Predatory State
Saikat Majumdar | 15 May 2025 | The Telegraph
“Netanyahu is staying here.” My friend said as we walked past the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace in Budapest that evening. A shiver of incredulity ran through me. Not incredulity at what my friend had just said — I knew that the Israeli prime minister had arrived in the Hungarian capital that day in early April — but a stranger kind of disbelief at the very existence of this man more responsible than anyone else for the death of over 50,000 people, including over 15,000 children, in the Middle East in the last year and a half. That such a man can really exist beyond disembodied bytes of news and is probably relaxing in a hotel I’m walking past at that very moment — somehow it felt unbelievable. But there was no other choice. In that act of acceptance, my heart turned corpse-cold…