Diskussion mit Moshe Zimmermann, Angelika Timm und Gil Shohat
Analog in der Bibliothek der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A 10243 Berlin
02. Juli 2024, 19:00 – 21:00 Uhr oder digital im Livestream – anmeldung erfoderlich
Der israelische Historiker Moshe Zimmermann nimmt den Überfall der Hamas auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 zum Ausgangspunkt, um in seinem neuen Buch eine kritische Bilanz des israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikts und der Geschichte des Staates Israel zu ziehen. Er zeigt historische Linien auf und hinterfragt Optionen für ein künftiges Miteinander jüdischer und palästinensischer Bürgerinnen und Bürger.
Sein Fazit ist sowohl pessimistisch als auch konstruktiv; es sieht nicht nur die regionalen Akteure, sondern auch die internationale Gemeinschaft in der Verantwortung, um dem Teufelskreis von Gewalt und Gegengewalt zu entfliehen.
Angelika Timm, erste Büroleiterin der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Israel, diskutiert mit Moshe Zimmermann über dessen Buch «Niemals Frieden? Israel am Scheideweg». An dem Gespräch beteiligt sich, zugeschaltet aus Tel Aviv, auch Gil Shohat, der gegenwärtige Büroleiter der RLS in Israel.
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Die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate und Bahrain waren nach Ägypten (1979) und Jordanien (1994) die ersten arabischen Länder, die ihre Beziehungen zu Israel normalisiert haben.
Eine Analyse von Dina Esfandiary und Dialla Jandali von der International Crisis Group zur aktuellen Einschätzung und den Perspektiven dieser Kooperationen.
Reicht das? Frauen sollen in den Rat berufen werden, der im Sommer die neuen Oberrabbiner wählt …
„Israel’s minister of religious affairs, Michael Malchieli, announced last week that he would commit to appointing 10 women to seats in the 150-member assembly responsible for electing Israel’s two chief rabbis, ahead of the next election this summer.“
Sechs Episoden – Es ist der 7. Oktober 2023: Radikalislamische Hamas-Terroristen ermorden in Israel 1.200 Jüdinnen und Juden. Ein Massaker, das sich – zumindest für große Teile der Weltöffentlichkeit – nicht angekündigt hat und in einem blutigen Krieg enden sollte. In einem Krieg, der, wenn auch nicht auf europäischem Boden, doch auch mitten in den europäischen Gesellschaften ausgetragen wird. Haß, Hetze und Antisemitismus inklusive. In den Folgen des Podcasts „Krieg und Frieden“ stehen wieder ethische und völkerrechtliche Themen im Fokus.
Mit ihren Gesprächspartnerinnen und -partnern versucht Susanne Krischke in dieser Staffel, konkrete Antworten auf konkrete Fragen zum Nahost-Konflikt zu finden.
Während die einen versuchen, Transporte von Hilfsgütern in den Gazastreifen zu verhinden, suchen andere die Transporte zu schützen – eigentlich die Aufgabe der staatlichen Kräfte …
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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 …
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.
Lea Wohl von Haselberg im Gespräch mit Moshe Zimmermann
Akademie der Künste – Pariser Platz 4 – 10117 Berlin-Mitte 7. Mai 2024 – 19.00 Uhr
Der Historiker Moshe Zimmermann spricht mit der Film- und Medienwissenschaftlerin Lea Wohl von Haselberg über den Nahost-Konflikt und die Utopie des Friedens.
In seinem aktuellen Buch Niemals Frieden? Israel am Scheideweg (2024) blickt Moshe Zimmermann in die Vergangenheit zurück – auf die Entstehung der zionistischen Bewegung und die 75-jährige Geschichte des Staates Israel – um auf mögliche Auswege aus dem Teufelskreis der Gewalt und Gegengewalt aufmerksam zu machen. Im Vorwort schreibt er: „Das, was sich seit dreißig Jahren ereignete, und erst recht das, was seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 geschah, trug dazu bei, dass die Fronten auf beiden Seiten sich weiter verhärteten und der gegenseitige Hass sich weiter hochschaukeln konnte. Meine Bilanz fällt sehr kritisch aus, doch versuche ich, meinem Pessimismus zum Trotz konstruktiv zu denken.“
