Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 7/17 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. April Die Themen dieser Ausgabe Pessach.................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Hamas in Zugzwang................................................................................................................................................. 3 Trumps Nahostfrieden.............................................................................................................................................. 5 Medienquerschnitt.................................................................................................................................................... 6 Pessach Pessach ist Erntedankfest und zugleich Erinnerung an den biblischen Exodus, den Auszug der Israeliten aus Ägypten, die Flucht vor Unterdrückung und Sklaverei. Zentrales Element der Haggadah, die die Geschichte erzählt, sind die zehn Plagen, mit denen Gott die Ägypter strafte, während die Israeliten ver­schont blieben. Das Pessachfest dient vielen zum Anlass, aktuelle Parallelen zu ziehen und zur Solida­rität zu mahnen mit Menschen, die heute auf der Flucht sind. Für fromme Juden gilt das einwöchige Verbot, gesäuerte Nahrungsmittel zu sich zu neh­men. Politiker streiten darüber, in welchem Ausmaß Brot, Nudeln und Bier dennoch auch während der Pessachwoche im öffentlichen Handel und Restau­rants erhältlich sein sollen. The sigh of slavery The Haggadah is fascinating for what it says and for what it does not say.(…) Although it starts with slavery and moves to freedom, the slavery story it tells is weak on details.(…) The biblical text co m­municates the tension but then moves on to Moses and his mission, the plagues and the Passover sacrifice. Hundreds of years of slavery are summed up in a cry.(…) The Haggadah asks us to recreate a story. In a festive mood, we tend to minimize the pain and move on quickly to redemption. But if we are to be true actors on this vast historic stage, we must try to embody, quite literally, what the experi­ence of slavery was like.(…) Imagine yourself in the body of the slave, the harshness of the labor on your shoulders. The thinness of a tunic that cannot pro­tect you. The sores on a back that’s been whipped. (…) Let’s sit with the pain and let it enter our very bones. We cannot get to true joy any other way. We cannot treat the stranger differently if we cannot experience the bodily pain of the stranger. Compas­sion lives in that sliver between us and them that collapses with a sigh. Passover is about learned compassion. I love our people, but there are few things I like less than a Jewish racist. That’s the blight of one who forgets what pain feels like. That’s not our Passover story. It’s the opp osite of our story. Erica Brown, TOI, 04.04.17 The price of freedom (…) this is how the Hebrew nation emerged- a nation that began with a clan of 70 members in Egypt, freed and saved by the power of divine inter­vention and grew to a nation of 2.5 million in the land of Israel as part of the covenant between God and Abraham.( …) Processes of creation require chronological intervals. Passover means skipping over processes that take time, therefore everything is done in haste; those who manage to get out in time are delivered, but those who walk in darkness and f all behind are left behind.(…) the Egyptians drown, but the miracle is that the Israelites are saved. Slavery and assimilation and removal from history are the way of nature. But not for the Jewish people. The Jewish people inherently try to defy 1