Archiv: scorched democracy tactic / Taktik der Verbrannten Demokratie


08.10.2024 - 20:20 [ Middle East Eye ]

UK peer: No hope of peace if Netanyahu is PM of Israel

Lord Michael Levy, the former Middle East adviser to Tony Blair, told BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday: “The whole Middle East is potentially in a blow-up situation. And if that happens … how much further can that go for all of us in the world today, there must be a way forward.

“I don’t think there’s any hope for peace with [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu in power,” he added. “I would like to think that Netanyahu could be part of a positive way forward. Regrettably, I just don’t think that is possible at all.”

07.10.2024 - 19:04 [ Axios ]

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak

He now has the political capital for negotiations that could set the country‘s next budget and allow him to continue to call the shots for at least another year in the multi-front regional war Israel is fighting.

„He feels he is winning,“ one of Netanyahu‘s aides told Axios.

The six-time prime minister will outlast President Biden, who has largely failed in his attempts to contain the conflict in the Middle East and rein in Netanyahu.

07.10.2024 - 18:56 [ Middle East Eye ]

Netanyahu seeks continuous war as Israeli centre left favours state power

Even more surprising is the Israeli public’s near-total embrace over the last three weeks of Netanyahu’s declared desire to prosecute a war for “total victory”. Prior to this, hundreds of thousands of people were out on the streets, demanding a “deal now” and accusing the prime minister of prolonging the war for his own ends.

Now, it seems the majority of Israel’s Jewish public, from Ben Gvir supporters to fans of the centre-left Zionist Yair Golan, wants a never-ending war. Even the first casualties from the ground invasion of Lebanon are not shifting this support – at least so far.

31.08.2024 - 19:15 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Do Something Every Day To Help De-Normalize The Abuses Of The Empire

One very important task we can undertake as citizens of the western empire is to help de-normalize the tyranny, murderousness and savagery that the imperial propagandists work to normalize.

(…)

Denormalize poverty.

Denormalize injustice and inequality.

Denormalize the ruined buildings and ruined bodies in Gaza.

Denormalize the nuclear brinkmanship with Russia.

Denormalize the destruction of our biosphere in the ravages of ecocidal capitalism.

Denormalize the surging authoritarianism we’re experiencing as the empire works frantically to stomp out dissent.

Denormalize the war machinery rolling out around the world, and the increasingly militarized police forces in our streets.

Denormalize the psychopathy of the politicians and government officials who cheerfully serve the empire in facilitation of these horrors.

Denormalize the way media and government institutions controlled by the powerful work to manipulate the way we think and perceive every day of our fucking lives for the benefit of the powerful.

30.08.2024 - 12:05 [ Middle East Eye ]

War on Gaza: Israel‘s killing of Palestinian intellectual leaders is an incalculable

Indeed, the Israeli army’s killing of Palestinian scientists, intellectuals and artists appears to be part of a systematic attempt to destroy Palestinian cultural life. Such voices are essential for educating the next generation of Palestinians. Their loss is incalculable.

07.03.2024 - 19:34 [ Jonathan Cook ]

How the ‘fight against antisemitism’ became a shield for Israel‘s genocide

After all, a rise in “Jew hatred” is all but inevitable if you redefine antisemitism, as western officials have recently done via the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s new definition, to include antipathy towards Israel – and at the moment when Israel appears, even to the World Court, to be carrying out a genocide.

The logic of Israel and its supporters runs something like this:

Many more people than usual are expressing hatred of Israel, the self-declared state of the Jewish people. There is no reason to hate Israel unless you hate what it represents, which is Jews. Therefore, antisemitism is on the rise.

11.02.2024 - 21:34 [ Tichys Einblick ]

Immer radikaler und brachialer – zieht Berlin nach Weimar um?

Die Weimarer Republik ist als Demokratie gescheitert, weil ihr Demokraten fehlten. Die Berliner Republik droht daran zu scheitern, dass selbsternannte Demokraten die Demokratie zerstören. Zunehmend aber gibt es ein wachsendes Unbehagen auch bei Linken über den Versuch des Abbaus der Demokratie.

11.02.2024 - 18:00 [ Norbert Häring ]

Faeser und Paus wollen Demokratie nach Art der DDR herbeifördern

(05.02.2024)

Ist man eigentlich noch bei klarem Verstand, wenn man behauptet, dass es die Demokratie fördert, wenn die Regierung per „Demokratiefördergesetz“ ermächtigt und beauftragt wird, Geld an behördlich ausgewählte „zivilgesellschaftliche“ Organisationen zu geben, damit diese Oppositionsparteien und oppositionelle Medien bekämpfen? Die (wohl mangels ausreichender Demokratieförderung) in den Hessenwahlen krachend gescheiterte Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser meint Ja.

Im Dezember 2022 hatten Feaser (SPD) und die Ministerin für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, Lisa Paus (Grüne) den Entwurf eines Demokratiefördergesetzes vorgestellt, mit dem „Populisten und Extremisten“ bekämpft werden sollen, die „versuchen besonders in Krisenzeiten, unsere offene, plurale Gesellschaft zu spalten“.

Bisher haben sie dafǘr zum Glück keine Mehrheit im Bundestag zustande gebracht. Doch nun, angesichts der Demonstrationen gegen die AfD, wittert Faeser Morgenluft und versucht es erneut.

11.02.2024 - 17:03 [ Netzwerk Kritische Richter und Staatsanwälte (KRiSTA) ]

Meinungsfreiheit – ein Auslaufmodell: Der Digital Services Act (DSA)

(16.01.2024)

Am 16.11.2022 ist die Verordnung (EU) 2022/2065 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 19.10.2022 über den Binnenmarkt für digitale Dienste (Digital Services Act – im Folgenden DSA genannt) in Kraft getreten.

Sie gilt spätestens ab dem 17.02.2024 unmittelbar in jedem EU-Mitgliedstaat in erster Linie für „sehr große Online-Plattformen und sehr große Online-Suchmaschinen“ (Art. 33 Abs. 4, Art. 92, 93 Abs. 2 DSA).

Diese werden unter Androhung empfindlicher finanzieller Sanktionen verpflichtet, alle ihre Inhalte zu kontrollieren und gegebenenfalls zu löschen. Und sie werden dabei kontrolliert von der EU-Kommission, von staatlichen Koordinatoren und von zivilgesellschaftlichen Hinweisgebern.

Trotz seiner unmittelbaren Geltung im deutschen Recht bedarf der DSA eines konkretisierenden nationalen Ausführungsgesetzes. Ein Entwurf dieses Digitale-Dienste-Gesetzes (DDG-Entwurf) wurde von der Bundesregierung am 20.12.2023 verabschiedet.

Beraten und beschlossen werden soll er im Bundestag vor dem 17.02.2024.

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In Erwägungsgrund Nr. 5 wird schon zwischen der „Vermittlung und Verbreitung rechtswidriger oder anderweitig schädlicher Informationen und Tätigkeiten“ unterschieden (Hervorhebung d. Verf.). Auch Art. 34 Abs. 1 DSA spricht in Abs. 1 a von der „Verbreitung rechtswidriger Inhalte über ihre Dienste“, in Abs. 1 b-d allerdings nur noch von Informationen mit „nachteiligen Auswirkungen“, die nicht rechtswidrig sein müssen.

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Im Zentrum, jedenfalls des nationalstaatlichen Geschehens, steht der von jedem Mitgliedstaat bis zum 17.02.2024 zu ernennende „Koordinator für digitale Dienste“ (KdD).

11.02.2024 - 15:03 [ Boris Reitschuster ]

Bequem vom Sofa aus Andersdenkende bei der Polizei denunzieren

In dem Video sagt die gebürtige Freiburgerin: Wir müssen den „Einsatz gegen Fake News und Verschwörungsmythen intensivieren, indem wir die Vernetzungen der verschiedenen Akteure offenlegen. Wir brauchen weitere konkrete Maßnahmen, wie zum Beispiel eine virtuelle Polizeiwache, sodass jede Bürgerin, jeder Bürger Hass, Hetze, Beleidigungen, Bedrohungen, Antisemitismus bequem und einfach von zu Hause aus vom Sofa aus anzeigen kann. Wir müssen unsere Sicherheitsbehörden gut ausstatten, damit sie den Fahndungs- und den Ermittlungsdruck auf die rechte Szene erhöhen, dass sie die digitalen Machenschaften noch besser in den Blick nehmen können. Wir sollten darüber diskutieren, ob eine Prüfung eines AfD-Verbots nicht sinnvoll wäre. Auch davor sollten wir uns nicht scheuen…….“

10.02.2024 - 17:00 [ die Basis ]

Der Faschismus in Deutschland ist längst wieder da…

Die Basisdemokratische Partei mit ihren Grundwerten der Freiheit, Machtbegrenzung, Achtsamkeit und Schwarmintelligenz wird für eine Politik der Menschlichkeit einstehen, in der auf Basis des Grundgesetzes und einer demokratischen Grundordnung gemeinsam bessere Entscheidungen getroffen werden.

DieBasis wird zugleich an der EU-Wahl teilnehmen. Denn letztendlich geht es darum, nicht nur Deutschland von allen derzeitigen Einflüssen globalistischer Weltpolitik und Machtinteressen zu befreien

13.12.2023 - 13:56 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel-Palestine: Gaza and Jenin bombed as Netanyahu braces for ‚possible war‘ with Palestinian Authority

In a recorded statement published on X, Netanyahu said he will not let Israel repeat the “mistake” of the Oslo Accords, and that Gaza will neither be “Hamastan nor Fatahstan”.

Earlier, he was quoted on the Israeli public broadcaster as saying that Israel was preparing for a possible war with the PA in the West Bank.

“It can’t be that after the enormous sacrifice of our citizens and fighters, we will let into Gaza those who teach terror, support terror, finance terror,” he said.

Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior PA and Fatah leader, said Netnayhu’s remarks “confirm his war against all Palestinians”.

30.11.2023 - 10:02 [ Times of Israel ]

Gantz says Jerusalem attack strengthens Israel’s resolve to keep up war on terror

“This terror attack is further proof of our obligation to continue to fight with strength and determination against murderous terrorism, which threatens our citizens. In Jerusalem, Gaza, in Judea and Samaria, and everywhere,” Gantz writes on X, using the biblical name for the West Bank.

17.11.2023 - 07:47 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Another Hadash MK Sanctioned Over Statements Against Gaza War

(15.11.2023)

Touma-Sliman, who the committee said did not apologize and did not recant her statements, is barred from Knesset committee and plenum sessions for two months, and also receives a two-week pay deduction.

On October 19, the Ethics Committee of the Knesset suspended another Communist lawmaker, MK Ofer Cassif (Hadash), for what it deemed as “anti-Israel statements after the war in Gaza broke out.” Cassif has been suspended for 45 days.

17.11.2023 - 07:20 [ Time Magazine ]

‘They Are Behaving in a Fascist Way:’ An Israeli-Arab Lawmaker on the Stifling of Anti-War Voices

(November 11, 2023)

We told the police that we are going to have this protest, that it’s going to be only leadership, that it’s not going to be a massive demonstration or something like this. The next day, when Barakeh was heading to Nazareth, they arrested him.

How do you interpret these crackdowns? Is this an attempt by the Israeli government to effectively criminalize expressions of Palestinian identity and solidarity?

Not only the Palestinian identity. I think that whatever they couldn’t pass through the judicial overhaul, they are passing now under the cover of the war.

11.11.2023 - 11:51 [ Mustafa Barghouti / Twitter ]

Hadar Morgan a granddaughter of a holocaust survival : “How could we have become what we opposed? That‘s the big question.“ Hadar Morag, Israeli filmmaker

07.11.2023 - 18:40 [ The New York Review of Books / Twitter ]

“An attack on this scale under Netanyahu’s watch should have occasioned his immediate resignation, but as long as the war against Gaza continues he…will not only remain in office but have expanded powers.” —Raja Shehadeh

07.11.2023 - 18:26 [ Doug Lang / Twitter ]

Just before the October 7th event, Israelis were filling the streets in protest against Netanyahu, almost to the point of forming a coup against him. His political career was coming to an end. And then? ‚Hamas‘, his lifeboat, his ticket to slaughter Palestinians. What timing.

(October 28, 2023)

07.11.2023 - 17:03 [ Haaretz ]

With Netanyahu‘s Coup in Full Swing, His Trial Is Stuttering. Not by Accident

(05.03.2023)

The trial and the coup are now simultaneously underway, but while the first is lumbering along, the second is galloping forward. The hearings in the Jerusalem District Court will resume only after Passover. Until the judges return from their hiatus, the wings of the High Court of Justice might be clipped, the Judicial Appointments Committee might be under full control of the politicians, or Israel might be in the throes of a historic constitutional crisis.

07.11.2023 - 16:40 [ Haaretz ]

Mendelblit, Don’t Delay

(14.02.2018)

The police announcement Tuesday – that the investigations into two cases involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been completed – came 13 months after Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit decided that a “preliminary examination” of the allegations, which itself took six months, should become full-fledged criminal investigations.

07.11.2023 - 15:54 [ Times of Israel ]

The Israel we knew died on October 7. The new nation will be scarred for generations

What it will come to look like is something we cannot imagine yet. But of one thing there is no doubt: the trauma of the Black Shabbat will leave the deepest of scars in the soul of this new nation. For decades, it will shape Israel’s character, its politics, the relations between its people, between its people and its enemies, between its people and the antisemites and Israel-hating Nazis around the world.

03.11.2023 - 22:40 [ Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي / Twitter ]

@channel13il poll „What should Netanyahu do?“ 47%: resign after the war 29%: resign immediately 18%: remain in his position

02.11.2023 - 03:30 [ DarumaIkyu / Twitter ]

Israeli Military around Gaza was Withdrawn Prior to the Hamas Attack so that 60% to 80% of the Area around Gaza was Not Protected by the Usual Forces – according to Israeli Journalist, Efrat Fenigson: ‚Something is Very Wrong Here‘

(Oct 9, 2023)

25.10.2023 - 01:07 [ Haaretz ]

Netanyahu Wrought Carnage on Israel. He Should Have Resigned Already

(22.10.2023)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now counting on fatigue and public despair to help him stay in office, but he can‘t be trusted to manage a war and it won‘t save him from an enduring legacy of failure. When the war is over, whether in three weeks or three months, all political hell will break loose

23.10.2023 - 16:25 [ CBC.ca ]

Israeli politician who lost friends in Hamas attack calls for an end to the Gaza bombings

„I have to condemn totally, with no reservation, of course, the terrible slaughter that Hamas carried out against innocent civilians in the south of Israel. There was no justification for such a massacre,“ Cassif, a Jewish member of the Arab-Jewish opposition coalition Hadash-Ta‘al, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

„Having been saying that, there‘s no justification for the carnage that Israel carries out at the moment. Because those who are harmed, assaulted and killed [are] mostly innocent civilians.“

23.10.2023 - 16:00 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Israelis and Palestinians Should Live in Security and Peace, MK Cassif

“I have to condemn totally, with no reservation the terrible slaughter that Hamas carried out against innocent civilians in the south of Israel. There was no justification for such a massacre,” MK Ofer Cassif, (Hadash) told “As It Happens” host Nil Köksal broadcasted by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). “Having been saying that, there’s no justification for the carnage that Israel carries out at the moment. Because those who are harmed, assaulted and killed [are] mostly innocent civilians.” The following is an excerpt from his conversation with Köksal.

22.10.2023 - 10:25 [ Ofer Cassif / Communist Party of Israel ]

I Will Not Be Silent, MK Ofer Cassif

Last week, I was accused from the platform of Maariv, in the article “Let You Explain” written by Lilac Sigan, that I and my friends in my political path are responsible for the backing the abominable Hamas organization and its strengthening.

Strange, I thought, it was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who said, in his words, that “those who want to thwart a Palestinian state should support the strengthening of Hamas”, and it was Minister Bezalel Smotrich who referred to Hamas as a “political asset”.

For years, the right-wing governments avoided overthrowing the Hamas regime and even transferred funds to it in order to facilitate a favorable political situation for the deepening of the occupation in the West Bank, when the Israeli surrounding localities of Gaza were sacrificed on the altar of the settlements.

22.10.2023 - 10:25 [ Ayman Odeh / New York Times ]

What It Takes to Choose Life Over Revenge

(Oct. 19, 2023)

In his declaration of war on Gaza on Oct. 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel quoted a line from a poem by the Jewish writer Chaim Nachman Bialik. “Revenge for the blood of a little child has yet been devised by Satan,” Mr. Netanyahu posted on social media.

Perhaps the prime minister forgot what Bialik wrote just one line before that: “And cursed be he who cries out: Revenge.” Or the next lines: “Let the blood fill the abyss!/let it pierce the blackest depths.”

These days I find myself asking what the poet meant by this. Bialik wrote it after learning of the horrors of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom.

09.07.2023 - 11:50 [ New York Times ]

To Foreign Policy Veteran, the Real Danger Is at Home

Mr. Haass recently published a book called “The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens,” outlining ways Americans can help heal their own society, like “Be Informed,” “Remain Civil,” “Put Country First” — all admittedly bromides and yet somehow often elusive these days. (…)

Putting his foreign policy hat aside for now, he said he wants to expand the message from his book and help refocus the country on the core values embodied in the Declaration of Independence as the 250th anniversary of the document approaches three years from now.

01.07.2022 - 10:54 [ Haaretz ]

Travel Warning: Israel‘s Election Will Be Long and Dirty

It capped a week that symbolized everything that was bad about it during the little over a year it was in power: a fractured coalition, too many of whose heads were convinced they were destined to be prime minister and waged an endless campaign, mainly against one another; a coalition with too few responsible adults and too many opportunists. Above all, however, it was a coalition faced with an opposition the likes of which we have never seen: violent, vulgar, brutal, cynical, without a drop of empathy for human suffering, no matter where; that spits on the general public, including its own voters. An opposition without any red lines but with a personality cult; that is captive to a single person who seeks to escape his trial and who along the way turns every stone and scorches every bit of earth in order to completely destroy the young experiment known as Israeli democracy.

28.08.2021 - 17:38 [ ZDF ]

Die Kirsche, die auf der Torte bleiben soll

Vier Wochen sind es noch. Dann wird ein neuer Bundestag gewählt. Und damit eine neue Regierung. Und plötzlich hat die SPD wieder Chance auf das Kanzleramt.

30.07.2021 - 05:09 [ Radio Utopie ]

Offene Grenzen, Grenzen dicht: Die zwei Seiten der gleichen Medaille

(21.10.2018)

Beide Parolen spielen einem gelenkten Staat in die Hände, der sich weigert die Verfassung, (internationales) Recht und sogar die eigene ausführende Gesetzgebung einzuhalten, sondern stattdessen die Republik zugunsten der ihm vorgesetzten „Vereinigten Staaten“ endlich loswerden will. Weil ihm das so befohlen wurde.

16.07.2021 - 06:21 [ Right2Know - r2k.org ]

R2K Statement: Stern action must be taken against the instigators!

We understand that former State Security agents and some senior ANC leaders are being investigated as possible instigators to the mayhem, as was admitted by State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo. The Minister also told South Africans that the intelligence services knew that something would happen, but law enforcement responses to the unrest prove or paint a completely different reality.

We know that this country’s intelligence services are in shambles because both President Ramaphosa and the minister failed to implement the recommendations of the High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency to clean up the spooks. We did mention that these rogue securocrats are a threat to our democracy and they must be dealt with accordingly.

16.07.2021 - 06:17 [ iol.co.za ]

Right2Know: Name and shame State Security agents involved in looting and violence

Johannesburg – Civil society organisation, Right2Know has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of State Security Ayanda Dlodlo to name and shame some of the State Security Agency’s (SSA) agents who fuelled the violent and destructive protests in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

The campaign which initially erupted under the guise of Free Jacob Zuma campaign turned ugly when hundreds of protesters blocked national roads in KwaZulu-Natal and set alight trucks and vehicles belonging to private individuals.

16.07.2021 - 06:10 [ aco Barnard-Naudé / DailyMaverick.co.za ]

Anarchy in the RSA: A spirit of revolt without revolution

Slavoj Žižek proposed in an article on the London riots in 2011 that such riots are not easily understandable in Marxist terms, precisely because they do not carry the signs of the emergence of a revolutionary subject. Instead, he proposes that they fit much better the Hegelian notion of “abstract negativity”, of “those outside organised social space, who can express their discontent only through ‘irrational’ outbursts of destructive violence”. Žižek believes that these forms of riot confirm the rather mundane, now commonplace assertion that we live in a post-ideological era, an era in which nothing is demanded any more, a time of “zero-degree violence”.

“Opposition to the system can no longer articulate itself in the form of a realistic alternative, or even as a utopian project,” Žižek writes, “but can only take the shape of a meaningless outburst.”

16.07.2021 - 05:49 [ Jani Allan / RT.com ]

The row raging over a corrupt former president’s jailing shows that South Africa is heading down a sad and familiar path

South Africa’s highest court last week ordered the imprisonment of the country’s former president Jacob Zuma for 15 months for contempt of court. The decision stems from Zuma’s refusal to appear at a commission to answer questions about his alleged involvement in corruption during his time as president between 2009 and 2018.

On Saturday, however, the constitutional court agreed to hear Zuma’s urgent appeal on July 12 to rescind its order to sentence him to jail. If the court is gelded, the human rights so dearly won defeating apartheid will be lost.

10.07.2021 - 17:44 [ Prof. Dr. Philipp Bagus, Prof. Dr. Antonio Sànchez-Bayón, Dr. José Antonio Peña-Ramos / Achse des Guten ]

Covid-19: Wie Massenhysterie in Wohlfahrtsstaaten entsteht

Hinsichtlich der Covid-19-Krise gibt es mehrere Studien, welche die negativen psychologischen Auswirkungen von staatlich verordneten Lockdowns untersuchen (1) (2) (3) (4). Es gibt auch Studien, die den Beitrag digitaler Medien und des Internets zu Angst (5) (6), emotionaler Ansteckung (7) (8), Angstübertragungen (9) (10) und Nocebo-Effekten (11) (12) untersuchen. Nach unserem Wissen gibt es jedoch keine Studie, die analysiert, wie verschiedene politische Institutionen und der Staat die Entstehung und Ausbreitung von Massenhysterien beeinflussen. Das Zusammenspiel von Medien, Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit ist eine wesentliche Forschungslücke (13). Aufbauend auf der Psychologie im Zusammenhang mit dem Phänomen der kollektiven Panik entwickeln wir eine politische Ökonomie der Massenhysterie.

24.06.2021 - 03:14 [ Reitschuster.de ]

Long Covid bei Justitia? Wie das Aussitzen der Justiz zu Langzeitschäden im Rechtssystem führt

Und zuletzt haben sich als weitere beliebte Variante die fortlaufend neuen Corona-Maßnahmen-Verordnungen im Zwei-Wochen-Takt entwickelt. Denn dann sind die Antragsteller gezwungen, ihre Anträge jedes Mal im Verfahren umzustellen – und das Spiel vor Gericht beginnt wieder von vorne. Schließlich muss auch der Verordnungsgeber wieder erneut angehört werden. So bekommt der Verordnungsgeber jede Menge Zeit eingeräumt, um die (rechtswidrigen) Verordnungen anzupassen, um damit gesichtswahrend die Maßnahmen nicht verwerfen zu müs