Discussion on Historical Memory and Conflict
uh, the next generation of, of young people won't remember October
7th in the same way. That's true in Israel and in America,
and broadly in the
world, and we need to make sure two things.
One, it's not that we don't forget.
We need to make sure that the story is told properly so that
when the history books
write this, they don't write about the victims of
Gaza,
right? They, uh, they, uh, they can't, the history--
And it's-- I, I, I should be a little more precise.
There, there were victims in Gaza, right? There, the, it's, it's true.
Um, there are civilian casualties in every war
that's ever been fought,
but the victims were the people of the nation state of Israel.
Uh, tho- that-- the aggressor was the Iranian regime in the proxy of
Hamas, and we need to make sure that the history books reflect that,
and that
requires each of us every day to talk about it in real time with
our children, with our grandchildren, about it in a way that is serious and
thoughtful and complete and moral
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