It doesn't make sense because it's not there. The only area for direct dialogue and discussion today is the release of the hostages, but there is nothing else.” This was underlined by the map of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Pierbattista Pizzaballa talks to AsiaNews. “I know of other ongoing contacts,” he says, “to understand what needs to be done at a later stage,” but even in this case “it seems to me that they don't have very clear ideas.” Rather, it needs precise this: a strategy, a perspective, visions for the future”, even if “the dialogue between the two parties does not make much sense at the moment.” What I see – he notes – is that everyone is talking about the future of the Palestinians, but no one is speaks to the Palestinians. To talk about the future, you also have to talk to them, not just about them. Instead, they are not given a voice in this moment. “Now,” said the Latin Patriarch, “a new leadership is needed,” because with the current one “I do not think it is possible to build clear perspectives for dialogue.” In the past, the Patriarch visited the Catholic community in Gaza during this time, celebrating first communions and confirmations and visiting the sick. “Not being there this year – he says – is a great pain.”
