Following the comments Israel’s Rome ambassador Alon Bar posted that Ghali could have expressed solidarity with the victims of October 7 instead. The opening ceremony is next Friday and Ghali will find himself performing at an event watched by tens of millions of people around the world. Speaking in response to the row that followed his Sanremo comments, Ghali said: "I've always spoken about these issues since I was a child. “The politics of terror continues, people are afraid to say stop the war, stop the genocide, we're living in a moment in which people feel they're losing something if they say 'long live peace.' "There are children in the middle: those children who are dying, who knows how many stars, how many doctors, teachers, how many geniuses, are there in the middle."