SCHWEIGEN FÜR DEN FRIEDEN

SELBSTGERECHT UND STUMM - solange Juden nicht beteiligt sind
Karl H. Klein-Rusteberg

Im April 2010 erschien das andernorts viel beachtete Buch "Palestine Betrayed" von Efraim Karsh. Das Buch hat bislang keine deutsche Übersetzung gefunden - vermutlich weil hier nicht viele nach einem solchen Buch suchen, steht es doch der Weltanschauung eines palästinensischen Opfervolkes dank historischer Aufklärung nachdrücklich im Wege.

Dem Verrat an Palästina geht der Autor in historisch dreierlei Hinsichten nach: zunächst dem der britischen Mandatsmacht, dann durch die arabischen Despoten der Region des Nahen und Mitteren Ostens, sowie den palästinensischen Demagogen selbst, denen Sicherheit und Zukunft des eigenen Volkes so wenig gilt, wie den erwähnten anderen arabischen Herrschern.

Niemand interessiert sich für Palästina wirklich, jedenfalls so lange nicht, bis Juden und Israel in dieser Geschichte vorkommen.

Es scheint zu simpel, entspricht aber auch den hiesigen schlichten friedensbewegten, wie antisemitischen Attitüden: Es geht überhaupt nicht um Frieden oder die Zukunft des viel beschworenen palästinensischen Volkes. Sein Verrat gilt nur dann etwas, wenn mit ihm anti-israelische, anti-jüdische Komplotte, seien sie ideologisch oder wie auch immer, verbunden werden können (so, wie die sog. Friedensbewegung auch erst dann andernorts aktiv wird, wenn Amerika beteiligt ist).

Das weltanschauliche Amalgam, Antisemitismus genannt, wirkt und grundiert verschwörungstheoretisch das, was als der Leim gelten kann, auf den europäische Emotionalitäten seit eh und je, jedenfalls nach 1945, zu gehen pflegen.

Über 700 Palästinenser kamen in Syrien in den letzten Monaten ums Leben. Stellen wir uns vor, dies sei in Gaza nach israelischen Waffengängen geschehen.

Jetzt, da Israel nicht involviert ist, herrscht die ewige Ruhe der Selbstgerechtigkeit, Totenstille sozusagen. Um die Menschenleben also geht es ihnen, die für sich reklamieren Advokaten des Weltfriedens zu sein, nicht. So geht es auch nicht um die insgesamt mittlerweile 70.000 Toten in Syrien. 

Darum also sind Friedensbewegung, pax christi und wie sie sich selbsterhebend noch nennen mögen, nicht zu hören: das, was uns wirklich erst angeht ist die anti-jüdische bzw. anti-israelische Emotion. Sie wird in der Schlacht und dem Schlachten um und in Syrien nicht bedient. Resultat: Schweigen für den Frieden.

Es folgt der Beitrag aus der TIMES OF ISRAEL

THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS?
FEBRUARY 19, 2013, 6:21 PM 19

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/who-really-cares-about-the-palestinians/

Dr. Mitchell Bard
is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and a foreign policy analyst

For decades there has been an international drumbeat of concern for the Palestinians, their victimhood, their welfare and their human rights. But how much does the world really care about the Palestinians? We are learning now they don’t care at all as Assad slaughters them in Syria.
Where are the front-page headlines? Where are the UN condemnations? Where is the U.S. State Department? Where are the sponsors of flotillas to bring aid to the refugees? Where are the campus protests? Where are the Christian organizations? Where are the peace groups? Where are the pro-Palestinian organizations?
The answer is they are all silent.

Just two months ago, 180 countries voted in favor of Palestinian statehood at the UN, but they have not adopted a resolution condemning the brutal slaughter of Palestinians by Syria. Imagine if Israel were responsible for what is happening to the Palestinians. The UN would have acted immediately and all the groups mentioned above would be in an uproar.
How do we explain the difference?

The answer lies in a simple but inconvenient truth — no one really cares about the Palestinians – unless Jews are involved.

This is not new; you can go back to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. The popular misconception is that the Arab states invaded to help the Palestinians. Actually, they intended to carve up Palestine for themselves, not to create a Palestinian state.

From 1949 until 1967, Egypt could have given Gaza to the Palestinians for a state, just as the Jordanians could have created a Palestinian state in the West Bank. Neither did, but no one in the world cared because the Palestinians were not interested in a state and the occupiers were Arabs.
The lack of concern for the Palestinians was also evident after the 1967 War when the UN adopted Resolution 242, which has been the basis for all peace negotiations, yet does not mention the Palestinians.

When the PLO tried to overthrow Jordan’s King Hussein in 1970, the world did not show concern for the thousands of Palestinians who were killed by the king’s forces. The exact figure is unknown, but the number may be greater than the total for all of the conflicts with Israel put together.
Yet another example of the disinterest toward the Palestinians occurred when Kuwait expelled 300,000 Palestinians for supporting Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. This made no headlines and generated no UN resolutions.
The world was only concerned with the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon because Jews were in the vicinity. The murderers were Lebanese Christians; nevertheless, it was Israel that was blamed.

After more than 700 Palestinians have been killed in Syria, survivors are fleeing the country. Have you heard any concern for them or for how the Palestinian refugees have been treated for decades in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan?

Israel offered to allow some of the refugees from Syria to go the West Bank, but Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the idea.
Of course the Palestinians have controlled all the refugee camps in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for almost 20 years and done nothing to move the people into permanent housing and close the camps. They prefer to keep the camps as breeding grounds for terrorists and as examples of victimhood.
The Arab states are full of bluster on the Palestinian issue, but, besides rhetoric, the Arab states provide only token amounts of money so they can say they are contributing to the cause. They have repeatedly pledged aid to the PA, but not made the payments. And, given the wealth of the Gulf states, the amount of these pledges is embarrassing. On January 14, 2013, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said his government might not meet its obligations to its people because of the failure of Arab League members to deliver the $100 million they promised.
Another inconvenient truth is that the world is indifferent to Arabs slaughtering Arabs. We continue to see this in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and other Arab countries. The usual explanation is essentially a racist one; that is, Arabs are expected to behave in this way whereas Jews are held to a higher standard and that is why their involvement merits worldwide attention.
The irony is that the people who care the most for the Palestinians are probably American and Israeli Jews. In the United States, Jews are among the most vociferous supporters of the Palestinians. The Jewish establishment organizations are also pro-Palestinian, advocating a two-state solution that would give Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza the same freedoms Israelis enjoy, but are currently denied to them by their own leaders. In Israel, many Jews advocate for the Palestinians: Israelis represent them in the courts, join them in protests and speak out on their behalf in the press and the Knesset. The many Arab-Jewish coexistence projects are nearly always initiated by Israeli Jews.
With the slaughter in Syria, Palestinians can see who their real friends are, and most are not the ones they expect.