2025-10-14 Israel: So that we won’t say we didn’t know
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We are travelling through Portugal these days. I brought a bunch of
newspapers along – to read should I manage to put down the phone. I
just read Kollidierende Realitäten, starting with a B’Tselem
meeting, with quotes from Yuli Novak. She says she assumes 95% don’t
know about their report, Our Genocide.
I see Israelis trying to so the right thing and I am reminded of the
time I stood at the Paradeplatz in Zürich during lunch hours, “for a
just peace in Palestine.” It was so long ago. It didn’t help. The
vigils are still ongoing. I no longer go.
Adi Argov from The Daily File has the last word in the article: “How
can the Palestinians forgive what we have done to them? Only our
grandchildren might one day know.” (Translation mine.)
Apparently the Israelis are so unaware of what they are doing, so
certain of what their friends and family in the army are saying, of
what the mainstream media are saying, of what the government is
saying, that they can only explain the horror the rest of the world is
expressing as anti-semitism. I’m guessing that one day they will say,
like so many Germans did: “I did not know!” And they will learn, like
the Germans did, that this legacy will be hard to shake. Like I once
heard in an extremely rude voice over for Pingu: “Fuck you and your
entire generation!”
The subtitle of The Daily File is “So that we won't say we didn't
know.”
If you feel like arguing, please read Casualties of the Gaza war,
because I’m assuming you’re one of the very people this article is
about. It is not my duty to educate you. It is your duty to do the
right thing and that includes the duty to educate yourself so that you
can do the right thing. Nobody said it was going to be easy.
