Year XXXVIII, Number 2, July 2025

Moni Ovadia
Theatre Director, Actor, and Cultural Commentator

In the post-Holocaust years, the West has long questioned whether anything could have been done to stop that horror. Of course, something could have been done, but it was not done.

We learn that Netanyahu has decided on ground troop action in Gaza and the deportation of Gazans. Where to?

We are at a point where, if the Israeli government decided to intern Palestinians in concentration camps, it could do so amid the inertia of other governments – after which it could do whatever it wants with them, as indeed it is already doing.

At the end of all this – because sooner or later an end always comes – we will ask how this could have happened and whether anything could have been done to stop this horror.

Of course, something could have been done, but it was not done.