Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 19/17 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. November Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Leichen für Leichen.......................................................................................................................................... 1 2. 22 Jahre nach Mord an Yitzhak Rabin............................................................................................................. 3 3. Israel und Saudi-Arabien nähern sich einander an.......................................................................................... 5 4. Medienquerschnitt............................................................................................................................................ 6 1. Leichen für Leichen Vertreter von Israels Regierung und Sicherheitsappa­rat warnten den Islamischen Jihad vor einem Vergel­tungsschlag. Die palästinensischen Extremisten hat­ten zuvor mit Rache für die Zerstörung eines gehei­men Grenztunnels gedroht, bei der zwölf ihrer Män­ner den Tod fanden. Fünf der Toten konnten von Is­rael geborgen werden. Die Hoffnung ist, die Leichen gegen die toten Körper zweier israelischer Soldaten sowie zwei weitere noch lebende Zivilisten, die im Gazastreifen festgehalten werden, auszutauschen. Sollte es doch zu einem erneuten Krieg kommen, könnte das das Ende des derzeit von der Fatah und der Hamas verfolgten Versöhnungsprozesses be­deuten. Laut bisheriger Vereinbarungen ist geplant, dass die Palästinensische Autonomiebehörde ab 1. Dezember erneut die Kontrolle über den Gazastrei­fen übernimmt. Inhuman Trafficking (…) Hamas believes it holds the bargaining chips in what would be another lopsided, gruesome body ex­change. It holds hostage the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin and St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul, killed during Protec­tive Edge. It also holds three Israeli civilians(…) De­spite transparently false declarations that‘Zionists don’t negotiate with terrorists,” Israel has carried out numerous lopsided exchanges that have only pro­longed the agony faced by the families of Hamas hos­tages.(…) Perhaps Israel’s worst deal was the July 2008 release of Samir Kuntar and four Hezbollah fighters captured in 2006, plus the bodies of 199 Pal­estinian, Lebanese of Arab fighters, in exchange for the bodies of IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Kuntar, who was considered a hero for bludgeoning to death a four-year-old girl in a Naha­riya attack, was later killed in an IDF air strike in Syria in 2015.“We intend to return our sons home. There are no free gifts,” Netanyahu declared in a brief state­ment in Migdal Ha’emek last week. Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon lauded Netanyahu’s decision, saying “As long as we have soldiers and civilians inside the Gaza Strip, we cannot afford to conduct ourselves as usual.” We cannot agree more. Editorial, JPO, 08.11.17 Don't return bodies for nothing The Israel Defense Forces has racked up three re­cent achievements on the southern front: locating an attack tunnel leading into Israel and blowing it up; striking over a dozen terrorists, including senior Is­lamic Jihad operatives; and(…) holding on to bodies of the terrorists who were in the tunnel at the time of the strike.(…) Israel is shutting down terrorists' oper­ative options in the south, which rested on firing rock­ets and missiles and on the tunnel threat(…) If in fact the IDF has developed the ability to neutralize the tunnels that lead into Israel. It can cut down on a ma­jor part of the threat looming from Gaza, and in con­junction with the Iron Dome missile defense system, which has already proven itself, the capabilities of Ha­mas and the rest of the terrorist organization in Gaza 1