We spend three quarters of our lives wanting without doing and the fourth, doing without wanting to. Diderot's lucid bitterness is comforting in answering those who ask about our hatreds now, as whenever I take an Israeli or a Palestinian from La Contra. They want you to hate and they want it right now.
What do I hate more – I try to reason – the stateless terrorism of Hamas or that of the State of Israel? Let me start by clarifying that Hamas also has a state, which is Iran. And that Iran is less concerned about the lives of the inhabitants of Gaza than being surrounded by enemies in the region, because Israel and Arabia, its Sunni nemesis, were now beginning to agree, which is why it attacked Israel .
I loosen up a bit, calm down: after all, whom we Europeans hate, let alone the Spanish, has almost no geostrategic influence in the region. And if there are ministers – I reassure the Israeli embassy – of Podemos who support Iran-Gaza and their councilors get declarations of condemnation of Israel from their city councils, it does not matter to the Tsahal, because Israel was born of the Zionist conviction that the Jews would be hated throughout the planet and for all eternity and that only the Jews could save themselves from genocide. So if the whole EU were to throw condemnations at them now, it wouldn't do anything to them either.
And, despite this, we Europeans are once again suffering terrorist attacks and paying the cost of the conflict in our economies; although we also have the right (in other countries, like in Iran-Hamas, no) to disagree without being sentenced to death.
Therefore, I fear that the answer with Diderot will not satisfy those who demand hate: it is to do what we can in the short term to preserve both the lives of the people of Gaza and the lives of the Israeli soldiers; and in the long term, for the right of all to live in peace and this includes the right of the Palestinians to a State.
And it is also to give the right to President Biden, who asks Israel not to invade Gaza, even though it has every right to defend itself, because it will defend itself better from intelligent and calculated calm than from blind anger and sudden.
