es Liberman. Which surely brings us to the conclusion indes schon: Ex-Bildungsminister Naftali Bennett that if Netanyahu really wanted to, he could have und Ex-Justizministerin Ayelet Shaked, die beiden formed a coalition government. (…) Netanyahu's Gründer_innen der Partei Hayamin Hehadash (Die gamble was based on cold and calculated personal Neue Rechte), die bei der Wahl im April an der analysis. When the current Knesset was sworn in, Sperrklausel gescheitert waren, wurden von Netan- he realized that his coalition partners were not ex- yahu nun aus ihren Ämtern entlassen. Den Posten actly clamoring to pass legislation to ensure his von Shaked übernahm der Likud-Abgeordnete Amir immunity from prosecution. And even if they did Ohana. Mit ihm bekleidet zum ersten Mal ein offen agree, he could not afford the heavy diplomatic- schwul lebender Mann den Posten des Justizminis- economic-political price they would demand. (…) ters. Allerdings geriet Ohana bereits kurz nach sei- Netanyahu and his inner circle calculated that he 1 needed a larger Likud party, with at least 40 seats in nize the voters and bring about a paradigm shift. the Knesset. And given the massive number of votes (…) One problem, though. Only Jewish voices seem lost to right-wing parties that did not pass the to be championing this new paternalism. (…) There threshold, a target of 43-42 seats in the next Knes- are two leftist parties in Israel that have numerous set does not seem fantastical. (…) By refusing to Arab voters and already have Jews and Arabs at the join his coalition, Liberman threw Netanyahu a life- top of their lists historically. Meretz and Hadash line. Do not let his downcast grimaces fool you; do have these components. (…) The problem for those not be tempted to feel his pain. Netanyahu is playing who imagine a fantasy new Arab-Jewish party or his own game - his inability to form a new coalition Arabs choosing to vote for Labor or Blue and White was not failure, but success. is that no one is even interested in listening to Arab Sever Plocker, YED, 02.06.19 voters. (…) They know that a large centrist party made up primarily of former generals and right-wing Right-wing leaders, do not betray your base parties, which are where most of the Israeli Jewish There is no rage more justified that than that which electorate increasingly stands, isn’t much of a is boiling the blood of the national camp at this time. choice. All the voices who have prophecies about Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Lieberman, in Arab voters might spend the next month listening to one of the most despicable acts of fraud in Israel’s concerns in Rahat, Nazareth, Jisr e-Zarka, Jish, political history, stole an unprecedented electoral Taiba and other places, and then have an Arab write victory from an ideological camp. This goes beyond about their concerns in the next elections. The rest a ploy to bring down the government or political is just wasted paternalism. opportunism; it is the pillaging of democracy in full Seth Frantzman, JPO, 04.06.19 view of the cameras. (…) The Left, after stuttering a few words in embarrassment, has now come to its Time to unite the left senses, the initial shock slowly replaced by signs of Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to form a right-wing optimism; and rightfully so, from its standpoint. government (…) has provided a unique opportunity Lieberman is the realization of their hopes; he is the for Israel’s democratic camp. (…) For the first time in weakest link. The speed with which the man who a decade of unchallenged right-wing rule, doubts just a few days ago was depicted as the most bla- have begun to arise about Netanyahu’s leadership tant representative of racism and fascism in Israel inside his own political base, as the date approach- has become something of a cultural hero is sicken- es for his hearings in cases in which he’s suspected ing. (…) The Right cannot afford to be dragged to of committing bribery, graft and breach of trust. The the depths of despair at this time. (…) The splits and opportunity that has been created for a possible multiplicity of parties to the Right of the Likud have change in leadership, and to stop the right from been a failure. The boutique parties, which purport- moving ahead on extremist plans to annex territory ed to offer fussy voters a political party exactly to in the West Bank and destroy the judiciary, makes it their liking, have proved a safe way to ensure the essential for supporters of peace and democracy to wholesale loss of Knesset seats. Hundreds of thou- unify their ranks ahead of the September 17 elec- sands of voters have had their political voice si- tion. (…) At issue is the fate of two left-wing parties – lenced. (…) Right-wing voters have been trauma- Meretz, which barely made it to the Knesset, and tized by Lieberman’s betrayal. Party heads must not Labor, which has dwindled to just six seats and do this to them once again. (…) unite and run to- whose showing in opinion polls barely scrapes the gether! Every other niche, spiteful, egotistical politi- threshold of votes needed to win Knesset represen- cal framework that goes beyond one united right- tation. Both parties must unite to strengthen the wing party will expose the nationalist camp to the camp that believes in dividing the land between same blow it was struck with in the last election, only Israel and the Palestinians, and in civil liberties. (…) this time, the blow will be fatal. (…) Labor was once a part of an alignment with Mapam, Eitan Orkibi, IHY, 04.06.19 which was one of Meretz’s precursor parties. (…) There is no reason for these parties not to collabo- Terra Incognita: Paternalism, Israel’s Arab minor- rate anew. (…) ity and elections Editorial, HAA, 05.06.19 (…) Israel needs a new kind of politics. (…) In order to win the next elections, a new Arab-Jewish party must emerge on the Left, and this will finally galva- 2 Israel’s election sequel has a new plot but it whelming agreement on almost all important issues, might have the same ending we the people failed to deliver a political verdict (…). In July, Benjamin Netanyahu will break David Ben Instead of picking a winner and a loser, we delivered Gurion’s record and become Israel’s longest serving a hung parliament. (…) The hung parliament is the Prime Minister. Bibi wanted to celebrate this mile- defective political product of our decayed electoral stone as the triumphant leader of a right-wing coali- system, which has outlived its usefulness. This sys- tion (…). Instead he is back on the campaign trail, a tem is known as “proportional representation” and it caretaker Prime Minister fighting his second election corrals all citizens into a single electoral district. The in 6 months. (…) Bibi failed to find a deal. In the high system was perfectly appropriate when Israel stakes game of Israeli political poker he threw in his adopted it 70 years ago, when our voting population cards and kicked the table over. (…) His potential was just 600,000, almost all of whom were Jewish. coalition partners were dealing with a weakened (…) For decades, tribalism has put the fate of the Prime Minister caught in a criminal case. It was nation into the hands of men who vigorously resist obvious from the start that Netanyahu’s top priority social integration and national unity. By sending us was to utilise his position to fight off impending back to the polls, tribalism now threatens to turn prosecution. To do this he pursued a new immunity Israel into a banana republic.

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