American director Oliver Stone: I don't understand how they can kill Palestinians in this way (Reuters)

American filmmaker Oliver Stone said he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu years before he took office and that his impression from the meeting was that Netanyahu was a "crazy and sick person."

In a video posted on his Instagram page on Monday, Stone said: "Netanyahu is a sick person. I repeat, he is a crazy man. I met him years ago and interviewed him when he was out of power, and my impression of him was that he was crazy, and I think he became worse and worse and worse. He's really crazy."

"I have never seen such a massacre [in Gaza] that they justify in this way as revenge and as a religious conflict. How to eliminate a political movement (a reference to Hamas)? Something that has never happened in the history of the world. What I mean is how are you going to kill everyone? What are you going to do? Disperse them and send them to Egypt? It's crazy."

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"What was disgusting to me when Biden went there; the hat in one hand and the money in the hand to give them what they wanted. You know, that's our country's problem, we can't do this, we can't support Israel constantly, we have to say no and cut off with them (Israel), everything must be cut off with them now."

"That's what I'm going to do, don't talk to me and tell me anti-Semitism, I mean I don't even know what they're talking about, who are the anti-Semits in the world? Only a few claws. As you know, no one is anti-Semitic unless they have a problem with Hitler."

"This is a matter of justice, peace, balance and basic human ethics. I don't understand how they can kill Palestinians in this way?"

Since Oct. 7, the Israeli army has been waging a war on Gaza, leaving 21,978 dead, 57,697 injured, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza authorities and the United Nations.

Who is Oliver Stone?

Oliver Stone was born on September 15, 1946 in New York City, United States, and grew up in Manhattan and Stanford.

The son of a wealthy Jewish stockbroker, Stone grew up in New York City and attended Trinity School before his parents sent him away to Hill Middle School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and then briefly studied at Yale University in Connecticut, in the northeastern United States.

In 1967, during the Vietnam War, he joined the U.S. Army Infantry Division for a year, was wounded twice in combat and received military decorations.

Stone then attended film school at New York University and received his bachelor's degree in 1971, studying under director Martin Scorsese.

In 1978, Stone began his film career writing screenplays for Conan the Barbarian (1982), Scarface (1983), directed by Brian DePalma and starring Al Pacino, and Midnight Train, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

He rose to prominence as a writer and director for the 1986 Vietnam War motion picture drama Detachment, which won the Academy Award for Best Director, and in 1989 Stone also won an Academy Award for directing "Born on the Fourth of July."

He has received numerous awards, including four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Prime Time Emmy and five Golden Globe Awards.

In addition to directing and writing, Stone has produced several of his own films, as well as feature films, including documentaries on Latin American politics such as Comandante (2003) about Cuban President Fidel Castro and South Borders (2009), which focused on many other leftist leaders, notably Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Source : Al Jazeera + Social Media