What is happening in Israel and Palestine today is “something that takes you back to a distant time that I thought I would never live again, of which life had given me false hopes.” This was said by Senator Liliana Segre, guest on the program “Che tempo che fa” on November.
“Today it is very difficult not to be afraid, but it is stronger than me. I,” she emphasized, “want to be free and not be afraid. This is the moral legacy that I leave to my children and grandchildren.”
“When you invited me to come here,” the senator explained, “it was all unimaginable because we are talking about a month or two ago. I was always fixated on one thing I wanted to say on the show: I, the, like. “I’m an old woman, I’m very old now, but I was already very old when I entered the Senate. I immediately thought that I wanted to leave behind the beautiful, moral and interesting thing, namely the commission of which I am president, which fortunately is the case. The ban against sedition was also renewed in the new legislative period.
“When a commission starts with this principle,” he continued, “and listens to all the voices that then come forward to participate as hearings in the commission, one wonders whether it is a utopia, a dream. If you happen to be alive and see, you hear.” just five minutes ago what is happening in this world in which you hope that there is no incitement to hatred. Then everything is useless, these utopias that have emerged over the years (…), then nothing but a nightmare, a disappointment, a despair. What hope is there for a grandmother like me after seeing what happened to children who were only guilty of giving birth? It is something that takes you to a distant time that I thought I would never experience again, life had given me false hopes.”
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