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1 Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 18/19 Aktuelles Aus Israelischen Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 18/19 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 16.-31. Oktober Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Benny Gantz mit Regierungsbildung beauftragt .......................................................................................................... 1 2. Gefährliche Unruhen im Libanon ................................................................................................................................... 3 3. Meir Shamgar 1925-2019 ................................................................................................................................................. 5 4. Medienquerschnitt ........................................................................................................................................................... 7 1. Benny Gantz mit Regierungsbildung So dürfte auch Gantz große Schwierigkeiten haben, beauftragt seine Mission zu erfüllen. Sollte er scheitern, kann Nachdem Israels Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netan- binnen drei Wochen jede_r Abgeordnete versuchen, yahu die Koalitionsverhandlungen für gescheitert 61 Knesset-Mitglieder für eine Koalition zu gewin- erklärte, ist es nun an Benny Gantz, dem Chef der nen. Gelingt auch dies nicht, droht Israel die dritte Liste Blau-Weiß (Kachol-Lavan), Partner für eine Parlamentswahl binnen eines Jahres. Bereits bei Regierungsmehrheit zu finden. Bei der Parlaments- der Wahl im April hatte es keinen klaren Sieger wahl im September hatte Netanyahus Likud 32 gegeben, was schließlich zu den Neuwahlen im Mandate erreicht, Blau-Weiß kam auf 33 Sitze. September führte. Netanyahu machte Gantz für das Scheitern der Koalitionsgespräche verantwortlich. Er habe große Netanyahu's era is over, Israel is on a new path Anstrengungen unternommen, um den früheren (…) in the decade of Netanyahu's rule, his situation Generalstabschef an den Verhandlungstisch zu has never been worse (…) the latest elections were bekommen und eine Regierung zu bilden. Gantz a heavy blow not just for Netanyahu, but for the habe sich dem aber immer wieder verweigert. Der whole of the Likud and the entire right-wing. (…) The Streit darüber, wer an der Spitze der künftigen Re- right-wing is smaller than the central-left (…) The gierung stehen soll, ist Hauptgrund dafür, dass Likud choices Netanyahu has made lately, including in the und Blau-Weiß nicht zueinander finden. Gantz week before the elections, are the choices of a schloss die Kooperation mit Netanyahu aus, solange frightened and weak man, who's willing to do any- dem Ministerpräsidenten eine Anklage wegen Be- thing - including going to war against the advice of stechlichkeit, Betrugs und Vertrauensmissbrauch the entire Israeli security forces - to keep his seat drohe. Erschwerend kam Netanyahus Festhalten an and not face the wrath of the justice system. The der Zusammenarbeit mit den ultraorthodoxen Par- election results are proof that the people are fed up teien hinzu. Gantz hingegen strebt eine liberale with Netanyahu. Benny Gantz may not be viewed as Regierung ohne die Einbeziehuung der religiösen the ultimate leader, but he is viewed as a viable Parteien an. Keiner der Blöcke hat eine Mehrheit, alternative to Netanyahu, and an alternative is what was auch an Avigdor Liberman liegt. Der Chef der Israel wants. (…) If there had been someone in the nationalistischen Yisrael Beitenu ist weder bereit, mit April elections who could have stepped forward and den Ultraorthodoxen noch mit der antizionistisch- usurped the leadership, like Ariel Sharon once did to arabischen Vereinten Liste (Joint List) zu koalieren. the Likud, Israel wouldn’t have had to have a second 1 round of elections. (…) we're dependent on people Gantz must pick Netanyahu over Odeh who haven't shown a sliver of leadership skills, and The question of whether Israel should have a coali- it's hard to imagine any of them showing any today. tion based on support from the Joint List, even if it is But now, we have someone who stepped up, and he from outside the government, has been tying the was the one who brought the revolution (…). Avigdor heads of Blue and White party in knots in recent Liberman is not only the winner of these elections, weeks. (…) Two surveys conducted this year both he's also the one who gets to choose the identity of show that a clear majority of the Arab public sup- the next government. (…) the chairman of Yisrael ports some form partnership in an Israeli coalition Beytenu could very well change the face of the government. The problem remains the colossal gap country. And now the Likud, whose members signed between the will of the Arab public and the will of its a declaration of eternal loyalty to Netanyahu, needs leadership. The heads of Blue and White are not the to act. It's not easy turning your back on a leader, only ones being put to the test - Joint List Chairman especially in a party like the Likud, but it's inevitable. Ayman Odeh and co. are also in the spotlight, with If the Likud doesn't pull itself together, we could find declarations from over the past decade showing that ourselves on a slippery slope to a third round of they are no coalition partners. (…) Almost every elections. (…) possible scenario for a future government is met by Sima Kadmon, YED, 18.10.19 pundits saying - and rightly so - that the chances of it being formed are slim. (…) out of all the options, a Majority now minority government supported from outside by (…) no one to the Left of Likud has full-throatedly members of the Joint List, even if not all of them, is denied or condemned a minority government de- not the least likely scenario. But if all parties stick to pending on the Joint List (…) Gantz called three out their election pledges, the worst scenario will be- of four Joint List leaders on Wednesday night – it come a reality and Israel will undergo its third round should not be ruled out as a possible result of the of elections in less than a year. Therefore, Blue and current coalition talks. And that is unfortunate. (…) White must sacrifice one of its two core principles in the Joint List (…) openly opposes the founding order to form a coalition – either team up with Net- ethos and continuing character of Israel as the Jew- anyahu (…) or a partnership with the Joint List, ish state, and has sided with some of Israel’s ene- despite promising it wouldn't happen. Blue and mies in word and, in some cases, deed. (…) Re- White acts under the banner of bringing back sanity gardless of what one thinks on that topic, a minority into politics and reducing polarization in society, but government is a recipe for disaster for another rea- establishing a government with the support of pro- son. The Israeli political scene has been in turmoil vocative lawmakers such as Joint List's Ofer Cassif for a year, ever since Liberman resigned as defense would only make things worse and Israel would minister, throwing Israel into a pre-election frenzy. become even more polarized. (…) the choice must Then we had an election, Netanyahu’s unprece- be a unity government. Netanyahu will get several dented failure to launch a government, his decision additional months as prime minister, but it's less bad to call another election, and now his second failed than a minority government, which itself is less hor- attempt. This has a negative impact on our econo- rible than another round of elections. (…) my, our security, our international relations and in Ben-Dror Yemini, YED, 24.10.19 just about every area where the government needs to make decisions and cannot do much because it is Gantz, drive Netanyahu crazy and save the day an interim government. And socially, this has been a (…) the only pragmatic solution to ending the current year of highlighting and deepening the schisms stalemate and avoiding a third election, which has a between different population groups. (…) What good chance of leading us right back to where we Israel needs now is a solid coalition, built on a ma- started, but with a bigger mess (…) is a unity gov- jority of the Knesset’s seats, so that it can last long ernment of Likud and Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan enough to repair the damage of the last year’s cha- with Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu or the os. Gantz should keep this in mind and not be ultra-Orthodox, with Netanyahu apparently as prime tempted to form a government that will barely be a minister. (…) To go for this painful compromise each reprieve from the country’s stormy situation. (…) side would have to sacrifice something: Netanyahu Editorial, JPO, 24.10.19 would have to agree at some point to give up what to him is his divine right – the premiership – and Kahol Lavan would have to sit in a government with 2 him despite its pledge to its voters. (…) Kahol La- ing coalition so that we can discuss what steps that van, whose political acumen has proved pretty de- we can take in order to fight against the Iranian cent, has no mandate to enter a government with an menace and deal properly with other issues affect- achievement any less than the one mentioned ing our region. This is why Gantz’s stalling tactics above, and even that wouldn't pass muster with were a national disgrace. After all, religion and state some of its voters. In this context, we should be fair discussions are non-issues compared to what we and praise Labor-Gesher leaders Amir Peretz and already lost by not having a proper government. Orli Levi-Abekasis, who, it was repeatedly said, Rachel Avraham, IHY, 28.10.19 would save the Netanyahu government in a secret deal. But they haven’t gone offside. If they had, we’d Who is afraid of Arabs in the coalition? now be in a bad and bitter place – with a terrible (…) While many Jews perhaps view this scenario as government bolstered by social democrats. Even a bad dream, I would like to ask them to stop for a though the right-wing bloc pledges loyalty oaths to moment and try understanding how for many other Netanyahu morning, noon and night, Kahol Lavan is Israelis – this is a good dream.
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