Time to Buy More Italian Wine
08 February 2009
http://arabsforisrael.blogspot.com/2009/02/italians-for-israel.html
"Time to buy more Italian wine...!!! and travel to Italy to
support this.
Fiamma Nirenstein, a journalist and some-time resident of Jerusalem,
is a new Member of the Italian Parliament who is outspoken on
Israel's behalf. She writes below that there is increasing
understanding of what Israel is facing in its current war against
Hamas"
Nonie Darwish
Dear Friends,
We didn't expect what you see in this picture. This is the square of
the Italian Parliament in Rome, Piazza Montecitorio: You can see the
Palace on top of the square, and in front a lot of Israeli flags.
That was last night from 6,30 to 9,30 pm. What you cannot see here,
is the extraordinary number of members of Parliament, about 100 from
all political sides, that took the stage during this time: for about
three hours we were speaking about the role of Israel, its right to
self defense, its moral height, its fight on behalf of us all, of
our civilization and values, against the wild hate of the Islamic
jihad represented by Hamas.
It seems to me that for the first time in the too long history of
the Arab/Israeli conflict, apart from a minority of crazy leftists
and fascists that took the street with anti-Semitic slogans, we have
achieved a huge consensus on one critical point: this is not a local
conflict, there is nothing in it that reminds us of a peace theme
that has characterized the Palestinian issue. This is an attack
against the western world, and Iran is behind it.
The change of attitude is great: the terrorist and religious nature
of Hamas and the democratic, civilized nature of Israel are seen
face to face for what they really are at least by the European elite
at large, dead and wounded notwithstanding, and there rises an
identification with Israel against a regime that uses human shields
and promises slaughter of Jews in its charter.
What happens today, at least in Italy, is the defeat and fall of the
leftist ideologies: ideology that has allowed justification of all
the most violent crimes and most disgusting verbal attacks. If
Arafat launched the terrorist Intifada, if he promoted the martyrdom
of children in public speeches, the ideologists were ready to
justify him with the issues of occupation, the Palestinian misery
and loss of any hope. Not so with Hamas.
History, in Italy, has brought to a profound crisis the ideology of
revolution and the justification of any cruel attack against a
so-called unjust imperialist order. That time is over, nobody will
see Hamas as the resolution of the problem and not even as the
problem itself. I think that the word "peace" has lost that healing
meaning that it once had. The new non-ideological point of view sees
that there is no peace when one of the contenders doesn't want it,
and that even if the world in the short run asks for a truce, in the
long run it hopes for the defeat of Hamas.
Last night, many people, Ministers and Members of Parliament,
composed a very new, interesting mix of opinions. I think that when
you are not overwhelmed by exotic thirdworldism, the images of
children educated as hate machines, the speeches of jihad leaders,
from Ahmadinejad to Nasrallah, to Hanje, that deny the holocaust and
promise death to Jewish and Christians alike, you are left only with
disgust. Westerners, thank God, can still be disgusted by
uncivilized levels of political speech.
But most of all, in the Parliament square, many of the Parliament
Members said: "I love Israel".
You can't imagine how many.
Fiamma Nirenstein
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