“I believe we can and should help bring peace,” says the actor
Javier Bardem he no longer felt comfortable keeping quiet about her Gauze. The Spanish actor spoke about the Israel-Hamas conflict while accepting an award at San Sebastian Film Festival last week. The actor condemned the attacks by Hamas, while speaking of “massive punishment suffered by the Palestinian people”.
He called for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages from Hamas and the trial by the International Criminal Court of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Hamas leaders – some of whom are now dead – who ordered the October 7 attacks.
In an interview with Associated PressBardem explained why he chose to speak out.
“I believe we can and must help bring peace. If we take a different approach, then we will have different results,” he said, speaking ahead of Iran’s attack on Israel on Tuesday. “Israel’s security and prosperity and the health and future of a free Palestine will only be possible through a culture of peace, coexistence and respect”the actor added.
The war has also rocked Hollywood over the past year, where public support for Israel or Palestine has drawn backlash and intimidation, with accusations of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and costing jobs. Even silence had its consequences. The #blockout2024 movement forced celebrities who had said nothing – or enough – to take a stand.
To the question “why now” he decided to speak, the actor answers with disarming honesty. “Because to continue to delay the negotiations and go back to the previous status quo, as they say, or start a race for further violations of international law, that will lead us to the precipice.”
Bardem stressed that while anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are real and serious problems in the US, Europe and beyond, the terms are being used to distract from the “legitimate right to criticize the actions of the Israeli government and Hamas.” .
“We are witnessing crimes against human rights, crimes under international law, such as, for example, withholding food, water, medicine, electricity, using, as UNICEF says, war against children and the trauma created for generations . We cannot remain indifferent to this”he explained.
The Oscar-winning actor has spoken out on global issues in the past, signing an open letter calling for peace during the 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas, and a few years earlier addressing a United Nations panel on the refugees, about which he narrated a documentary. He is also an environmentalist and spoke at the UN in 2019 about protecting the oceans.
Source :Skai
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