Uri Avneri 94-jährig gestorben
zum 85. erschien schon eine ausführliche Beurteilung, sehr berührend… http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2008/09/avnery.htm
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. August 2018 um 11:43 Uhr
Von: „Norbert Jost“ <norbert.jost@berlin.de>
An: „..Norbert Jost“ <norbert.jost@berlin.de>
Betreff: [liste@kopi-online.de] Uri Avnery: “ I will tell you something about the Holocaust.“
Robert Fisk schreibt von /über Uri Avnery – anlässlich seines Todes am 20Aug18
This article was originally published by „The Independent„
His family fled Nazi Germany for Palestine and I went to see him again – he who had played chess with Arafat – after the 1982 massacre of up to 1,700 Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut, a war crime committed by Israel’s Christian Phalangist allies while Israeli soldiers watched but did not intervene. I had walked across the bodies in the camp.
How could the survivors of the Jewish Holocaust and their children let this happen to the Palestinians, I asked Avnery? Avnery was only 63 (= 1987) years old at the time.
His reply is worth printing, in full:
“I will tell you something about the Holocaust.
It would be nice to believe that people who have undergone suffering have been purified by suffering. But it’s the opposite, it makes them worse. It corrupts.
There is something in suffering that creates a kind of egoism. Herzog [the Israeli president at the time] was speaking at the site of the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen but he spoke only about the Jews. How could he not mention that others – many others – had suffered there?
Sick people, when they are in pain, cannot speak about anyone but themselves. And when such monstrous things have happened to your people, you feel nothing can be compared to it.
You get a moral ‘power of attorney’, a permit to do anything you want – because nothing can compare to what has happened to us.
This is a moral immunity which is very clearly felt in Israel. Everyone is convinced that the IDF is more humane than any other army. ‘Purity of arms’ was the slogan of the Haganah army in ’48. But it never was true at all.”
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. August 2018 um 22:30 Uhr
Von: „Adam Keller“ <1453ak@gmail.com>
An: intl@mailman.gush-shalom.org
Goodbye to Uri Avnery
We have this evening said the final goodbye. The hall in which Uri Avnery’s coffin had been placed was very crowded. There were TV cameras and Knesset Members from various parties, and a high level Palestinian delegation and very many people who had either known Uri personally or read his articles and books and heard about him. There were very moving speeches and eulogies. And then it was over and the body was taken to be cremated – as he specifically asked and arranged for, already some time ago. His ashes will be scattered by his closest friends in the seashore of Tel Aviv, which he loved. We will never again see him on the way to the beach, nor hear his voice or read a new article by him. But we will continue his life work without him, as best we can, as he wanted and expected of us, and because it is our own cause.
To all the very many who wrote us expressing support and condolences in this sad hour, many thanks and our apologies for not being able to give personal answers – the flood is simply far too overwhelming.
Adam Keller
Beate Zilversmidt on behalf of the Gush Shalom team
Von Hans Kottke weitergeleitet: http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/nachruf-uri-avnery-101.html
„The coffin of veteran peace activist Uri Avnery will be placed tomorrow (Wednesday) between 5-6 pm in Beit Sokolov (Journalists‘ Association House) at 4 Kaplan St., Tel Aviv
That is a suitable and worthy location for a man who has made an major contribution to the development of the Israeli press.
All who cherish his memory are heartily invited to come and pay their final respects. Contact: Adam Keller +972-54-2340749, Anat Saragusti +972-54-2151991″
Liebe IPPNWler*innen,
eine wichtige Stimme für Fairness und Frieden, mit großer Kenntnis der Situation im Nahen Osten und mit guten Argumenten, wird uns fehlen. Uri Avnery ist im Alter von 94 Jahren verstorben.
Mit dem Link unten kann seine Website erreicht werden, eine Fundgrube mit sehr vielen sehr guten Meinungsartikeln.
Herzliche Grüße
Susanne Grabenhorst
Gusch Schalom: Avnerys Widersacher werden schließlich doch in seine Fußstapfen treten müssen http://www.uri-avnery.de/news/480/17/Uri-Avnery-am-20-8-2018-verstorben—Ein-Nachruf So lautet der Nachruf von Adam Keller, Gusch-Schalom-SprecherZum Lesen bitte den angegebenen link anklicken. Mit freundlichen Grüßen der internet-Seite uri-avnery.de
Gesendet: Montag, 20. August 2018 um 22:51 Uhr
Von: „Helmut Käß“ <helmut_kaess@web.de>
An: MedZeituBZpolitik <redaktion.politik@bzv.de>
Betreff: Uri Avnery gestorben
Sehr geehrte Redaktion
Ein großer Pazifist ist von uns gegangen, siehe unten, der unermüdlich für die Aussöhnung der Israelis und Palästinenser gekämpft hat. Noch bis zuletzt hatte er alle ein bis zwei Wochen kritische Artikel geschrieben. Den vermutlich letzten am 4. August: http://www.uri-avnery.de/news/479/17/Wer-zum-Teufel-sind-wir
Er fängt so an:
„VOR JAHREN hatte ich ein freundschaftliches Gespräch mit Ariel Scharon.
Ich sagte zu ihm: „Ich bin in erster Linie Israeli. Erst danach bin ich Jude.“
Er antwortete hitzig: „Ich bin in erster Linie Jude und erst danach bin ich Israeli!“
Das mag sich nach einer überflüssigen Debatte anhören. Aber in Wirklichkeit ist eben das die Frage, die im Zentrum all unserer Grundprobleme steht. Sie liegt der Krise zugrunde, die jetzt Israel in Stücke reißt.“ …..
Grüße, Helmut Käss
