Did Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Has Israel done "important military groundwork"? Anyone who speaks of "genocide" in the face of tens of thousands of children killed is an anti-Semite? The failure of German media in the face of one of the greatest crimes against humanity of our time is comprehensive. The spectrum ranges from ignorance to massive partisanship.
This time, peace is final, Germany will contribute financially to reconstruction, of course, it won't send any troops, Donald Trump is to thank for a breakthrough, and there's great jubilation on all sides. Anyone following the news these days is rubbing their eyes.
Trump, who often celebrates himself unfairly, has every reason to take credit for this success. (…) None of this would have been possible without the military groundwork Israel has done.
Commentary in the FAZ
If anyone deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, it's Benjamin Netanyahu. Only because he cleaned up the Middle East does Trump's plan even have a chance.
Commentary in DIE WELT
Up to 200.000 dead under the rubble of their from US bombs destroyed houses, including tens of thousands of children? Attacks against several countries in violation of international law? Let's forget about it, the main thing is presumably 20 hostages still alive finally return to Israel.
That not only “convicted murderers” are exchanged for these, as ZEIT complains, but also hundreds arbitrarily in “preventive detention" Palestinian civilians taken hostage, who could just as well be called "hostages"? This rarely appears in reporting, ironically, also in ZEIT a month ago:
For the first time, Israel has more than 11.000 so-called security prisoners of Palestinian descent. About half are being held without trial.
DIE ZEIT
It was also rare to read that the torture or even the murder of prisoners in this war was by no means unique to Hamas. And if the United Nations condemns the Israeli army’s targeted attacks on Palestinian Schools, Clinics, ambulance, Journalists or just on starving civilians denounced was mainly the Springer Publishing always on hand to become the mouthpiece of a openly right-wing extremist Israeli government and to denigrate the victims as “terrorists” even in death:
Just two weeks ago, the Israeli army killed five journalists. The unverifiable reason given was that one of them, Anas al-Sharif, a well-known journalist with the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, was the "head of a Hamas cell." The Bild newspaper ran the headline: "Terrorist disguised as journalist killed in Gaza." The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) had already warned that a smear campaign was underway against him and that his life was in danger.
Commentary in the Handelsblatt
How the life and death of courageous reporter in Gaza was actually like, was summarized by his employer Al-Jazeera in an impressive film:
Such pictures are rarely seen in Germany. And if Amnesty International, the worldwide Association of Genocide Researchers and an independent commission of inquiry of the UN Human Rights Council detect genocide in Gaza, then there is a completely different concern here:
The writer Rafael Seligmann has warned against speaking of genocide in connection with the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. Anyone who does so, he says, deliberately equates the Israelis with the Nazis.
Tagesschau
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