Archive for June 21st, 2009

Leseempfehlungen

• Iran-Hamas Relationship Tracker 2010 (AEI)
  The Critical Threats Project’s IranTracker will be providing biweekly updates on Hamas’s relationship with Iran. IranTracker will document Hamas’s interactions with Iranian officials, information regarding the organization’s funding transfers of arms and materiel, militant operations, meetings and relations with groups and countries, Hamas’s official statements, and local developments in Gaza.
• It's not just about Israel. Six more reasons why we can't let Iran get nukes. By Christopher Hitchens (Slate)
  The whole emphasis on Israel's salience in this matter, and of the related idea of subcontracting a strike to the Israeli Defense Forces, is an evasion, somewhat ethnically tinged, of what is an international responsibility. If the Iranian dictatorship succeeds in "breaking out" and becoming a nuclear power, the following things will have happened.
• It's Time to Get Tough on Iran. By Michael Eisenstadt and David Crist (Foreign Policy)
  It may be Iran, not the United States or Israel, that strikes the blow that sets off an international conflict. President Obama must act firmly with the Islamic Republic to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control.
• Israel needs to rethink its Lebanon policy (Haaretz)
  In the wake of this week's flare-ups of hostilities in Lebanon and in the south, Israel would do well to reconsider its assumptions about the IDF's power of deterrence.
• From intifada hub to model Palestinian city: How Jenin turned around (CSMonitor)
  Once the heart of the intifada, Jenin is today lauded as a model of cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces. Israeli Jews may soon be allowed to shop here again, bringing $3 million per weekend.
• The Palestinians, Alone (NYT)
  While the “Palestine question” has long been central to inter-Arab politics, Arab states have shown far less concern for the well-being of the Palestinians than for their own interests.
• LINKE: Auschwitz hat nichts mit Antisemitismus zu tun
  Aus einem offenen Brief der drei „Free Gaza“-Passagiere der Linkspartei: "Weder hat unsere Aktion etwas mit Antisemitismus zu tun, noch bietet sie irgendeinen Anknüpfungspunkt für Antisemiten, mit denen wir nie etwas zu tun haben wollten und die bei uns auch keinen Platz haben." Zur Erinnerung: Die Aufforderung des israelischen Militärs zum Beidrehen wurde von der „Free Gaza“-Flotte durch ein absolut unmissverständliches “Shut up, go back to Auschwitz” beantwortet.
• Will We Again Abandon Afghan Women? (NYT)
  “Women’s rights are human rights,” Hillary Clinton declared at the United Nations Fourth Conference on Women in 1995. As President Barack Obama’s “good war” in Afghanistan goes bad and negotiations with the Taliban increasingly seem likely, there has never been a greater need to recall these words.
• "Verbotene Kunst": In Russland kommt die Kirche vor der Kunstfreiheit (ZEIT ONLINE)
  Im Prozess um die Ausstellung "Verbotene Kunst" triumphieren die radikalen Orthodoxen. Putin schweigt. Und sagt damit sehr viel. Ein Kommentar von J. Voswinkel.
• In Sudan, War Is Around the Corner (NYT)
  FOR many good reasons, Americans are doubting our ability as a nation to positively influence events abroad. We’re involved in two conflicts with dubious outcomes and we’ve begun to question whether any step we take, anywhere, will be the right one. But it was not long ago that the United States intervened abroad in a bold way that led to undeniably positive results.
• Why I Am Not a Conservative. By F.A. Hayek
  At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change. In matters of current politics today they generally have little choice but to support the conservative parties. But, though the position I have tried to define is also often described as "conservative," it is very different from that to which this name has been traditionally attached.
• Connections: Two New Books About Anti-Semitism (NYT)
  “A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad” (Random House) weighs in at about 1,200 pages, a compendium of a career’s research by Robert S. Wistrich, professor of modern Jewish history at Hebrew University in Israel. And more than 800 pages are devoted just to British anti-Semitic history in "Trials of the Diaspora" (Oxford) by Anthony Julius , a learned British lawyer whose clients included Diana, Princess of Wales, and whose book on T.S. Eliot’s anti-Semitism was widely praised for its supple understanding.
• Nahost: Lässt der Westen Israel fallen? Von Richard Herzinger (WELT ONLINE)
  Israels Feinde treiben den jüdischen Staat in die Enge. Auch die westlichen Partner gehen auf Distanz. Israel sucht neue Verbündete.
• Obama pressured Israel and Turkey to hold secret talks (Haaretz)
  Barak opposed idea of Ben-Eliezer meeting Turkish FM, according to associates; Lieberman furious with Netanyahu for not informing him of plan, but says matter won't lead Yisrael Beiteinu to quit coalition.
• Questions for Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (NYT)
  The Israeli security cabinet just voted to ease the three-year blockade on Gaza, in the wake of the tragic naval attack on the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos. What does that mean in practical terms?

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