AMY GOODMAN: So, he already talked about the relevance of the concentration camps and World War II to what is happening today in Gaza. Gideon Levy, if you can share your thesis in your latest piece, “The IDF’s Own Sickening 'Zone of Interest' in the Heart of Gaza.”
GIDEON LEVY: Yes, and it’s very unfortunate, but you can’t help it. The IDF opened a resort place in the northern part of Gaza for the soldiers to come to have some good time, to refresh themselves from the battles, to rest a little bit. They’re offering them massages and very good meals and all kind of other benefits, just to let them rest. That’s fine with me. I mean, the soldiers deserve some rest. But I couldn’t help the comparison — not that there is extermination camps in Gaza, by all means not, but this lack of sensibility when Gaza is starving. When I talk to friends in Gaza who are fighting over a glass of water or a piece of bread, to open a resort place which offers steaks and barbecue and all kind of other delicatesses to the soldiers, I mean, how lack of sensitivity can still take us. You know, also in Tel Aviv, we continue our lives while Gaza is starving, and I feel very bad about it. But to do it in the middle of the Gaza Strip, when it’s all surrounded by death and starvation and rubbles and destruction, to open a resort place for soldiers with all kind of funs offered them, I couldn’t live with it, and I couldn’t help the comparison to The Interest Zone, to this unforgettable film. Yes, it is the same. It’s the same blindness. It’s the same moral blindness to what’s going on around you.