Javier Bardem gave a lengthy and eloquent assessment of Israel’s current military attacks in Gaza this morning during a press conference at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Bardem is in town to finally pick up his 2023 Donostia award for career achievement after he was unable to attend the festival last year due to the US actors’ strike.
He began his answer to a question about politics and Israel by saying “What is happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable, it is terrible, it is dehumanizing.
I believe that this Israeli government is the most radical government that Israel has ever had.” Bardem continued to say that he believed the country’s government “is committing crimes against humanity.” “Obviously, the atrocious, terrible, and reprehensible attacks on October 7th, do not justify this massive punishment that the Palestinian population is suffering,” he added. “The impunity that the current Israeli government enjoys in its actions in Gaza and the West Bank has to change.
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