Egypt is a chance that we will lose. The occasion was historic in more strategic to break the vicious circle Arab country of misery, frustration, police and terrorist regimes - often fueled by the same schemes to obtain money and status from the West - which is destabilizing the Middle East and North Africa to the Gulf and beyond.
The success of the revolution in Egypt would bring the transition to a "normal" with a political power legitimized by the people. After the spark of Tunisia, a sign that our south-eastern border can change. The better. Closer to our standards of freedom and democracy. Seizing the development opportunities lost to the greed of the post-colonial elite, committed to grow their revenues, indifferent to a young and demanding.
Italy more than any other European nation should be passionate about the ongoing upheaval on the Fourth Shore. Who more than we should be interested in the reconstruction of the Mediterranean circuit, designed to intercept virtually all trade between Asia and Europe, which would of course at the center? Who more than we should the phase composition of the rift between the northern and southern shores of "our sea"? O really think it is possible to erect an impenetrable barrier in the middle of the Mediterranean? Someone still thinks that the development of the South is not a threat and a tremendous resource for our own development - indeed, because the condition does not stop? Yet Rome is silent.
Our government has not found a way to express themselves through Saturday. Just as well, perhaps, as when he spoke - via Frattini - nobody has noticed. While the whole world worries about the post-Mubarak, we are torn on the "nephew". We are losing the opportunity to affect a historic turning point - this time the adjective is relevant - which affects our life very closely, especially our children and grandchildren.
If the military were able to drown in blood the expectations of the square, the Egyptian Revolution has now ruled that the paradigm of parasitic dynasties, encouraged by Western governments, does not guarantee any more. Certainly not the people they oppress. But even us Europeans. These schemes only mean chaos, repression and misery.
The ideal environment for jihadists. Which, do not ever forget, are encysted in our city. If we fail policy in Egypt, Tunisia or other countries of our South, the price we pay at home. A sober assessment of the state of things should prompt our government to mobilize every resource to support the changes taking place on the African shores of the Mediterranean.
If not, it's not just the fault of Berlusconi and Frattini, but removing that Italy has made of itself. Its geography and its history. In one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Unity is hard to admit. But the fact is: we do not know where we are or where we come from. So we have forgotten that for centuries Egypt has been fertilized by our diaspora.
Like the whole basin of the South Mediterranean, where almost a century ago there lived a million countrymen. Workers, craftsmen, but also the bankers, architects and government bureaucrats. In Egypt khedivale Italian was the lingua franca, used in public administration. A printer source Livorno, Peter Michael Meratti, founded there in 1828 the first service to private carriers, the largest in Europe, then risen to public monopoly.
The endorsement of the first set of stamps Egyptians were in Italian. Tens of thousands of Italians, including many Jews lived in the Cairo and Alexandria, where the signs of "liberty Alexandrian" are still visible. Our Egyptology has a long tradition. As usually our Eastern archaeological missions, including the main sources of intelligence when intelligence agencies were still something serious.
From this and our traditions usually seek in vain a Levantine treatment in textbooks. E 'forgotten story. Yet today much of the remaining capital of sympathy that we enjoy in the region is based on those statements. Would take very little to revive. In the immediate future, even a symbolic gesture.
In Turin we have the most important museum of Egyptian antiquities after that of Cairo, the subject of suspected vandalism in the early stages of the disorder. It would perhaps be useful to a sustained effort by public and private foundations to give concrete follow up to the prophecy of Jean-François Champollion, the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone: "The road to Memphis and Thebes went from Turin." Fund and support the safety of the Cairo Museum and its findings would not only save a cultural deposit of universal value, but an act of respect for the cornerstone of Egyptian identity.
Identity that helped revive our Levantine and Egyptian squares today want to redeem. Yet the collective (or TV) it seems that Egypt is any piece of Africa, an archipelago of misery and backwardness. More pyramids and Sharm el-Sheikh. But where sprouting young Anglophone who handle twitter and Facebook - already dubbed Sawrabook, "book of the revolution" - and risk their lives for freedom? For years we have lived received truths.
An eternal freeze. Meanwhile, Egyptian civil society was growing, was structured. There are certain Muslim Brotherhood, an archipelago of a thousand ambiguity, that Mubarak has sold successfully as a band of terrorists. But there are also non-Christians, nationalists, socialists, people who can no longer simply the "hereditary republic".
At least we will listen and support their demands, the more the risk of an Islamist drift will become concrete. And 'hoping that Suleiman and other senior officers doped by decades of unchallenged power. To reproduce and sell the confrontation. Obama and perhaps some European leaders are beginning to understand.
Between caution and hesitation invited to turn the page. Not Italians. We continue to cling to an Egypt that no longer exists. Egypt trying to be born will not forget. His defeat will be ours. His victory, only his. 
The success of the revolution in Egypt would bring the transition to a "normal" with a political power legitimized by the people. After the spark of Tunisia, a sign that our south-eastern border can change. The better. Closer to our standards of freedom and democracy. Seizing the development opportunities lost to the greed of the post-colonial elite, committed to grow their revenues, indifferent to a young and demanding.
Italy more than any other European nation should be passionate about the ongoing upheaval on the Fourth Shore. Who more than we should be interested in the reconstruction of the Mediterranean circuit, designed to intercept virtually all trade between Asia and Europe, which would of course at the center? Who more than we should the phase composition of the rift between the northern and southern shores of "our sea"? O really think it is possible to erect an impenetrable barrier in the middle of the Mediterranean? Someone still thinks that the development of the South is not a threat and a tremendous resource for our own development - indeed, because the condition does not stop? Yet Rome is silent.
Our government has not found a way to express themselves through Saturday. Just as well, perhaps, as when he spoke - via Frattini - nobody has noticed. While the whole world worries about the post-Mubarak, we are torn on the "nephew". We are losing the opportunity to affect a historic turning point - this time the adjective is relevant - which affects our life very closely, especially our children and grandchildren.
If the military were able to drown in blood the expectations of the square, the Egyptian Revolution has now ruled that the paradigm of parasitic dynasties, encouraged by Western governments, does not guarantee any more. Certainly not the people they oppress. But even us Europeans. These schemes only mean chaos, repression and misery.
The ideal environment for jihadists. Which, do not ever forget, are encysted in our city. If we fail policy in Egypt, Tunisia or other countries of our South, the price we pay at home. A sober assessment of the state of things should prompt our government to mobilize every resource to support the changes taking place on the African shores of the Mediterranean.
If not, it's not just the fault of Berlusconi and Frattini, but removing that Italy has made of itself. Its geography and its history. In one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Unity is hard to admit. But the fact is: we do not know where we are or where we come from. So we have forgotten that for centuries Egypt has been fertilized by our diaspora.
Like the whole basin of the South Mediterranean, where almost a century ago there lived a million countrymen. Workers, craftsmen, but also the bankers, architects and government bureaucrats. In Egypt khedivale Italian was the lingua franca, used in public administration. A printer source Livorno, Peter Michael Meratti, founded there in 1828 the first service to private carriers, the largest in Europe, then risen to public monopoly.
The endorsement of the first set of stamps Egyptians were in Italian. Tens of thousands of Italians, including many Jews lived in the Cairo and Alexandria, where the signs of "liberty Alexandrian" are still visible. Our Egyptology has a long tradition. As usually our Eastern archaeological missions, including the main sources of intelligence when intelligence agencies were still something serious.
From this and our traditions usually seek in vain a Levantine treatment in textbooks. E 'forgotten story. Yet today much of the remaining capital of sympathy that we enjoy in the region is based on those statements. Would take very little to revive. In the immediate future, even a symbolic gesture.
In Turin we have the most important museum of Egyptian antiquities after that of Cairo, the subject of suspected vandalism in the early stages of the disorder. It would perhaps be useful to a sustained effort by public and private foundations to give concrete follow up to the prophecy of Jean-François Champollion, the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone: "The road to Memphis and Thebes went from Turin." Fund and support the safety of the Cairo Museum and its findings would not only save a cultural deposit of universal value, but an act of respect for the cornerstone of Egyptian identity.
Identity that helped revive our Levantine and Egyptian squares today want to redeem. Yet the collective (or TV) it seems that Egypt is any piece of Africa, an archipelago of misery and backwardness. More pyramids and Sharm el-Sheikh. But where sprouting young Anglophone who handle twitter and Facebook - already dubbed Sawrabook, "book of the revolution" - and risk their lives for freedom? For years we have lived received truths.
An eternal freeze. Meanwhile, Egyptian civil society was growing, was structured. There are certain Muslim Brotherhood, an archipelago of a thousand ambiguity, that Mubarak has sold successfully as a band of terrorists. But there are also non-Christians, nationalists, socialists, people who can no longer simply the "hereditary republic".
At least we will listen and support their demands, the more the risk of an Islamist drift will become concrete. And 'hoping that Suleiman and other senior officers doped by decades of unchallenged power. To reproduce and sell the confrontation. Obama and perhaps some European leaders are beginning to understand.
Between caution and hesitation invited to turn the page. Not Italians. We continue to cling to an Egypt that no longer exists. Egypt trying to be born will not forget. His defeat will be ours. His victory, only his.
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