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Discorso di His Majesty Abdullah II di Giordania all'One Young World Summit (estratti) Saluto e introduzione Grazie. È bello tornare qui. Un piccolo disclaimer: ho un po’ di raffreddore, quindi se mi ingoio un colpo di tosse, per favore, pensate che sia una pausa drammatica. Non potevo mancare di questo bellissimo raduno in questa bellissima città. La trasformazione globale e il contesto di Gaza Il primo incontro con voi avvenne nel 2023, due giorni prima che la guerra iniziasse. La popolazione di Gaza era già da 16 anni sotto una crudele blockade, soffocata ma sopravvissuta. Ma Gaza non esiste più. In appena due anni, intere città sono state distrutte. Famiglie estese sono state cancellate o ridotte a un solo sopravvissuto. Migliaia di bambini sono stati uccisi, e migliaia di altri orfani, affamati, feriti e segnati da traumi. Oggi, un fragile cessate il fuoco è in atto. Sarebbe un sollievo dichiarare che la violenza sia finita, liberare la tensione accumulata e semplicemente andare avanti. Ma non è così semplice. La colossale sfida della ricostruzione è ancora davanti a noi. L’occupazione illegale di Israele su Palestina continua, e la subjugazione dei palestinesi persiste. Una soluzione a questo conflitto di decenni rimane elusiva. L’impatto globale della guerra in Gaza La caduta di Gaza non si limita a questa regione. Sembra che le linee di battaglia siano state tracciate anche nei vostri paesi, nelle università, nei vostri uffici, nelle vostre politiche, persino ai vostri tavoli da pranzo. Se siete come me, avete probabilmente avuto conversazioni difficili su questo conflitto. Alcune vi hanno avvicinato, altre vi hanno diviso. In ogni caso, le opinioni su questo tema sono state appassionate, le reazioni viscerali. L’ascesa del odio e la sua manipolazione Forse è perché abbiamo assistito in tempo reale alla realtà cruda di cosa significa il odio quando si trasforma da un sentimento a parole e poi ad azione. Stiamo costretti a confrontare le brutali conseguenze di questo processo. Non è solo Gaza. Dappertutto, il odio torna a radicare le fondamenta della nostra comunità globale. Il pericolo non è solo quello di ciò che il odio distrugge, ma di ciò che lo ridefinisce: la nostra coscienza morale, il nostro senso di decenza. L’uso del linguaggio deumanizzante Il linguaggio deumanizzante ha servito da preludio a alcuni dei peggiori capitoli della storia umana. Nel 1930, a questa stessa città, il partito nazista definì i ebrei “parassiti”. In Rwanda, la radio pubblica li chiamava “coccinelle”. In Myanmar, i nazionalisti li paragonavano a cani randagi. Solo parole fino a quando il linguaggio hateful non ha aperto la strada a violenze inaccettabili. Nel giorno dell’attacco del 7 ottobre, un ufficiale israeliano annunciò un completo assedio su Gaza e descrisse la popolazione come “animali”. Stava seguendo un vecchio schema: convincere il pubblico che si tratta di bestie e che la violenza diventa non solo accettabile, ma necessaria. La responsabilità storica e la memoria Oggi sto parlando in una città che è anche un simbolo di storia. So che questi temi non sono facili da affrontare qui, e lo dico con rispetto per la Germania e il suo impegno nella memoria e nella responsabilità. Ma non è questione di confrontare il dolore o la sofferenza. È questione di affermare che ogni vita umana ha un valore uguale. L’indifferenza e la sua pericolosità L’indifferenza non è innocua. Sostiene l’ingiustizia e rappresenta una rinuncia all’indigenza morale, un piccolo compromesso dopo l’altro. La storia ci ricorda che il silenzio non è innocente. Il odio non può avanzare senza il sostegno del suo alleato silenzioso: l’indifferenza. L’uso di AI e la perdita di empatia L’uso di AI è cresciuto in modo esponenziale. Quest’anno, l’uso di AI generativa è passato quasi ugualmente tra esigenze personali e professionali. Ma ora, le principali applicazioni includono compagnia, terapia e ricerca di significato. Stiamo sostituendo le connessioni umane con l’illusione di intimità, rispondendo alle grandi domande della vita con risposte generiche e soluzioni artificiali. Non è progresso, ma l’outsourcing della nostra capacità di pensare, di empatizzare, persino di perseguire un significato più alto. La crisi di Gaza e la fiducia nel mondo Gaza non è solo un luogo, ma un simbolo. Quando i suoi edifici crollavano, così pure la fiducia globale nel nostro ordine mondiale. Quando le sue persone venivano sfollate, così pure la nostra fede nel compasso morale del mondo. Quando i suoi bambini venivano affamati, così pure la nostra speranza che l’umanità prevalga. L’urgenza di un cambiamento Gli ultimi due anni ci hanno ricordato che il progresso non è predestinato, ma che abbiamo anche visto il più grande movimento spontaneo e organico degli ultimi tempi. Persone comuni, lontano da ogni manipolazione, sono state galvanizzate da un urgente bisogno di preservare ciò che rimane della nostra umanità. I giovani in particolare stanno chiedendo qualcosa di diverso dal mondo: non la perfezione, ma l’integrità. La speranza e il coraggio La speranza non è ottimismo. È coraggio difensivo. È ciò che spinge le persone a chiedere la libertà per una popolazione che non hanno mai conosciuto, a pressionare i loro datori di lavoro a rispettare i propri standard etici, a donare, protestare, organizzarsi e persino imbarcarsi per rompere il blocco di una popolazione affamata. Sappiate anche che è più forte amare che odiare. La battaglia contro l’indifferenza e l’odio La battaglia più grande di oggi è quella di mantenere la nostra coscienza morale in un’epoca di desensibilizzazione. Teniamo gli occhi aperti e preserviamo la nostra capacità di sentirci, pensare e prendersi cura in un mondo che vorrebbe che non facciamo nulla. Conclusione: l’impegno per il futuro Non fuggite dalle conversazioni scomode, dalle emozioni e dagli impegni. Abbiate il coraggio di affrontare le verità scomode. Resistete all’idea di chiudere gli occhi di fronte all’ingiustizia o di disconnettervi dal mondo. Tutti gli otto miliardi di persone qui sulla Terra vivono questo momento, condividendo questa realtà. Questo ci lega. Mentre siamo qui, onoriamo la vita, partendo dai più vulnerabili e dai senza voce. Nella lotta, state fedeli alla sostanza della vostra anima, alla sua capacità di perseguire il bene più alto. La guerra più santa è quella combattuta dentro di noi contro i nostri peggiori istinti. Non sarà facile. Sarà doloroso, scomodo e demoralizzante a volte. Ma questo disagio è un segno che state spingendo i confini. E quando lo farete, capirete di essere esattamente dove siete destinati ad essere. Grazie a tutti. - Trascrizione originale da YouTube Please give a very warm welcome to her majesty Queen Rana Al Abdullah of the Hasheite Kingdom of Jordan. Thank you. It's great to be back. Just a bit of a disclaimer. I have a bit of a cold, so if I break into a coughing fit, please just pretend it's a dramatic pause. I just couldn't miss this beautiful gathering in this beautiful city. I attended my first One Young World Summit just two years ago in Belfast, but it's startling to look back on how much the world has changed since. AI has gone from popular to inescapable. Political polarization has tightened its clutches. We've crossed our first catastrophic climate tipping point and global conflict has skyrocketed to its highest levels in decades. But nowhere on earth has undergone as brutal a transformation as the Gaza Strip. The first time we spoke was in 2023, days before the war began. Gaza's population was already 16 years into a cruel blockade, struggling, suffocating, but surviving. That Gaza no longer exists. In just two years, entire cities have been flattened. Extended families have been wiped out or reduced to a single survivor. Thousands upon thousands of children have been killed and countless more orphaned, starved, wounded, and scarred by trauma. For now, a shaky ceasefire remains in place. And it would be such a relief to declare the bloodshed over, release the collective tension all been carrying, and just move on. If only was that simple. But Gaza's fallout hasn't been limited to my region. I'm sure many of you have seen battle lines drawn in your own countries, your universities, your workplaces, your politics, even your dinner tables. If you're like me, you've probably had countless difficult conversations on the conflict. Some that brought you closer together, others that tore you apart. Either way, opinions on this issue have been impassioned, reactions to it visceral. Perhaps that's because we we've witnessed in real time the raw reality of what hate looks like when it transforms from a feeling into words to action. We've been forced to confront the brutal consequences of that unraveling. It's not just Gaza. Around the world, we're seeing hatred seep back into the foundations of our global community. And the danger isn't only in what hate destroys, but in what it reshapes, our moral compass, our very sense of decency. Hate makes some mockery of morality. It gives people permission to roll their eyes at ideals and turn red lines into punchlines. Online and off in study halls and halls of power, it has become common to politicize empathy, ridicule calls for equality, and treat victims of violence with more suspicion than its perpetrators. History shows us that we can identify hatred, condemn it, even force it underground, but it doesn't stay there. In recent years, hate has made quite the comeback, albeit under different names. Racism repackaged as patriotism. Supremacy as cultural pride. Anti-semitism, and Islamophobia as free speech. Rebranded for a modern audience, hatred embeds itself by degrees, one joke, meme, and off-color comment at a time. But hatred is not harmless. To dismiss it as just talk is to ignore how every genocide has begun with words. Dehumanizing speech has served as the prelude to some of the worst chapters in human history. In the 1930s, in this very city, the Nazi party called Jewish people vermin. In Rwanda, public radio broadcasts described the Tutsis as cockroaches. In Myanmar, nationalists compared the Rohingya to stray dogs. Just talk until hateful rhetoric cleared the path for unspeakable violence. In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks, when an Israeli official announced a complete siege on Gaza, he described the population as human animals. He was operating from a time-tested playbook. Convince the public you are dealing with beasts and violence becomes not just acceptable but necessary. Ordinary people like you and I are portrayed as savage so that meeting us with savagery becomes justified. I stand here in Munich conscious of the history that radiates through this city and this country. I know these are not easy themes to speak of here and I say this with respect for Germany's commitment to remembrance and responsibility. But this is not about weighing grief or comparing pain. It is about affirming that every human life holds equal worth. Yes, every atrocity is unique, but the value of human life is universal. To defend that truth today, wherever it is under threat, is not to challenge memory, but to honor it. 80 years after the end of the Second World War, Germany continues to confront its past head-on rather than turning away. And part of confronting that past is the clarity to call out the injustices of today, wherever and to whomever they occur. That is moral discipline and consistency. History reminds us of the cost of silence because hate cannot make headway without the support of its silent ally and enabler, indifference. Hate is given license by those who refuse to approach difficult issues because they say it's complicated when what they really mean is we can't be bothered. Here's what's not complicated. Over and over, experts warned that in Gaza, mass displacement, famine, and genocide were imminent. And in the past few months, both famine and genocide have been confirmed by independent and international and UN-mandated bodies. The world saw it coming, but failed to act to prevent it. As crises pile up, some allow themselves to grow numb to their weight. They scroll past images of suffering, avoid upsetting headlines, and disengage from the world. Daily exposure dulls the outrage. And with enough repetition, chaos and noise, previously unimaginable horrors start to feel ordinary, permissible, inevitable. But indifference is not benign either. It sustains injustice. It is a silent surrender to indecency, one small compromise at a time. Some political thinkers have argued that atrocities aren't always driven by bloodthirsty ideology. In fact, ordinary people are perfectly capable of extraordinary violence. How? By failing to think for themselves. Such thoughtlessness doesn't mean a lack of intelligence, but a refusal to reflect on right and wrong, to engage with the discomfort of their own possible complicity. Historians and scholars have echoed this. The perpetrators of humanity's greatest crimes weren't necessarily fearsome monsters. Many were bureaucrats. They conformed, followed orders, and never stopped to consider the ethical weight of their actions. This phenomena isn't unique to the darkest moments of our history. To some extent, that same impulse to disengage, to stop thinking is something we all struggle with. But giving in comes with real consequences. Indifference is a form of moral laziness. It is a willful shutdown of both the head and heart. It is a choosing apathy over curiosity, comfort over engagement, all the while betraying oneself. And in today's tech-driven, often isolating world, indifference is exasperated by loneliness, a condition affecting as many as one in six people worldwide. Without the moral and social anchor of community, people of all ages are turning to technology for comfort. But the more we rely on our screens, the deeper the void becomes. Last year, generative AI use was split almost equally between personal and professional needs. This year, the story has changed. The most common uses of Gen AI now include companionship, therapy, and finding purpose. Think about that for a second. At lightning speed, we are replacing human connection with the illusion of intimacy, trying to answer life's greatest questions with generic responses and artificial solutions. That's not progress. That's an outsourcing of our thinking, our empathy, even our pursuit of higher meaning. We are carelessly handing over the keys to our humanity, not because we trust machines to do better, but because it's convenient. Is that the future we want? Is that the best we can do? Without a predictable path forward, it would be easy to become disillusioned. For many around the world, Gaza is not just a place, but a symbol. As its building collapsed, so too did global confidence in our world order. As its people were displaced, so too was our faith in the world's moral compass. As its children were starved, so too was our hope that humanity would prevail. The past two years reminded us that progress isn't predestined, but they also bore witness to the largest, most organic grassroots movement in recent memory. Ordinary people far and wide were galvanized not by money or manipulation as some have suggested, but by a desperate urge to hold on to what remains of our humanity. Young people in particular are demanding something different of the world. Not perfection, but integrity. Youth leaders such as yourselves are compelling mankind to assess with brutal honesty the shortcomings of our past in the hope that maybe just maybe you can stop us from repeating it. Our ambitions are often limited by our imagination. If we cannot visualize a better future, we assume it's impossible. But the thing is, we're not shackled to the patterns of history. We can break free of them. We can build something better if we dare to imagine it. Take the city. Today, Munich stands as a place of dialogue and reconciliation. Yet it was once the birthplace of the Nazi party, an ideology that used to export hate across borders. In that Munich, this global gathering would have been unthinkable. Yet here we are. And it is now up to you to decide where we go next. Just know that hope is not naive optimism. It is defiant courage. It's what drives people to call for the freedom of a people they've never met, to pressure their employers to live up to their own ethical standards, to donate, protest, organize, even set sail in an effort to break the siege of a famished population. Also know, it takes more strength to love than to hate. Bearing witness to atrocities is not painless, but heartbreak is the price of being awake. Yes, empathy invites vulnerability. It makes you pause, reflect, and face discomfort. But aren't those the very things that keep cruelty at bay? Those hardened by hate rarely question themselves or reflect on their own accountability. Instead, they project their problems outward, assigning blame and turning others into symbols of everything gone wrong in their world. That impulse is born of insecurity and weakness. I believe the defining struggle of our time is this, the pursuit of moral awakening in an era of desensitization. keeping our eyes open and preserving our capacity to feel, think, and care in a world that would prefer we didn't. So, I urge you to remain steadfast in your fight for our collective morality, even when well-meaning people warn you that your optimism will lead to disappointment or countless cynics dismiss your efforts as performative or a waste of time. The fact is each of you could impact other people's lives if only in small ways simply by showing up as you are now. That's enough. Do not shy away from uncomfortable conversations, emotions, and endeavors. Lean into them. Cultivate them. But most of all, sit with uneasy truths. Resist the urge to close your eyes to injustice or to disconnect from the world. All eight billion of us here on Earth are alive at this moment, sharing this reality. That in itself binds us. We may walk different paths, but none of us are here forever. So while we are here, let us honor life, beginning with the vulnerable and voiceless. In the struggle, you are staying true to the essence of your soul, its capacity for higher good. The holiest war is the one fought within against our own worst instincts. The most notable is the battle for humanity in the face of hate. It won't be a walk in the park. It will be painful, uncomfortable, and demoralizing at times. But that unease is a sign that you are breaking new ground. And that is when you will realize that you are exactly where you are meant to be. Thank you all. 07.01.2026 Regina Rania di Giordania Regina Rania di Giordania Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toEpIs18Kes
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