Wir sind jetzt in #Israel bei einer neuen Deutung des 7.10.2023 angekommen:
7.10.23? Der hat Israel gerettet, sonst hätten wir den Iran nicht bombardieren können.
So ein Vertrauter von Netanyahu heute.
»💥Aryeh Dery, ostensibly a man of faith and one of the people closest to Netanyahu, just said "The massacre of October 7th saved the people of Israel." 1200 citizens killed. Almost 1000 soldiers killed. Some 50,000 Gazans killed. 50 hostages still held.«
(Noga Tarnopolsky)
Oliver Knabe
in reply to Oliver Knabe • • •a horrendous moment, worse
than the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba in 1948, that my father lived.
This, in addition to the fact that when we are invited to speak, we often need special permission to narrate, to use Edward Said’s words.
(Said 1984). And when such permission is granted, after we have paid a tormenting and excruciating price- through considerable destruction both in actual and potential lives—the permission is limited to what is
Oliver Knabe
in reply to Oliver Knabe • • •acceptable, in tone, and does not upset the audience.
These directions vary according to context, geography, and language. I have often felt the need to perform a certain identity of Palestinianism, for better or for worse, which I was not always successful in inhabiting
through my political practice.
Following the judicial-political notion of “the right to have rights,”
which Hannah Arendt offers us, I want to offer an understanding of the German hegemonic public discourse around Palestine