If you bring Israel close to your ear as one does to a sea shell, you hear the sound of loneliness. The option of history is one, it confirms everything or takes away everything.
A new year has began and many people around the world, from the Western academies to the Islamic madrassas, but also within the Jewish state, are already planning Israel's destruction.
Before the 1967 war, Israel's width in some parts was just ten kilometers: on one side there were the enemy armies, from the other side the Mediterranean. It was easy enough to destroy the small Jewish enclave.
The long tormented path taken by the Jews after the Chaldean journey, through Pharaonic Egypt, Babylon and the ghettos of this earth, through the death camps and the gas chambers, cannot be considered to have been concluded on 14 May 1948, when Israel was proclaimed.
Israel is a small state-sanctuary that collects refugees of three continents, but for surreal reasons it has become the accepted symbol of violence, aggression and colonialism.
In Jerusalem there was only one cannon mounted on wheels. Only a miracle made it possible for Israel to survive, along with the heroic resistance of a whole population. The Israelis had the sea behind them, so there was only one alternative: winning or dying.
But the situation has not really changed since the War for Independence. Only those who live there are authorized to speak on behalf of the Israeli drama, those who still confront every day and every night the theme of simple and basic survival. Jewish survival.
Israel is a small state-sanctuary that collects refugees of three continents, but for surreal reasons it has become the accepted symbol of violence, aggression and colonialism. Law and courts today are entirely on the other side. Not to mention compassion.
Towards Israel, the world's public opinion oscillates between remorse and discomfort, nailing an entire people to a destiny of being exterminated or being the exterminator, perpetuating the black blood libel of a race fatally involved in bloody tragedies, and forcing seven million Israeli Jews, besieged on the outskirts of an immense Arab world to make the choice between national suicide, a new escape - or a desperate war.
Israel has never formally become a Republic: it is still called the “State of Israel”, almost reflecting the fragile nature of this tragic fate of democracy under siege, which continues to exist against the laws of logic and history.
Israel is a paradox, it is the proof that faith moves mountains. It is a secular and theocratic country together, arisen from the dramatic and mysterious fidelity to a religious tradition. Israel is the political son of Western culture, but it exists only because of the vitality of a millenia old religion, whose religious ideas belong to the moral heritage of a billion people.
That is why in 2015 Israel's security and survival remains a debt of honor to all men and women.