Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 15/16 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. August Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. US-Wahlkampf................................................................................................................................................. 1 2. Tisha be´Av...................................................................................................................................................... 3 3. Olympiade........................................................................................................................................................ 4 4. Medienquerschnitt............................................................................................................................................ 5 1. US-Wahlkampf Der Wahlkampf in den USA macht zahlreiche Israe­lis ratlos. Traditionell verfolgen die Republikaner eine deutlicher pro-israelisch ausgerichtete Politik als die Demokraten. Die Ausfälle des konservativen Spitzenkandidaten Donald Trump lassen die allge­meine Sympathie für die Republikaner indes schwinden. Besonders mit seinen geschmacklosen Bemerkungen gegenüber den Eltern eines gefalle­nen Soldaten machte sich Trump auch in Israel keine neuen Freunde. Khizr Khan, US­amerikanischer Staatsbürger pakistanischer Her­kunft und Vater des Soldaten, hatte Trump zuvor angeklagt, seinem Land noch„ nichts und nieman­den geopfert“ zu haben. Hillary and Israel, a 3-month romance (…) The Clintons have long drunk from the well of liberal Jewish campaign financing, particularly in New York and California, and have won big shares of the Jewish vote in their campaigns.(…) Clinton clearly sees an opportunity to win margins among Jewish voters not seen since her husband ran for office. Bill Clinton won among Jewish voters by 69% in 1992(…). Clinton was very close to slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and also worked with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. Hillary Clinton needed to make nice to pro-Israel voters as a senator from New York but she has never been seen in quite the same way as her husband. Her refusal to criticize Suha Arafat after she slandered the State of Israel was one factor in this, but more troubling, and more recent, has been her continued association and reliance on Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton hack(…) as secretary of state. Blumenthal's son, Max, is considered one of the most vicious Israel critics around, to the extent that many on the Left who routinely have problems with the Jewish state considered his book out of bounds and over the top anti- Semitic garbage.(…) Clinton will likely try to subtly separate herself from Obama in the next three months, at least when it comes to Israel. She might signal that Israel might get a better deal from her than from President Obama with re­gard to the renegotiation underway for Israel's for­eign aid.(…) A fair number of pro-Israel voters, among them a high percentage of Jewish Republi­cans, are reasonably sophisticated about these policy nuances. Clinton will be happy to make Israel one of the loves of her life the next 100 days, since there may be an electoral reward for the effort. Richard Baehr, IHY, 03.08.16 Why being pro-Trump is anti-Israel (…) When I hear my friends, the people on my F a­cebook feed, the orthodox Jews I know, arguing that anything is better than another Democrat in power, I’m sympathetic.(…) it would seem bizarre to ever reject the leader of the party that seems to be the most pro-Israel. But I hate Donald Trump. He scares me.(…) I’ve put aside much of my voice for Israel recently in trying to fight against this danger­1