Dear Europe
There is a tiny holy land in the Middle East, which has largely been the cradle of your moral values, ethics and religion, and which has always been in the eye of the storm. The darkest stains in your history, but also some of your greatest intellectual giants, relate to the people originating from this land. As a true friend, familiar with your continent and with your culture, please allow me to address you with a mélange of experience, passion and hope: Experience acquired by my family, which has lived in the "eye of the storm" since the days when Giuseppe Garibaldi was a child; passion of someone who believes that Western Civilization has much to offer to the world and that Israel has a lot to offer to its neighbors; hope of an eternal optimist, who knows that you and we will prevail, but prefers that it happens sooner, rather than later.