Flotilla yes, Flotilla no. The debate on the group of ships that wants to bring to all costs aid to the Palestinian population in the Sea of Gaza, overcoming the blockade of the Israeli navy, is burning Italian politics and public opinion.
The Minister of Defense Crosetto says: “Let us do it, because we can no longer protect you.” The same says Prime Minister Meloni, who tries to avoid a diplomatic incident with Israel. President Mattarella, while sharing the mission ethically, calls for prudence and common sense.
Obviously the Italian political debate is, as always, polarized: the left sails symbolically on Flotilla to attack a government that, according to them, is too shy with Netanyahu; the majority forces and the neighboring newspapers shout at the plot and the unarmedness of an operation that can cause the end of relations with Israel, as well as serious and dangerous military accidents.
The theme, however, is another: This story tells us that, in the failure of Western diplomacy (at least for now, because it expects the reaction to the 21 points fixed by Trump for peace in Gaza), there is a piece of the West that is not afraid and that challenges violence to help the civilian Palestinian people inert. The humanitarian question, in short, over any other ideological question.
The real attempt is to create a permanent humanitarian corridor, succeed where the various foreign policies of our democracies failed, where it failed the word in front of weapons, where it failed rationality in the face of violence and horror. Not least horror: to infier on those who run for hunger, thirst and medicines, to an absurd death as sadistic.
If they succeed — I find it difficult, but we will know not very much — it would be an incredible victory of the stubbornness of good, beyond the color of the 44 international delegations who animated this fleet.
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