Edgar Keret smiles for the first time in the entire interview and pats his forehead lightly. As if to say: I knew this moment would come.
“You want me to say the word that starts with G? I can say what I see: that Israel is destroying entire cities, that it is displacing millions of people from one country to another, that it is using hunger as a weapon of war. I see that it is inhumane, terrible, unacceptable. But this thirst to name everything comes from the culture of Instagram. Is Putin like Hitler? No, it is different. Is what is happening in Gaza a genocide? I don’t know. Let’s stop this massacre, release the hostages, and then call in the best lawyers in the world to figure out whether this horror falls into the category of genocide – and then we will declare it loudly: genocide. But first, please, let’s stop it.”
The war is spreading, Netanyahu's cabinet has decided on a full occupation of the Gaza Strip.
"A nightmare. We are living in a historical moment where democracy has ceased to function. The vast majority of Israelis want to stop the war and release the hostages. Only about 20% are in favor of continuing the violence, perhaps even razing Gaza and taking advantage of the moment to oppress the Palestinians in the West Bank. There are about two million people, extremists as there are in many countries: racists, messianics, fanatics. But they are a minority, like the neo-Nazis in Germany. Only here they are in the government. Unfortunately for us and for the Palestinians, they are ministers."
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