E 'truce. After the devastating bombing in the Gaza Strip, Israel declared an end to hostilities. Unilaterally. Hamas said that, until the IDF troops will not go away, the "resistance" continues. Then, he proclaimed a "his" truce of seven days.
Peace is (still) far away.
While gruesome images came from the Palestinian territories, returning to the mind, in a very particular sense, the "thinking" of Pascal: "There are reasons of the heart that reason does not know." The arguments leading to quibble about more or less "proportionate" military operations. The "heart" (which is different from "feeling", that insight the mystery of life) rebels in front of the suffering of the poor.
E 'for a movement of consciousness that an Israeli reservist has refused to go to Gaza, protesting the bombing of a territory overpopulated. Of course we must be sensitive to the suffering of all innocent. Even those Israelis who are living the nightmare of Qassam rockets. We are "poor people", also said the families of two Palestinian children killed "by mistake" from a roll of Hamas.
There is a challenging walk to do. Israel should acknowledge that there is no military solution to a problem (that of the coexistence of "opposite reasons") that can be terminated only for "political path". The Gazans will have to rethink on that trust, in desperation, the extremists of Hamas who want to transform a political-territorial conflict in a religious-ideological clash.
There is, in general, a "Copernican revolution" to be made. In a debate infuriating, is the measure used to assess whether, and how it was pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian. And 'the conditioned reflex of the dialectic of friend-enemy. To which the logic of confrontation should be replaced with the reasons of the 'other' and the courage to dare to peace. "
(Article on "The New Courier di Firenze" del 19/01/09).
