ungefähr alle politischen parteien in deutschland wurden heute von thomas friedman, dem vielleicht einflussreichsten kolumnisten der new york times, in ihrem einsatz für einen frieden im nahen osten überholt.
was vielleicht der komischste satz ist, den ich hier jemals geschrieben habe.
falls der name kein begriff ist, den gößten teil des abenteuers überlasse ich euch. dieses video ist aber ein guter einstieg.
danach sollten sich zumindest fragen, ob der mann vielleicht zu viele sympathien für die menschen vor ort - oder allgemein menschen - hat, erübrigt haben.
aus dem artikel:
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I have no doubt that, generally speaking, the Israeli people continue to see themselves as steadfast allies of the American people — and vice versa. But this ultranationalist, messianic Israeli government is not America’s ally. Because this is the first government in Israel’s history whose priority is not peace with more of its Arab neighbors and the benefits that greater security and coexistence would bring. Its priority is the annexation of the West Bank, the expulsion of the Palestinians of Gaza and the re-establishment there of Israeli settlements.
The notion that Israel has a government that is no longer behaving as an American ally, and should not be considered as such, is a shocking and bitter pill for Israel’s friends in Washington to swallow — but swallow it they must.
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This Netanyahu government, however, made annexation of the West Bank its priority when it came to power in late 2022 — well before Hamas’s vicious invasion on Oct. 7, 2023 — rather than the U.S. security-peace architecture for the region.
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I have zero sympathy for Hamas. I think it is a sick organization that has done enormous damage to the Palestinian cause. It is hugely responsible for the human tragedy that is Gaza today. Hamas’s leadership should have released its hostages and left Gaza a long time ago, removing any excuse for Israel to resume the fighting. But Netanyahu’s plan to reinvade Gaza is not to stand up a moderate alternative to Hamas, led by the Palestinian Authority. It is for a permanent Israeli military occupation, whose unstated goal will be to pressure all Palestinians to leave. That is a prescription for a permanent insurgency — Vietnam on the Mediterranean.
Addressing a conference on May 5 sponsored by the religious Zionist newspaper B’Sheva, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far right finance minister, spoke like a man who couldn’t care less what you think: “We’re occupying Gaza to stay,” he said. “There will be no more entering and leaving.” The local population will be squeezed into a less than a quarter of the Gaza Strip.
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) hinzugezogen. Das (intern?) ausgegebene Ziel ist offenbar, das Abraham Accords auszuweiten, das bisher nur zwei arabische Staaten (UAE, Bahrain) unterzeichnet haben. Parallel dazu will Trump den Persischen Golf offiziell in „Gulf of Arabia“ umbenennen.
