"Despite the as yet somewhat vague results though I didn’t expect much more than what has emerged it was an important Summit in which the situation was reviewed". That’s the first reaction of Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custodian of the Holy Land, to the summit on Lebanon held in Rome today. "Apart from the decisions reached by the delegates and reported in the joint Italo-American statement declared the Custodian to SIR I think the summit did map out a route to be followed, which I hope will not require a lengthy timetable, at least in the first phase, namely, the achievement of a ceasefire. This war, so cruel, cannot be long protracted. It is becoming unsustainable for both countries. The future configuration of the region cannot be entrusted to weapons. I think this use of force now serves only to be able to go to the negotiating table later in a position of advantage. At this point concludes Father Pizzaballa I only wonder how much suffering and how many more deaths will we still have to see before reaching a truce, a halt to the armed conflict! The populations are downtrodden, enfeebled and tired. By now we know only too well: when two elephants quarrel, it is the grass that suffers".
