@IsraelMFA @MarkRegev I'll never understand this. My Italian grandparents told me of the horror of the Holocaust when I was very young. Thankfully, I can say I am proud of them, because at risk of their own lives they didn't the right thing. My grandfather deserted the Mussolini's army when he was 1/
@IsraelMFA @MarkRegev ordered to murder Jewish civilians, including children. He said No. My grandmother kept a family in hiding in her house in an Italian village for more than a year. They survived the SS raids and the war. I spent some time living in Warsaw for work. I studied the Holocaust 2/
@IsraelMFA @MarkRegev all my life, and I don't understand. There is a moral, if not material debt, that the whole world owes to the Jewish people, 6 million people exterminated. If I knew that my Italian house once belonged to a deported Jewish family I'd want to give it back. There is no way to 3/
@IsraelMFA @MarkRegev make it up to the Jewish people, but surely any decent human being would want to make amends somehow. I'm not religious, I don't believe in Holy Cities or Holy Lands, but if the Jewish people feel the need to have a safe place to call home, who can possibly deny it to them? 4/4
@IsraelMFA @MarkRegev they DID the right thing (apologies for the typo)
