This
message goes to the participants to this extraordinary historical.
-WORLD SEPHARDI
CONGRESS and to the friends of peace and of Israeli people here
in Spain, a country at last converted to a democratic acknowledgment
of the errors and injustices of the past against its own Jews
and against our Muslim cousins 5 centuries ago.
This absolutely
non-diplomatic introduction is meant to be a positive provocation
to today's Spain and to its farsighted leaders led by its very
democratic King Juan Carlos and by its enlighten Prime Minister
Mr. Aznar. They should all take this opportunity to welcome the
gratitude of our Sephardi community for the in heritage of the
last 500 years jealously kept and cultivated as a token of distinction
as much as our Arab-Jewish language has become a passport for
a profitable coexistence with our Muslim cousins in the hospitable
Ottoman land before, and later in North Africa and Middle East.
I therefore
invite the Spanish people and the Spanish leadership to unilaterally
stipulate a pact of long-lasting friendship, for at least 500
more years to come, with both Hebraism and Islam once banished
like plagues and to readmit them as most precious guests and honorary
citizens of Spain.
Together with
my democratic Italy reborn from the ashes of nazi-fascism, I dare
count on our sister Spain to re-launch the new Marshall Pain 11
for peace between my people and the Arab people, with the crucial
contribution of our Christian brothers in the name of our common
father Abraham.
Inshallah
and God bless you all shalom
Raffaello
Fellah
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