” “A “new Hundred Years’ War?”: wonders Jean-Dominique Durand from Lyons University (France), in a leading article by SirEuropa out today on old.agensir.it, about the wars that have relentlessly taken place in the Middle East for fifty-eight years. “Everything seems to suggest it is comments Durand -. Actually for so many years all the peace campaigns have failed and so many men of peace have fallen, from Sadat to Rabin, under the blows of hired killers”. Today, he goes on, “it is the existence of Lebanon itself that is threatened. The whole international community is paralysed and resigned to endless fighting in the region”, “failing to understand that it is a veritable tumour that undermines the whole world and feeds terrorism”. According to Durand, Europe “must and can play a role in this affair”, because “it has first of all a moral duty to do so”, since it is “heavily accountable for the outburst of the conflict”: the establishment of the State of Israel is actually “the fruit of its guilty conscience for having brought anti-Semitism and Shoah within itself”. In addition, Europe must play a role in the affair, “because it is on friendly terms with all the sides”; “because it is the bearer of a humanistic and democratic project that guarantees the life and respect of everyone”; “because, due to its history, it knows extremely well the cultures of the Arab (Muslim and Christian) world and the Jewish world, and because it knows what ‘living together’ means”.(to be continued)
