Das Neueste zuerst:
After Tight Israeli Election, Netanyahu’s Tenure Appears Perilous
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/worl ... nyahu.htmlAvigdor Liberman (Anmerkung: Lieberman), denied Mr. Netanyuahu a majority, this time urging the formation of a unity government.
"According to the current results,
Netanyahu did not complete his mission,"
Mr. Gantz told a crowd of cheering supporters in Tel Aviv early Wednesday.
"We did."
"Israeli society is strong," he added, but it is wounded, and the time has come to heal it.""I wonder how well the prime minister will sleep tonight."1 h ago - September 17, 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-e ... ting-storyWhat are the exit polls saying?
A revised exit poll released by Israel's public broadcaster Kan early on Wednesday projected that Blue and White would win 32 seats and Likud 31 in the 120-seat Knesset.
In third place was the Israeli Arab Joint List with 13 seats; followed by Mr Lieberman's secular nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party with nine; the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties with nine and eight respectively; the right-wing Yamina party with seven, and the left-wing Labour-Gesher and Democratic Union alliances with six and five respectively.
Channel 12 News put Blue and White and Likud level on 32 seats, while an updated poll Channel 13 News predicted that Blue and White would win 32 seats and Likud 30.
There was a muted response at Likud's election night headquarters in Tel Aviv as the exit polls were released.
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CBC News · Posted: Sep 16, 2019 11:37 AM ET | Last Updated: September 16
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a second election after his party, Likud, was unable to form a coalition government after the election in April. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
Once more, with feeling.https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-vo ... -1.5284856Die Reaktionen auf die letzte Wahl vom April 2019 vor Ort sind mir noch in bester Erinnerung.
The Groundhog Day feeling began in April, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved Parliament and called new elections rather than offering another party the chance to try and form a coalition government where he had failed.
One of the things the April election did was make Israel's ever-present religious-secular divide plainly evident.
Many Israelis complain about mainstream politicians offering the ultra-Orthodox greater influence in society in exchange for bloc support.
These voters resent religious concessions such as state subsidies for large families that often include men who study the Torah instead of taking on traditional jobs; public transportation shutting down on Shabbat; and growing ultra-Orthodox influence on education.
"I don't want this country to become too religious, and I'm worried about [Netanyahu] going together with religious people and changing the nature of what I love about this country," said Michal Saks, an Israeli woman from Tel Aviv, who was still trying to make up her mind about who to vote for.
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The ultra-Orthodox made up 12 per cent of the Israeli electoral vote in April. It's a small percentage perhaps, but one that can be counted on to turn out at the polls in high numbers.
"The rabbi tells me what to vote," said 21-year old Shmuel Levi in a Jerusalem neighbourhood called Geula, part of the city's ultra-Orthodox heartland.
"If [he did not] tell me what to vote, maybe I'd vote for whatever I wanted to, but since I have a rabbi to tell me what to vote, I haven't even thought of what I want."
Earlier, a young woman on the same street was scolded by another Haredi woman for speaking with journalists without her rabbi's permission.
The young woman, a 22-year old named Tova, confirmed she, too, would be voting according to her rabbi's instructions. "We listen to them and we believe in whatever they say."
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But Palestinians also make up about 20 per cent of the Israeli population, which could form a formidable bloc if they managed to get a big turnout on Tuesday.
"We are going to their houses, we are going to their neighbourhoods. We are going to visit them all over where we can," said Sami Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian-Israeli running for the Balad party.
"Most of them are also not that aware of their serious power. Nowadays, the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel now have something like 950,000 people who can vote."
Abu Shehadeh admits the Arab-Israeli parties made a mistake by not joining forces in April, when they took just 10 seats. They've since re-created a "Joint List" in the hopes of capitalizing on their numbers.
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Parallel lese ich noch
Da ward es morgen. des palästinensisch-israelischen Autors
Sayed Kashu (schon mal erwähnt) zu Ende. Passt.
Er schreibt hebräisch und thematisiert das soziale und kulturelle Spannungsfeld der Palästinenser, die zugleich israelische Staatsbürger sind. Seine bisher veröffentlichten Romane wurden in Israel zu Bestsellern. Darüber hinaus schreibt er für den Fernsehsender Arutz 2 die Drehbücher der israelischen Sitcom Awoda Aravit (Arab Labor)[ und arbeitet als Kolumnist für die beiden Zeitungen Ha’ir und Haaretz.
Im Juli 2014 kündigte er im Spiegel an, in die USA zu emigrieren. Als Grund nannte er die fortschreitende Ungleichbehandlung der arabischen Israelis in der israelischen Gesellschaft. Kashua lehrt seit 2014 an der University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Gestern war ich im übernächsten Nachbarort in meinem Lieblingsbuchladen und bestellte für einen Freund
von Sayed Kashua das großartige Buch:
Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life auf
deutsch "Eingeboren".
Da ward es morgen..."Bestimmt haben Sie in Deutschland studiert. Arzt?"
Ich schüttle den Kopf.
"Was haben Sie dann studiert?"
"Journalistik", antworte ich.
"Sie sind also Journalist?"
Ich nicke.
"Bei den Juden?"
"Ja."
[i]Und schon finde ich mich in ein Gespräch verwickelt und breche das Versprechen, das ich mir gerade gegeben habe - mit niemanden in Berührung zu kommen...Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society." An Israeli-Palestinian who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing in Hebrew with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to exploring the contradictions of modern Israel while also capturing the nuances of family life in all its tenderness and chaos.
Hier gehen die Uhren gefühlt meist viel langsamer, bis das Buch geliefert wird. Es wird wohl mit der Pferdekutsche ausgeliefert von der Ostküste zur Westküste.
An der Kasse wurde ein kleines dünnes Büchlein angeboten (geschätzt 60 Seiten > nah dran: Pages: 68) für 9,90 CAD + zweimal tax von Greta (sie wird hier wohl bald mit dem Kanu oder der Steam Locomotive aufschlagen).
NO ONE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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