{"id":11547,"date":"2026-04-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/?post_type=news&p=11547"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:56:21","slug":"lior-sternfeld-iran-has-always-been-a-distraction-from-the-palaestina-issue","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/lior-sternfeld-iran-war-immer-auch-eine-ablenkung-von-der-palaestina-frage","title":{"rendered":"Lior Sternfeld: \u00abIran has always been a distraction from the Palestinian issue\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel and Iran are considered arch-enemies. But this was not always the case. Israeli historian Lior Sternfeld explains how the dynamic has changed over the decades in an interview with the curator of the Bruno Kreisky Forum. Solmaz Khorsand<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch the interview in the Issue of The Republic from 27 April <\/a>read in full length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would also like to draw your attention to the previous event on 12 February. \"DE-ESCALATION, PEACE AND FREEDOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST\"<\/a> at the BKF, in which both Khorsand and Sternfeld took part. You can find them on our Website<\/a> or alternatively the recording on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":11576,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48,49],"class_list":["post-11547","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news","news-kategrie-presseartikel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLior Sternfeld: \u00abIran war immer auch eine Ablenkung von der Pal\u00e4stina-Frage\u00bb - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/lior-sternfeld-iran-has-always-been-a-distraction-from-the-palaestina-issue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lior Sternfeld: \u00abIran war immer auch eine Ablenkung von der Pal\u00e4stina-Frage\u00bb - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Israel und Iran gelten als Erzfeinde. 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