Rome, Aug 2 (LaPresse) – “Grossman’s warning is justified because, when a population is starved — even though the responsibilities are shared with Hamas (and Grossman himself acknowledges this) — the risk of reaching the unspeakable exists. It is truly heartbreaking for me to see Israel sunk into such an abomination, with some fanatic ministers, eyes bulging, shouting virulent and inhumane slogans, or with settler groups committing shameful squadrist actions against defenseless Palestinians in the West Bank,” said lifetime senator Liliana Segre in an interview with Repubblica.
“David Grossman, with his exceptional sensitivity, also warns against the instrumental and extreme use of the word ‘genocide,’ which has been used here in the West since the day after October 7. Indeed, he says, ‘We must find a way out of this association between Israel and genocide. Above all, we must not allow those with antisemitic feelings to use and manipulate the word genocide,’” she added.
“If in Israel the problem is to stop at the edge of the abyss, here in Europe the problem is twofold: to help Israelis and Palestinians who risk falling into that abyss, but at the same time to prevent the spread here of the cultural barbarism that an uncritical enlistment on one or the other of the two extreme fronts is producing. For this reason, I have always opposed and continue to oppose the use of the term genocide that is not analytical but very much vengeful. It is a way of shaking off Europe’s historical responsibility, inventing a kind of senseless contrapasso, reversing onto the victims of Nazism the guilt of today’s Israel portrayed as a new Nazism.”
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