“Stop all the wars, stop all the injustices, stop the rejections, stop helping them at home. Stop stop stop.” Fabio Fazio welcomes Ghali at Che tempo che fa and represents his idea of peace (even if the infamous word “genocide” is never mentioned). After Ghali was reprimanded by the CEO of Rai for Italy's solidarity with Israel, found he takes refuge in the presenter, who (perhaps) operates in a circle of less monitored freedom compared to his past at Rai on Nove, the Warner Bros. network. Discovery Group. “We live in a strange time when the simplest things become unspeakable,” Fazio immediately stated when he welcomed the Milan-born trapper as the son of Tunisian parents.
We immediately talk about the Sanremo case, in reality the moderator speaks a lot while thinking about it: how the request for peace becomes a divisive phrase, it is a completely new fact, it suddenly became a request against someone: peace is for everyone there, not against anyone. Ghali nods and adds: “It's strange to find yourself in a world like that. All our lives we've been taught things a certain way, and at a certain point they tell us they can't be said anymore. I have always done my best for peace. In his opinion, everything should be shared: “If in a room with ten people seven are sick, the other three will also be affected in this sense.” And vice versa”.
Fazio emphasizes that Hamas carried out an infamous massacre in Israel on October 7, but recalls that “Casa Mia” (the song that Ghali took with him to Sanremo) had already been written before. The word “genocide” is never mentioned and it cannot be a coincidence. Perhaps it is the way to reiterate his ideas about peace, but in a more relaxed way, after the vehement response Ghali had received from the Israeli ambassador to Italy: “I consider it shameful that the festival stage was used in a superficial and irresponsible way to spread hatred and provocations.” On Domenica In, a day after the festival finale, Ghali responded much more directly: “The fact that the ambassador speaks like that is not good, the politics of terror is going on further, people are afraid to say: Stop the war, stop.” After the genocide, we live in a time where people feel like they are losing something when they say “Long live peace.” There are middle children: those children who die. Who knows how many stars, how many doctors, teachers, how many geniuses there are in the middle.” Definitely clearer words than those heard in Fazio's study.
When the “Sanremo training” was over, Ghali da Fazio spoke about the popularity hangover that he fell victim to: “At a certain point I was marred by success: you start rolling, you move forward by inertia, that has “You can’t do it anymore.” Time to think. I had to stop. I wanted to return to my essence, the one that had taken the spotlight away from me. Maybe I didn't have the broad shoulders to handle this success.” Then something changed: “A year and a half ago, I stopped understanding how to do something extraordinary.” There are too many mediocre, superficial things. Success takes away your innocence, in order to achieve extraordinary things I had to become pure again.