… the cycle must be broken
Ittay Flescher: The Holy and the Broken
Ittay Flescher is the Education Director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians and the Jerusalem Correspondent for The Jewish Independent from Australia.
Besprechung erfolgt nach Möglichkeit
Dr. Suhaila Tarazi, Direktorin des Al-Ahli-Krankenhauses in Gaza-Stadt zur Situation
Siehe auch die Seite des Middle East council of Churches (MECC) Abteilung für Soziale Dienste für Palästinensische Geflüchtete des Rates der Kirchen im Nahen Osten
8./9. Mai 2025 in Jerusalem
„We’re coming together, louder and broader than ever before. On May 8–9, thousands of Palestinians and Jews from across the country will gather in Jerusalem for the It’s Time Conference — a powerful act of collective vision in the face of violence and fear. Organized by over 60 civil society groups, this summit will bring together those who believe that freedom, dignity, and safety are rights for all.“
(Aus dem Mailing von Standing together) | Konferenzlink
On 50 days of the aid block in Gaza
Israel has now fully blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza for over fifty days. Essential supplies are either no longer available or quickly running out.
Palestinian civilians – including one million children – face an acute risk of starvation, epidemic disease and death. This must end. We urge Israel to immediately re-start a rapid and unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza in order to meet the needs of all civilians. During the last ceasefire, the UN and INGO system was able to deliver aid at scale. The Israeli decision to block aid from entering Gaza is intolerable. Minister Katz’s recent comments politicising humanitarian aid and Israeli plans to remain in Gaza after the war are unacceptable – they harm prospects for peace. Humanitarian aid must never be used as a political tool and Palestinian territory must not be reduced nor subjected to any demographic change. Israel is bound under international law to allow the unhindered passage of humanitarian aid.
Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid to those who need it most, independent of parties to the conflict and in accordance with their humanitarian principles. Israel must ensure unhindered access for the UN and humanitarian organisations to operate safely across Gaza. Hamas must not divert aid for their own financial gain or use civilian infrastructure for military purposes.
We reiterate our outrage at recent strikes by Israeli forces on humanitarian personnel, infrastructure, premises and healthcare facilities. Israel must do much more to protect the civilian population, infrastructure and humanitarian workers.
This includes restoring deconfliction systems, allowing humanitarian workers free movement within Gaza. And Israel must prevent harm to medical personnel and premises in the course of their military operations. They must allow the urgent healthcare needs of the population to be met, while allowing the sick and wounded to temporarily leave the Gaza Strip to receive treatment.
Crucially, we urge all parties to return to a ceasefire. We continue to call on Hamas for the immediate release of all the remaining hostages, who are enduring terrible suffering. We must all work towards the implementation of a two-state solution, which is the only way to bring long-lasting peace and security to both Israelis and Palestinians and ensure long-term stability in the region.
Auch in Deutschland wächst die Unruhe, ob die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung, in deren Kern die Gewaltenteilung steht, die Stürme der kommenden (wie schon der aktuellen) Zeit überstehen wird.
In Israel zeigt sich gerade eine neue Drehung in der politischen Spirale, wenn der Chef des (resp. eines) Geheimdienstes ein explosives Memorandum an den Oberste Gerichtshof richtet.
Tagesschau.de (22. April 2025)
Haaretz Editorial (21. April 2025)
… „No citadel has fallen,“ former Supreme Court President Esther Hayut said during the court hearings that ultimately produced an 11-0 ruling authorizing someone charged with serious crimes to serve as prime minister. Since then, Israelis have seen the fortress in the process of being brought down on its inhabitants‘ heads. The court must prevent Netanyahu from getting rid of someone who is trying to prevent him from finishing the job.
Ergänzung 23. April 2025 Medialine
Pessach geht zu Ende, heute ist Karfreitag. Es geht um Befreiung, um den Weg zu einem neuen Leben, dazu gehört auch ein wahrhaftige Blick auf das, was geschieht – Zwei aktuelle Beiträge dazu in deutschen Medien.
Ein Beitrag von Jan-Christoph Kitzler auf der Seite des Deutschlandfunks
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Offener Brief: Ende des Militäreinsatzes
Interview bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Autor Ofer Waldman hofft auf Signalwirkung von Protest | Mehr dazu: Wenig Wirkung vor Ort
Ein Bericht von Jan-Christoph Kitzler (ARD Tel Aviv) auf tagesschau.de –
‚eine laute Minderheit, um Anarchisten, die von ausländischen Nichtregierungsorganisationen unterstützt würden‘, so der israelsiche Ministerpräsident, einfache Antworten auf komplexe Situationen, das macht ja weltweit Schule ….
„Israels Armee ist auf ihre Reservisten angewiesen, und seit dem Überfall der Hamas am 7. Oktober 2023 hat sich gezeigt, wie wichtig sie sind. Frauen und Männer können in Israel nach Ihrem Militärdienst noch bis zum 40. Lebensjahr zum Reservedienst eingezogen werden, Offiziere auch darüber hinaus. Fast 300.000 Reservisten wurden nach dem 7. Oktober nach Angaben der Armee eingezogen, viele über Monate, auch mehrfach.
Doch inzwischen wird die Weigerung vieler Reservisten, in den Krieg zu ziehen, zum Problem. Die genauen Zahlen sind unter Verschluss – doch israelische Medien berichten über die größte Verweigerungswelle seit Jahrzehnten.
Von mehr als 100.000 Verweigerern ist die Rede. Überprüfen lässt sich das nicht. Was man weiß, ist, dass einige Soldaten Briefe veröffentlicht haben – darunter Reservisten der Luftwaffe, der Marine und von Spezialeinheiten der Aufklärung. … „
Cease-fire. Release the Hostages. Establish a Palestinian State. There Is No Other Way
Der Text diese Editorial erschien am 14. April 2025 in der hebräischen und in der englischen Ausgabe und ist online zugänglich. Wir stellen hier einige Passagen online und verweisen insbesondere auf den letzten Abschnitt!:
On Wednesday, the Israeli military bombed an apartment building in Gaza City’s Shujaiyeh neighborhood. The target of the strike was Haytham Sheikh Khalil, whom the Israel Defense Forces identified as the commander of Hamas‘ Shujaiyeh battalion.
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In the current war, the principle of proportionality has been cast aside. Killing dozens of civilians in order to assassinate a junior Hamas commander is not seen as unusual, even though it is very likely a war crime.
Additional values and principles were thrown away along with proportionality: purity of arms, compliance with international law, consideration of the suffering of innocent civilians and of what happens after the war is over.
Since Israel resumed fighting, more than 1,500 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip, including at least 500 children. The dead include 15 first responders whom IDF soldiers shot at close range and buried in a mass grave.
On Sunday morning, the IDF hit a building within the Al-Ahli Hospital complex in Gaza City, destroying the surgery building and the oxygen generation facility for the intensive care units.
All of this is happening alongside an explicit policy aimed at starving the residents of Gaza. For six weeks, the Strip has been completely closed to all food and aid deliveries.
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This brutal policy toward the civilian population has forever tarnished the reputation of Israel, and we will pay a heavy price for it – in overt and covert boycotts, economic damage and the erosion of international legitimacy and of the moral and humanitarian foundations of Israeli society.
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French President Emmanuel Macron stated the obvious last week: „The only path possible is a political one,“ and declared his support for the establishment of a Palestinian state. This statement was met with an embarrassing tantrum and obscenities on social media from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair.
But Macron is right, and it is now that the truth must be told: The only way Israel can survive as a democracy and not as a pariah state is through an immediate cease-fire, hostage release agreement and diplomatic negotiations that will ultimately lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state. There is no other way.
The above article is Haaretz’s lead editorial, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel.
16. April 2025 | 19.30 Uhr | Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21
Photo: (c) Bashir Bashir
Kilmé is a monthly talk series dedicated to Palestinian artists, intellectuals, and academics; a platform to present their work and speak about subjects that are important to them. Kilmé means word in Arabic. The organizers are dedicated to presenting palestinian voices in all of their diversity and creativity, thus contributing to the cultural landscape of Berlin, a city with the largest Palestinian population in Europe.
In the April issue of kilmé talks, Bashir Bashir will be the guest. The evening will be moderated by Tyme Khleifi and Michael Barenboim.
Bashir Bashir is associate professor in the department of sociology, political science and communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Currently, he is a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His primary research interests are nationalism and citizenship studies, liberalism, democratic theory, decolonization, the politics of reconciliation, and alternatives to partition in Palestine/Israel. Among other numerous publications, he is the co-editor of „The Holocaust and Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History“ (Columbia University Press, 2018); and „The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond“ (Columbia University Press, 2020). His writings have appeared in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, German, and Japanese.
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Ergänzung: 11. April 2025: Hybrid-Veranstaltung im ZMO | 24. April 2025, 17.00 Uhr
There is a growing agreement among scholars, politicians and experts that the oppressive realities and colonial policies in Palestine/Israel are politically unacceptable and morally indefensible. Leading human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and B’Tselem have published extensive reports that identify these colonial policies and their disastrous impacts on the lives and rights of the Palestinians. The question of putting an end to these wretched and segregationist realities and policies and moving to more transformative and inclusive solutions has preoccupied several scholars and politicians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. Liberal and national principles in the forms of one-person one-vote or territorial and ethnic partition have been at the center of debates on these transformative solutions.
This talk argues that egalitarian bi-nationalism is better equipped to address the underlying issues of the conflict in Israel/Palestine than the liberal and secessionist national frames. Egalitarian binationalism, the talk goes on to argue, better satisfies the urge for self-determination of Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews than the benign neglect majoritarianism of the liberal state or ethnic secession and the partition of the two-state solution. The talk concludes that egalitarian bi-nationalism’s insistence on envisioning affective relations of co-belonging based on an ethics of equality, parity, mutual legitimacy, and cohabitation offers rich resources for historical reconciliation and decolonization in Israel/Palestine.
CNN Bericht über die Zerstörungen im Gazastreifen durch die israelische Armee (Text und Film)
