The situation in Gaza is “unacceptable”. The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella chose this adjective, who returned to talk about the peace of Confortti and in particular about the tragedy of Gaza, the war in Ukraine and the role of the European Union, in Luxembourg where on June 11 he met Prime Minister Luc Frieden.
“We need to find faster and more effective decision -making mechanisms because otherwise Europe risks being a spectator of solutions that will inevitably be decided by other subjects,” said Mattarella In a place, which has underlined several times, it is linked to Italy by the double thread of an ancient and recent migration, where migrants are the Italians, once miners, today young people who feel at home in the European common house.
We must work, explained the president, to “indicate a historical perspective that allows the Palestinians to have his own state, setting aside sufferings and grudges, and that ensures, at the same time, the security of Israel”. But in the meantime it serves “a fast reflection, which also involves the Arab countries, to find a solution that resolves the serious situation today”. And again “the fire and the release, by the Hamas, of all the hostages, must be immediately reached.”
And the purpose of the war in Ukraine, another recurring theme in the speeches of these weeks, he specified: «Nobody wants to humiliate Russia or diminish its role. But the obstinate research of a solution must bring a true, stable peace, based on law and justice. Otherwise it would not last ». Remembering that Gaza and Ukraine “are not only a decisive theme of international politics but a theme that deeply touches our consciences”.
“It is not thoughtable,” he said, looking at the history of Europe, “returning to the power policy of the past centuries when the largest nations imposed their domain to the less large and less strong countries. This is the past, the future is collaboration and international cooperation on the model of what has been done by the European Union in the last seventy years “.
The day before during the Brindisi in the Grand Duchy had recalled: «We recently remembered the eighty years from the conclusion of the Second World War: both our countries had to see their independence with the invasion by the third Reich. Both countries had the opportunity to verify the value of the realization of an international system capable of guaranteeing the freedom of their respective systems “.
These are themes that resort in the last speeches adapting from time to time to those who listen to them. With words suitable for the boys who asked him questions, he had expressed, regarding the role of Europe, similar concepts also last June 6, in Rondine, Citadel of Peace, welcoming the arrival of the arrival from Arezzo: “The task of Europe”, he had explained to young people, is “to become one of the pins of international dialogue in the community of the world, to redesign – all together – a new system of safety, of coexistence, of collaboration, which removes the ghosts that we are seeing of the war and so radical contrast”.
«We are all disoriented by what happens. The world is upset, in recent years, compared to what we have expected. But this is what must be pursued: a system that restores conditions in which everyone recognizes themselves; and guarantee coexistence and collaboration. Of course to do this, Europe must be united, even more efficient, resisting the attacks it suffers from the outside and from the inside, by those who cultivate the desire to return to the contrast between nationalisms, with conditions that dangerously resemble those of the world of past centuries. This is the task of Europe and Italy within Europe “.
Of the “sad scenarios of open conflict” and the search for solutions respectful of international law, Mattarella had also spoke widely on June 1st, meeting I on the occasion of the concert for the Republic Day: Ukraine, he had said, “for more than three years a strenuous resistance to the aggression of the Russian Federation has been opposing. In confirming our detention and convinced support for Kiev, we continue to work so that we can reach a peace that is right, overall and lasting».
“The Middle East, after Hamas’ bloody attack against Israeli victims, defenseless – with hostages hatefully kidnapped and still retained, and which must be immediately freed – lives the drama in place in the Gaza strip. The refusal to apply the rules of humanitarian law towards the citizens of Gaza is unacceptable. The fire is immediately imposed. In any case, it is essential that the Israeli army make the territories of the strip accessible to the action of international bodies, making it possible to resume full humanitarian assistance to people. That an entire population is reduced to hunger, from children to the elderly, is inhuman. The erosion of territories attributed to the Palestinian National Authority is serious. The Palestinians have the right to their hearth within certain boundaries. This perspective and the security of Israel – essential elements – appear seriously threatened by the sowing of suffering and grudge produced by what is happening. The high concern is added to the manifestations of anti -Semitism that reappear in the world ».
“Peace”, He had remembered with the quiet firmness that has always distinguished himself the way of expressing himself of the president, “is not an ideal for naive souls, then struck down by the severe judgment of history.”. But It is the “experience that far -sighted statesmen have known patiently to build: the work must be continued. You don’t have to – and you can’t – limit to evoking it ».
