Tomáš Kulka

"Does Israel have a future at the current situation?" - "In my opinion, it doesn't. The occupation can't take forever. Unless there is a two-state solution, and if the Palestinians are given a right to vote, there will be no Jewish state. That argument used by the left from the very beginning, is still valit: either the state won't be Jewish or it won't be democratic." - "The possibility of two states is very distant for many reasons." - "It's not on the table. I wouldn't mind that but the reality is changing. Every once in a while, they build a new settlement at the West Bank - the territory which should be at the core of the talks. This was always Netanyahu's policy; he was never serious about the two-state solution."

"You said that even this country went south. What had changed?" - "The whole atmosphere. Just look at who is our president these days?! I couldn't have even imagined such a guy becoming president. And he might even be reelected. Some of the paradoxes are quite laughable. There was a survey in which they asked who would be a better president - whether Zeman or Drahoš. Most people said that Drahoš but then the same people claimed to vote for Zeman. It is awkward. That hatred which he helped stir up - that is new. People hate each other here. That is probably the worst thing; a news sort of hatred had been sewn. Or, in other words, while Havel made an effort to bring the good things in people to surface, Zeman addresses the ugly side of humans. Plus, we have Babiš who will obviously win the election. So, I don't know where all of this is heading."

"Right after the war, my dad along with Ota Kraus - the father of Jan Kraus - decided that prior to looking for a job, they had to give a testimony. And really, their book The Death Factory was the first written testimony about Auschwitz. I think it was published in January 1946. My father then carried on, wrote another book with Ota Kraus and devoted practically all of his life to the memory of people who were murdered in Auschwitz, as much as to the 1963 Frankfurt trials."