«For years I refused to use this word: ‘Genocidiò. But now I can’t get out of demitches, after what I read in the newspapers, after the images I saw and after talking to people who have been there ». The Israeli writer David Grossman explains it in an interview with Repubblica. “Even just saying this word,” genocide “, in reference to Israel, to the Jewish people: this would be enough, the fact that there is this combination, to say that something very ugly is happening to us – he continues -. I want to speak like a person who did everything he could not to get to call Israel a genocidal state. And now, with immense pain and with the broken heart, I must see that it is happening in front of my eyes.
“Genocide”. It is an avalanche word: once you pronounce it, it only grows, like an avalanche in fact. And it brings even more destruction and suffering ». “I remain desperately faithful to the idea of the two states, mainly because I see no alternatives – remarks the writer -. It will be complex and both we and the Palestinians will have to behave politically mature in the face of the attacks that will surely be there. But there is no other plan. “
French President Macron proposes the recognition of the Palestinian state. «I think it’s a good idea and I don’t understand the hysteria that welcomed her here in Israel. Maybe having to do with a real state, with real obligations, not with an ambiguous entity like the Palestinian authority, will have its advantages – he concludes -. It is clear that there will have to be precise conditions: no weapons. And the guarantee of transparent elections from which anyone who thinks of using violence against Israel is banned ».