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Schlaglicht Israel Nr Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 15/15 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 01. – 15. August Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Jüdischer Terror ............................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Iran-Abkommen ............................................................................................................................................... 3 3. Angriff auf orthodoxes Monopol ....................................................................................................................... 5 4. Medienquerschnitt ............................................................................................................................................ 6 1. Jüdischer Terror room where parents and their children are sleeping. Nach einem Brandanschlag auf ein Familienhaus in (…) Who is the person or persons capable of doing dem palästinensischen Dorf Duma, südöstlich von this? (…) Benjamin Netanyahu, and several minis- Nablus, bei dem der 18 Monate alte Ali und sein ters from the right wing, rushed to harshly condemn Vater Saad Dawabscheh ums Leben kamen, spricht the murder. (…) What is difficult to understand is die Regierung offiziell von „jüdischem Terror“. Poli- how the prime minister and his cabinet ministers are zeiliche Untersuchungen deuten darauf, dass die (…) capable of not seeing the connection between Täter aus dem Umfeld radikaler nationalreligiöser the occupation regime that has been continuing for Siedler kommen. Zum ersten Mal verhängten Ge- 48 years, and the dark, fanatic reality that has been richte eine sechsmonatige Administrativhaft über forged at the frontiers of the Israeli consciousness jüdische Israelis, die potentiell Gefahr bedeuten. Die (…). both acts of violence (…) – the murder and umstrittene Methode war bislang nur als Vorbeuge- stabbings at the Pride event in Jerusalem and the maßnahme gegen palästinensischen Terror üblich. murder of the baby – are interrelated, and derive Ebenfalls aus religiösen Motiven handelte ein ultra- from a similar worldview. In both, hatred itself (…) orthodoxer Extremist während der Gay-Parade in constitutes (…) a legitimate, ample reason to com- Jerusalem. Yishai Schlissel erstach die16 Jahre alte mit murder, to annihilate the hated human being. Shira Banki und verletzte fünf weitere am Umzug (…) the process that has been underway in recent Teilnehmende. Schlissel, der erst vor wenigen Wo- years within Israel, its malevolent intensity and its chen aus dem Gefängnis freikam, wo er seine Strafe malignant branches, are dangerous and destructive für ein ähnliches Verbrechen während der Jerusa- in a new and deceptive manner. There is a sense lemer Gay-Parade vor zehn Jahren abgesessen that even now, Israel’s leadership doesn’t yet under- hatte, wurde zunächst als verhandlungstauglich stand – or perhaps refuses to admit to itself a fact eingestuft, später jedoch zur psychiatrischen Be- that it finds intolerable – that the Jewish terror fac- obachtung in ein Krankenhaus eingeliefert. tion within Israel has declared war on the state. (…) No compromise is possible with these people. The Will the Israeli right finally come to its senses? government of Israel must fight them just as it fights I cannot get this baby, Ali Dawabsheh, out of my Palestinian terror. (…) mind. Nor can I stop thinking of that image: the hand David Grossman, HAA, 04.08.15 of a human being opening a window in the middle of the night, and throwing a Molotov cocktail into a 1 We're no better than our enemies that there were no casualties. And yet -- many of It's over. If we thought it couldn’t happen among us, these cases were never solved, and when they were that we're not like that, that Jews don’t do such the punishments were absurd. (…) A few hundred things, that only they can murder children, go into youngsters currently comprise, according to Shin houses and shoot a baby point blank, burn families, Bet assessments, the radical terrorist core of the execute murderous terror – that's it, it's over. We nationalist Right. The Shin Bet's Jewish division has are, we can and we do. Burn children alive, execute struggled to infiltrate this core, and when it succeeds murderous, inhuman, incomprehensible terror. (…) -- the result is often a soft hand from the prosecution imagine what we would say if it were the other way or courts, not to mention a supportive ideological around: If Palestinians had thrown Molotov cocktails environment. (…) Politicians are also responsible. at a house and burned a Jewish family; if a Jewish The necessary treatment of the problem, however, baby had been burned alive. (…) We are talking must go even deeper, down to the rabbis who incite about terrorists. And it's not enough to say "terror is to violence and the environment that legitimizes terror," as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said criminal behavior such as harming soldiers and over the weekend. You must also treat these terror- police officers. It must confront a public atmosphere ists like you treat non-Jewish terror organizations. in which the country's president is taunted for ex- (…) There is a well-oiled system of incitement be- pressing shock and remorse over a murdered tod- hind these murderers. (…) Don’t condemn the crim- dler. (…) we must let the Shin Bet work and pre- inal acts after they happen. Prevent them. But first of empt, investigate and shake things up; otherwise we all, catch them. And punish them the exact way they could wake up tomorrow and discover that the should be punished: Like members of a terror organ- apocalypse is already upon us. ization. The massacre of the family from the village Yoav Limor, IHY, 02.08.15 of Duma must be a turning point in our attitude to- wards the murderers among us, as well as towards Honoring Shira those who legitimize them through their words. (…) The murder of 16-year-old Shira Banki at the Jeru- Sima Kadmon, JED, 03.18.15 salem Gay Pride Parade on Thursday was a terrible tragedy – for her family and friends, and for those Tipping the balance who envision an Israel that protects the freedom of (…) Terrible things have happened here, red lines all. (…) Shira represented the very finest of Israeli have been crossed, and innocents have been mur- society. (…) By marching in the parade, she was dered. (…) Our people, who have always been a embodying the belief that these promises are not minority, know too well the pain and suffering of just fancy notions empty of content. Rather, these being targeted for being different, for being the oth- values have very practical ramifications. (…) Schlis- er. (…) In the promised land of today, we have mur- sel, the fanatic who stabbed Shira and five others, dered those strangers. Our land is out of balance, was a lone wolf representing no one but himself. bad things have happened to good people and we However, there are many others who, like Schlissel, need to tip back the scales. (…) In our country to- would like this year’s gay pride parade to be Jerusa- day, we see and feel the evil, the godlessness and lem’s last. People such as Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel the ignorance and now we need to work together to Smotrich, who represents a large swathe of the increase justice, faith and wisdom. Little kindnesses religious Zionist community, have referred to the gay to one another will be the shards of light that will pride as “a blasphemy” that defiles the holy city. (…) shatter this darkness that weighs heavily upon us. Such fanatics must not be allowed to exploit demo- (…) small kindnesses are infectious, they play for- cratic process to curtail the rights of others, whether ward, the light will return. (…) only like this, by join- homosexuals or other minority groups in Israeli ing together and being kind to one another, will we society. (…) We owe it to Shira Banki, (…) to stand succeed in tipping the balance back into place. up courageously for the values articulated in our Rachael Risby-Raz, TOI, 03.08.15 Declaration of Independence which she espoused. (…) Let the Shin Bet work Editorial, JPO, 03.08.15 (…) Dozens of terrorist attacks against Palestinians (and on mosques and churches) have been perpe- The Left's condemnation problem trated in recent years. In some cases, in which the (…) The Left has eagerly exploited the vicious attack result was damage to property, it was only by luck on a Palestinian family in Duma last week. (…) As- 2 signing collective guilt over and over again is just too ment. This is not a call for violation of human rights, much fun. The Left has always preached against only for their enactment. (…) making broad generalizations, but it has made sev- Yitzhak Laor, HAA, 08.08.15 eral exceptions to that rule: the Right, the ultra- Orthodox and the national religious. (…) Left finally Rivlin is diregarding threats on his life - just like condemned the attack, if you call a drizzle of weak Rabin statements a condemnation. Whenever Jewish (…) Like and unlike Yitzhak Rabin, Rubi Rivlin is terrorists take action, the Left spares no time in taking the harsh words written and said against him condemning the attack as one cohesive body. But if lightly. Although he hasn't added Rabin's disregard- Palestinian perpetrators carry out an attack, this ing hand gesture, everything else is similar – the chorus scatters and its members turn silent. (…) words, the tone and the music, the disregard. (…) Unlike the Left's politicians and mouthpieces, the Mr. President, that it takes only one crazy Jew out of public has shown it
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