Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 21/10 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 08. - 23. November 2010 1. Verhandlungen um erneuten comport itself politely, or at the very least not Siedlungsbaustopp humiliate it. […] The United States now wants to […] regain some of Die amerikanische Regierung bemüht sich, Israel zu the respect it has lost. […] A settlement freeze is not einem erneuten, 90-tägigen Baustopp in den just another gesture to the Palestinians, an jüdischen Siedlungen im Westjordanland zu implementation of the road map or preparation for a bewegen. Im Gegenzug soll Israel großzügige Si- West Bank withdrawal. This time, it’s a faith-building cherheitsgarantien erhalten, darunter 20 Kampf- measure toward the U.S. administration, and at a flugzeuge des Typs F35. Die Verhandlungen über bargain price." einen Brief, der diese Garantien festschreiben soll, Zvi Bar'el, HAA 21.11.10 ziehen sich jedoch hin und sind von widersprüch- lichen Botschaften der Verhandlungsparteien ge- Assyria will not save us prägt. So hatte der israelische Premierminister "Netanyahu told his ministers that at the end of this Benjamin Netanyahu seinem Kabinett verkündet, freeze, the pressure would be off him: The dass Ostjerusalem von dem Bautstopp ausge- Americans would understand that the Palestinians schlossen werde. Daraufhin sagte Eli Yishai, are the ones rejecting peace. He's not mistaken, Parteichef des Koalitionspartners Shas, zu, nicht he's misleading them deliberately. […] The gegen den Stopp stimmen zu wollen. Allerdings Palestinians are never accused of rejectionism. […] wurde die Aussage zu Jerusalem von amerika- More than ever, their work is being done by others. nischen Stellen dementiert, die verlautbaren ließen, The Americans, as is their wont in every field of dass sie auch in Jerusalem zumindestens einen endeavor, are determined to rack up achievements. inoffiziellen Baustopp erwarten. And only Israel can supply them. Es ist nicht klar, ob Netanyahu über eine Mehrheit in But once they have been supplied, the Palestinians seinem Sicherheitskabinett verfügt, um den will, of course, refuse to accept them. After all, they Baustopp abzusegnen, da jeweils drei Likud- und know that after every refusal of theirs, Obama will Israel Beitenu-Minister bereits angekündigt haben, once again come down on Netanyahu like a ton of dagegen stimmen zu wollen. Unklar ist außerdem bricks." auch, ob der palästinensische Präsident Mahmoud Israel Harel, HAA 18.11.10 Abbas bei einem Baustopp tatsächlich an den Verhandlungs-tisch zurückkehren wird. Undermining our security "In recent days, Members of Knesset and cabinet The United States' lost honor members on the right flank of the Likud and their "A West Bank building freeze for three months, six hawkish allies have expressed vehement opposition months or a year will not advance the peace to the proposed US aid package – the latest process. […] reminder that what concerns the Right is land, not Israel knows this, Washington is no fool. […] The security. Foolishly, the Right is lobbying against one current freeze has another role: It's a lesson in of the most generous deals that Washington has discipline and friendship. Obama [… ] does expect a offered the Jewish state in many years. […] country receiving billions of dollars in aid […] to Continued foot-dragging on the peace process and the ongoing provocation of settlement activity 1 threatens to seriously erode Israel’s relationship with building. By doing so they turned the freeze into an a host of major global powers, including its most issue, and they are now paying some billion dollars important ally: the United States. If the right prevails for every month of frozen construction." and US mediation efforts are rebuffed, it will feed Yitzhak Benhorin, JED 17.11.10 into the narrative of those in Washington who see Israel as a liability, rather than an asset." Now we are all up a tree Guy Ziv, JED 23.11.10 "Netanyahu […] is going to be less and less likely to reinstitute [the settlement freeze] the more that Facing our fears Washington confronts him directly over the east "Netanyahu claims that the Americans agreed to Jerusalem issue. […] And with the Obama continue respecting Jewish property rights in administration making it repeatedly publicly obvious Jerusalem. The Obama administration has refused that another West Bank construction halt is not to confirm this claim. […]The F-35 deal is simply sufficient anyway, since it regards even Jewish bizarre. Israel needs the F-35 to defend against neighborhoods in the east of the city as thoroughly enemies like Iran. illegitimate […] there is ever-less incentive for the Yet the administration claims that its agreement to prime minister to demonstrate further flexibility. send Israel the F-35s is contingent on Israel signing The growing temptation, however misguided, a peace deal with the Palestinians. In other words, indeed, may be to wait out the Obama era the Obama administration is now giving the PLO altogether, in hopes of a more understanding power to veto American military assistance to Israel American leadership to follow." by continuing to say no to peace." David Horovitz, JPO 12.11.10 Caroline Glick, JPO 19.11.10 Over to you, Mr. Abbas Show me the money "The Israeli government is moving toward accepting "Earlier this week, when the Israeli price was set at the Obama administration’s request to renew the $3 billion (the cost of 20 F-35 fighter jets to be building freeze in Judea and Samaria for another supplied to the Air Force,) it turned out that while three months. Netanyahu may not be a great success story as a Netanyahu’s support for the measure and Shas’s prime minister, he is phenomenal as a brothel willingness to abstain in a vote would likely yield an manager. […] However, it would be a pity if the approval of the plan in the appropriate cabinet Americans stop here and ignore the potential for forum. leveraging this Israeli weakness to secure further This is a necessary step, not principally because the diplomatic achievements. […] You think that US has sought the extension in return for a package renouncing the 'settlement blocs' is out of the of security incentives. […] The significance of Israeli question? Just give us a squadron of spaceships acceptance of another freeze would lie in Israel’s worth $90 billion and we’ll hand over Tel Aviv’s demonstrable renewed commitment to a negotiated suburbs to the Palestinians as well." peace that best serves its interests. […] A renewed Asaf Gefen, JED 20.11.10 freeze […] reopens at least a narrow path forward. […] America paying the price But with Israel on board, in step rather than in "Despite all the criticism leveled at Netanyahu from friction with Washington and led moreover by a Left and Right in the wake of his meeting with relatively popular government, it is Abbas who Clinton in New York last week, the PM registered an should come under pressure to compromise – and impressive achievement – a three-month freeze in to take positions that give his people, and ours, the exchange for 20 F-35 fighter jets. That’s not a bad opportunity for genuine reconciliation and a secure deal. future." Israel worked very hard to get the stealth aircraft, JPO 14.11.10 Editorial and now we’re getting it in exchange for a 90-day freeze, rather than a withdrawal from West Bank Where will Palestine be? territories. "This is the objective of the additional moratorium: to One cannot avoid the feeling that the Americans are get Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas back to currently paying for their failed management of the the negotiating table, and to discuss the border process and the public demand of Israel to stop issue first. 2 Setting the border will bring order to the settlements regimes, or at least during long forgotten eras, in issue and will make it clear where Israel is entitled to long forgotten worlds, she would have certainly been build and where it is not. From there, talks will move considered one of the most enlightened leaders for on to the other core issues. […] her time. The decision required from Netanyahu is clear: Back then, they would know how to appreciate, for Accept the U.S. proposal, freeze settlement example, her pompous statement about introducing construction immediately, and determine the border a new ministerial award (named after her, of course) on the basis of the new security understandings with to encourage Zionist creation. […] And what about the United States - even if such a decision requires cultural freedom, freedom of creation, and all these a different coalition, such as one that includes other intellectual trivialities? Well, for such Kadima and in which opposition leader Tzipi Livni nuisances there is no place or time (or tolerance) at takes Lieberman's place." the Ministry of Culture." HAA 15.11.10 Editorial Zvi Lenchner, JED 14.11.10 2. Kunst, Politik und Zionismus There you have it: culture "Uncountable numbers of words have been written Im August 2010 hatte eine Gruppe von on the subject of Zionism and the occupation. A Theaterschauspielern und Regisseuren zum Boykott prime minister has been murdered over this issue. des Kulturzentrums in Ariel, einer der größten And no, my memory is not mistaken: A majority of jüdischen Siedlungen im Westjordanland, aufgeru- those who were first to write, protest and fen. Dieses Kulturzentrum wurde nun eröffnet und demonstrate over these issues were academics and die Mediendebatte wieder aufgenommen. Dazu trug creative artists. auch Kulturministerin Limor Livnat bei, die bei der The public did not always scorn them. Once, they Eröffnungsfeier sagte, der Boykott sei "undemo- were even called 'intellectuals.' Prime ministers, kratisch". Am Vortag hatte die Ministerin einen including the current one, used to pursue them and neuen Kulturpreis für Kunstwerke, die zionistische listen attentively to their words.