For Gaza. Of course, everyone, without ifs and buts. By that I mean that all of us citizens of the so-called democratic and civilized West cannot but be in favor of the Palestinian polation. Exhausted by war, hunger, thirst, lack of medicine. Everyone inside this horror, no discount for the fragile, first and foremost the children, but then doctors, aid workers, journalists. No discount for anyone. It is what is called a humanitarian crisis, an issue that is no longer political or ideological, but ethical.
Instead, the day of pro-Gaza demonstrations in Italy turned into yet another bulletin of clashes and riots in most cities. And why, if the affair as I said before affects everyone? Because in the end the street party, as the songwriters of yesteryear put it, is always partisan, better than the leftists in their multifaceted reasons for support.
The bad guys? All on the right, of course. It is also a ridiculous scheme because the Meloni-led government brakes, it is true, on political recognition of the Palestinian state so as not to hurt American sensibilities, however, it helps children come to our country for treatment.
Europe, in no particular order, Macron in the lead and now also Starmer (England), is pushing for the solution that has always been desired, that of two peoples in two states. Can this be a form of moral suasion of geopolitics? Does moral suasion in geopolitics work? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t, but somewhere diplomacy, now the stone summoner of all ongoing wars, will have to be able to impose its language.
What about sanctions? They are always needed, they don’t solve anything. Even the European institutions got there — late. But Israel is, as such, a democracy allied with the West in the complex Middle East chessboard. Is Israel all in with Netanyahu? No. Rather it is the leader with the extremist wing of his government playing its own dangerous game.
The theme is this: avenging October 7 and eradicating Hamas did not require killing 75,000 innocent civilians. Palestinians are not all for the terrorists. We now have to help them. Stop. Without political colors and without the usual Manichean ferocity of the squares.
The article For Gaza (without square) comes from TheNewyorker.
