Auf der Seite von Feinschwarz sucht Ottmar Fuchs ’nach einem Weg, um im Nahost-Konflikt zweiseitig auf der Seite der Opfer zu stehen und würdigt die darin liegende, konstitutive und zugleich zu riskierende Überforderung‘.
Für wen gilt Völkerrecht? Wer darf wen verfolgen? Für wen gilt der Gerichtshof als Autorität?
In der aufgeheizten Debatte um die Verfolgung der HAMAS-Verbrechen in Israel und um die Legimität der Kriegseinsatzes in Gaza liegen die Positionen weit auseinander.
Die International Crisis Group, auf die wir an dieser Stelle öfter verweisen, hat in eier Q&A-Sektion, die Experten Brian Finucane, Stephen Pomper und Mairav Zonszein eingeladen, [to] „examine the legal and political implications.“
„Join us this Friday to call for an end to the war and for Germany to recognise Palestine following Norway, Ireland and Spain“
Leicht zu folgen unter: https://linktr.ee/israelisfuerfriedende
Während die einen versuchen, Transporte von Hilfsgütern in den Gazastreifen zu verhinden, suchen andere die Transporte zu schützen – eigentlich die Aufgabe der staatlichen Kräfte …
Eine Aktion von Standing Together hat es bis in die deutsche Tagesschau gebracht… (Zum Nach-schauen: Beitrag ab Minute 3:17)
Aus dem Mailing der Gruppe:
„We must admit that we were deeply concerned this morning, but WHAT A SUCCESS it turned out to be! Today we went out first thing in the morning to Tarqumiyah checkpoint to prevent settlers from attacking the humanitarian aid trucks destined for Gaza.
When we arrived, so did the police, and we managed to get them to stop the settlers from attacking the aid. The settlers then moved on to the next junction, where they succeeded to damage some of the aid. As soon as we arrived, we helped organize the food they threw at the side of the road and load it back onto atruck, ensuring that it will reach its destination. We managed to secure 30 aid trucks and they made their way to Gaza. Today was the first day for the past week tin which all the aid trucks were able to pass safely on their way towards Gaza.
We are going to continue our work with the Humanitarian Guard and we need your support.
Today was incredibly important – not only did we show the settlers who came out to attack the aid trucks that there are people there protecting the aid – we also made it clear to the police that there are citizens who will hold them accountable. We are heading out tomorrow morning again, and we will continue to go out to protect the aid for as long as people are determined to loot the trucks and commit these grave crimes – and for as long as the Israeli police and Army refuse to stop these people. „
Die Gruppe kann auch finanziell unterstützt werden …
Positive Geschichten aus Nahost sind rar. Diese ist eine. Sie handelt von Israelinnen und Palästinenserinnen, die sich verbündet haben, weil sie eine bessere Zukunft wollen. Für ihre Kinder und ihr Land. Deshalb muss eine Verhandlungslösung her, fordern Women Wage Peace und Women of the Sun.
Frieden in Nahost scheint unmöglich, doch trotzdem engagieren sich Israelinnen und Palästinenserinnen für eine bessere Zukunft
Ein Beitrag von Inge Günter für die Frankfurter Rundschau
Aufruf an die G7 Staaten für eine andere Politik – Mehr und zuerst zivile Konfliktbearbeitung!
Mehr zu Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP)
In so schwierigen Tagen, voller widersprüchlicher Berichte und Nachrichten, emotionalen Gedenken und Historie, die täglich Gegenwart wird …
Eine Hintergrundanalyse zu den aktuellen Verhandlungen mit mancher lesenswerten Einschätzung von Mouin Rabbani, ’non-resident fellow at DAWN
Haaretz, 12. Mai 2024
I shall remember them all Monday. I shall remember Pvt. Gideon Bachrach, after whom I am named. I will stand at attention during the Memorial Day sirens, to honor his memory and the memory of all those who died in Israel’s wars. I will think about the people who were slaughtered at the Nova music festival and in the communities along the border with Gaza, and about hostages and the soldiers who were killed in Gaza. But at the same time I cannot help but think about the victims of Israel’s hostilities, the Palestinian residents of Gaza and the West Bank. I will also stand at attention in memory of them.
„The people of Israel will remember their sons and daughters“ – and this year especially it is obligatory to remember also the tens of thousands of sons and daughters on the other side. It is impossible not to mourn „the beauty of youth, the heroic passion, the sacred will and the self-sacrifice of those who perished in the heavy battle“ – including theirs. Many of the tens of thousands of Gaza’s dead, too, had the beauty of youth and heroic passion and sacred will and self-sacrifice. May the people of Israel also remember them.
They have no Memorial Day, and there is no one to keep their memory alive. Many of them do not even have a grave. They were buried in mass graves on traffic islands or beneath the ruins of their homes. Whole families erased, 15,000 children killed. How is it possible to stand at attention this Memorial Day to honor our dead and not think, even for a moment, about their dead, too?
A day of remembrance that ignores the multitudes of innocents killed in the past seven months in Gaza is not a complete day of remembrance. It is a day of ultranationalist remembrance, of selective remembrance. In a year when the number of Palestinian dead, most of them women and children, reached such horrific proportions, we have no right to think only of ourselves and to remember only our dead, even if the catastrophe visited on Israel was too great to bear. In numerical terms, our losses amount to a fraction of theirs.
I hope this will not be held against me, but I cannot but think on Memorial Day also about their sacrifice, the tens of thousands who were killed through no fault of their own. I cannot but think of the 30 people, eight of them children, killed overnight into Saturday near Rafah, whose bodies were brought Saturday morning to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
The images on Al Jazeera – the forbidden TV station – were horrifying: a foot protruding from a sheet of white plastic; a living hand holding a dead hand, loath to let go; a father kissing his dead child’s face. That is how they sat on the hospital floor Saturday and remembered their dead: the last for now, but far from being the last of their dead. It is impossible on Memorial Day not to think about them as well, even if your country completely shut its eyes and its heart to them.
This will be my Memorial Day this year, the memory of our fallen and the memory of their fallen. I cannot do otherwise, especially this year. You don’t have to compute the relative justice and injustice of the two nations to understand that both experienced disaster. There is also no need for blame games: Innocents have died, in the thousands, on both sides. The kibbutznik from Nir Oz, the raver at Nova and the refugee from Jabalya were all killed in vain.
It is absolutely right to honor and remember them all. A person remembers first of all his own dead, and after them all the dead of his people. It is also appropriate to remember the dead on the other side. Their survivors wandered the Gaza Strip Saturday, destitute, fleeing from one „safe“ place to another. They barely made it to Rafah when 100,000 of them had to flee from there as well. They just returned to the ruins of Jabalya, to which their antecedents fled in 1948, when the Israeli army on Saturday ordered them to leave again. This year, Memorial Day is also a provisional memorial day: A myriad more dead are on the way. There is not a single person in Gaza today who is safe. In Israel, too, the danger is far from over.
This year’s Memorial Day will be the most difficult of all. That is precisely why we must remember everyone – our own dead and also their dead.
The Joint Memorial Day Ceremony, organized by Combatants for Peace and The Parents Circle – Families Forum, is the largest Israeli-Palestinian jointly organized peace event in history. The Joint Memorial Ceremony provides a unique opportunity for Israelis and Palestinians to grieve together and stand strong in demanding an end to the occupation and ongoing violence. The ceremony occurs yearly on the eve of Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Memorial Day). In Israeli mainstream culture, the ceremonies that are most often held to honor this day serve to reinforce cultural narratives of pain, victimhood, and hopelessness. The Joint Memorial transforms this narrative by bringing Palestinians to the Memorial alongside Israelis to mourn side by side and model another way forward.
By mourning together we begin to shift public opinion on a massive scale. Since the first Joint Memorial ceremony in 2006, the number of people who attend has grown tremendously. In 2022, 300,000 people participated in the live broadcast event and over one million streamed it. In 2023, over 15,000 Israelis and Palestinians attended the Joint Memorial Day Ceremony in person in Tel Aviv. Throughout the years, participating guests have included leading intellectuals and artists such as Mubarak Awad, Yoni Rechter, Professor Yehuda Ne’eman, Alon Oleartchik, Achinoam Nini (Noa), Mira Awad, Professor Eva Illouz, Eliezer Yaari, Dr. Amal Abu Said, David Grossman, Dr. Sami Shalom Shitrit, Richard Gere, and many others.
The lives of everyone connected to Israel and Palestine will never be the same since October 7, 2023. With tens of thousands of lives cut short, families torn apart, and children traumatized, now more than ever we need to continue to show up for one another to mourn and remember. And, as we do every year, call for an end to the violence and demand a political solution that brings freedom, justice, and safety for all. With all eyes of the international community on Israel and Palestine, now more than ever, we need to join together around our grief and stay strong in building hope that another way is not only possible but imperative. This year will be the 19th annual joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony organized by Combatants for Peace and The Parents Circle – Families Forum. The ceremony will take place on May 12, 2024. This year, we will center the ceremony around the stories of children, whose only crime was being born Palestinian or Israeli. What will be the future of the next generation? How can we bring hope amidst so much tragedy?
