V. In the United States, a new edition of the English language about the works of the philosopher Martin Buber “Earth and two peoples” appeared. Is the idea of a binary state in Palestine, which was represented by the Galician-Austrian culture, today in a new way? The Palestinian philosopher RF Zreik donated a thoughtful preface to that – this is already part of the answer. And the Jewish trends, the oldest left -wing Jewish periodicals in the States, printed the text of the Zric, which led to a small discourse from the one which is mostly lacking in Germany.
Despite all the criticism of the Eurocentric Dunlel Buber, Raep Zreik finds a decisive idea among the Jewish humanist: this injustice, if it cannot be prevented, should be limited to absolutely necessary. This completes Zreik, creates a space in order to be able to represent another reality in the Israeli Palestine, especially since today between the Mediterranean and Jordan today is the actual binary between the Mediterranean and Jordan.
As in his other texts, Raeps Zreik advertises to recognize the national self -determination of Jews and Jews in Palestine (“Today they form a third or fourth generation in this country and do not know a single other house”), but under the sign of farewell to settlers.
Binalism – this is his updating Martin Buber – can only be intended today as a decolonization project. The space is not a place for details, but the quintessence of the zreik seems important to me: the recognition of Jewish self -determination is not the same as the adoption of Zionism. “We must be able to represent Jewish nationalism in Palestine, which is not colonial.”
A constructive imagination is required
Of course, this is courage. However, visions are necessary in anti -utopian darkness. While the protest against the genocide in gas and German complicity is absolutely proposed, the slogan from the free Palestine “from the river to the sea” should also be filled with democratically and a person. And this is by no means political knitting for knitting a political flap. Without constructive imagination, the movement of solidarity in gas threatens to turn into nihilism at the level of “death before the IDF” into its pain, despair and powerlessness.
In the eardrum of today’s military violence, Bubert’s reading resembles an disappearing sensitivity. The massacre in 1948 in Deir Yasin was not just a crime for the Arab victims, but also in the Jewish spirit. I do not think that the request for better Zionism. But the knowledge of the history of his binary minorities is useful, especially in counteracting the state rating that wants to sell us an obligation to genocide turbunism as a teaching from the Holocaust.
With the Israeli historian, Schlomo Sand explained the postzionist, has a “state for two peoples?”, Which has just been published in German, considers all historical main characters who have not strove for the sovereignty of the Jewish state or at least no Jewish hegemony. Very few were as consistent as Buber’s companion Hans Kon, who, with the words “Zionism is not Judaism,” abandoned his leading position at the Jewish agency in Jerusalem and emigrated to the United States. Even after the Holocaust, distant people, such as Hannah Arendt, were called to the federal structure of life together – otherwise, according to Redtt, the “petrification” of the conflict.
Snow from yesterday or future music?
By the way, the Jewish state, as provided for by the plan of the 1947 UN Department, was actually a binary with the Arabic 45 -percent minority from a demographic point of view. Nakba and the war were only the movement that Israel brought the overwhelming Jewish majority, which always had in mind the Zionist leadership. Earlier, the vote of the minority in the UN, represented by India, Iran and Yugoslavia, called for the Jewish-Palestinian Federation with yesterday or future music?
In Germany, the knowledge of Zionism and the non -Zionist prospects of Jewish history is surprisingly low. There is no shortage of smart books, but an independent violation occurred in the political space, from which the propaganda of the Israeli government has an easy game among journalists and deputies. This is not always the case. But over the past 20 years, the intellectual smoothing of the time with the legal drift in Israel-Has has created an authoritarian German Dunbrett-Sionism: in accordance with this, only one understanding of Jewish security has been allowed, namely, the enoal religious superiority that does not allow the end of the occupation.
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The position, such as the position of American journalist Peter Bainart, who claims Judaist-religious against Jewish dominance, looks like another star. The Israeli-German philosopher Omri Beham was not allowed to speak with a coordinated speech in the Buchenwald memorial due to his binary beliefs, well-nonsense from German politics, and defended him from the slander of the Israeli embassy.
Some time ago, Bom said that the Israeli armed forces, such as Hamas: “We must learn to consider current crimes as crimes directed against our own future citizens. Once they will be seen. This is the only hope that we have. ”
