FLASH
Shkruar nga Nadav Lapid
*The author of the article is Israeli director Nadav Lapid. He emphasizes the lack of reaction: While there have been massacres and destruction in Gaza, there have been no major protests in Israel that would question state policy. Not only extremists are responsible for the crimes, but also “good” people who remained silent.
Israeli cinema, according to him, reflects reality not as a critic, but as a part of it: “We, Israeli artists, chose to be more Israeli than artists.”
My film "Yes" was born from an image: "Pillars of Society" by the German artist George Grosz. It shows three figures; a financier, a soldier and a clergyman, at a grotesque party. They are the pillars of a rotten society, before the inferno of Nazism engulfed it.
The year is 1926, the city is Berlin.
Even though the catastrophe had not yet occurred, the painter had sensed that society was sick. There I realized that even in today's Israeli society, the similarity is shocking.
Long before October 7, our society suffered from a moral paralysis. Some protested, but most, including us artists, remained silent.
We, who should have been among the loudest voices, chose silence. Silence in the face of the construction of a regime based on discrimination, humiliation, and systematic violence against the Palestinians.
We didn't speak up when the fields in Gaza were burned, when the electricity was cut off and the hospitals were destroyed. We didn't speak up when the children in Rafah were left without water and when the civilians in Khan Younis were targeted. We didn't speak up, and so we became complicit.
Not only are extremists responsible, but also we who cowered in our silence.
Israeli art has become part of the problem. It no longer reflects on reality, but often justifies it.
We decided to be more Israeli than artists, more supporters than critics. Isn't this the most terrifying form of self-censorship?
Can we now look back and tell the truths we avoided?
Are we able to make a film about this; not to justify, but to accuse?
There is no more excuse. Words will never be enough, but silence is deadly.
In the end, the question that remains is this: when will we start screaming?
Editor's note: This text is a call for collective reflection, not only for Israel, but for every society that learns to normalize injustice and remain silent in the face of crimes. Albania and the Balkan region are not exempt from this historical parallelism./ Pamphlet
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"Ky tekst eshte nje thirrje per reflektim kolektiv"... - dhe reflektimi tone, atehere, ishte ashpersimi i luftes se klasave. Mjere te deklasuarit...dje, po edhe sot qe ende nuk e dine se cfare po i pret. Reflektimi, eshte manifesti qe vjen nga Messia per popujt. Ende nuk e kemi nje te tille, dhe nuk do ta kemi pa mbaruar rindarja e Botes... Atehere, do filloje te dale ne plan te pare roli i individit perparashpenes i historise...
Pamfleti deri diku eshte ok, por kur i ben favore dhe i sherben lali erit e dhjet gjithe punen e mire
Izraeli, reabilitoi Nazistet !!! Kur hebrete, bënë ne 2025 çfare u pa nga te gjithe, imagjinoni se çfare kane qenë e berë ata ne shekuj. Vatikani s'duhet te heshtë më !!!