Are we really all guilty, for the massacres of Gaza? From that piece of land only images of rubble come and we do not understand what is still to be destroyed.
Excavated faces, faces of children with deep eyes who no longer have desires or shouts. Children who, if they survive, will now forever. New terroristshaters of Israel, Jews, Western.
No, I don’t feel guilty. The Church that is my voice, a powerful voice for millions of faint voices, has always testified peace. AND There is no peace without justice and without truth. Justice for Palestinians and justice for Israelis.
Following the Church, the dialogue, the weapon of diplomacy and the weapon of prayer, to silence weapons, has always been invoked, to invite the great powers to cease their sale, investments in death tools.
For over a century All the popes have raised their voice for peace. Nobody has been listened to. So I don’t feel guilty of silence.
But we are all a little if we have supported power systems that have allowed or fed the wars; Or if we thought that this violence didn’t concern us. Or that perhaps it was even justifiable.
Could we with our democracies vote change the story? I do not believe. Democracy is the daughter of the West and the West, pressed by protervic autocracies, does not seem to have a future.
America It betrays his vocation, or perhaps we deluded ourselves had one. Europe does not exist: 27 national states that cannot agree even to speed up the regulations and barriers that condemn them to irrelevance.
It is not a political subject, he has no power of deterrence and not even more economic power, but it is his fault, ours. For decades we have torn the scaffolding that supported the European ideal.
Where the law was born. Where philosophy was born, that is, the questions about man, about its origins and destiny. Where the person and the defense of his being unique and unrepeatable was born, because deriving from being, the creator.
Dissolto its roots, Europe has no more voice and no longer counts anything, attacked from time to time to the chariot of convenience, USA, Israel or Russia, Arab countries, China. Europe had to immediately explain to Netanyahu that revenge causes other revenge, that terror does not repay with terror, that the history of a persecuted people does not justify the planned extinction of another people. He had to say aloud: not in our name. Not money, not weapons, but the bodies of his leaders together, to say and show what man is, on the border of the Gaza Strip.
Perhaps the terrorists of Hamas or angry Israeli fundamentalists would not have liked; Maybe nothing would have changed. But we would show that another world, another reason is possible. Because “if the times are not good, we are the times”. And we will have to account for the indifference, the comfortable fearful or the ideological patterns that exploit the pain to increase consent, from one and the other side. There is only one part, the dignity of the person.
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