“I respect Liliana Segre very muchjust as I feed profound respect for the Jews and for the atrocious drama they experienced that humanity has never been able to conceive, that is Shoah. So I realize their sensitivity on this ground, but those who have suffered all this cannot be given a privilege on the level of law Why if someone is a murderer, whether from Hamas or from Israel, he is still a murderer“. These are the words spoken into the microphones of the broadcast Italy has awakenedon Radio Cusano Campus, from Michele Santorohead of the list Peace Earth Dignity at the next European elections in the Southern constituency, commenting on the latest declarations of the senator for life Liliana Segre during a conference on anti-Semitism at the Shoah Memorial in Milan (“Faced with the observation that Israel is still demonized and that what Israel does is defined “genocide”, I reply that this word is really scary. It’s a comparison that becomes one blasphemy“).
“If the law does not affirm the principle that a murderer is a murderer, whether from Hamas or Israeli – continues Santoro – then it establishes a inequality even towards the weakest, which then justifies anything, even terrorism paradoxically. And instead it is precisely the law that can put us in a position to condemn terrorism.”
The journalist also delivers a broadside to Italian politicians without distinction of colour: “In Italy until recently there were very few of us who said that what he is up to Netanyahu I am war crimes: I, Alessandro Di Battista, Alessandro Orsini and a few other isolated voicesbut there was no one in the government or opposition who had the courage to raise the problem.”
Then he applauds the decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Karim Ahmad Khanwho requested an international arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahuof the Minister of Defense of Israel Yoav Gallantand the three leaders of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail HaniyehFor “crimes against humanity and war”.
“A government – underlines Santoro – cannot commit war crimes, it cannot take an entire population hostage, it cannot respond to one mistake with another mistake. You cannot torture a people with hunger, you cannot move millions of people from one place to another making them live in feces, you cannot kill and mutilate thousands of children because you have to respond to a terrorist act. This is unthinkable, humanity cannot accept it“.
And he points out: “What happened on October 7th is not even acceptable, let’s be clear. I find absolutely no reasons for that massacre, I do not agree at all with those who speak of Hamas resistance. But what resistance? That was a war crime and cannot be justified in any way. Resistance is something else, it is not aimed at defenseless people, such as children, women and civilians. Precisely for this reason – he concludes – and that is to ensure that the rights of the law prevail, we must state that Netanyahu is also a criminal. And so the prosecutor did a great job in indicting him together with the leaders of Hamas.”
