The Mediterranean Coastal Highway, or the VIA MARIS
Some ideas are ripe and ready, but some are not. This one is not ripe for prime time. It’s not even a fruit. Consider it a seed. The seed of a plant that might indeed grow. Into a giant oak tree — under whose shade perhaps our children’s children will sit.
It’s an idea borne out of the sun of the Middle East — the hot dry deserts, and the sweltering, humid coasts. Out of high mountains and the deepest rift valley.
The Past is drenched with blood
Nobody needs to rake over old histories of enmities and wars in the Middle East. We know them all. Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Hezbollah, Assad, Yazidis, Sunni, Shiite, Arab, Jew, Maronite, Copt. The list goes on and on.
But Europe was also once the very same as the Middle East is today: Nazi’s and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Huns and Romans, Francs, Wars of the Roses. Holocaust, Pogroms, WW1, WWII.
The ground of Europe — like that of the Middle East, is drenched in blood.
The Future: Something New
A: Europe
But in Europe after WWII, there came something new. At that time, Robert Schuman had a vision. He imagined a borderless Europe — perhaps similar to the one that existed during…
