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The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, perpetrated on Saturday October 7, caused the death of at least 900 people, including four French people, and 2,616 injured were recorded by the Israeli army according to a new provisional assessment of the offensive carried out by the Palestinian movement. While a minute of silence was observed this Tuesday in the National Assembly in tribute to the victims, the war is igniting in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises “forceful” retaliation. In the middle of this bloody geopolitical conflict which is taking place before the worried eyes of the whole world, the singer Amir, who does not wish to enter into debates on the war but to keep a vision on a human scale, shares “a few sentences” on his Instagram account to show his “frantic gratitude” towards the soldiers mobilized by his country (he has dual Franco-Israeli nationality), “those thousands of others, who have everything to lose, who dream of peace, but respond unanimously when security theirs depends on it.”
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The musician holds in high esteem “these guys going to the front, worried but united, sad and optimistic, (…) good guys, young dads, leaving their wives, children and friends, leaving their daily lives overnight” and who only hope for one thing, “to return quickly, safe and sound, and restore the calm which alone will guarantee the safety of their families”. Because Amir himself experienced the horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was May 11, 2021, during a new muscular episode between the two factions, while he was in Tel Aviv in the studio to record the reissue of his album “Ressources”. At the wheel of his car, while listening to the song “Malgré moi”, the singer found himself under a “rain of rockets”.
“Real fear, very physical, cardiac”
“I have never found myself outside under fire. I roll, I stop on the side of the road, protect myself while it explodes, get away. Moving forward, backward, stopping, starting again, the music in the background… if it wasn’t so painful, the scene would be comical” remembers the father of two boys, then overcome by “fear”, in the middle bombs “. “Real fear, very physical, cardiac. Whether it paralyzes you or excites you a little, you feel it passing, inevitably. And since you don’t want to die, not like this, not right away… you pray. You pray that it lands somewhere else, somewhere else but not here,” he writes.
“To relax is to disappear”
A traumatic experience whose images he still keeps in mind today. “It’s only then that you realize how stupid this whole thing is. So stupid, the human, avoidable price that the shots you hear will soon cost. The victims to come on both sides of the border, the families who will have to survive their deaths… so stupid” says the singer of “I’ve looked for”, evoking “this chain of solidarity which is form, spontaneous, with each tragedy that strikes the people of Israel.
“Israel is a country that cannot afford to let its guard down. To relax is to disappear. These last few days have reminded us of this in the most violent way. These barbaric, inhumane acts are perpetrated by the Hamas terrorist group on hundreds of civilians. Hamas murders women and men, children and the elderly, it rapes and kidnaps them,” writes Amir, shocked by the terrible images playing over and over on television channels in recent days. And to share, once again, his “admiration” for “these fathers” who are mobilizing for their country. “They are not unscrupulous bloodthirsty people, nor are they crazy people ready to do anything to inflame the conflict. They have much more to lose than to gain by going to the front,” he recalls seriously, before concluding: “They respond because that is the only way humanity will win.”
2023-10-11 03:12:17
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