Roberto Saviano: "My Jewish origins"
Transcript of Roberto Saviano (whose mother is Jewish) in the demonstration organized by Fiamma Nirenstein in Rome on October 7 titled "In fact, for Israel."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnosImbj0GQ
My truth about Israel is made up mainly of images, images that do not want to be only those of the war but are images that have to do with the look in Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv with the light, the light of Eilat and the wonder of Jerusalem.
A hundred nations constitute the State of Israel, Jews from all corners of the earth and not just Jews. They are there and also see the faces of people and new generations: the young Iraqi mother and the father of the Czech Republic, Russia and Argentina with English and German, Ukrainian, Ethiopian.
Tel Aviv is a city that never sleeps, full of life and particularly of tolerance, a city that more than anything else is able to accommodate the gay community, to enable the gay community and especially the Arab Israeli to run a free life without constraints, frustration, repression and persecution worse. When was the Gay Pride in Spain, the Israeli gay associations have not been rejected, not accepted. Because it was a painful gesture? Why are the Israelis welcome gay associations of Arab countries who are persecuted, sentenced to death, defamed, you can not give up in conversation with these groups if you really care about peace in the Middle East. Doing so has the flavor of the injury.
's why when it comes to Israel we must dismiss this injury. We must tell how this democracy is being built under siege, it was built, reached important goals, including at the reception. The refugees of Darfur, for example, are welcomed in Israel. A persecuted religion in Iran and in almost all Muslim countries was welcomed in Israel, Haifa is its most important center: the Bahai religion, originated in Persia.
So all my talk is just to try to hope that in Italy, right left, center, however you think you can speak with greater knowledge, depth. And so my truth of Israel feeds on this: the reasoning that I have tried to do in these few minutes against the de-legitimization of a culture and a people and feeds on memories too personal.
For example, my grandfather always said a phrase that many of you have heard: "If I forget Jerusalem, my right hand is petrified. That language is nailed to the palate if you prepend above all thought. " When I was a kid again I forgot to Jerusalem, then on Saturday happened to notice that I put before the whole week I had to Jerusalem every thought. Then I remember that in bed trying to figure out if he could live with his arm still and his tongue nailed to the palate. I said, "Oh well you can live the same."
Beyond the madness of my child, there is a passage reminiscent of the biography of Peres as a child of the pioneer returned to his country cold in Poland, now Belarus, and all the children asking "How? How is Jerusalem? ". This pioneer chased by a haversack a crumpled piece of paper. Opened and left an orange. For everyone in that village who had never seen the fruit, that was Israel.
Here, my truth about Israel often coincide with those memories, with this image, with the dream of freedom and acceptance.
Roberto Saviano.
Source: Centrostudifederici
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