Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 23/15 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. Dezember Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Kerry warnt Israel vor bi-nationalem Staat....................................................................................................... 1 2. Skandale in der Knesset.................................................................................................................................. 3 3. Yossi Sarid gestorben...................................................................................................................................... 4 4. Medienquerschnitt............................................................................................................................................ 5 1. Kerry warnt Israel vor bi-nationalem Staat Die kritische Rede von US-Außenminister John Kerry beim Saban-Forum in Washington stieß in Jerusalem auf Unmut. Israel werde kein bi­nationaler Staat werden, wies Regierungschef Ben­jamin Netanyahu die Warnungen von Kerry vor demografischen Entwicklungen zu Ungunsten des demokratischen und jüdischen Staates zurück, sollte es keinen Frieden geben. Außerdem müsse auch die Gegenseite Bereitschaft zur Zweistaatenlösung signalisieren, so Netanyahu. Kerry warnte zudem vor einem möglichen Kollaps der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde, der Israel dazu zwingen würde, erneut für Verwaltung sowie Sicherheit in den Teilen des Westjordanlandes zu sorgen, die bereits auto­nom sind. Der US-Außenminister bekräftigte die Verpflichtung des Weißen Hauses, sich für die Zweistaatenlösung auch weiterhin starkzumachen, allerdings sei es an den beiden Konfliktparteien, die notwendige Entscheidung dafür zu treffen. Beyond the politics of the moment (…) What is left of the Middle East that existed when Obama ca me to power(…)? Very little. Only one country in the Middle East remains stable-- Israel, thank God.(…) Israel has remained stable precisely because it has not accepted the advice of the White House.(…) The binary thinking to which we have become accustomed--"two states" or"one state"-­is simplistic and disastrous.(…) The"peace di a­logue" of recent decades has created a psychologi­cal fixation that is hard to free ourselves from, even if it has nothing to do with reality. Kerry is worried about Israel's demographics? We are too. But the Jewish birthrate in Israel is perhaps the only one in the Western world on a continual upward trend. And we expect that a million new Jewish immigrants will arrive in Israel in the coming years. The historical irony is that our enemies are unwittingly aiding this process of the Jewish people's return to Zion. Kerry called on us to"see beyond the politics and the pressures of the moment and to look to the future." Exactly right. That is the essence of the return to Zion-- looking past the politics of the moment. Dror Eydar, IHY, 07.12.15 The penny finally drops for John Kerry John Kerry has been spewing out quite a bit of non­sense over the past two years.(…) But his latest statement, for a change, belongs to a different de­partment.(…) Kerry supports the Jewish state, and objects to Israel slipping into becoming a binational state.(…) There is a small Jewish state. There's no need to turn it into a big Arab state.(…)The Jewish settlement is not part of the"peace among nations" project.(…) Israel opposes the Palestinian right of return to areas in the heart of Israel. Quite rightly so. But the supporters of the one-state solution, both on the left and right, actually support the right of return. They insist on mixing the two populations together. (…) we need to remember the kibbutzim. From the moment they were founded to this very day, they 1