Das Links-rechts-Schema führt in die Irre nzz.ch/meinung/das-links-rec…

Um die heutige Krise im Nahen Osten besser zu verstehen, muss man 47 Jahre zurückgehen. Hier wurde das Feuer entfacht: Yassir Arafat in Teheran, nur wenige Tage nach der Revolution von 1979 und der Machtübernahme der Islamischen Republik. Neben ihm sitzen Ahmad Khomeini, der Sohn von Ayatollah Khomeini, und Sadegh Tabatabai, Sprecher der Übergangsregierung. Dieses Treffen war weit mehr als ein symbolischer Besuch. Es markierte den Beginn einer politischen und ideologischen Allianz, deren Auswirkungen bis heute in der gesamten Region spürbar sind. Eine interessante Randnotiz: Adnan Tabatabai, der Sohn von Sadegh Tabatabai, war viele Jahre als Iran-Experte und Berater im Umfeld der deutschen Außenpolitik tätig und gehört zu den bekanntesten Stimmen zu Iran in Deutschland. برای اینکه بحران امروز خاورمیانه را بهتر درک کنیم، باید به ۴۷ سال پیش برگردیم. این آتش از همین‌جا شعله‌ور شد؛ یاسر عرفات در تهران، تنها چند روز پس از انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ و استقرار جمهوری اسلامی. در کنار او احمد خمینی، فرزند آیت‌الله خمینی، و صادق طباطبایی، سخنگوی دولت موقت، نشسته‌اند. دیداری که تنها یک ملاقات نمادین نبود؛ بلکه آغاز پیوندی سیاسی و ایدئولوژیک بود که تأثیرات آن تا امروز در سراسر منطقه دیده می‌شود. نکته جالب اینکه عدنان طباطبایی، فرزند صادق طباطبایی، سال‌ها به عنوان کارشناس و مشاور مسائل ایران در آلمان فعالیت کرده و از چهره‌های شناخته‌شده در محافل سیاست خارجی این کشور بوده است.

Will Europe Save Hamas in Gaza? I recently met with a high-ranking European official from a country deeply involved in the Israel and Palestine file to discuss Gaza’s future and immediate options for relieving civilians trapped under Hamas’s grip. I presented a simple proposal: create safe zones across the "Yellow Line" into the Israel‑controlled green zone and support new, organized, secure, Hamas‑free communities where Gazans could finally begin rebuilding their lives. Whether the issue is humane living conditions, deradicalization, education, healthcare, or shielding civilians from both Hamas or Israeli strikes, the green zone is the only place where meaningful action is possible. Instead of engaging, the official launched into a long monologue about their country’s contributions to the Palestinian Authority, UNRWA, and other institutions, all while insisting on their own “humility” as a faraway European nation. Then came the truly alarming part: a casual normalization of Hamas. The official proudly described how easy it had been to work with Hamas before October 7, praising the group for providing “excellent security” and being “easier to work with than others.” What they called pragmatism was, in reality, a twenty‑year pattern of enabling a violent terrorist organization responsible for immense civilian suffering. When I explained that any Hamas‑free zones would require vetting at the Yellow Line to prevent weapons or operatives from entering, the official reacted with shock. “This vetting would violate international law,” they repeated, insisting that their country could not fund projects with any checks on who enters. I noted the absurdity: I had undergone extensive vetting just to enter their country, and even this building, yet they believed Hamas fighters should be able to walk into new civilian safe zones unimpeded. Their only response was vague appeals to “international law,” which, in their interpretation, seems to require allowing terrorists to hide among civilians. The meeting ended on an even more surreal note. When the official asked what would happen to Hamas fighters left in the red zone, I said I didn’t care; they could fight the Israeli military on their own all they wanted once they no longer held two million civilians hostage. The official lamented that “this isn’t the old American West” and expressed concern for what would happen to Hamas without human shields. Disgust doesn’t begin to describe my feelings and reactions. I left convinced of something long suspected: Hamas’s twenty‑year rule was sustained not only by its own brutality but by an ecosystem of NGOs, donor nations, Western European governments, journalists, academics, activists, lawyers, and even self‑styled human‑rights defenders who normalized Hamas, treated it as a legitimate authority, or tolerated its abuses because their hostility toward Israel outweighed their concern for Gazans.

On June 11, the Commissioner-General ad interim of UNRWA, Christian Saunders, took the decision to terminate the employment of 70 UNRWA staff members in Gaza with immediate effect. The decision was taken further to an assessment of the safety and security of UNRWA operations in Gaza. Read the full statement: unrwa.org/newsroom/official-…

“I don’t want a state made up of skeletons or graves,” says Ahmed Fouad When ideology is allowed to supersede the sanctity of human life, the result is a “martyrdom culture” that perversely celebrates death and destruction . The Palestinian should not keep burying people for a lost cause. It should be about building a society where Palestinians can live, prosper, and be free.

Without QUESTION the United States could have okayed this transfer. Great job working in an FIU, the barrier to entry is low.

Mann im Männergefängnis sei laut Gericht rechtswidrig. Der Sexualstraftäter sei „konsequent als Frau zu behandeln“. „Die Thüringer Gesetzeslage ist da aus Sicht des Landgerichts Meiningen eindeutig.“ Kann ich die Leute nochmal sehen, die sich dauernd an Liebich aufhängen?

Da bleibt einem die Spucke weg! #UNRWA als #Hamas-Frontorganisation Ein Inspekteur von #USAID hat weitere 101(!) zusätzliche Mitarbeiter der #UN-Organisation enttarnt. Sie folterten und vergewaltigten als Hamas-Terroristen am 7. Oktober 2023 in israelischen Siedlungen. Die #USA könnten #UNRWA bald als „ausländische Terrororganisation“ einstufen. Keine Sorge, Deutschlands Steuergelder werden weiterfließen. report24.news/aufgedeckt-wei…

Das "Bündnis Willensnation“ lobbyiert für das Kopftuch an Schulen und instrumentalisiert den Begriff Minderheitenrechte, um ein Kopftuchverbot als Angriff auf die Schweiz darzustellen. Faktencheck: Das Rahmenübereinkommen des Europarats zum Schutz nationaler Minderheiten gilt für sprachliche Minderheiten (Rätoromanen, Frankophone etc.), die jüdische Gemeinschaft und Jenische/Sinti – nicht für religiöse Zuwanderergruppen. Muslime haben individuelle Religionsfreiheit (Art. 15 BV), aber keinen kollektiven Minderheitenschutz und keine Gruppenrechte. Die Willensnation beruht auf dem gemeinsamen Willen zur Integration in eine freiheitliche, neutrale Schweiz – nicht auf der Akzeptanz von Symbolen konservativer islamischer Geschlechterrollen im öffentlichen Dienst oder Schulen. Religionsfreiheit ja. Staatliche Neutralität und Integration auch. Wer beides vermischt, versteht weder Minderheitenrechte noch die Willensnation. #Willensnation #Kopftuch #Integration #Schweiz

The United Nations and Hamas: A Toxic Relationship? A close friend of mine from Gaza City, tortured nearly to death by Hamas, a well‑known activist against the group, and someone I helped evacuate during the war, was featured in the UN Human Rights Council’s report documenting Hamas’s abuses against Palestinian civilians: executions, torture, beatings, the misuse of medical facilities, and the terrorizing of women and children. When he met with the UN investigation team, one investigator was openly sympathetic to Hamas and the “resistance” narrative, signaling from the start that she doubted his testimony. He then spent five hours convincing the rest of the team that Hamas had, in fact, tortured him, despite extensive evidence of his injuries circulating on social media and a medical examination confirming blunt‑force trauma consistent with organized abuse, not random violence or Israeli bombardment. He even had to walk the investigators, including Ms. pro‑Hamas, through how his case fits into hundreds of others across Gaza, and how Hamas itself has filmed and publicly released its own executions, beatings, and torture to terrorize the population. Imagine that: Hamas documenting its own crimes on video, and supposedly serious investigators refusing to believe what is right in front of them. Imagine a human rights inquiry that includes someone openly aligned with the very group under investigation. It forces a hard question: why are parts of the UN system so compromised when it comes to Hamas that they cannot think beyond Israel’s actions long enough to examine the crimes of Palestinian actors, crimes that are equally harmful, shameful, and deserving of condemnation? And why are some so eager to believe Palestinians when the accusation is against Israel, yet so reluctant when the accusation is against Hamas, even when the evidence is overwhelming?

Ein Buch erzählt die anregende Kulturgeschichte der Beleidigung im Deutschen. Die Nachahmung im Alltag kann allerdings in einigen Fällen kostspielig werden. nzz.ch/feuilleton/buecher/in…