“Schlaglicht Israel”!

Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 3/19 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. Februar Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Israel vor den Wahlen ...................................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Ende der Beobachtermission in Hebron ........................................................................................................................ 4 3. Grausamer Mord ............................................................................................................................................................... 6 4. Medienquerschnitt ............................................................................................................................................................ 7 1. Israel vor den Wahlen acht (statt vorher sechs) Parlamentssitze. Ein Interview mit Benny Gantz, derzeit der Auch die Kandidaten_innenliste von Me- einzige ernsthafte Herausforderer von Re- retz wurde diesmal durch einen parteiin- gierungschef Benjamin Netanyahu, sorgte ternen Wahlvorgang bestimmt. Die ersten für Schlagzeilen. Gantz, Chef der Partei vier Plätze besetzen wieder momentan Hosen L´Israel positionierte sich gegen- amtierenden Abgeordnete der Partei. Ein- über Yediot Ahronot grundsätzlich für ei- zig MK Mossi Raz ist bei der Vorwahl auf nen Abzug aus den besetzten palästinen- den laut Umfragen unrealistischen sieben- sischen Gebieten. „Wir müssen einen Weg ten Platz abgerutscht. Für eine Überra- finden, so dass wir keine Kontrolle über schung sorgte der neue drusische Kandi- andere Menschen ausüben“, meinte der dat Ali Salalha, der es auf Anhieb auf den ehemalige Generalstabschef, der mit sei- fünften Listenplatz von Meretz schaffte. ner Partei eine reale Chance gegen den Likud hätte, wenn er ein Bündnis eingeht. Unite to change the government Zentral steht die Zukunftspartei Yesh Atid (…) Gantz and his people couldn’t have von Yair Lapid dafür zur Debatte. Die Me- hoped for a better response, and the rage dien beschäftigten sich außerdem mit der darts hurled at them by Likud and other parteiinternen Kandidatenaufstellung beim coalition members are the best proof of Likud. Netanyahus größter parteiinterner that. (…) for the first time in years, Likud Gegner Gideon Saar erreichte den dritten chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is in for a Platz auf der Liste für die Parlamentswahl political battle with a rival his own size. (…) am 9. April. Netanyahu muss noch vor The left-center bloc’s supreme goal is to diesem Termin mit einer Anklage- replace the government and halt Israel’s Empfehlung wegen Korruption rechnen. ongoing deterioration down the radical- Etwas Aufwind bekam die angeschlagene right slope under the leadership of the Arbeitspartei nach der parteiinternen Wahl bribery suspect Netanyahu. The public that der Kandidaten_innenliste für die anste- wants to replace the government must henden Wahlen: in den am Tag nach Be- stand united and strong against Netanya- kanntgabe der Liste durchgeführten Um- hu. But joining Yesh Atid isn’t enough. The fragen erhielt die Arbeitspartei nunmehr center-left camp needs the Labor Party 1 headed by Avi Gabbay by its side and shouldn’t sentence them to death. There must expand its political ranks and reach are far worse people on our political map out to more partners. Only a strong, large who are doing much better in the polls. political union behind the person most like- (…) ly to accomplish the mission will provide Ravit Hecht, HAA, 01.02.19 him with a real chance of winning the public’s confidence, and the president’s bless- Decisions despite elections ing to form a government. (…) Fair and open elections are the foun- Editorial, HAA, 01.02.19 dation for any democratic country like Isra- el. They need to be held without interfer- Leftists, don't jump ship ence (…). By announcing a decision to (…) The Labor Party is a tragic story. The indict Netanyahu (…), Mandelblit appears party that built the state, absorbed massive to essentially be wading into Israel’s politi- waves of immigrants and was the tradi- cal process. His decision could lead voters tional alternative to Likud during its long to take their votes away from Netanyahu years in power now faces disaster (…) and possibly even have the opposite effect Despite the deep desire of all those who – push voters to rally behind him. On the hate Benjamin Netanyahu to finally see other hand, we support Mandelblit’s deci- him ousted after so many difficult years, sion to finalize the investigations against abandoning the left in this election would the prime minister and announce his deci- be a crime against conscience. (…) strate- sion on whether he will indict Netanyahu gic voting causes deep ideological dam- without any connection to the ongoing age, which greatly exceeds the possible election campaigns. If Mandelblit decides benefits of playing a “sophisticated game” to indict Netanyahu, it will be an an- according to the rules of realpolitik. In the nouncement of intent, since the final deci- war for centrist voters – those masses too sion on an indictment will only be made lazy to stop for a moment and think about after a hearing is held, a process that is what their positions are on burning issues predicted to take at least a year. The jus- that affect our existence here – everyone tice system needs to continue to operate is fleeing from being identified with the left. independently of politics and political deci- Consequently, the imaginary point where sions. Otherwise, we potentially open the that amorphous center is located keeps justice system to political intervention and drifting further and further rightward. (…) influence. (…) As a country, Israel should the only result of the destruction of the prefer to change its leaders via the ballot Zionist left, to anyone with a broad view of box and not through criminal investiga- Israeli society that goes beyond a few Tel tions. But if investigations are opened, they Aviv bars, is its own dismantling (…). need to be allowed to be conducted with- Against this backdrop, in the best case, out political interference. (…) opportunistic deceivers like Lapid and Orli Editorial, JPO, 02.02.19 Levi-Abekasis will flourish, and in the worst case, rightists like Naftali Bennett and Aye- The Right has already won let Shaked will settle smack in the heart of (…) The polls are far from flattering for the Israeli consensus. The thousands of Gabbay, however, the Labor party will def- votes that intellectuals and creative artists initely pass the electoral threshold, which cast for right-wing Arab nationalist parties cannot be said about Livni's Hatnua Party, like Balad and the southern branch of the whose agenda of reaching a peace Islamic Movement don’t hasten the arrival agreement trails far behind the bar that of any kind of equality, only an even more would enable her to return to the Knesset. destructive right-wing government, in This must be the price for being the last which MK Bezalel Smotrich will be a senior party leader who still waves the banner of cabinet minister. (…) Even if the criticism the leftist diplomatic worldview. (…) Benny of Zandberg and Labor chairman Avi Gab- Gantz's (…) chose to stress that the times bay is justified, and sometimes it is, it of division between the Right and the Left 2 have ended. (…) Gantz's objective was Israeli democracy, and who warn of “milita- clear: to make it as difficult as possible for rism” or “fascism” whenever a military of- anyone who tries—and Likud members are ficer addresses high school students about definitely trying—to label him a leftist. (…) their looming conscription, to pin their back in 2015, Yair Lapid declared his Yesh hopes for electoral victory on a military Atid party as centrist, leaning somewhat to party seeking to oust a ruling civilian party. the Right. (…) four months ago, he spoke Udi Lebel, TOI, 04.02.19 against the right of return for Palestinian refugees who fled their homes during the Saving the Arab vote 1948 War of Independence, against the (…) The sensational departure from the division of Jerusalem and for differentiating Joint List of MK Ahmad Tibi (…) shook up between a solution for the West Bank ver- the market for division in the Arab commu- sus one for Gaza. These statements, nity. Now everybody wants to be the lead- aimed at the Israeli mainstream, may not er. (…) How shameful. How will we tell our distinctively represent the Right, but they Jewish brethren, who are also experienc- certainly do not represent the Left. (…) ing a flourishing market in division? And Gabbay is trailing behind with his social we’ll tell those who don’t exactly share our agenda and Livni is disintegrating. What mindset but still want a change in govern- remains of the Left? A little bit of Meretz ment that if the Arabs don’t unite, the and the Joint List, which hardly constitute a plague of division will strike them as well. threat to the current government. It seems After all, the Arab vote is the surest vote that (…) the Israeli public has already ac- against Netanyahu (…). The Arabs and cepted the fact that the Right has won (…). their Jewish allies now have 13 Knesset Miri Shalem, YED, 03.02.19 seats and are a strong foundation for political change in Israel. Without those 13 The Israeli left’s unabashed militarism seats, we can only dream of a change of (…) In the hope of toppling long-serving government. Every seat less will reduce PM Benjamin Netanyahu, an army of sen- the chance to replace Netanyahu, and

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