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Ikonotheka
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2020
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vol. 30
173-189
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The Al-Aqsa Intifada was the second Palestinian uprising that took place in 2000–2005. The dramatic record of the Intifada expressing itself in waves of recurring terror attacks and the construction of the separation wall on the border between Israel and Palestine overturned the Israeli-Palestinian relationship and triggered international public opinion. The article aims to determine how those events influenced the art scene. The study performs an overview of activities and artistic phenomena which occurred from 2000 through 2015 and problematized the events of the Second Intifada in various ways. The author focuses on individual works of art by both Israeli and international artists as well as art events and exhibitions of the leading kind. The analysis shows the extensive impacts of the Intifada on the artistic environment of that time and leads the author to the conclusion of the Intifada’s prevailing role in shaping politically engaged Israeli art at the beginning of 21 century. The dramatic events came up in creating a new aesthetic of the conflict, resulted in expanding a cultural boycott of Israel as well as challenged the position of politically engaged artists of Israel.
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In October 1985, several members of the Palestine Liberation Front hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro during its Mediterranean cruise. After the surrender of the terrorists, it came to light that a disabled passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed by one of the kidnappers. The news of the attack was all the more disturbing that Klinghoffer belonged to the Jewish community. The case of abduction of Achille Lauro has been one of the most important topics in the field of international politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a long time. The idea of creating an opera based on those events came from one of the most distinctive directors of our time, Peter Sellars (1957–), who invited composer John Adams (1947–) to cooperation. Libretto was created by Alice Goodman (1958–). Stage presentation of the fate of the passengers of Achille Lauro was to be a musical background for the wider topic: Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The main aim of the authors of The Death of Klinghoffer, what they repeatedly stressed in interviews, was to present both sides: Jewish and Muslim; not only the design of the libretto and musical development, but also the right direction. Despite these assumptions, since the premiere in 1991 at the Brussels Theatre Royale de La Monnaie, this opera is consequently dividing the audience into its hot enthusiasts and declared opponents. Demonstrations and protests, accusations of anti-Semitic content, presentation and justification of terrorism have led not only to a change in the score, but today they are almost inseparable elements of issue. This article focuses on the opinions on the opera by critics and music journalists. After presenting the context of creation, examples of the reception, analytical and creative works are shown, such as the opinions found in the reviews of the printed sources, as well as the online ones.
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This article is an attempt to show the impact of demographic processes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The author characterized and described the demographic processes occurring in both communities. The study highlighs the importance of increasing proportion of non-Jewish citizens of Israel. A demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state has been analysed. The article also describes a proposal to resolve the conflict through the creation of one state for two nations. The author also shows how demographics will affect relations between the two communities in the future.
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The United States traditionally played a crucial role in the Near East, mainly as a catalyst of progress in the peace process. Therefore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was one of the most pressing problems faced by the administration of Barack Obama. Initially it seemed that the President of the USA, who announced “his own way” of solving the conflict, would prove to be more efficient and reliable than e.g. his predecessor in the White House. The starting point was to be an improvement of the USA’s relations with the Muslim world, among others due to America’s stronger support of Palestinian postulates. However, Obama’s tactic turned out to be ineffective; instead of restoring America’s position and improving its image in the Near East, it resulted in a loss of confidence in Obama by both parties to the conflict. The most conspicuous effect of his endeavors was a crisis in American-Israeli relations and lack of progress in the Near East peace process.
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In 2009–2017, the European Union continued its prior policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nonetheless, taking into consideration the rapidly changing internal and international situation, this policy is becoming increasingly less effective. Problems confronting the European Union and its member states over the recent years, Brexit, the destabilization of North Africa and the Middle East, the Ukrainian crisis, the redistribution of power in the world system, to name a few – are the most significant determinants of the current EU policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Compared to other actors, the role of the European Union in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been decreasing.
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W latach 2009–2017 Unia Europejska kontynuowała swoją dotychczasową politykę wobec konfliktu izraelsko-palestyńskiego, jednak w obliczu dynamicznie zmieniających się uwarunkowań wewnętrznych i międzynarodowych polityka ta staje się coraz mniej efektywna. Problemy, z jakimi Unia Europejska i jej państwa członkowskie borykają się od kilku lat – Brexit, destabilizacja obszaru Afryki Północnej i Bliskiego Wschodu, kryzys ukraiński, zmieniający się układ sił w świecie – to najważniejsze determinanty obecnej polityki UE wobec konfliktu izraelsko-palestyńskiego. W ich wyniku rola Unii Europejskiej w rozwiązywaniu konfliktu izraelsko-palestyńskiego, na tle innych aktorów, maleje.
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Article refers to basic problem connected with Israeli-Palestinian conflict Author divided this catalog into two groups The first catalog includes all objective obstacles: Jerusalem issue, Jewish settlement question and Palestinian refugees concern The second catalog is less precise Author indicates: political scene of two societies, Israel ability to manage the conflict, international conditions and mutual distrust of both Parties
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Artykuł dotyczy podstawowych problemów związanych konfliktem izraelsko-palestyńskim Autor podzielił ich katalog na dwie grupy Do pierwszej zaliczył wszystkie obiektywne trudności: sprawę Jerozolimy, kwestię osadnictwa żydowskiego i zagadnienie uchodźców palestyńskich Drugi katalog jest mniej precyzyjny Autor wskazał w nim na scenę polityczną obu społeczeństw, zdolność Izraela do zarządzania konfliktem, uwarunkowania międzynarodowe oraz wzajemną nieufność stron
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The article investigates recent developments and changes to the Middle Eastern regional security complex. The regional security complexes theory (RSCT) assumes that security problems rarely impact on large distances and that similar threats occur mostly in specific regions. According to RSCT, the Middle East is a typical conflict formation, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraqi crisises being the biggest problems and most serious threats to the regional security. The author argues, however, that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does no longer play a major role in the regional security, and the recent crisis in Iraq, although still important, has completely different character than it had previously. Security of the Middle Eastern regional complex is now shaped and challenged by a different set of factors. This includes primarily the impact of the rising Sunni-Shiite hostility, growing popularity and importance of Islamic fundamentalism, as well as the instability and unpredictability of local political regimes.
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2016
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vol. 12
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issue 2
40-55
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Konflikt izraelsko-palestyński to jeden z największych konfliktów we współczesnych stosunkach międzynarodowych. Jego złożoność sprawia, że jest problem który niezwykle trudno rozwiązać. W XXI wieku konflikt pogłębił się, a do eskalacji doszło po zwycięskich dla Hamasu wyborach parlamentarnych. Ugrupowanie umocniło swoją pozycję na palestyńskiej scenie politycznej, ale przysporzyło to Palestynie wewnętrznych i zewnętrznych. W kraju doszło do kryzysu politycznego spowodowanego konfliktem Hamasu z Fatahem. Izrael natomiast nie mógł zaakceptować nowo wybranej władzy. Na linii Hamas-Izrael dochodziło do coraz większych napięć, czego efektem były izraelskie operacje zbrojne przeprowadzone w latach 2006-2014. Przyszłość konfliktu izraelsko-palestyńskiego wydaje się być trudna, a szanse na pokój znikome.
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the greatest conflicts in contemporary international relations. Its complexity makes it a problem which is extremely difficult to resolve. In the twenty-first century, the conflict deepened, and the escalation came after Hamas winning the elections. Grouping strengthened its position on the Palestinian political scene, but it has caused inside and outside Palestine. In the country there was a political crisis caused by the conflict between Hamas and Fatah. Israel couldn’t accept the newly elected government. On the line Hamas-Israel occurred to increasing tensions, which resulted in Israeli military operations carried out in the years 2006-2014. The future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to be difficult, and the chances for peace are faintly.
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Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych jest międzynarodową organizacją działającą na rzecz pokoju międzynarodowego, promującą go oraz służącą swoją bezstronnością w rozwiązywaniu konfliktów. Na forum Rady Bezpieczeństwa, najważniejszego organu ONZ, społeczność międzynarodowa szuka rozwiązań dla wybuchających i trwających konfliktów oraz implementuje te rozwiązania. Weto, którym dysponują stali członkowie Rady Bezpieczeństwa może skutecznie paraliżować pokojowe wysiłki innych członków czyniąc ONZ nie zawsze efektywną instytucją. Przykładem stosowania weta przez stałego członka Rady Bezpieczeństwa, wbrew oczekiwaniom innych członków ONZ, jest ochrona, której USA udziela Izraelowi niedopuszczając do przegłosowywania niekorzystnych dla Izraela rezolucji. Wspieranie Izraela przez USA na forum ONZ umożliwia mu prowadzenie, kosztem Palestyńczyków, ekspansywnej polityki na Bliskim Wschodzie. Taka polityka, zarówno USA, jak i Izraela, czyni konflikt izraelsko-palestyński niemożliwym do rozwiązania. Celem rozważań w niniejszym artykule badawczym jest właśnie przedstawienie wspierającej Izrael polityki USA w ONZ oraz konsekwencji takiego działania. Poniższa analiza systemowa pokazuje, że wetowanie niekorzystnych dla Izraela rezolucji Rady Bezpieczeństwa przez USA ma istotny wpływ na trwanie konfliktu izraelsko-palestyńskiego stanowi przeszkodę dla społeczności międzynarodowej w wysiłkach na rzecz pokoju na Bliskim Wschodzie.
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The United Nations is an international organisation acting for international peace, promoting it and serving with its neutrality in conflict resolution. In the C forum, the most important body of the UN, the international community is looking for solutions to the bursting out and lasting conflicts as well as it implements those solutions. Veto, disposed by the permanent members of the Security Council, may effectively paralyse peaceful efforts of other members making the UN not always an effective institution. An example of the application of veto by a permanent member of the Security Council, contrary to expectations of other UN members, is the protection provided by the US for Israel, preventing voting down resolutions unfavourable for Israel. The support given to Israel by the US in the UN enables it carrying out, at the expense of Palestinians, an expansionist policy in the Middle East. Such a policy, both of the USA and Israel, makes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unresolvable. An aim of considerations in this research article is just to present the US policy supporting Israel in the UN as well as consequences of such an activity. The below specified systems analysis shows that vetoing the unfavourable for Israel resolutions being made by the Security Council by the USA has a material impact on persistence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is an obstacle for the international community in efforts for peace in the Middle East.
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A resolution passed in 2012 by the United Nations General Assembly on upgrading the Palestinian observer status to the rank of a non-member observer state provoked vivid discussions on political and legal aspects of the Palestinian statehood. Following this resolution the government bodies of the Palestinian Authority in official documents refer to their entity as “the State of Palestine”, however many countries seem to decisively oppose to consider the above-mentioned resolution as the basis for recognition of the Palestinian statehood. In their opinion, only on condition of fulfilling the commonly acknowledged criteria of statehood, i.e. assuming the full control as well as exercising an independent power (including capacity to maintain foreign relations) over the population within the specified territory under its control may Palestine be recognized as a sovereign state. Taking the position that the above criteria represent the level of legitimacy of the state-building process and are regarded as constituents of the definition of a state under the international law, the author of the present thesis has undertaken to find the answer to the question whether Palestine has complete control over the specified territory, whether Palestinians form a nation and whether the Palestinian authorities can be regarded as effective and capable of representing its entity in international relations. This article makes the point that a decision on recognition of a geopolitical entity as a state is more political than legal in character and it remains the matter of discretional decision of other members of international community, therefore the process of recognition of Palestine depends, de facto, on current trends in international politics and the balance of forces in the international arena.
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Urodzony w 1956 r. Avi Mograbi uchodzi za jednego z najważniejszych, ale też najbardziej kontrowersyjnych izraelskich filmowców swojego pokolenia. Realizuje filmy polityczne, w których konsekwentnie krytycznie ocenia kondycję społeczeństwa Izraela i politykę tego kraju, zwłaszcza wobec Palestyny. Realizując filmy na pograniczu fikcji i faktu, twórca ten wypracował wyrazistą poetykę autorską; jego filmy funkcjonują głównie jako dokumenty i do tej normy stylistycznej on sam się odnosi, ale robi to na własnych zasadach. Mograbi eksperymentuje z językiem filmowym w kontekście rozwiązań narracyjnych i warsztatowo-stylistycznych. Ze względu na specyfikę wykorzystywania dokumentalności w dziełach Mograbiego autorka skojarzyła metodę twórczą reżysera z gonzo-dziennikarstwem i na przykładzie wybranych filmów przeanalizowała konkretne jej realizacje. Szczególna strategia reżysera rzuca światło na naturę „rzeczywistości” w filmach dokumentalnych i ujawnia sposób, w jaki rzeczywistość determinuje zarówno tworzenie filmów, jak i samego filmowca.
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Born in 1956, Avi Mograbi is considered to be one of the most important, but also most controversial Israeli filmmakers of his generation. He makes specific political films, consistently criticizing the condition of the Israeli society and the state’s policy, especially towards Palestine. Making films at the intersection of fiction and facts, he developed his own, distinct poetics; his films function mainly as documents, and he himself refers to this stylistic norm, but he does it on his own terms. Mograbi experiments with both narrative and stylistic solutions. Due to the specificity of his use of the documentary, the author of the article associated the director’s creative method with gonzo-journalism. The specific implementations of his strategy are analyzed on the example of selected films, sheding light on the nature of “reality” in documentaries and the way in which reality determines the creation of films and the filmmaker himself.
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The 1970s are referred to as the “golden age” of terrorism. In this decade, it took on an international character and links between terrorist groups from different countries began to form. In the literature of that period, as well as now, the difficulties associated with building a uniform definition of the phenomenon of terrorism were emphasized, as well as the practice of supporting it by the countries of the communist bloc. At the same time, the first classifications of sources of financing terrorism were made, including mainly state sponsorship, donations and criminal activity. The axis of the dispute in the literature of the discussed decade was the attitude of individual authors to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and all assessments of the phenomenon of terrorism were a derivative of views on this issue. However, this state of affairs was not specific only to the 1970s. This dispute has survived to this day, taking the form of a debate on the phenomenon of the so-called “Islamophobia.” In the course of this debate, some authors question not only Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians, but also the legitimacy of the “global war on terrorism” conducted after 2001 by Western countries. This article is an expression of unequivocal condemnation of the views present in some of the literature that actually justify terrorism, and especially those views that falsely equate the phenomenon of the so-called “Islamophobia” with anti-Semitism. The discrepancy of opinion on terrorism, revealed already in the 1970s, is a permanent element of the discourse on this matter to this day.
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Lata 70. XX w. określane są jako „złoty wiek” terroryzmu. W tej dekadzie nabrał on charakteru międzynarodowego i zaczęły powstawać powiązania między ugrupowaniami terrorystycznymi z różnych państw. W piśmiennictwie tego okresu, podobnie jak obecnie, podkreślano trudności związane ze zbudowaniem jednolitej definicji zjawiska terroryzmu, jak również dostrzeżono proceder wspierania go przez państwa bloku komunistycznego. Poczyniono jednocześnie pierwsze klasyfikacje źródeł finansowania terroryzmu, wymieniając pośród nich przede wszystkim sponsoring państwowy, donacje od sympatyków i działalność przestępczą. Osią sporu w literaturze omawianej dekady był stosunek poszczególnych autorów do konfliktu izraelsko-palestyńskiego, a wszelkie oceny zjawiska terroryzmu stanowiły pochodną poglądów odnośnie do tego zagadnienia. Jednak ten stan nie był specyfiką wyłącznie lat 70. XX w. Spór ten przetrwał do dziś, przybierając w XXI w. postać debaty na temat zjawiska tzw. „islamofobii”. W toku tej debaty część autorów kwestionuje już nie tylko politykę Izraela względem Palestyńczyków, lecz także zasadność samej, prowadzonej po 2001 r. przez państwa Zachodu, „globalnej wojny z terroryzmem”. Artykuł niniejszy stanowi wyraz jednoznacznego potępienia obecnych w części piśmiennictwa poglądów faktycznie usprawiedliwiających terroryzm, a zwłaszcza tych poglądów, które fałszywie zrównują zjawisko tzw. „islamofobii” z antysemityzmem. Ujawniona już w latach 70. XX w. rozbieżność opinii odnośnie do terroryzmu stanowi do dziś trwały element dyskursu w tej materii.
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