The interview with Iddo Netanyahu, doctor, writer and playwright as well as brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, raised questions of great importance regarding the conflict in Gaza, the position of the West and the security of Israel. Published on “Il Giornale” and made by Gaia Cesare, this interview opens a gash on a complex and painful reality.
Netanyahu, with the frankness that characterizes him, describes the current conditions in Gaza. “It is very different since ’73
When he was asked how he would transport the conflict to Gaza to a theatrical work, Netanyahu replied: “Perhaps I would focus on the theme of hypocrisy in the West, on how criticism a country for having dared to fight and destroy a murderous terrorist organization after men, women and children of that country have been massacred in the most horrible ways imaginable. Spain, Spain or Sweden would act differently? of the absurd “.
On the western positions towards Hamas and the ideology behind it, Netanyahu is a lapidary: “pretends not to understand that Hamas, being an organization of the Muslim brothers, wants to destroy not only Israel, but also the West as it is, which the West refuses to recognize. The Westerners think shockly that if Israel stopped existing, Radicals would leave them in peace ”.
Criticism of the conflict is another point touched by Netanyahu: “Criticizing what? That our young soldiers risk their lives to guarantee our survival against the killers and perverts who raped our women, cut their parts of the body, beheaded and burned our children, and who have filmed everything with joy and joy?”
Reflecting on the personal tragedy lived by his brother Yonatan during the Entebbe operation of ’76, Netanyahu observes: “The two situations are very different. It is almost impossible, from a military point of view, to save the hostages kept in the tunnels, since it is likely that in an attempt of this kind they are killed”.
Looking at the recent improvement of morality in Israel, Netanyahu declares: “It has improved by the war with Iran. First he reigned a widespread uncertainty about Israel’s long -term survival, due to the Iranian nuclear weapons. The Iranian regime is not rational as Rational or China. It would risk the death of millions of its citizens in a nuclear war if this meant achieving the objectives of its crazy ideology fundamentalist “.
As for Europe and its role, Netanyahu is critical: “It is surprising that Europe has never taken into consideration the idea of embarking on a military action to destroy the Iranian atomic program, but has waited for the small Israel to do so. To whom do the European leaders think that the immense Iranian ballistic missile program is destined?” Only to Israel? “
With regard to the question of the recognition of the Palestinian state by some European countries, Netanyahu is skeptical: “It is a joke. A state that does not exist and has never existed will be recognized? Hamas and the Olp are not really interested in a Palestinian state. When the former first ministers Barak and Olmert offered a state to the Palestinians first in Arafat and then to Mahmud Abbu (also known as Abu as Abu as Abu. Mazen, editor’s note) refused. Why? They didn’t want to recognize Israel. Just as they refused a state when they were offered them in 1947 by the UN and years earlier by the British Peel Commission. What they have always wanted is that a Jewish state, however small, did not exist. The slogans from the river to the sea mean precisely this ”.
Discussing the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Netanyahu underlines Israel’s efforts to bring “hundreds of food trucks every day, while we try to manage the theft of food aid by Hamas”. On the war of propaganda, however, Netanyahu recognizes that Hamas is winning “helped by an available western press on this field”. “The New York Times has just published the photo of a hemated child from Gaza as a symbol of our alleged hunger, but in reality it is a child with a pre -existing disease that causes strong thinness – he explains – they could not verify the information before publishing it? Of course they could, but they were in a hurry to defame Israel with another accusation of blood. It is very difficult to fight the war of propaganda when the media are a priori. We are used to the accusations of blood, new or old they are just like in the 80s, when we were accused of having poisoned Arabic children in the West Bank.
And it is precisely on this field that, perhaps, Israel could have done more and better. “The government has not been able to set up a structure strong enough to counter propaganda – says Bibi’s brother – Many money and enormous efforts would have served. And so we were unable to get enough support from international public opinion. We lost the war of propaganda conducted against us”.
The decisions of the Netanyahu government are defended by IDdo in the context of national war and security: “Things have gone mostly, not badly. We crushed Hezbollah and destroyed the enormous threat it represented. We destroyed, at least for now, the Iranian nuclear program. And we are on the way to defeat Hamas and destroy the terrorist base that created in Gaza after we left it 20 years ago, Given them a Palestinian state de facto ”.
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