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Above, this is Andy Warhol. Andy was a pop artist and he made many collages, e.g. with Marilyn or Elvis, Hermann Hesse and many more. Andy alienated the pictures and created something completely new, because together they stood in an artistic context. One has, however, also to admit that he forced Lou Reed from the Velvet Underground to write a new song every single day.
And to the right, this is Michel Friedman. Mister Friedman has a TV show of his own where he discusses political issues. Besides, he is in several organisations in the German media and the vice president of the Central Council of German Jews. He thinks that it is right to express one's opinion, and he prefers provocations to boredom. Michel Friedman is in favor of Sharon. Sadly, Friedman often is attacked only because he is a Jew. Back then, the Jews were persecuted by the national socialists in Germany. Michel Friedman fights against national socialism and anti-Semitism in Germany and in the world.
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To the left you can see neo-nazis. Neo-nazis are a great danger. They don't like foreigners, and they don't like Jews. All political parties in Germany stand together to fight the neo-nazis. And those who are susceptible to such things. Every fifth German can become so, men and women. Dr. Friedman says to this: "I think that about 20% of the Germans are susceptible to radical right-wing ideas - and by no means only rowdys. I can sense an un-inhibition also at the champaign banquet: people distance themselves from violence, but they show too much understanding for the motivations of the perpetrators. It is a problem in East and West, but it is more showing in the new (i.e. Eastern) federal countries." (http://www.super-illu.de/ politik/01942/index.shtml, URL not active anymore)
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This here is Hamid Karzai. Hamid Karzai is the president of Afghanistan. Once, Michel Friedman visited him and made an interview: "Oh Mister Karzai, you are looking so splendid!", Michel Friedman said, and Mister Karzai replied: "But you are also looking so splendid, Mister Friedman." The TV audience, too, was impressed: so much elegance, together with so much cultural understanding. That was beautiful.
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This known entertainment magazine wrote in March that Michel Friedman is the best-dressed of all Germans:
"The German edition of Playboy named a prominent Jewish leader as the country's best-dressed celebrity. Michel Friedman, vice president of the Central Council of German Jews, is a controversial member of the Christian Democratic Party and a well-known television talk show host. "His sense of style and feeling for color almost make him into an exotic person," Playboy wrote of bachelor Friedman, 46, who it said owns several hundred ties and not even one shirt that doesn't take cuff-links. Friedman also is managing director of the bi-weekly magazine Juedische Allgemeine. (19.03.02)"(19.03.02, http://www.jewish.co.uk/news190302.php3, URL not active anymore)
The best-dressed statesman in the world, however, is Hamid Karzai.
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Here to the left, this is president of cabinet council Roland Koch. Mister Koch and Mister Friedman are collegues in the Christian democratic party in Hessen. "Friedman", Koch said, "always is in danger to produce more additional conflicts than he settles."www.stern.de/politik/koepfe/artikel/?id=223631
But maybe he meant it somewhat differently. But then again, why should he?
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And this is Mister Karsli. Mister Karsli is an Arab German. From the green party he went to Mister Möllemann into the FDP, the liberals, for the greens have changed. Now the press does not like him anymore. Karsli once said "nazi methods" because of Jenin, and he apologized for it only afterwards. But some people held that he said more naughty things. Of course you may criticize Sharon, but you mustn't say naughty things, then you lose everything at once. So you may, for example, say that Sharon uses bad methods, because innoscent citizens sometimes get killed by them. Only that those are not liked so well by the Israeli people anyway, because they have no democracy. Typical human rights activits, they are mostly only anti-Zionist and they just don't let the Israelis live in peace. Typical!
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Here, this is Jürgen W. Möllemann. Mister Möllemann likes Karsli and is against Sharon. But this is not the reason why he is so unliked, the reason is anti-Semitism. The press says the Germans think Mister Möllemann must apologize better and more often to Mister Friedman. As soon as on 8 April 2002 Friedman was for fairness: "Möllemann, get lost!"
"Michel Friedman, vice president of the Central Council of German Jews, demanded a fair approach to the Israeli measures against the Palestinians."
"In the program "Maischberger" on n-tv Möllemann underlined his criticizm of Israel. The policy of the Israeli prime minister he called "war orientated (kriegstreiberisch)". Israel must therefore be treated with sanctions. At the same time, he repeated his opinion that every country has the right of self-defense. Addressing the Central Coucil of German Jews he said. "It is, in fact, dangerous, if the Central Council immediately calls every Sharon critic an anti-Semite."" (http://www.n-tv.de/3002914.html, URL not active anymore)
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Here we see Mister Schröder at the opening of the election campaign. The chancellor invited Mister Friedman to show that Hitler has no chance in Germany. All the photographers took Mister Friedman's photo and Mister Friedman kissed Mister Schröder's wife on the cheek. Everybody liked that. Marius Müller-Westernhagen was not there, this time.
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Above, these are German journalists to whom Mister Friedman just explains why national socialism was so bad for the Jews. Now they help him against anti-Semitism. 100 journalists wrote a letter. The human dignity is untouchable, they wrote. And that democracy is in danger. There would also again be assaults on synagogues. The FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU wrote on 4 June: "The right for criticizing the Israeli occupation policy is undisputed. Whoever claims it is taboo to utter this criticizm, is forging reality. They are using the old anti-Semitic clichè of the Jew who controls the public opinion. Yet they know, they read, and they see that this taboo does not exist: the Israeli policy is outspokenly critically accompanied in the German media."
Among the first to sign the letter are: ORB chief Hansjürgen Rosenbauer, the chief editors of the TV/Radio: ARD, BR, HR, SFB, ORB, SWR, SR, Hartmann von der Tann, Sigmund Gottlieb, Manfred Krupp, Petra Lidschreiber, Johannes Unger, Michael Zeiß, Elke Herrmann, ARD Thomas Roth and stock exchange journalist Frank Lehmann. Newspaper journalists like FR chief editor Jochen Siemens, Zeit editor Josef Joffe, Tagesspiegel editor Hellmuth Karasek and Spiegel journalist Henryk M. Broder as well as actress Hannelore Hoger, writer Eva Demski and movie maker Rosa von Praunheim. Next come demonstrations against anti-Semitism and against Möllemann and Karsli who hurt Michel Friedman in a racist way.
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Here we see president Johannes Rau. Michel Friedman asked him to also fight anti-Semitism. And to say whether Möllemann is right or him.
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This is the UN. In the UN there are all nations, the whole humanity. Whenever there is a quarrel in the world the UN decides what is right. Many many years ago, the UN said that Israel is to stop occupying the Palestinians and oppressing them. For some years the UN was even so angry that it called Zionism racism. Israel, on the other hand, does not comply with the UN resolutions, because the Israelis have more rights than other people. They have a "special relation (Sonderverhaeltnis)".
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This photograph shows a Palestinian child that was killed in Jenin. If the photo is genuine at all. The Palestinians, you see, use victim rhetorics. That means: they make a big fuss about nothing. I have no photo of the bombings here at hand, although this would be better, because the little girl was killed because of the terrorists (if Palestinian kids were killed at all!). It is to be noted that both sides are suffering, not only the Palestinians.
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