Scene: A bare, quiet chamber. Netanyahu stands alone, a Figure of Light before him; calm, deliberate, radiating the authority of truth, justice, and love.
Netanyahu: You ask me to answer for decisions made in impossible circumstances.
Figure of Light: Impossible? No. Those circumstances are of your own making. You and your fellow Zionists chose an ideology of domination, dispossession, and fear. You built a state on the oppression of others, sanctioned killing, and called it survival. That is the origin of these “circumstances.”
Netanyahu: I acted to preserve my people.
Figure of Light: Preserve your people by slaughtering children? By displacing, starving, and terrorising the innocent? That is not preservation; it is tyranny. You and your Zionist accomplices held to a morality that condoned hatred and genocide, and in so doing you made yourselves architects of violence and suffering.
Netanyahu: And the Holocaust? You cannot ignore the history of my people!
Figure of Light: History is not your excuse. The past cannot sanctify the murder of children, the dispossession of the defenseless, or the terror you unleashed. Suffering endured by your ancestors cannot justify suffering inflicted upon others.
Netanyahu: It wasn’t only me… Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Gallant… Jabotinsky… even my parents! They raised me to believe this was right.
Figure of Light: All who choose cruelty have responsibility. Passing blame to others, to parents, to predecessors, does not release your conscience. You wielded power. You made decisions. You murdered. And for each act, there is justice.
[The Figure of Light steps closer, its presence calm, implacable.]
Figure of Light: The Zionist hell is not fire or brimstone. It is memory. The sights, sounds, and smells of the suffering you caused will fill your minds for a time equal to all the lives you extinguished. You will feel the fear, the starvation, the pain, the crushing loss, the helpless terror of those you have harmed and who committed no wrong. Every parent who lost a child to your weapons, every soul oppressed for no reason, you will endure their anguish as if it were your own.
Figure of Light: And it will not leave you until you have lived all the lives you have taken, one after the other. When I see you again, I will look upon you as cleansed, but not yet whole. To become whole, to be at one with the principles of truth, justice, and love, you must confess and witness to all of Being what you have done, and ask their forgiveness.
Netanyahu: (voice faltering) I… I was only following… only following the system, the ideology…
Figure of Light: Following? You embraced it fully. You acted with knowledge, with calculation, with zeal. You will answer for what you chose to do. No appeal to ideology, to predecessors, or to fear will avail you. The suffering you inflicted is yours to bear.
[A long silence. The chamber is still. The moral weight of deeds and ideology hangs unbroken. Netanyahu’s attempts at excuse fall away under the immutable measure of justice.
The Figure of Light fades and Netanyahu is alone.]