The brutal attack that the Palestinians have been receiving on our screens for a long time has started to see drawings and images of the watermelon; I have known that it has become the symbol of Palestine. This fruit has the colors of the flag, but I think it won't just be for that. Something will have to do with the high estimation of watermelon or watermelon throughout the Mediterranean. We love the Mediterranean, our colorful, sweet and refreshing watermelons.

Apparently, the first signs of watermelon have been found in the Dead Sea. Hence the fruit spread to China and the Mediterranean Sea, among others. The fruit resists the passage of time and thanks to its high water content is very useful in hot countries, not only as food but also as water storage. It is said that it came to the Iberian Peninsula by the hands of the Arabs, but its expansion was limited to the shores that a little bit of heat all year ago, as the summer temperature was not enough to achieve good yields. That is why it may not be a popular fruit in the Basque Country.

It came to America. In the United States of War on Secession, the sanctities cultivated by free blacks became symbols of the abolition of slavery. After the war, the link with the watermelon they used to defame black people. According to the racist stereotype, all black people were gross watermelon, which meant that it was a fruit related to laziness and dirt.

For me it is also a symbolic fruit. Protagonist of a simple rite of my people. Next to the food, in a warm summer atmosphere, in a place where the breath of the sea comes, a woman or a strong man will open that great watermelon. Kids can't do it and they don't give anyone a big knife to cut the watermelon. Cut the pieces well and cut them straight and unsafe. You must know how to give the right measures to be able to have that knife. For children narrower or divided into two, less narrow for adults, but moderate, because you can't abuse watermelon, you need to know as well.

As the fruit is divided and divided, the usual summer tertulia begins: How is the watermelon? What does it look like? It's good color, good looks, or, uf, it already seems humiliated... and then, after trying, oh, very sweet, mmmm... oh, what refreshing! Or the opposite: uf, it doesn't taste, it gives a cucumber -- how many heads, so many opinions always. Comparisons also -- better or worse than the previous one. Or where to buy, how to choose -- Every time you open a summer angurry, that's the table solase.

And I think -- I hope -- that in every corner of the Mediterranean, north, south, east and west, as well as on the shores of the Mississippi, in their warm, sergeant nights, they have -- and will have -- conversations that don't come anywhere else like ours and that gather us at the table, as if we hold hands around a black, white, green and red watermelon.