Parla David Grossman a Sheykh Jarrah a Gerusalemme est, lo scorso venerdì, alla manifestazione contro i coloni nel cuore della parte araba della città.
La traduzione in inglese del discorso di Grossman a Sheykh Jarrah è qui.
I think that we are all beginning to grasp – even those who maybe don’t really want to – how 43 years ago, by turning a blind eye, by actively or passively cooperating, we actually cultivated a kind of carnivorous plant that is slowly devouring us, consuming every good part within us, making the country we live in a place that is not good to live in. Not good not only if you are an Arab citizen of Israel, and certainly not if you are a Palestinian resident of the Territories – but not good as well for every Jewish Israeli person who wants to live here, who cherishes some hope to be in a place where human beings are respected as humans beings, where your rights are treated as a given, where humanity, morality,and civil rights are not dirty words, not something from the bleeding-heart Left. No. These are the bread and water, the butter and milk of our lives, the stuff from which we will make our lives, and really make them lives worth living here.
La foto: Lo scrittore alla manifestazione di Sheykh Jarrah, da http://coteret.com/