Neues vom Terror
Wäre übrigens interessant zu wissen, wie die EU ihre Unterstützung für Abu Mazens Fatah mit der Einstufung ihres "bewaffneten Arms" als Terrororganisation unter einen Hut bekommt.
"It was a daring raid, even by Israeli standards."







Während Nassers Radio noch gelobt hatte: "Wir werden jeden Daumenbreit, jedes Sandkorn unseres Bodens verteidigen", zogen Nassers Helden die Schuhe aus, um auf Sinai-Sand flotter fliehen zu können. Wie 1956 erbeuteten die Israelis neben Tanks und Kanonen Tausende Paar Militärstiefel der schuhungewohnten Fellachen.Dazu passt ganz wunderbar eine Abbildung aus der Dezember-Ausgabe des Israeli Air Force Magazine von 1967, in der auf acht Seiten Dutzende Fotos dokumentiert werden, die auf einer Airbase im Sinai von der israelischen Armee "befreit" worden waren und den Alltag ägyptischer Soldaten zeigen:

Zwei Ereignisse haben den Christen das Leben in den arabischen Ländern schwer gemacht: Nationalismus und die Gründung des Staates Israel, wie es im Vorwort heißt.Hier kann man sich das Lieblingslied von Udo Steinbach anhören und runterladen.

So I agreed with [Disengagement author] Dan Schueftan about separation. I also thought that [former prime minister Ariel] Sharon agreed as well - that his strategy was to achieve a maximum degree of separation by getting out of Gaza, building the fence, holding onto the large settlement blocs in the West Bank and letting the Palestinians stew in their own juices. In other words, disengagement was not a matter of trading land for peace. I didn’t believe then, and I don’t believe now, that it will be possible to negotiate peace with the Palestinians in the foreseeable future.
Norman Podhoretz in der Wochenendbeilage der Jerusalem Post. Ein Genuss.
Apropos Schueftan: Die Antwort (siehe unten) lautet - Ja! Jederzeit.

Die Titelgeschichten des Spiegel waren seinerzeit zwar deutlich weniger aufgebläht als heute, aber auch auf sieben Seiten wäre genügend Platz gewesen, wenigstens einmal die "Palästinenser" zu erwähnen. Von wegen: Vor 40 Jahren sprach man noch von Arabern, die Westbank war seit dem Unabhängigkeitskrieg von Jordanien besetzt und annektiert, der Gazastreifen stand unter ägyptischer Verwaltung. Ein palästinensisches Nationalgefühl sollte sich erst unter israelischer Besatzung entwickeln, das Recht der „Palästinenser" auf Unabhängigkeit, das heute von jedem Kaninchenzüchterverein angemahnt wird, war schlicht kein Thema.
What if Israelis had abducted BBC man?Hier weiter lesen.
By Charles Moore
Watching the horrible video of Alan Johnston of the BBC broadcasting Palestinian propaganda under orders from his kidnappers, I found myself asking what it would have been like had he been kidnapped by Israelis, and made to do the same thing the other way round.
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The first point is that it would never happen. There are no Israeli organisations - governmental or freelance - that would contemplate such a thing. That fact is itself significant.
But just suppose that some fanatical Jews had grabbed Mr Johnston and forced him to spout their message, abusing his own country as he did so. What would the world have said?
There would have been none of the caution which has characterised the response of the BBC and of the Government since Mr Johnston was abducted on March 12. The Israeli government would immediately have been condemned for its readiness to harbour terrorists or its failure to track them down.
Loud would have been the denunciations of the extremist doctrines of Zionism which had given rise to this vile act. The world isolation of Israel, if it failed to get Mr Johnston freed, would have been complete.
If Mr Johnston had been forced to broadcast saying, for example, that Israel was entitled to all the territories held since the Six-Day War, and calling on the release of all Israeli soldiers held by Arab powers in return for his own release, his words would have been scorned. The cause of Israel in the world would have been irreparably damaged by thus torturing him on television. No one would have been shy of saying so.
But of course in real life it is Arabs holding Mr Johnston, and so everyone treads on tip-toe. Bridget Kendall of the BBC opined that Mr Johnston had been "asked" to say what he said in his video. Asked! If it were merely an "ask", why did he not say no?
Throughout Mr Johnston's captivity, the BBC has continually emphasised that he gave "a voice" to the Palestinian people, the implication being that he supported their cause, and should therefore be let out. One cannot imagine the equivalent being said if he had been held by Israelis.