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Dear Konstantin,
As for many years I have been an avid reader of the Zwischenwelt and of the Theodor Kramer Society’s publications, which as you know, inspired me to some timely reflexions, I have never had any doubt that you were the spirit driving with never flailing energy this whole enterprise. I find it impossible to imagine its existence without you.
It is not surprising that the war in Ukraine has insinuated itself into the life of the Theodor Kramer Society, with attendant secret meetings and dirt slinging. Wars ought to haunt all of us, because indifference is heartlessness. Maybe it is the result of my age that I strongly feel that peace is to be searched for in almost all situations. Avishay Margalit, philosopher, founder of BETSELEM, the main Israeli human rights NGO, also an aging gentleman, discussed this in an essay written while occupying the George Kennan Chair in Princeton. In it he cited a Talmudic adage „where there is justice there is no peace, where there is peace there is no justice“ (Babylonian, Sanhedrin 6b). I am wholeheartedly behind this piece of Jewish wisdom. A call for arbitration in search of compromise as a probable path to peace. Therefore, I support your demand for a court of arbitration.
I am not sure where your demand for an arbitration stands at the moment, and I am waiting with impatience to know its proceedings.
You certainly deserve a restful holiday in the meantime,
so „Bonnes Vacances“!
Daniel Bernstein
Paris, 14 July 2024
