(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 1 – Israeli author David Grossman said what is happening in Gaza amounts to genocide in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica published on Friday.
“For years I refused to use the word genocide. But now I can’t help but use it, after what I’ve read in the newspapers, the images I’ve seen, and speaking with people who were there,” Grossman said.
“Just uttering this word, ‘genocide,’ in reference to Israel, to the Jewish people, just the fact that there is this association, would be enough to say that something very bad is happening.
“I speak as someone who has done everything in his power not to call Israel a genocidal state.
“And now, with immense pain and a broken heart, I have to see it happening before my eyes.
“Genocide is a word that can’t be ignored: once you say it, it just keeps growing, like an avalanche.
“And it brings even more destruction and more suffering”.
Grossman said he remained “desperately loyal” to the notion of a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying he could see no alternative.
He also said he did not understand the “hysteria” French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize the State of Palestine had provoked in his homeland. (ANSA).
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“For years I refused to use the word genocide. But now I can’t help but use it, after what I’ve read in the newspapers, the images I’ve seen, and speaking with people who were there,” Grossman said.
“Just uttering this word, ‘genocide,’ in reference to Israel, to the Jewish people, just the fact that there is this association, would be enough to say that something very bad is happening.
“I speak as someone who has done everything in his power not to call Israel a genocidal state.
“And now, with immense pain and a broken heart, I have to see it happening before my eyes.
“Genocide is a word that can’t be ignored: once you say it, it just keeps growing, like an avalanche.
“And it brings even more destruction and more suffering”.
Grossman said he remained “desperately loyal” to the notion of a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying he could see no alternative.
He also said he did not understand the “hysteria” French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize the State of Palestine had provoked in his homeland. (ANSA).
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