Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 23/16 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. Dezember Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Streit um Amona............................................................................................................................................. 1 2. Sexueller Missbrauch in Uniform................................................................................................................. 3 3. Trump und Israel.......................................................................................................................................... 5 4. Medienquerschnitt............................................................................................................................................ 7 Streit um Amona Die Abgeordneten der Knesset haben in erster Le­sung mehrheitlich für einen Gesetzentwurf zur Lega­lisierung der Außenbezirke von Siedlungen im West­jordanland gestimmt. Die Neuregelung sieht vor, dass die ohne offizielle Genehmigung errichteten Siedlungen, die sich zum Teil oder komplett auf privaten palästinensischen Grundstücken befinden, rechtlich nicht mehr angreifbar sein sollen. An den Plänen gab es international Kritik. US­Außenminister Kerry bezeichnete den Gesetzent­wurf als besorgniserregend. In der überarbeiteten Version des Gesetzentwurfs ist der Paragraf Num­mer sieben gestrichen. Das bedeutet, dass Amona bis zum 25. Dezember geräumt werden muss, wie es der Oberste Gerichtshof entschied. Israels Re­gierungschef Benjamin Netanyahu hatte zuvor er­neut um eine 30-tägige Verlängerung der Frist gebe­ten. Radikale Siedler kündigten an, Widerstand gegen eine Räumung zu leisten. Of Ahab, Amona, and exile In an era of place-based idol worship, Judaism in­troduced a novel idea: that God could be wor­shipped at any place, at any time, by any one.(…) the temple was a means— not an ends. However, being rooted in our own land, with centralized wor­ship, proved too much of a temptation:(…) We thought that as long as we brought the right sacrific­es at the right place, in the right time, it didn’t matter if we were immoral or worshipped idols outside of the temple’s walls.(…) This worship of place is symbolized by Ahab, who, in Kings 1: 21, becomes so obsessed with the vineyard of a man called Navot, that his wife Jezebel concocts charges against Navot so she can appropriate his land and give it to her husband.(…) What was so terrible about this one act?(…) This type of act proves that Ahab’s society was one with no sense of justice, where the most basic laws of property had been violated. The government, instead of protecting people from arbitrary theft and violence, was instead enacting arbitrary theft and violence. The desire to permit immorality, was, in traditional rabbinic thought, a major factor behind the decision to wor­ship idols. Thus, Ahab’s act not only symbolized the thinking embedded in idolatry, but also the complete lack of morality that resulted from it. Perhaps a modern day analogy to Ahab’s sin would be seizing private land in the name of the(secular) ideal of nationalism, or, becoming so obsessed with one plot of land that one refuses to move even 100 meters in order to avoid confiscating private property.(…) May we, as individuals and as a nation, be saved from the sins of place-obsession and of placelessness, and merit to build a just, Godly society in our time. Shayna Abramson, TOI, 06.12.16 No policy (…) Originally presented as a solution for Amona (…), the bill left Amona hung out to dry.(…) why did Netanyahu and Bennett vote for the bill to begin with (…). The answer is simple – politics. Bennett wants to outflank Netanyahu and show that he is the true 1