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Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 13/14 Aktuelles Aus Israelischen Tageszeitungen Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 13/14 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen Sonderausgabe Juli/August 2014 1. Krieg in Israel und im Gazastreifen provocation, a casus belli. […] The tragedy is that not only is the fundamental asymmetry between Der Krieg zwischen Israel und der Hamas Jewish and Arab mindsets not comprehended bestimmte in diesem Sommer die Berichterstattung abroad, but there’s no inclination to even consider it. in den Medien. Israels militärische Operation Worse yet – one-sided ferocious Arab indignation „Protective Edge“ begann am 7. Juli mit dem inevitably arouses empathy overseas.” erklärten Ziel, den Raketenbeschuss aus dem Sarah Honig, JPO 10.07.14 Gazastreifen zu beenden und die Infrastruktur der Hamas soweit wie möglich zu zerstören. Den When Gaza operation became a war Gefechten vorausgegangen waren die Entführung “If it were not for the demonstration Hamas gave us und Ermordung dreier israelischer Teenager durch about the murderousness of the tunnels, we might eine Hamas-Zelle in der Westbank, eine massive not have launched a ground operation. One could Verhaftungswelle im Westjordanland, die Ermordung say that Hamas provided us with the consensus eines arabischen Jugendlichen durch jüdische required to go to war. I believe that the majority of Extremisten sowie gewaltsame Demonstrationen the public realized that there was no other choice, von Palästinensern sowohl in Israel als auch im that after what had been uncovered, it would be Westjordanland und im Gaza-Streifen. Im Verlauf unthinkable to abandon the residents of the Gaza der Operation korrigierte die Regierung ihre vicinity to their fate. Netanyahu was right [...] this is a zunächst angestrebten Ziele. Die am 17. Juli justified war. Even those who are looking for gestartete Bodenoffensive galt vor allem der diplomatic solutions, who are convinced that calm Zerstörung der geheimen gut 30 Tunnel, die die will only be reached through an agreement, militanten Palästinenser bauten, um nach Israel understand that this time we cannot stand idly by. eindringen zu können. (…) the operation has turned into a war, but the goals remain the same: A long-term calm and Another Tack: Eerily déjà vu damaging infrastructures. No bringing down, no “It was no surprise that the discovery of the remains occupying, no destroying. “ of three slain Jewish schoolboys produced whoops Sima Kadmon, JED 21.07.14 of joy on both the streets of Ramallah and Gaza, that candy and sticky pastries were distributed to Innocent Gazan civilians are responsible for elated passersby. […] No one condemned this as their fate too racist because by skewed postmodern criteria, “Not all Jews support the occupation and settlement racism can be only attributed to Jews – never to policy, and I am one of those who oppose it, but I do Arabs. […] Unlike our own, Arab society is know very well that at the end of the day I will pay unbothered by the pluralistic niceties of moral- the price for this policy, and so will my children and relativism. Allah is exclusively on their side and they grandchildren, and I would never think of claiming are the only interpreters of his will. The murder of that I am not responsible for it. I am responsible Jews is divinely decreed and this isn’t only Hamas because I share the responsibility for the society I ideology. By this precept, Jews must die and have live in, and if I have failed to change its conduct, the no right to resist. That’s their lot. Not only do they responsibility for that lies on my shoulders as well. possess no right to avenge, they possess no right to That's the way it is in the lives of nations in which self-defense, to at all fight. Their very existence is a 1 the rules of their lives are different from the rules of use of. [...]. The role of the organization is especially life of individuals. prominent now, when the world is demanding the Palestinians in Gaza who whine that nothing is their investigation of suspected war crimes in the Gaza fault, because they are the victims of their rulers, Strip. Israel can also use B’Tselem’s investigations because all they want is to make a living and live in to prove that the state investigates itself.” peace, may be telling the truth. But if they are Editorial, HAA 15.08.14 indeed telling the truth, they should have rebelled against their rulers and dealt courageously with Fighting brings Israel regional friends those building missile bases under their homes. “The time to think about and plan for any post-war Because they have failed to do so, they will have to period is during the war. [...]. It is not too early either, pay a price I would have liked to spare them.” to critique the handling of the war. Politically and Yaron London, JED 17.07.14 militarily it was masterly. However, it unmasked a very significant intelligence failure. The fact that Spilling and defending blood Hamas was able, undetected and over a long time, “Hamas does not care about the welfare of the to build three dozen highly sophisticated attack Gazan people -- instead it turned the Gaza Strip into tunnels leading to Israel is simply unacceptable. The a military fortress whose walls are made of civilians. intelligence services need to critically reexamine The women and children of Gaza serve as human human and electronic assets and processes to try to shields protecting terrorists. [...] Billions of aid dollars find out how this could have happened and make and thousands of tons of cement have gone into sure it cannot happen again. “ building an entire underground city below Gaza. Norman Bailey, GLO 05.08.14 There are dozens of immense tunnels, each one leading into an Israeli community across the Gaza Hamas' crushing defeat border. It stands to reason that the plan was to send ”Yes, Israel had intelligence about the tunnels, but out hundreds of Hamas terrorists into Israel through Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ya'alon failed to each of the tunnels (somewhere around 10,000 set their destruction as one of the operation's initial terrorists in all) on one of the major upcoming objectives. They erred, big time. There are going to Jewish holidays and to launch a massacre under the be inquiries on this matter, to determine why there sleepy cover of the holiday. [...] the enemy is were no effective countermeasures and what exposing its ugly face and sacrificing its own families rationale was used to discount this threat. But there on the altar of evil and blood, and meanwhile, here is a course correction already underway. The in Israel, there are Jews, flesh of our flesh, who are tunnels are being dealt with, and the vast majority busy undermining the war effort. Well-known are already in ruins. [...] Just as Israel unilaterally organizations are gathering and distributing redeployed along the Gaza border, it must bring this information against the Israel Defense Forces, while operation to a reasonable conclusion without waiting others disseminate petitions and fabricate blood for others to decide. Otherwise it runs the risk of libels against us.” getting stuck in the Gaza quicksand.” Dror Eydar, IHY 01.08.14 Dan Margalit, IHY 19.08.14 Israel's witch hunt against leftist organizations is Daniel Tragerman’s war McCarthyism in action “Daniel Tragerman, aged 4 — sweet, innocent “The witch hunt against leftist and civil-rights [...];too young to cross the road alone, but old organizations in Israel is picking up speed just as enough to know to dash to the protected room at his Operation Protective Edge winds down. [...] Kibbutz Nahal Oz home. Except that on Friday, with B’Tselem investigates, documents and makes public three seconds between the alarm and the fatal fall of violations of human rights in Israel’s occupied a mortar shell outside, he didn’t make it. Daniel territories. Its activity is extremely important during Tragerman is the inadvertent symbol of a war [...]. ordinary times, and much more so in times of war. Hamas has its victory picture, and is drawing further B’Tselem performed this function during Operation delight in Israelis’ temporary abandonment of the Protective Edge, when its field researchers kibbutzim and moshavim close to the treacherous investigated and recorded events in the Gaza Strip. border with its Gaza terror state. [...]. Let no one Thanks to the organization, Israel received vital doubt that Hamas ideology of destruction, or the evil information, as it has in the past, that the IDF made cynicism with which it is pursued. Let no one be 2 fooled by this weekend’s claim by Hamas “political” not just militarily but also diplomatically. Not leader Khaled Mashaal that it would kill “only” Israeli everyone is happy about it.” soldiers and settlers if it had more accurate Sever Plocker, JED 04.08.14 weapons. This, do not forget, is the organization that waged suicide bomber war on Israeli civilians War, peace & hope throughout the country for years at the turn of the “Yitzhak Rabin said that we should fight to win a war millennium. Suicide bombers are highly accurate like there is no peace and fight for peace like war is weapons. They go precisely where their dispatchers not an option. This is what we should do right now. tell them to go. Hamas sent them to kill any and all Hamas and their like will never accept us and we Israelis. [...]. Many, many children are dying in Gaza. should defeat them completely. At the same time we Hundreds upon hundreds. It is horrifying. And it was should commence final status negotiations with the entirely avoidable. They are dying because Hamas Palestinian Authority. This should be done in is trying to destroy Israel.” parallel.
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