Renzi and Calenda's Milanese Square for Gaza: One People, Two Leaders. Peace Trials

And make peace! Even the title of the event now tells the fate of Renzi and Calenda: "Two peoples, two states, one destiny". And two leaders. From the "river to the sea" there is now this Milan, between Schlein, Conte, Bonelli and Fratoianni, the ingazati , there are now them, the promised Parenti, at the Theater, the Franco one (Parenti). There are the reformists of the Pd, Guerini, who builds a bridge with Rome, "they are the center of gravity", Gori, Picierno, Quartapelle, Madia, Fassino, Sensi, Verini, Lele Fiano, there is Enrico Mentana, but there is also the double flag sewn, Israel and Palestine, and clearly there are some whistles, the protests outside. But it is civilization, dialogue, reason, Voltaire hours. Maria Elena Boschi reveals to Il Foglio: "Everyone is asking us to get back together, Iv and Azione. But let's start from here". And make peace!

It will be difficult to replicate this amazing theater, in Milan, directed by a woman, a director, Andrée Ruth Shammah, who was not frightened by the threats, the padlocks on the door, the insults at the entrance of thugs, the usual ones, who shout "from the river to the sea". It will be difficult to replicate this peace negotiation between Renzi and Calenda, separated, still, by five chairs, separated even when they make their entrance to the Teatro Parenti in Milan, first Calenda, after Renzi, and yet close, in foreign policy, close as when Renzi declares: " Here we do not burn flags, war is the negation of politics. Israel has the right to exist as does the state of Palestine and, let it be clear, we do not agree with Netanyahu's management".

Davide Romano's Jewish brigade protests Calenda, a Palestinian starts yelling at a Jewess, but there is no sweat from the protesters in the square, the communists with the K who yesterday morning raped an aphorism by Brecht to go against the PD, who posted the eviction notice on the walls of Rome: "PD-AVS-M5S where were they until today?". Senator Verini, who is formidable when he takes the curve of irony, which is the shortcut of the hug, jokes and tells us: "The protests against Calenda? But that must have been Luciano Nobili" and Nobili, who is behind, "absolutely not! I love Carlo".

You enter two by two, in this room of highly polished wood, and there are two witnesses, the released Israeli hostage, Aviva Sigel, who still tells, shocked: "I was kidnapped in my pajamas, my husband was held hostage for 484 days underground. I want to tell you what it means to be a hostage". Her double is Hamza Howidy, a Palestinian dissident against Hamas, who is connecting from Berlin. These are the days of the double. The party conscience that imposes on the reformists of the Democratic Party Fridays in Milan and Saturdays in Rome, with the secretary, is double. Fiano, the son of Nedo, the light of Left for Israel, is doubled, who announces on the news: "Tomorrow (today) I will go to Rome, but Left for Israel has not received the answers it was asking for". Schlein, thank them.

Giorgio Gori, who is already mayor of the city by acclamation, limits himself to answering the rogue journalists that "I would have preferred not to split with my party on the referendum, on the Jobs Act, it is a division that hurts us. But I respect the secretary". They still love each other, him, the Sarracino of Italia Viva, Davide Faraone, Guerini and Delrio, Madia and Quartapelle because yes, it's true: they were Renzians, they felt part of something, only then, and they have learned to be in the minority strip now. As soon as Renzi enters acclaimed he waves his hand: "Don't applaud". Picierno who is very tough, under threat from the Russians, "you are the West!", is capable of joking: "And think about how the West is doing". There is Calenda's mother, the director Cristina Comencini, who is the real left-wing insurance, because how can Calenda, even if he wanted to, one day... Instead, the most contested phrase is Mentana's, against Netanyahu, he who borrows the popular song, "the ferocious monarchist Bava shot the hungry with lead" because now, says Mentana: "Israel's war is no longer a thirst for justice but for revenge. We are the ones who must save Israel from this spell, this Israel is not that of Golda Meir, but is only supremacist".

The morning before leaving for Milan, Calenda at Termini, at Il Foglio, confessed: “I looked for Renzi, it was important to be together, but I have to be clear: I cannot stay in the broad field with Conte's ideas, and with Renzi” . Calenda says on stage that “it was not possible to stay together in Rome” and that we must say enough to the involution that Israel is having. I don't care about what Hamas does, they are terrorists, and must be treated like terrorists, but I care, and a lot, about what Israel does. So now enough, we cannot continue just because Netanyahu wants to stay in power”. Marianna Madia sitting next to Guerini confirms: “We still love each other, like then. yes”. They were part of a community, the one that Schlein wants to re-educate, “repair”. Maybe they will never get back together, but seeing them, still, together, made me think of two leaders, two parties (and a half; there are the reformists of the PD) and a destiny. And make peace!

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