Kategorie: Naher Osten

DienstagZoom – 7. April 2026

Im Gespräch mit Ahmad Shihabi: Journalismus nach dem 7. Oktober

Ahmad Shihabi wuchs in einem palästinensischen Flüchtlingslager südlich von Damaskus auf. Er absolvierte eine Ausbildung im Bereich Informatik, wurde dann Journalist. Während des syrischen Bürgerkriegs floh er nach Deutschland und arbeitet heute als Redakteur für die Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ), vor allem zur politischen Situation im Nahen Osten, deren Auswirkungen auf Deutschland sowie zu Flucht und Migration.

In unserem diAk-Gespräch wollen wir mit ihm über seine Wahrnehmung der letzten zweieinhalb Jahre sprechen: Wie war es für ihn, als palästinensischer Journalist nach dem 7. Oktober in Deutschland zu berichten?
Was ist seine Perspektive auf die deutsche Berichterstattung zu Israel/Palästina, Syrien oder Iran?
Gemeinsam wollen wir über deutschen Journalismus, Debattenkultur und den Nahostkonflikt nachdenken. 

Das Gespräch findet am 7. April 2026 von 19 bis 20 Uhr auf Zoom statt.

Das Gespräch findet in deutscher Sprache statt. Eine vorherige Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig, der Link für den Zoom-Raum ist: 

https://zoom.us/j/93995057319?pwd=e2PhYEbV5K6FbQM7fg0OX6dHLuFGQx.1

Meeting-ID: 939 9505 7319
Kenncode: 6M1DtX

Anfang Mai holen wir dann das Gespräch mit Dr. Ulrich Kusche nach, das Anfang März der Technik zum Opfer gefallen war.

A regional earthquake … Mitvim Webinar

In recent years, a strategic approach has gained prominence in Israel’s regional policy: the idea that military strength and security superiority can serve as a foundation for normalization and cooperation with countries in the Middle East. According to this approach, often described as “normalization through power”, military deterrence, shared security interests, and advanced technological capabilities can position Israel as a central regional partner even without broader political progress vis-à-vis the Palestinians.

The war that began on October 7, and particularly the campaign against Iran, puts this paradigm to the test. While Israeli public attention is largely focused on the military aspects of the confrontation with Iran, a broader strategic question arises: what will the regional order look like on the day after the war, and can military achievements alone translate into a stable regional reality and sustainable cooperation?

This webinar will examine the future of relations between Israel and regional actors in light of the latest developments in the Middle East. The discussion will explore the opportunities and limitations of an approach based primarily on power and deterrence, alongside the role of political processes, regional diplomacy, and multilateral cooperation in shaping a more stable regional order.

The panel will bring together leading experts, who will offer diverse regional perspectives on the strategic implications of the war and on the possibilities for shaping a new regional reality in its aftermath.

When: Tuesday, March 24, 6 PM (Israel time) ; 5 PM (CET); 11:00 AM (EST).

A Zoom link will be sent closer to the time of the webinar after the registration.

Moderator:

Eitan Ishai – Director of the MENA program, Mitvim

Speakers:

Dr. Gil Murciano – CEO, Mitvim

Mohammed Baharoon – Director General, B’huth Institute, United Arab Emirates

Prof. Eli Podeh – Lecturer, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Board Member, Mitvim; Member of the Regional Security Coalition

Dr. Shira Efron – RAND Corporation’s Distinguished Israel Policy Chair

Dr. Ofir Winter – Senior Researcher, Institute for National Security Studies; Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University

Elizabeth Tsurkov – Fellow, Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy; Research Fellow, Forum for Regional Thinking

Register here

SWP-Podcast 2026/P 08

Flächenbrand: Welche Ziele verfolgen die Kriegsparteien in Iran und welche Folgen drohen in Nahost?

Ein Blick nach Jerusalem

Heftige Detonationen und ein Gespräch mit dem Abt der Dormitio ABtei auf dem Zion – Domradio Köln

Photo: B. Doering (2024)

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A podcast episode punctuated with sirens and explosions on +972 with Meron Rapoport

Meron lives in Tel Aviv and, like most Israelis, has spent much of the past two weeks running to shelters. Yet this is just about the only thing he shares with the majority of his compatriots — not least because he is among the mere 4 percent of Israeli Jews who oppose this war that is setting the entire region ablaze.

But things don’t always go according to plan. When the dust settles, Meron says — reminding me that he’s often labeled an optimist — Israelis will realize, sooner or later, that they cannot escape the Palestinian question, and that a regime of apartheid and occupation will never have peace and quiet.

Libanon im Blick

FR-Interview von Inge Günther mit Stefan Weidner, Autor, Islamwissenschaftler und Übersetzer, der bis vor wenigen Tagen in Beirut war und über den „kleinen“ Krieg im Schatten des „großen“ Krieges mit Iran berichtet. Ein Krieg zwischen Israel und Hisbollah, den weder der Zedernstaat noch die allermeisten Libanesen wollten und dem sie trotzdem nahezu wehrlos ausgeliefert sind. 

Die Hisbollah steht im Libanon zunehmend isoliert da. Selbst unter Schiiten schwindet die Unterstützung für die Miliz dramatisch.

Podcast mit Alon Ben-Meir

Der Gesprächspartner in dieser Folge:

Today’s guest is Marwan Muasher, vice president for studies at Carnegie, and former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Jordan.

Moral Clarity in a Time of Escalation

Below is message of CfP that they shared on the social media to with their International allies

The Palestinian and Israeli members of Combatants for Peace are united in our profound alarm at the current military escalation between the United States, Israel, and Iran.

As a joint movement committed to nonviolence and to ending the occupation through political means, we firmly reject the belief that expanded military force will bring safety or stability to our region.But why do we feel like this?

A few days ago in the West Bank, two Palestinian brothers were shot and killed by settlers in the village of Qaryut, part of a documented rise in settler violence and displacement that human rights organizations and UN monitors have repeatedly warned the world about. Such attacks are not isolated eruptions of chaos; they unfold within a system of occupation that fragments Palestinian life, weakens accountability, and entrenches a reality of unequal rights that corrodes any genuine prospect for peace.

In Israel, civilians have been killed and injured by Iranian missile strikes on residential areas, a stark reminder that when confrontation escalates between states, it is ordinary people who absorb the consequences. International humanitarian law is unequivocal: civilians must never be targeted, and indiscriminate attacks on populated areas are unlawful. As governments invoke deterrence and security to justify their actions, Israeli and Iranian families mourn loved ones as the confrontation spreads. Official statements speak in strategic terms; on the ground, it is grief that endures.

We refuse the hierarchy of grief that measures one life against another, and we reject the logic that treats civilian deaths as currency in a wider struggle. What binds these realities together is not only escalation between states, but the political structures that normalize and perpetuate harm – occupation, annexation, collective punishment, and regional brinkmanship that treats civilian lives as leverage rather than as equal human beings entitled to protection and dignity.

Moral clarity at this moment requires holding these truths together: opposing attacks on civilians everywhere while confronting the underlying reality of occupation, oppression and entrenched injustice that makes repeated escalation inevitable. Expanding war will not resolve either; it will only prologue the suffering.

If we are serious about protecting civilian life, we must be serious about ending the systems that endanger it. 
In hope,


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Im Sog der Eskalation

Krieg gegen den Iran – und der Nahe Osten am Abgrund.
Wie gehen die Menschen damit um? ipg berichtet aus der Region.