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Amir Tibon sur le régime sioniste et le Rassemblement National

Le virage prosioniste du Rassemblement National, amorcé il y a un peu plus d’une dizaine d’années alors que ce parti s’appelait encore Front National, est maintenant achevé. Si les idées antisémites, au sens d’hostilité à l’égard des Juifs, sont évidemment toujours présentes au niveau de la base du parti, elles ont disparu du vocabulaire de ses dirigeants qui se présentent même comme les…

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In an interview with The Telegraph, Ron Prosor said Germany had become Israel’s “second strategic partner” after the US, in part because of its “amazing” response to the Oct 7 Hamas attacks. He also stressed that the relationship had grown much deeper because of an “awakening” in Germany about the threat posed to European security by Iran[...]

Britain would typically be considered Israel’s closest European ally, but Germany and Israel have recently embarked on a major new security partnership which includes the sale of the Israeli Arrow 3 air defence system, which will be used to defend Europe’s skies from Russia. The Arrow 3, which will cost Germany about €4 billion (£3 billion), is a long-range air defence system capable of shooting down ballistic missiles, warheads and hypersonic missiles. [...]

Mr Prosor went on to hint that “there is stuff going on” in terms of what “Germany needs in defending itself”, without giving further details, and endorsed new rules being introduced in a German state that will make support of Israel a condition to acquire citizenship. Saxony-Anhalt announced this month that anyone seeking German citizenship will be required to state in writing “that they recognise Israel’s right to exist and condemn any efforts directed against the existence of the State of Israel”.

The policy could eventually be adopted across the German federal system

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BERLIN (JTA) – Several thousand Berliners braved a chilling rain Sunday to demonstrate against antisemitism at an interfaith rally at the city’s iconic Brandenburg Gate.

The event — which drew a broad coalition of politicians and religious leaders as well as popular stars — was a response to a record increase in reported antisemitic incidents across Germany in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

Dubbed “Never again is now — Germany stands up,” the rally was organized by a Jewish real estate magnate, Nicolai Schwarzer.

In announcing the event, Schwarzer, 48, said he wanted “to send a powerful and unmistakable signal to the world — from the heart of the capital — that no form of antisemitism, hatred or xenophobia will be tolerated in Berlin or anywhere else in Germany.”

The rally joins several others organized in major cities in Europe and the United States to demonstrate opposition to antisemitism. They have been organized in part as a counterpoint to the large pro-Palestinian rallies that have taken place in many of those cities. Such rallies have been relatively muted and heavily monitored by police in Germany, where antisemitic speech and criticism of Israel are circumscribed by laws enacted in part because of the country’s role in perpetrating the Holocaust. Still, pro-Palestinian sentiment, including among Germany’s large immigrant population, is high.

“Sometimes I don’t recognize this country, something has gone out of control,” Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said at the rally.

He described a pro-Hamas protest that took place at Berlin’s University of the Arts on Nov. 13, where he said participants “dressed in black to look like Hamas terrorists. They had painted their hands red — a clear reference to the murder of two Israeli soldiers by an Islamist mob in Gaza more than 20 years ago. The whole thing was orchestrated by visiting professors from the global south – how can that be?” Schuster said the incident was proof of the danger of the movement to boycott Israel, which has been considered officially antisemitic in Germany since 2018.

Bärbel Bas, the president of Germany’s parliament, read through a litany of antisemitic incidents: “Swastikas and Stars of David have been daubed on synagogues, memorials and even private homes.” In one notable incident on Oct. 18, two Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Jewish community center that houses a synagogue as well as a kindergarten.

Bas described hearing from a student who was the only child to attend class at her Jewish school on a day when fear reigned about a Hamas call for violence abroad.

“Jews are afraid, and they feel left alone. And it’s not only hate that creates this feeling, but also silence and indifference,” she said. “And that’s why it’s important that we make a powerful, wipeable and loud statement here today. Never again is now.”

Other speakers included Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor; Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner; author Michel Friedman; 1990s pop music icon Herbert Grönemeyer; and Hubertus Heil, Germany’s minister of labor and social affairs.

The rally began with the lighting of a Hanukkah menorah by Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal, the head of Berlin’s chapter of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Representatives of Catholic and Protestant churches lit advent candles.

Eren Güvercin, a member of the German Islam Conference — which the German government started as a forum for dialogue in 2006 — delivered a prayer of his own, for “peace for the souls” of the Israelis murdered on Oct. 7 and for the hostages and their families, “who fear for their loved ones.”

“And we pray for peace for the people who are now suffering the consequences of this terrorist organization’s crimes in Gaza,” he added. “Nothing we say here today will solve the Middle East conflict. But we raise our voices to remind everyone who lives together here in this city, in this country: Faith is a source from which we draw to create peace. Faith must not divide us. It must unite us.”

Organizers claimed 11,000 people had taken part in the rally, though police estimated the attendance at 3,000. Those gathered were praised by many speakers for braving the weather to show their support. They included members of Berlin’s Jewish community, estimated at over 30,000, as well as non-Jewish allies.

“This is the third time we have been here in front of the Brandenburg Gate since Oct. 7,” said Berliner Melanie Schmergal, 55. “It upsets me that you don’t see any big demonstrations for Israel’s right to exist and against antisemitism. You see other people screaming quite a bit. [But] I believe… that the others are not in the majority.”

“It is important to take a stand against any kind of extremism,” said Christian Götz, 60. “And that Israel has a right to defend itself, and that we as a population have to show, especially here in Berlin, that we are on Israel’s side.”

The pair, who are not Jewish, said they had met the descendants of Jews who used to live in their building in Berlin, and who were either deported or managed to flee Nazi Germany.

“It’s so incredible that something like this seems possible again,” Schmergal said.

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On Dec. 8, the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lower Saxony hosted a public panel discussion marking 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically addressing the issue of antisemitism after the Hamas terrorist attack.

Next week, the Berlin-based Tikvah Institute is co-hosting the presentation of a study on how Russian-speaking Jews in Germany perceive antisemitism after Oct. 7. About 90% of all Jews in Germany today are migrants from the former Soviet Union.

And though not in Germany, the annual Claims Conference International Holocaust Survivors Night on Dec. 11 — a star-studded event whose virtual guests of honor will include German Chancellor Olaf Scholz — “takes on unique significance,” said the organization’s president, Gideon Taylor: “We are reminded that some of the strongest among us survived during the darkest of times.”

Despite the alarming statistics in Germany and elsewhere, Jews are in a better position today in terms of world support than they were in the 1930s-40s, said New Yorker Menachem Rosensaft, who was born at the displaced persons camp at Bergen-Belsen and participated in the recent round table at the memorial.

“President Biden, for one, is the polar opposite of FDR in his unequivocal support for Israel after Oct. 7 and his equally unequivocal repudiation and condemnation of all manifestations of antisemitism,” said Rosensaft, who is also the chair of the Advisory Board of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation.

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Transparenz, UNO-style

X/twitter, 18. Oktober 2024 Ich glaube, das darf man so sagen: Die UN ist ja wohl zur Witzfigur verkommen. Was für eine Schande. Botschafter Ron Prosor, X/twitter, 16. Oktober 2024: Dies ist der Bericht, den Israel im Rahmen der vom AIAD durchgeführten UN-Untersuchung zur UNRWA erhalten hat. Nachdem Israel umfassend kooperiert und Informationen weitergegeben hatte, wurde der gesamte…

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Weihnachten und Neujahr standen im Zeichen drohenden islamischen Terrors. So mussten Besucher der Messen im Kölner Dom an schwer bewaffneten Polizisten vorbei ihre Kirche betreten. Vor und zwischen den Festtagen kam es zu Festnahmen.

Gewalt und Antisemitismus haben Tradition bei deutschen Muslimen

Strafbare Slogans und Gewalt sind kein Phänomen des aktuellen Gaza-Konflikts, sondern seit Jahren üblich in der muslimischen Migrantenszene. Im April 2023 skandierten in Kreuzberg Demonstranten ‚Tod den Juden’. „Ein Bild der Schande“ kommentierte Manuel Ostermann, Vizechef der Bundespolizeigewerkschaft. Im Mai 2021 wurden bei einer Palästinademonstration in Neukölln über 90 [!] Polizisten verletzt. Schon 2014 war, beispielsweise in Gelsenkirchen, skandiert worden ‚Hamas, Hamas, Juden ins Gas’ – ein besonders widerwärtiger Tiefpunkt und Schulterschluss von Hamas-Anhängern mit dem Nationalsozialismus. Denn, was vielfach als berechtigte Kritik an Israel verharmlost oder gerechtfertigt wird, ist oft blanker Judenhass – nicht ‚Israel’ steht im Focus oder seine Politik, sondern ‚die Juden’ schlechthin. „Diese Schwachköpfe missbrauchen Deutschlands Freiheiten und rufen ohne Hemmungen zur Vernichtung Israels und der Juden auf.“ sagte der israelische Botschafter in Deutschland, Ron Prosor.

‚Migrantifa’, der die bestehende linksradikale ‚Antifa’ zu weiss ist, tritt immer wieder als Interessenvertreterin von Straftätern auf, womit sie implizit zugibt, dass diese vorwiegend oder ausschliesslich [nahöstlichen] Migrationshintergrund haben. So demonstrierte sie im Sommer 2023 gegen verstärkte Sicherheitsmassnahmen in Berliner Schwimmbädern, weil diese ‚rassistisch’ seien. Ebenso richtete sie sich gegen Massnahmen, die die in Berlin so verbreitete Clankriminalität ins Visier nehmen, wodurch sie deutlich macht, dass ihr sehr wohl bewusst ist, wer Träger dieser Kriminalität ist.

Silvesterunruhen als politische Demonstration

Die Berliner ‚Silvesterunruhen’ vom Jahreswechsel 2022/23 haben sich 2023/24 wiederholt – wie von der ehemaligen Regierenden Bürgermeisterin von Berlin und derzeitigen Senatorin Franziska Giffey und von Innenministerin Faeser vorausgesagt. Vieles spricht dafür, dass da nicht ein paar übermütige Jugendliche ausgelassen feiern wollten, sondern dass dies ein bewusster und beabsichtigter Angriff auf unsere Gesellschaft war, waren die Täter doch – wie Feuerwehrleute mit Migrationshintergrund ausdrücklich bestätigen – Migranten, egal welche Staatsangehörigkeit sie besitzen. Die Berliner Polizei gibt unumwunden zu, dass es sich bei den Silvesterunruhen um Gewalt handelte, die sich bewusst gegen unseren Staat richtet, wenn sie in einem [prophylaktischen] offenen Brief an die Eltern der jugendlichen Gewalttäter im Dezember 2023 ausdrücklich formuliert; „Angriffe auf Einsatzkräfte sind keine geeignete Art, … gegen den Staat zu demonstrieren.“ Zwar beschwichtigten und beschönigten offizielle Stellen die Ausschreitungen zum Jahreswechsel 23/24, aber es spricht für sich, dass allein in Berlin 60 Polizisten verletzt und 400 Festnahmen vorgenommen wurden.

Wir werden uns auch im Neuen Jahr auf Einiges gefasst machen müssen. Die Ampel-Regierung in Deutschland wird dafür sorgen, dass weiter ein unkontrollierter Strom muslimischer Migranten nach Deutschland fliesst. Der Münchner Kardinal Marx, bisher ein Mann interreligiöser Verständigung, sagte kurz vor Weihnachten, er könne keinen Dialog mit Vertretern einer Religion führen, “die den Massenmord der Hamas rechtfertigen“.

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Ulle Schauws MdB und Jüdische Gemeinde Krefeld pflanzen gemeinsam einen Baum

im Garten der Villa Merländer Anlässlich des 75. Jahrestags der Staatsgründung Israels hat der Botschafter Israels in Deutschland, Ron Prosor, zusammen mit Omid Nouripour, dem Vorsitzenden von Bündnis 90/Die Grüne, in Berlin einen Baum gepflanzt. Die Aktion auf dem Gelände der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung war der Auftakt eines gemeinsamen Projekts von Botschaft und Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. Bundestagsabgeordnete der Partei pflanzen 75 vom Jüdischen Nationalfonds KKL bereitgestellte Bäume in ihren Wahlkreisen. So auch Ulle Schauws, Abgeordnete für den Wahlkreis Krefeld, Moers und Neukirchen-Vluyn: "Es ist für mich eine Ehre Teil dieses besonderen Projekts zu sein, welches hier gemeinsam mit der Jüdischen Gemeinde Krefeld und der NS-Dokumentationsstelle Villa Merländer umgesetzt wird."

Gastgeberin am Pflanz-Tag war Sybille Kühne-Franken, Vorsitzende des Villa Merländer-Vereins. "Die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen sind ganz besondere", sagte sie, vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der deutschen Geschichte. Die Bundestagsabgeordnete Ulle Schauws lobte die Stärke der israelischen Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft und betonte, wie wichtig der Kampf gegen Antisemitismus in Deutschland sei. Dieser sei bisher noch ein "zartes Pflänzchen". Die Bündnisgrüne hoffe, "dass der Baum ein Signal ist, dass dieses weiterwachsen wird". Der Vorstandsvorsitzende der Jüdischen Gemeinde Krefeld Hr. Samuel Naydych unterstreicht: "Wir pflanzen heute auch für zukünftige Generationen.“ An Schauws und Kühne-Franken gewandt sprach er die Hoffnung aus, "dass unsere Zusammenarbeit auch in Zukunft Früchte tragen wird." Bei dem gepflanzten Baum handelt es sich um eine Kupfer-Felsenbirne, die ursprünglich aus dem Norden der USA stammt und heute in weiten Teilen Europas verbreitet ist. Die Kupfer-Felsenbirne kann auch unter klimatisch schwierigeren Bedingungen überleben. Foto v.l.n.r.: Herr Klaus Reimann (Architektenbüro der Villa Merländer), Ulle Schauws (Bundestagsabgeordnete Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Franziska Penski (Mitarbeiterin der Villa Merländer), Sibylle Kühne-Franken (Vereins-Vorsitzende der NS-Dokumentationsstelle), Samuel Naydych (Vorstandsvorsitzender der Jüdischen Gemeinde Krefeld) und Rav Yitzchak Mendel Wagner (Rabbiner der Jüdischen Gemeinde Krefeld) Read the full article

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Dangerous development Israel is preparing to send ships to Egypt and introduce fifth generation aircraft into the war

Updates on the Al-Aqsa Flood operation presented in this episode of Samri Channel. Starting with the Bahraini Parliament, which announced that the Israeli ambassador had left the Kingdom, in exchange for the return of its ambassador from Israel, in addition to the cessation of economic relations with it. Bahrain, therefore, becomes the first country to establish relations with Israel within the framework of the Abraham Accords, and to take a decision of this kind. The Council declared that "the continuation of war and military operations, and the continuing Israeli escalation in light of the lack of respect for international humanitarian law, prompts the Council to demand more decisions and measures that preserve the lives and lives of innocent people and civilians in Gaza and all Palestinian areas."

 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed bin Salman Al-Musallam, according to the statement, expressed his “pride and pride in the keenness and interest given by the King of the country, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, to support the Palestinian cause, and his firm and unwavering position, and the right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.” Eastern Province, in accordance with international resolutions. Bahrain concluded a peace agreement and diplomatic relations with Israel, in September 2020, and appointed its first ambassador to Tel Aviv, in August 2021, who is Khaled Yousef Al-Jalahma, while Israel appointed its ambassador to Manama, in December 2021, who is Aitan Naei.

On the other hand, US President Joe Biden said that he supports a “pause” in the war between Hamas and Israel, to allow “prisoners” to leave the Gaza Strip. The statement comes despite the United States' refusal, since the beginning of events on October 7, to call for a ceasefire, as it repeatedly stressed Israel's right to defend itself, and believed that stopping the war was in the interest of the Hamas movement. On the other hand, the White House announced that it will develop a strategy to combat Islamophobia, explaining that this strategy will be developed in coordination with the communities concerned.

US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday, in response to a man who interrupted him during an election rally, that he supports a “pause” in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, in order to allow “prisoners” to leave the Gaza Strip. While Biden was speaking at a campaign fundraising event, a man interrupted the Democratic president, saying: “As a rabbi, I ask you to call for an immediate ceasefire.”

The 80-year-old president, who is seeking a second term in elections scheduled for next year, responded: “I think we need a pause. The pause means allowing time to extract the prisoners.” In response to a question about Biden’s statement, the White House said that what the president meant by the word “prisoners” were the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In defending his position during this war, Biden said: “I was the one who convinced Bibi (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) to call for a ceasefire to get the prisoners out. I was the one who spoke to (Egyptian President Abdel Fattah) Sisi to convince him to open the door” of the Rafah crossing, which It connects the southern sector to Egypt. Commenting on this aspect of the US President’s statement, the White House said that Biden meant the two American hostages who were recently released by the Hamas movement.

In another context, the Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, said today (Thursday) that Israel has asked foreign countries to send floating hospitals as a possible means of providing treatment for wounded Palestinians who are allowed to leave the war-torn Gaza Strip for Egypt, according to what the agency reported. «Reuters». In an interview with the Israeli public broadcaster, Radio Kan, Prosor said that such a request had been submitted by Germany and other countries. He described the scenario explained by Radio Kan, regarding the boarding of these wounded on board such floating ships in the Egyptian port of Al-Arish, as accurate. Egypt is preparing to receive 7,000 foreigners scheduled to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, according to what the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement, today.

Finally, Robert Jordan, the former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, spoke in an interview with CNN anchor Becky Anderson about the possible reason for the visit of the Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, to Washington amid the tense conditions in the region and the war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip. Jordan said that the position of Saudi Arabia, which condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli ground operation in Gaza and the strike on the Jabalia camp, is not surprising, noting that “the Saudis consider themselves custodians of the two most sacred places for Sunni Muslims. They have a broader responsibility because of that. I think they will find that it is "It is almost impossible to encourage a massive Israeli invasion under these circumstances." The former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia continued by saying: “I will tell you that I think they are secretly terrified by what Hamas did, they are not friends of Hamas. And I think that if you look at it, Hamas is actually trying to undermine a number of Gulf regimes through what it did. So I think “Secretly, we will see the Saudis more cooperative, but their public statements are different.”

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Konkrete Taten sind wichtiger als Worte

Tichy:»Am 1. November schilderte der israelische Botschafter Ron Prosor im Inforadio des RBB das Massaker an einer israelischen Familie stellvertretend für das Leid all derer, die von der Hamas niedergemetzelt worden sind. Er sagte: „Eine Familie, Vater, Mutter, zwei Kinder, 6 und 8 Jahre alt. Das Auge des Vaters wurde von Hamas-Terroristen ausgestochen vor den Der Beitrag Konkrete Taten sind wichtiger als Worte erschien zuerst auf Tichys Einblick. http://dlvr.it/SyJ3Fl «

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Die deutsche Kulturszene

Botschafter Ron Prosor, X/twitter, 23. Januar 2024 Das Schweigen der deutschen Kulturszene nach dem 7. Oktober ist Ohrenbetäubend. Es ist so, als würden sie kollektiv beschließen ein Sabbatjahr zu nehmen. Muss eine Avantgarde-Performance sein – “The Sound of Silence”. The silence of the German cultural scene after October 7th is deafening. It's like they all collectively decided to take a…

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Aus der Dlf Audiothek | Interview der Woche | Israels Botschafter Prosor – „Der dunkelste Tag in der jüdischen Geschichte“ https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.3265.de.html?mdm:audio_id=dira_DLF_69117092

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Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused the grounding of flights at the airports in the capital Damascus and northern city Aleppo, both of which are controlled by the government of war-torn Syria. The “simultaneous” strikes “damaged landing strips in the two...

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There has to be a price paid by Hamas: Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to Germany | DW News

In a recent article published by DW News, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, emphasized the need for Hamas to bear the consequences of its actions. Prosor highlighted that there must be accountability and a price to be paid for the militant group’s continuous aggression. Prosor, known for his firm stance on Israel’s security, expressed his concerns about the ongoing conflict in the…

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La guerre Ukraine/Russie a rapporté à Israël 14 milliards de shekels malgré l'opposition de la France

Commentant l’accord sur la vente de batteries anti-missiles Strela 3 à l’Allemagne, Ron Prosor, l’ambassadeur d’Israël à Berlin, a déclaré à l’antenne qu’il s’agit du plus gros contrat de défense de l’histoire d’Israël, l’accord rapportera à Israël 14 milliards de shekels et créera « des centaines, des milliers de nouveaux emplois. ». Le diplomate a expliqué que l’Allemagne avait besoin d’armes…