A bit of peace – no opinion of the Middle East

I hardly dare to write this text. It is about what has been referred to as a Middle East conflict since childhood. And who knows who could read all of this now and how many thousands of people I make myself into enemies if I only touch the topic clumsy. Who knows how much these new enemies radicalize more every day.

When I was still young and naive, I lived in the basic feeling that the Middle East conflict was nothing. He was a permanent topic in Wilhelm Wiebens “Tagesschau”, but he was never explained. Middle East conflict, that sounded like an unsolved mental trauma: the Middle East, as a region, somehow has a problem. So you could let it go.

But the time of the shoulder twitch is over. The other day I was sitting around the corner in front of the hairdresser, because the hairdresser has a cozy bench in front of the door. You can sit there well, a smacking, you can enjoy a beer with a view of the facade on which a Palestinafe has been hanging for months. I know the man who hung the flag out of the window, hearing aid acousticians, a nice, level -headed person. I also know the hairdresser who recently sat down with the breathtaking quick thoughts after her after work:

“I go straight to a concert of a very great Israeli singer. Which side are you actually on? “

Of course I immediately knew what was meant and I said to the hairdresser:

“I am on my side, which is for peace, love and human rights, and that cannot do so much with national flags, with racism and religiously motivated hatred.”

I swear, I said it or similar! I felt relatively quick.

The hairdresser found that one could continue to speak to me, and she said: she was always on the side of those who have always suppressed, abused and persecuted! I nodded because it sounded like a reasonable position. Soon the hairdresser went towards Friedrichshain, I could light one, satisfied in the safe shelter of my harmonious utopia.

However, the impacts come closer, even for the aesthetes, who has always felt as except and above any politicization. Not even the neutrality status as a journalist helps you more: “Taz” editor Nicholas Potter has now become a message himself, because he went into the Middle East conflict. He has researched anti -Semitic propaganda in this country and its likely connections to Moscow, whereupon a hunt for him, initially on social media, then also in real life: stickers appeared in Berlin, the Potter made the goal of hate. His editor -in -chief has publicly solidarized, the DJU union confirmed its observations: there is increasingly a “hybrid form of propaganda, orchestrated by actors who use specific disinformation and agitation to undermine independent journalism”. Potter has recently bravely added: On demonstrations, there is increasing threat and violence against reporting ends that are based on Pro-Palestinian activists.

Not good if reporting stations have to be afraid. This is how the poison is drizzled into our society. Everyone is becoming more and more radical. If I only wrote a syllable about it now, I would be on it. The hairdresser referred me to her bank, the hearing aid acoustician put my beer out of my hand, and therefore, sorry, I will simply have no opinion on the Middle East conflict.