The war between Hamas and IsraelDossierIn a vicious column in Haaretz, the intellectual predicts the death of all hope for peace between Israel and the Palestinians in the coming years and the end of the Zionist dream of a liberal, Jew and democrat.
“It will be many more years, years without war, before reconciliation can be thought about again.” In a vicious column published in the Haaretz newspaper on Friday, writer David Grossman accuses Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu of denying any hope Sabotaging peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Grossman, one of the Israeli intellectuals most committed to peace in the Middle East, explains that if Israeli occupation is indeed a crime, abusing children and then shooting them in cold blood is an even more terrible crime: “I know “I don’t know if I should do that.” The men of Hamas are called “human animals,” but they probably no longer have a human image.”
Greedy interests
When the author attributes the main responsibility for the war to the aggressor, because “even the crimes of Israel in the territories occupied for 56 years cannot justify what has been revealed to us,” he in no way absolves the Israeli Prime Minister, who, in his eyes, is guilty of treason guilty of “betrayal of everything we hold dear as citizens of this country.” He accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging the country “in the name of small, greedy interests, in the name of cynical, narrow-minded and sleepwalking politics.”
“Who will we be, what kind of people will we be after these days, having seen what we have seen?” After the destruction and loss of so many things we believed in and trusted, where can we begin again? asks Grossman. Who fears that the only answer will be an even more right-wing, more violent and more racist Israel?