Monti betrayed both Israel and Italian foreign policy
venerdì 30 novembre 2012 English 0 commenti
Il Giornale, November 30th, 2012
Yet the stance of the current Parliament is well known: it had special friendship gestures toward Israel remaining at the same time a reference partner for moderate Palestinians; that’s why it was able to keep its mediation stance that it suddenly lost with nothing in return. Actually, the principle “two states for two peoples” has nothing to do with the current resolution, Israel is out, and Palestine would need no grants in the order of billions like up to now, but rather sense of responsibility towards his own and acceptance of Israel which is exactly the opposite of what’s happening today with the donation of the current resolution. This resolution is not pro-Palestinian, it’s simply against Israel. Our Parliament has often voted resolutions contrary to Europe’s slipshod attitude, only focused on laying the blame: the Parliament vetoed both the participation in the so said “Durban II” Conference and the resolution by Justice Goldstone, that he eventually even took back, after the first Gaza war. The Parliament has an Italy – Israel Friendship Association that counts 200 members, whose delegation just paid a visit right under Hamas bombs. Trade, cultural, scientific relations are extraordinary; a pro-Israel rally in front of the Chamber of Deputies saw the participation of all political groups. Italy was therefore was granted an elite role, along with Europe’s most important and independent countries, like Germany, freed eventually from a submissive attitude toward the Arab world and a skeptical one toward the Jewish world that many other countries display, like France and Spain. We join the latter today in a moving walkway with the Islamic majority, with Ahmadinejad ahead, Chavez and other Third World heroes on the side.
Palazzo Chigi ‘s incredible decision, surely not a technical one, due to mere political arrogance, wrecks our so far good chances to act as a sponsor of real peace, of the kind made between enemies, sitting down at a negotiations table, agreeing on safe borders, where targeting Ben Gurion airport won’t be feasible, obliging Palestinians to stop spurring anti-Semitic, pro-terror hatred (just take a look at Palestinian Media Watch on the Internet), reserved to Jews by Abu Mazen’s newspapers and TV stations.
We will have new friends now, are we pleased about it? Are we glad about the divide with the US, Australia, Canada, and few other brave countries, capable of opposing rhetoric and aiming on the contrary at real peace? No statehood will arise here, but an entity, confident in its new role, whose only dream is to drag Israel – as announced – to the International Court of Justice in order to make it a rogue state to be destroyed. There will be no state also because Hamas reigns over Gaza and it also won the elections in the major cities of the Palestinian Authority: UN newest entry could soon fall prey to a terror organization. Monti should have followed his democratic feelings, that I do not question, surely it was not idealism that prevailed in him. It is still unknown what led him toward this anti-Institutional, ideology front. Who / What? Was it Bersani with his leftist campaign, and his promises never top object to this unelected government if contented with the yes to the palestinian state? Maybe Qatar, newly visited, which can shed gold also on our agonizing economy? Europe? Here’s where Europe is dragging us, after we fall in line: to the worst mainstream orthodoxy, to the infringement of democratic rules, to the abandonment of our allies, to a rift with the US.