Dear readers,
this war opens new and old questions alike. Questions about the Eurocentric international order and the decay of Europe as the heart of the supposed moralistic order, the political aspect of humanitarian aid, what can we learn through the lens of the south African apartheid regime especially as it has come to be the country to make use of the international court of justice, about the German past and present and about the future of the world as a place for everyone and everything. In their articles Riad Othman, Chris Whitman and Ramona Lenz delve into the realities of Palestine and Israel. While Riad Othman and Chris Whitman describe the realities of the war in Gaza and analyse the causes and the consequences of the humanitarian catastrophe, Ramona Lenz takes the politics of silence and the Israeli left under scrutiny. Both Ramona Lenz and Chris Whitman report from the on the ground. Katja Maurer contests the integrity of the German moral (self-) righteousness, especially when it comes to acting from the past into the present and beyond. Usche Merk articulates in her piece how a “never again” could look like, in the light of how south Africa navigates as an international and local actor. Radwa Khaled-Ibrahim sheds light on the provincialization of Europe and its diminishing role as a global power. As the transformative and emergency aid advisor she analyses the lucrative dehumanisation in the aid actions in Gaza. As always, our scope is wider than the events at the foreground of media reporting. Karin Zennig looks at how the climate crisis became a question of militaristic security. Finally, in this newsletter we look back at one-year earthquake in Syria and Turkey. All the best from the team at
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