What does the terrorist organization Hamas want? Is the war in the Middle East triggering a new wave of terror in Europe? In “ZiB 2”, extremism researcher Peter Neumann of King’s College London explains the current situation knowledgeably. The current conflict in the Middle East is not a civil war like the one in Syria, but “the central conflict between Muslims and Jews,” Neumann said. This “us against them” and “we have to defend ourselves” is the rhetoric that already indicates that there is a danger. A dangerous mix has emerged and disinformation is occurring even faster than in the conflict in Syria. And the accusation that Israel is carrying out a kind of genocide also serves, argumentatively and narratively, to “justify all possible forms of violence, in order to resist it”.
