“For me, there was a kind of gap in space-time.” Rabbi Delphine Horvilour speaks on the Hamas attack.

“For the past 48 hours, there’s been a kind of break in space-time for me,” he confided. Delphine Horvilleur, who was invited to speak on France Inter on Monday, October 9, spoke about the attack carried out by Hamas in Israel. According to official reports from both sides, the war between the terrorist organization and the state has claimed more than 1,600 lives in recent days. “I don’t know if people understand the horror of finding families murdered, when they find children’s throats being cut, women with children kidnapped,” the rabbi said. All these words must be said, pronounced.”

In fact, he regretted that these words “were crushed by the usual rhetoric of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, communities against each other, religions against each other, partisanship…”. What is under attack today is our deep humanity. Today you invite me as a rabbi, I guess, a Jew, someone who has lived in Israel, but really we can invite anyone to talk about this.” Before adding: “Anyone who claims to be humanitarian can only be horrified by this.”

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Delphine Horvilure explained that it was all “a question of humanity, the ability to put things into perspective”. “There is a territorial conflict, there are injustices, and God knows that I am not the last person who criticized the policy of the Israeli government in recent years, warned about the lack of perspective of the Palestinians…” he emphasized. The author also admitted that he “collapsed” several times during the previous 48 hours. “I say to myself. “What is happening that the Palestinian cause has allowed itself to be hijacked by this monstrosity?”

The rabbi also pointed out the “immediate” consequences of this war for the Jews in France; synagogues came under police protection. “The fear is there,” he assured. The fear that especially these speeches, which minimize the barbarity of these acts, convince some that, after all, it is a question of exporting the conflict, of waging war here, I don’t know who and I don’t know. I know what. Again, I think the Palestinians deserve better than that.” And Delphine Horvilure adds: “I think about the destruction to come, the black tunnel we’re entering, all these deaths.” The writer also thought of “the families who have no news of their loved ones” who are victims of the growing anxiety, especially after Hamas kidnapped civilians during the Gernor festival.