Weimar wiederholt sich
Israels Demokratie steht unter Belagerung. Keiner kann dies ignorieren.
Categorized as: Feuilleton • Kommentar • Politik, Diplomatie
Ă„gypten und Israel: Enan und Netanjahu Seit an Seit gegen zwei Demokratiebewegungen
Der amtierende Militärdiktator Ägyptens, Sami Enan, und der israelische Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu spielen ein schmutziges Spiel gegen ihre Völker und deren Streben nach Gerechtigkeit, Freiheit und Verfassung. Im Hintergrund des Ränkespiels: die USA.
Categorized as: Aktuelles • Hintergrund, Analyse • Politik, Diplomatie
Daphne and Itzik
THE STORY starts with Daphne Leef, an editor of short films, daughter of a composer, unable to rent an apartment in Tel Aviv. She is fed up. She announces on Facebook that she is going to live in a tent on Rothschild Boulevard and asks if anyone will join her.
Some do. Then more. Then even more. In no time, there are more than a hundred tents on the avenue, one of the oldest in town, a quiet residential neighborhood. Other tent cities spring up all around the country. A mass movement has come into being. Last Saturday, 350 thousand people demonstrated in Tel Aviv, 450 thousand throughout the country. That would be something like 18 million in the US, or three million in Germany.
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The Return of the Generals
AT THE beginning of the week, Binyamin Netanyahu was desperately looking for a way out of an escalating internal crisis. The social protest movement was gathering momentum and posing a growing danger to his government.
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