Dror Mishani on October 7 Trauma and the Moral Spiral of Israel's War in Gaza

In an interview published by the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Israeli writer Dror Mishani addressed the trauma of the October 7 attacks, the escalating spiral of the war, and the moral dilemmas facing Israel. He argued that giving terrorists a human face remains essential. The conversation, framed by the provocative quote that Israel is dropping bombs not on Gaza but on Auschwitz and Dachau, examined how collective memory of the Holocaust shapes the current conflict. Mishani stressed that this history does not justify every action but explains a great deal. The discussion also weighed how far one may go in the fog of war without betraying one's own moral values. The interview appeared in the NZZ Feuilleton section.