\u201cBehind the attack of October 7 is a long path, years and years of indoctrination in which religion was not used to bring something good into everyone\u2019s life, but to spread hate and perpetrate a massacre. Up to that time, on the Israeli side, there was no plan for war against Gaza\u201d. Noemi di Segni, UCEI president, begins from here. At Pi\u00f9 libri pi\u00f9 liberi, the national book fair dedicated to small and medium sized publishers and held in Rome, \u201cadvanced societies\u201d and \u201cnew conflicts\u201d were discussed. Along with UCEI president was Archbishop Matteo Maria Zuppi, the president of Cei (the Italian Bishops Conference), who joined remotely, and at the same desk was also the Waldensian moderator Alessandra Trotta together with former Ucoii (the Union of the Islamic Communities of Italy) president Izzedin Elzir, moderated by the president of the Coordination of Italian cultural magazines Valdo Spini.
\n\u201cIt is not possible to look away from the death of any citizen. Any death, even among Gaza citizens, is a knife to the heart. But we must also ask ourselves why it has come to this,\u201d Di Segni said, begging people to use the proper words to describe the war with Hamas terrorists. \u201cConcepts like \u2018massacre\u2019 and \u2018genocide\u2019 are generalizations that are doing wrong to history: we should not introduce this dialectical method in our cities and streets,\u201d Di Segni stressed. According to Zuppi, who in the last days joined an interconfessional torchlight procession among different religions for peace in Bologna, \u201cwe cannot surrender to the logic of war: religions can and must come to a necessary unity.\u201d According to Imam Elzir, \u201cwe need more dialogue, we have not done enough up to now.\u201d He thinks that we should \u201cbring peace and guarantee security for the Israelis and rights for the Palestinians.\u201d Also the Imam encouraged people to not \u201cintroduce\u201d into Europe the same tensions and dialectics of the conflict.<\/p>\n