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In these days, "If not now, when?" is a phrase you hear everywhere. When I hear or read, however, I can think of a song that is at the end of the book by Primo Levi which gives its title. "If not now, when?" tells the story of a band of Jewish partisans who fought in Russia and Eastern Europe. At the end of the book, however, the band arrives at the Italian border, live in Palestine. Here they meet Chaim, jew and a member of the Palestinian Brigade (who fought with the British), which explains the strange country which are going to enter. Says:

- Italy is a strange country. It takes a long time to understand the Italians, and even we, who have climbed all over Italy from the Alps to Brindisi, we are still able to understand them well, but one thing is for sure, foreigners in Italy are not enemies. It seems that Italians are more enemies for themselves that foreigners: it is strange but true. Perhaps this comes from the fact that Italians do not like the laws, and as the laws of Mussolini, and even its politics and its propaganda, condemning foreigners, for that Italians helped them. Italians do not like the laws, in fact he likes to disobey it is their game, as the Russians are playing chess. He likes to cheat, he regrets being cheated, but not so: when someone cheats them think 'see how good it was smarter than me, and do not prepare at best revenge but revenge. Just like chess. [...] But now I must tell you the strangest thing of all: the Italians have proved friendly to all foreigners, but none have shown us how friendly the Palestinian Brigade. We have helped not although we were Jews, but because were. They also helped their Jews, when they occupied Italy, the Germans have made every effort they could to catch them, But then they got killed and only a fifth, all others have found refuge in the homes of Christians and Jews not only Italian, but many foreign Jews who had taken refuge in Italy. [...] In Italy there has never been a pogrom, even when the Church of Rome urged Christians to despise them and blame are all money-lenders, even when Mussolini's racial laws imposed, even when Italy's North has been occupied by the Germans, what are the pogroms, in Italy, nobody knows, not even what it means to speak. [...] Well, this is the country where you're getting into, a country of good people, who like to just go to war, and instead love cheat cards.

The book, so to speak, was in 1982. I could not make a comparison with Italy in 2011, but maybe you do.