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When Giorgia Meloni was still a free person and writing about Gaza, she said: "No cause is just when it sheds the blood of the innocent."
Why hasn't Giorgia Meloni yet gone on TV (to Mara Venier, if she really wants to) to say that the widespread mobilization for Gaza, especially that of the evening of October 1, is proof of the deep sense of humanity rooted in the peaceful Italian people? And why not add that the Global Sumud Flotilla initiative, in a world dominated by the will to power and the drive for death, confirms that armed and violent strategies are possible, capable of affirming the rationalities of Nazism?
On the contrary, the prime minister offered a host of offensive expressions, oscillating between irritated sarcasm and malicious contempt, towards the activists: "Perhaps the suffering of the Palestinian people is not their priority, they make it their personal priority and the demonstrations bring no benefit to the Palestinian people and many difficulties to the Italian people."
What is striking, above all, is the elitist attitude of those who go so far as to insult a collective mobilization that, in the past, should have annoyed Meloni. The same one who not long ago solemnly declared: "The brothers of Italy have always believed in the solution with two peoples, two states."
And anyone, even on the right, who is familiar with mass demonstrations, immediately understands that the pro-Palestinian initiatives of these days involve significant segments of the population, and among them significant segments, not only youth groups, but public opinion. Nor is there any other reason to believe that the Flotilla initiative is appreciated not only by the left.
As for me, I do not consider the volunteers of the Flotilla heroes, and I would not call their actions "brave". On the contrary, I appreciate their political intelligence and wise rationality: their ability, their peaceful cooperation, which was able to pursue its objectives. Precisely, without war. Therefore, I smile when I hear right-wingers in parliament and in the newspapers denouncing the mission as a "political" initiative. Only those with a mediocre idea of public action reduced entirely to administration can be surprised that a humanitarian act carried out in the midst of a brutal war scenario reveals its political nature.
But why such a misunderstanding, which quickly turns into very harsh insults? Why does Mario Sechi, the self-proclaimed liberal editor of a far-right newspaper, delight in saying that the crew should be "sinked"?
Perhaps one senses that the unquestioned political hegemony of the right is showing some cracks, and precisely at a crucial point, a matter of life and death, that deeply affects the collective conscience. This could explain so much malice, so much rudeness, and so much sarcasm. And, indeed, why not recognize the good faith of others and their correctness in pursuing what they believe to be right?
Perhaps we should return to Meloni. The historian of ideas, Richard Hofstadter, in an essay published in the United States in 1964 and translated into Italian by Adelphi in 2021, wrote about the "paranoid silence of American politics", characterized by suspicion and espionage of the ego.
Here are found many of the projections, obsessions and tics of right-wing parties around the world. The Flotilla mission is the result of a project implemented by delegations from 44 countries, involving nearly 500 volunteers on board and tens of thousands of supporters in Europe and around the world.
Well, in the Italian right-wing propaganda, all this, and then the demonstrations and general strikes, have only one purpose: to attack the government of Giorgia Meloni. And, as the person directly involved claims, "her own person". Doesn't this seem to reveal a paranoid outburst, perhaps mild? And that in the background there are traces of a narcissistic wound that is still unhealed? It is as if the remains of a damage to self-esteem and the perception of self-worth remain, confirming the inferiority complex that persists among the Italian right and their followers, despite the broad consensus.
A self-confident government, in the name of a well-interpreted and well-matured patriotism, should have recognized that those 40 compatriots arrested by the Israeli army have very different opinions from those who command in Italy today. When Giorgia Meloni was still a free person and wrote about Gaza she said: “No cause is just when it sheds the blood of the innocent.”/ Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "La Repubblica"
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