25 political scientists, sociologists and Orientalists call in to undergo a "Manifesto of the 25" under the title "Friendship and Criticism" , a line under the 'Special' in Germany's relations with Israel. You do this well-known paths.
Germany had, they characterize this, special ' "given the enormity of the Holocaust and the precarious situation of Israel in full use for the existence and welfare of this country and its population, including through delivery of state- funded high technology weapons even if Israel violated international law and human rights violation and is in a state of war ". The drafters of the 'manifesto' to see your mission clearly in triggering an attack on the people feuilletonistic, Auschwitz club ', which, as they think, of the German Middle East policy threatens resistant.
But the tension is proving itself as a non-starter at the beginning, as the three issues, which want to be the critical spirit in their manifesto to the bottom of unnecessary, in express terms the answers: "1 Is it appropriate and useful to the "friendly relationship" - and that they should remain in the opinion of the authors - continued to maintain a "special" in the sense indicated? 2. Is Germany really only because of the Holocaust in Israel has a duty in the Middle East? 3. And what it means for the inner German discourse for relations between non-Jewish, Muslim and Jewish Germans, if these two issues seriously? " Well, could actually pay the familiar anti-Semitic stable smell. Before answering the questions' the authors swear you'll find more stone and bone, "that in view of the world's historical uniqueness of the Holocaust [...] particular reserve and high sensitivity [...] none of waive the obligation [...] religious anti-Judaism and the ethnic and / or racist anti-Semitism decided to oppose [...] ". Shamelessly sophisticated latter definition comes from the fact remains that Israel is based, anti-Zionist 'anti-Semitism, and he was still so murderous, carefully steering around them.
The authors give the occasion to answer the first question as a sincere friends of Israel, a "viable" , optionally want to develop "heavy-duty" friendship "in which criticism in a support, not derogatory intention Place "has . Unfortunately, the Israelis have no idea of such German friendship. They always think the same, they are devalued. You just do not understand that "friends or friends to each other out of concern for the welfare of others, making mistakes, bad decisions and bad posture warn" . They believe partout, they know themselves best, what is their safety. The scam - let's call it Derehrlichefreund - is ancient. She is bored and is tearful. In addition to Israel will be significantly raised only against the United States.
The second question leads to drafters for addressing the "German responsibility for Palestine" that under the "outsourcing of part of the European problems in the Middle East" - in other words - have to suffer to this day the Jewish problem. The Holocaust has brought untold suffering to the Palestinians, and he was also responsible for the brutal policy of occupation of the Israelis and for the material and political backing of the United States. Israel and everything to work to be brought evil is such a view, according via Holocaust actually been fabricated by the Germans, what this actually imposed consistent with the task of eliminating evil. As far as the authors do not go. But it was in German responsibility that Palestine "no homeland, no fragmented Bantustan " stick - note the heavy-handed references to apartheid, not to mention the word itself . The authors also fooled by this concern, the concern for the welfare of Israel before - but not without a slight hiss at the same threat - if they explain, with satisfied neighbors Israel's security could be guaranteed in the long run.
The conflict is embedded in some neutrality rhetoric ("the two sides meet the demands of German attitude") , represented as follows: on the one hand "the militarist groups of Palestinians and Hizbullah, with its rocket attacks and the continued suicide bombings" , on the other side with international law continued, and the massive expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories since 1993, the time of the Oslo Agreement, the wanton destruction of homes, gardens, olive groves, infrastructure, the daily humiliations of the Palestinians and, finally, the de facto annexation of about 10 percent of the West Bank by means of a "fence", in parts of eight meter high wall ". We note the trivializing term "militaristic groups . Note also the perverse logic of the equation - in this case, the suicide bomber, where the Israeli state - is the self-formulated but a sham.
Finally, do the authors examine the "within the German discourse" . After dutifully regret still existing anti-Semitism in Germany is a completely misunderstood Adorno against "problematic philo-Semitism" that ultimately the strength rather than weakness of anti-Semitism brought into position. After all, Israel's critics know ': witnesses are important and should be Jewish. What have meant that cited the quote or whether anything said is the same. A few lines later Adorno is again, this time right along with other Jewish intellectuals who were also unable to defend themselves, as posthumous witness cited for questionable rhetoric.
fact that this low level pamphlet on the social science elite of this country has been issued is so incomprehensible as significant for the local scientific community, in which a corresponding spirit, unfortunately, is hegemonic. Among the authors find some relevant known for years, critics of Israel ' and terror-apologists, such as the director of the German Orient Institute, Prof. Dr. Udo Steinbach, or philosophy professor Dr. Georg Meggle who have found their professional self-evidently more in the preaching hatred as in scientific work. As training material and documentation of arguments and mechanisms of modern anti-Semitism based on anti-Zionism, the text may perhaps still be an enlightening function changes, because all the essential elements are here combined again.
