Ein Text von Melchior Grabowski für die Tübinger Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) e.V. (PDF zum Download)
Deutsch-Israelische Militärkooperation im Zeichen der Zeitenwende
Kategorie: Naher Osten
Zum Schicksal von Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Ein Beitrag von James Smith auf der Seite von Middle Eats Eye
„Dr Abu Safiya must be immediately released. So too should all Palestinian detainees, including the 82 other healthcare workers still in Israeli prisons“
Israels Wirtschaft boomt
«Run auf israelische Waffensysteme ist extrem gross»
Ein Beitrag über die „realitätserprobten“ israelischen Waffen von Richard C. Schneider auf der Seite des SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen – und macht auch noch einmal deutlich, wie unwichtig der Tourismus für Israel wirtschaftlich gesehen ist.
Restoring Access to Safe Water
Caritas Jerusalem: For Displaced Families in Gaza
June 30, 2026
Crisis Appeal for Health, Emergency Support, and Survival Essentials in Gaza
As part of its Emergency Appeal: Crisis Appeal for Health, Emergency Support, and Survival Essentials in Gaza, Caritas Jerusalem continues to respond to one of the most urgent humanitarian needs facing displaced communities: access to safe drinking water.
Across Gaza, the ongoing crisis has severely damaged water infrastructure, leaving countless families without reliable access to clean water. Today, 91% of households experience water insecurity, while many people survive on less than six liters of water per person per day—far below the minimum amount required to meet basic daily needs. The lack of safe water, combined with overcrowded living conditions, damaged sanitation systems, and limited healthcare services, has significantly increased the risk of disease and has further worsened an already devastating humanitarian situation.
To help address this critical need, Caritas Jerusalem has launched a water trucking intervention, delivering potable drinking water directly to shelters, displacement camps, and communities where access to safe water has been cut off. The intervention is implemented in close coordination with local authorities and community representatives to ensure that the most vulnerable families are reached safely and equitably.
One of the communities currently benefiting from this intervention is the Al-Abraj area, where residents have endured prolonged shortages of clean drinking water.
„We have been suffering from a shortage of clean water in this area,“ says Yehia Abdo, Regional Director for Al-Abraj. „Caritas Jerusalem has now provided us with clean water, and we are grateful for your kind efforts. This is the best-quality water we have received in a long time. We truly appreciate your support.“
He explains that the community’s access to water became increasingly difficult after routes were cut off, forcing residents to travel long distances in search of safe drinking water. „This camp has an urgent need for water due to the long distances people must travel after access routes were cut off. We issued an emergency appeal, and Caritas Jerusalem responded. The water quality is excellent. Thank you, Caritas Jerusalem.“
For families living through prolonged displacement, access to clean water is more than a basic necessity—it is essential for survival, health, and dignity.
Beyond water trucking, the intervention also includes the distribution of emergency WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) kits containing essential hygiene and dignity items, helping families maintain basic hygiene standards despite the challenging conditions. Together, these interventions aim to reduce the spread of waterborne diseases, protect public health, and preserve the dignity of vulnerable households.
Through its Emergency Appeal, Caritas Jerusalem remains committed to standing alongside the people of Gaza, delivering life-saving assistance where it is needed most and ensuring that families continue to have access to one of life’s most fundamental necessities: safe, clean drinking water.
Tribal Women and Empire-Building
Female Bedouin Leadership and the Ottoman expansion in the Arab Countryside, 1840-1914
Vortrag von Talha Çiçek // Die Veranstaltung findet im hybriden Format am ZMO statt.
Link zur Teilnahme: https://zfl-berlin-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/E9iYf5ytShuA7zWWD64bIg
The tribal societies of the Ottoman Middle East underwent significant transformations from the latter half of the nineteenth century onwards, shaped by a complex interplay of the global trends, Ottoman centralization, and the resulting urban-rural intertwinements. While the available scholarship has addressed these developments, it is difficult to claim that they provide adequate contextualization of the female tribal agency. This talk will argue that the women of the Arab tribes played remarkable roles in the adaptation of their communities to Ottoman modernization, using the example of three sheikhas (wives, sisters and mothers of tribal chiefs). They contributed to evolving imperial policies in a negotiating direction. It will focus on how these sheikhas emerged in the political, social, and judicial spheres of the urban and rural Middle East to defend their community’s interests. In addition, this talk will discuss how the tribal female leadership contributed to the development of the new political and social tools indicating how they actively participated in the tribal resistance against the Ottoman expansionism in early decades of the Tanzimat reformism and the processes of negotiations that followed and resulted with the integration of the tribal groups in the new system of the governance.
Talha Çiçek is an associate professor at the School of History, University College Dublin. Formerly, he was the British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at SOAS, England, and Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He is the author of the two books, War and State Formation in Syria: Cemal Pasha’s Governorate during World War I (Routledge, 2014) and Negotiating Empire in the Middle East: Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840-1914 (Cambridge UP, 2021). Currently, he is working on the history of the Arabian horse in a global context and leading an ERC Consolidator Grant entitled „Global Capitalism and Rurality: Agency, Commodification and Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Middle Eastern Countryside, 1870-1945“.
Mit welchem liberalen Kern?
Ein Beitrag von Fanny Oz-Salzberger auf Qantara.de (Zuerst: Ein neues Israel, Internationale Politik, Mai 2026)
Ein Zitat daraus:
„Ein neuer Naher Osten mag in der Entstehung begriffen sein.
Qantara
Die dringlichere Frage ist aber, ob damit auch ein neues Israel entsteht – und ob dieses Israel auf lange Sicht demokratisch bleiben wird.
Sollte das nicht geschehen, dann wird es von keinem
militärischen Sieg aufgewogen werden können.“
„Wie aus Journalismus Propaganda wurde“
Essay von Fabian Goldmann auf dem Portal Jacobin
Zur Quelle die Selbstauskunft: „Jacobin ist eine führende Publikation der sozialistischen Linken. Wir bringen Euch scharfe und lesbare Analysen zu Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur. 2011 in New York geboren, erscheint Jacobin auf Englisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Portugiesisch, Griechisch und Niederländisch – und seit 2020 auch auf Deutsch.“
Vor den Wahlen in Israel 2026
Im OS-Teil der Berliner Zeitung erschien gerade ein Beitrag zur Einschätzung des Wahlverhaltens der „russischen Community“ – in all ihrer Heterogenität – durch Lilly Galili (Tel Aviv), auch ein guter Einstieg für unseren nächsten DienstagZoom am 7. Juli zu den kommenden Knessetwahlen.
A Journey through the Israeli-Occupied West Bank in the Shadow of the Gaza War
International Crisis Group Journeys (Text)
| Entering the West Bank from Israel is like passing into a parallel universe, with a military checkpoint serving as portal. One overarching structure but two realities: in people, law and policing. Israel has been steadily altering the West Bank’s human and physical landscape since it first occupied the territory in 1967. As Crisis Group expert Joost Hiltermann found, it now controls Palestinians’ freedom of movement to an unprecedented degree, with ruinous socio-economic effects. |
