begins in early November in Metzingen (near Reutlingen) a three-week so-called peace week under the name: "Breaking Walls". The resident priest Peter Metzger directs and initiated this very one-sided anti-Israeli action along with his friends as one-sided set of Beit Jala, expl. the resident pastor Jadalla Shihad, in Beit Jala, the hostel Abraham (see vorangeganener post of mine: "film about Abraham hostel - Beit Jala") operate.
The large-scale operation with lectures, discussions, film presentations and receptions is used to the hostel in Beit Jala to make known to collect money for them, under the misleading name of "peace work", current company while struggling with all the tricks against Israel and Israel to move in a bad light.
It is the anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic film "The Heart of Jenin" Metzinger shown in cinema. Ulrich Sahm writes about this: "A really good movie that will certainly receive many awards, but it is also a one-sided propaganda piece of work, are likely to stir up anti-Jewish feelings among the German public.."
in place of Metzingen sheet, press the southwest, now appeared in this regard, the following items:
A controversial influence
Metzinger days of peace in the shadow of Abraham's hostel
"walls" in the days of peace. The Ecumenical Decade of peace has arrived. It is all about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The speakers come from the world of Abraham's hostel. And that is not without controversy.
CAROLA Eissler
Metzingen "Overcoming walls" is this year the theme of the Ecumenical Decade of Peace, held from 6 to 25 November takes place in Metzingen. The makers is about to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago and walls in the world visible. Rev. Peter Klaus Metzger and the organizers of the Peace Days Metzinger take this opportunity to move to Israel and the situation in the Palestinian autonomous areas in the center. The focus will be placed on since 2002 with a construction fence between Israel and the West Bank and the wall between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. A protection from Palestinian suicide bombers. After all, since the start of the bomb attacks in Israel have declined by 98 percent.
are however especially for peace activists of this fence and the resulting Israeli policy in the criticism. Metzger sees it this way: "The fact that this wall is on Palestinian land, ist völkerrechtlich ein Skandal." Der Situation der Palästinenser in der Westbank, der israelischen Politik, den Aktionen europäischer Friedensaktivisten und der Konsequenz, die man aus dem Fall der DDR-Mauer für die israelische Mauer ziehen kann, sind die Themen in Metzingen gewidmet. Dass gerade der Nahostkonflikt thematisiert wird, ist kein Zufall. "Es bestehen eben Kontakte zu profilierten Leuten", betont Metzger.
Dabei sind es mehr als bloße Kontakte. Denn Metzger hat zum einen bereits an Friedensaktionen entlang der Mauer teilgenommen, zum anderen kommen sämtliche Gastredner aus dem Umfeld der Abrahams Herberge Beit Jala in der Westbank, in dessen deutschem Förderverein Metzger im Vorstand aktiv ist. Die Abrahams Hostel, an agency of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is a "bridge to peace," it said in a self-presentation of the association. The pastor of Beit Ibrahim, who runs a guest house and a boarding school, is the old college friend butcher from Tuebingen days, Jadallah Shihadeh. It was in February, even in Metzingen and has here the drum for his body stirred, just like it more than half of the year in Germany and Europe to raise money for his "peace project" as he calls it, collect and ideologically to influence public opinion. Supported by the German Friends of Abraham the same hostel. Also flowed from Metzingen Money to Beit Jala.
Shihadeh comes this time not even on the days of peace, but sends his German wife, as is the mayor of Jena, the theologian and SPD-Mann Dr. Albrecht Schröter was invited, also to the initiated by the Beit Ibrahim demonstrations in the West Bank has participated, and another board member of the Society Beit Ibrahim, the entrepreneur Karl-Hermann Blickle, who will speak about ethics in business.
Metzinger days of peace, then, in the shadow of the influence of Abraham are the hostel and their political and ideological orientation. This Shihadeh and its furnishings in Beit Jala are themselves anything but uncontroversial. Shihadeh not speak for all Palestinian Christians, says an informant who do not want to be named for security reasons, compared with this newspaper. While weather Shihadeh bodied against the Israeli policy say, but not a single word about Islamic suicide bombings and the expulsion of Christians from the Palestinian territories. Probably out of fear. "Otherwise the next day would burn his church."
The Beit Ibrahim has changed in the six years of its existence to a lavish luxury hotel. If Shihadeh, arguing that the Palestinians, the Israelis would regularly turn off the water in Germany for anti-Israeli Tone gives, then can only eyewitness smile. Finally, operating on the local area consuming water games.
But there are other inconsistencies. Shihadeh Sun claims to have spent, in the Beit Ibrahim Christians, Jews and Muslims to get together. But the fact is that Jews from entering the so-called A-Zone, located in Beit Jala, is prohibited by the State of Israel for security reasons. In Germany, Shihadeh is happy as a driving force in the peace efforts in the dialogue between the religions he plays but also in the West Bank, a minor role. This person is Shihadeh too controversial. From his Lutheran brethren, he is shunned normal. A few years ago the pastor was even close to being thrown out of the church. It is said to have been controversy over the use of donated funds. Shihadeh may harm but also of his luxurious life style because of the reputation of the church. Of money it seems to be missing in the Beit Ibrahim not in any case, even though the guest house is often empty. Thus completing the Beit Ibrahim in August even four weeks of their doors and its 16 employees funded an expensive stay in Switzerland. However
can enjoy Shihadeh broad support from Germany. There is, for example, the Jena Mayor Schröter, coming as mentioned also in Metzingen. He exercises regularly to close ranks mit den Friedensaktivisten in der Westbank. So demonstrierte er diesen Sommer gemeinsam mit Metzger an der Mauer zwischen Bethlehem und Jerusalem. Mitmarschiert im Protestzug ist auch der oberste islamische Richter in den palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi. Jener Mann, der zwei Monate zuvor beim Besuch des Papstes im Heiligen Land für einen Eklat gesorgt hatte, als er bei einem interreligiösen Friedensdialog eine Hasstirade über Israel ergoss und die Christen dazu aufrief, die Muslime in ihrem Kampf gegen den jüdischen Staat zu unterstützen.
In welche Richtung die Friedenstage weisen, hat bereits ein Informationsabend vor einigen Wochen im Martinsgemeindehaus gezeigt. Dort wurde kräftig für die Abrahams Hostel advertised. And serving the well-known anti-Israeli stereotypes based on a film. Also the film "Heart of Jenin" to be shown at the Luna Theater, is anything but uncontroversial. The well-known Middle East correspondent Ulrich Sahm even talks of propaganda concoction, the brochure with the German public anti-Jewish feelings.
that in the days of peace in Metzingen, the communist regime from a domestic German wall built equated with the Wall in Israel, is seen also in the German-Israeli Society in Stuttgart extremely critical. The chairman Hans-Hellmut Schuerholz warns against simple slogans and one-sided partisanship. "Peace can namely only with security geben." Die Veranstalter der Metzinger Friedenstage werden sich die Frage stellen müssen, ob es ihnen um objektive Informationspolitik geht oder um schlichte einseitige Verurteilung Israels.
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Veranstalter: AK Gentechnik-Freies Ermstal, ACK, Bündnis 90/Grüne, Café International, Evangelische und Katholische Kirchengemeinde, Baptisten, SPD, Weltladen, Familienbildungsarbeit.
Erscheinungsdatum: Samstag 31.10.2009
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