Corriere della Sera 02/24/2011
(Gian Antonio Stella)
selfishness and fears
But if you were named Pedro or Jose and were bombarded by a coup South American? If you were called or
Pak Koo and were machine-gunned by a North Korean executioner? If you were called Oja or Boris and were slaughtered by a butcher cetniko new? It is the question that gnaws at how many Italian politicians look to the massacre of the Libyans making one question: what about us? Of course, it is obvious that we ask the question of what will happen to our house. What's more, is sacrosanct. How many desperate to overturn the boats to our shores if everything was in the worst way? How could we ever manage wave of migration? Can we be both vigilant guardians of a filter is essential and good Samaritans to the rescue of a suffering humanity? What would the other Europeans? They will come to help us look away or leaving in the lurch?
We have some of the other two more responsibility. The first is that what Ronald Reagan called "the dog of Tripoli"
and today he is angry biting its own citizens, was until a few days ago revered and flattered, to more or less degrees of flattery, for some 'all Italian governments. Convinced that "you can not choose your neighbors 'and deep down it was better for us that Africa was the nearest crushed under the heel of some' leaders of muscle rather than exposed to the dangerous thrills of democracy. The second is summed up in a tune on the invasion of Libya in 1911 in the prologue resonates boldly: "Astounded all Muslims stood upright to nose / but all of a sudden head-bombs and the fire came / besieged and bombarded both above and below / the vile corrupt people bowed to Italy." Here, exactly a century after the brutal conquest of the "sand box" after decades of contempt for those people "inavvezze to work," after photos of our firing squads to shoot the kids even after the concentration camps in the desert of Sirte, where Angelo Del Boca has shown that killed tens of thousands of women, children and old people, we owe those Libyans took to the streets to get rid of a capricious and cruel dictator duties more. It's just that we care 'Even' for us. But it's not just us.
The Republic "FEAR OF PROGRESS "
1 - The prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has not yet had good taste directly and personally to accuse his partner of Libyan genocide was ongoing at our doors. The prince of Arcore welcomes wind of democracy, however, "We must also think about later ..." namely, the danger of Islamic fundamentalism;
2 - The dis-Mr Lamberto Dini, President of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which was not ashamed to say that the Italian government must act to save the Gaddafi to power;
24/02/2011 (Gad Lerner)
More than a month now since the beginning of the Arab revolution that reshapes the features of the Mediterranean basin in which we find ourselves, finally, through gritted teeth, our Prime Minister has uttered the words "wind of freedom". Neither even dared to admit that after nearly 42 years of dictatorship - twice as Mussolini! - Is indeed welcome as long as you can away from that bloody partner in Berlusconi has just kissed the murderous hand in public. Even the figures of a real catastrophe in Libya have led him to formally request that Gaddafi has assured a court of international justice.
How come there is still a similar cowardly hesitation, shared in a more fair by most of the Italian ruling class? How embarrassing moral gap with the declaration of a hero of democracy, Vaclav Havel, who also yesterday compared the upheavals of 2011 in North Africa to "her" 1989, when the popular uprising resulted in the fall of Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe.
explain such a contrast is embarrassing. The mood with which our establishment afraid assists, paralyzed, impetuous march of history, in fact, a decline in Italian certifies experienced as inevitable. As if there were precluded react to powerlessness in ourselves, and Europe with us, we would be condemned to resign.
Yet it should help a dynamic view of Italian history, a hundred and fifty years since the founding of the unified state. We should nevertheless be remembered as our Peninsula has known centuries of economic and cultural supremacy, not surprisingly, among the Thousand and One thousand five hundred, when Italy Humanism and the Renaissance has made virtue of its geographical formation that stretched the projects to the center of the Mediterranean. That very fortunate position, thousands of miles of coastline, is now described with victimization by our rulers, as a disgrace to curse. As if Southern Italy, close to Africa and the Middle East, which was an appendix to unwillingly bear the weight.
This myopia is likely to cause us to lose a crucial appointment with history. How can we ignore that we have experienced the Italian season happier thanks to the commercial and intellectual hegemony that our destiny intertwined maritime republics before, and then Venice, managed to achieve with the cosmopolitan cities of the Levant and the Maghreb? How can we deny that its failure to harmonious development of the southern Mediterranean, with economic and demographic imbalances it causes, has been detrimental to our growth as a ball and chain? We were deceived, for decades, support of totalitarian regimes that constitute the best guarantee to meet the threat of terrorism and the flow of migrants, while also ensuring energy supply. In support of this realpolitik proved in bankruptcy today, we have elaborate array of neo-colonial racist theories: that our neighbors would be by their nature unsuited to democracy, refractory to civil progress. Up to use even for them the concept of "democratura," as if Arab societies could govern only with a mix of democracy (fake) and dictatorship (true). the other hand, remember, it was the only European statesman Giulio Andreotti that exerts its disappointment at the fall of the Berlin Wall ("I love Germany so much to want to maintain two separate"). Berlusconi has only exacerbated by actor businessman he is, a vocation to the support of tyrants have grown across the Mediterranean by his predecessors. Ignoring the malaise of Arab society, abandoning to their fate of those secular intellectuals and progressive region, seen the inevitable dominance of the Islamic aversion to the West.
The failure of this acclaimed Mediterranean policy based on partnerships with tyrants - but then praised Israel as the only democracy in the region - now gives way to an alarm recriminatorio. To read the statements of our ministers, the "wind of freedom" blowing raging between North Africa and the Levant does not deserve our appreciation for the "Arab street" and is always still a threat.
After the fall of Ben Ali, with the arrival in Lampedusa, a few thousand refugees, Roberto Maroni has discovered good and recognized that it is a 'humanitarian emergency ", then emphasized even as biblical exodus. " Except immediately after arguing with the indifference of an European Union is certainly not benevolent towards Italy, today suffers from repeated international condemnation of the policy prepared by the same rejections Maroni agreement with Gaddafi. Errors that are charged at a distance.
Now what Italo-Libyan Treaty of 2008 should be reduced to waste paper certainly provide a new strategy based on the European concert. But for this purpose does not encourage the figures shoot at random what is the point three hundred thousand migrant advocate in the near future? Worse yet is the blame game concerning the already started between the various Italian regions, while Bossi boldly promises to redirect in Germany, unspecified numbers of refugees. Ending up just to give reason to the other EU countries which have good game to highlight data in hand, as Italy today accept a number of asylum seekers and new migrants much lower than other large European countries.
Our credentials in the field of hospitality and humanitarian sensitivity are minimized. This does not facilitate the relationship with Brussels in the necessary joint management of the emergency.
Much of the outcome of the political upheavals taking place will depend on our behavior. But we, we, on the right side? We have endeavored to protect our neighbors from a ferocious repression? The United States of Obama were more ready to support change in Europe. And alas Italy into Europe, that is the nation that has more interest in the growth of open societies in the southern Mediterranean, are shown in the most reluctant to distance themselves from dictators.
This attitude instinctive revealed a deficit that characterizes our cultural elite array northerner. Sorry to resort to clichés, but some ministers talk like old "polentone" frightened by the potential of cosmopolitanism Mediterranean, which they lived (in ignorance) only as a threat. As if the story had nothing to teach an old nation, whose average age is nearly two decades higher than those of young and vibrant company are rebelling. As if we were condemned to be afraid of progress to the point of not even imagine a democratic future shared by all peoples of our sea.
We have entrusted to the two preceding articles, the task of saving the honor and good name of Italy compared to the terrible tragedy of the people Libyan murdered by Gaddafi (who after blathering on about a conspiracy that would have American and Italian armed revolution against him, was in his latest rant television brought up al-Qaeda). Those who dishonor our country are in order:
The failure of this acclaimed Mediterranean policy based on partnerships with tyrants - but then praised Israel as the only democracy in the region - now gives way to an alarm recriminatorio. To read the statements of our ministers, the "wind of freedom" blowing raging between North Africa and the Levant does not deserve our appreciation for the "Arab street" and is always still a threat.
After the fall of Ben Ali, with the arrival in Lampedusa, a few thousand refugees, Roberto Maroni has discovered good and recognized that it is a 'humanitarian emergency ", then emphasized even as biblical exodus. " Except immediately after arguing with the indifference of an European Union is certainly not benevolent towards Italy, today suffers from repeated international condemnation of the policy prepared by the same rejections Maroni agreement with Gaddafi. Errors that are charged at a distance.
Now what Italo-Libyan Treaty of 2008 should be reduced to waste paper certainly provide a new strategy based on the European concert. But for this purpose does not encourage the figures shoot at random what is the point three hundred thousand migrant advocate in the near future? Worse yet is the blame game concerning the already started between the various Italian regions, while Bossi boldly promises to redirect in Germany, unspecified numbers of refugees. Ending up just to give reason to the other EU countries which have good game to highlight data in hand, as Italy today accept a number of asylum seekers and new migrants much lower than other large European countries.
Our credentials in the field of hospitality and humanitarian sensitivity are minimized. This does not facilitate the relationship with Brussels in the necessary joint management of the emergency.
Much of the outcome of the political upheavals taking place will depend on our behavior. But we, we, on the right side? We have endeavored to protect our neighbors from a ferocious repression? The United States of Obama were more ready to support change in Europe. And alas Italy into Europe, that is the nation that has more interest in the growth of open societies in the southern Mediterranean, are shown in the most reluctant to distance themselves from dictators.
This attitude instinctive revealed a deficit that characterizes our cultural elite array northerner. Sorry to resort to clichés, but some ministers talk like old "polentone" frightened by the potential of cosmopolitanism Mediterranean, which they lived (in ignorance) only as a threat. As if the story had nothing to teach an old nation, whose average age is nearly two decades higher than those of young and vibrant company are rebelling. As if we were condemned to be afraid of progress to the point of not even imagine a democratic future shared by all peoples of our sea.
We have entrusted to the two preceding articles, the task of saving the honor and good name of Italy compared to the terrible tragedy of the people Libyan murdered by Gaddafi (who after blathering on about a conspiracy that would have American and Italian armed revolution against him, was in his latest rant television brought up al-Qaeda). Those who dishonor our country are in order:
1 - The prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has not yet had good taste directly and personally to accuse his partner of Libyan genocide was ongoing at our doors. The prince of Arcore welcomes wind of democracy, however, "We must also think about later ..." namely, the danger of Islamic fundamentalism;
2 - The dis-Mr Lamberto Dini, President of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which was not ashamed to say that the Italian government must act to save the Gaddafi to power;
3 - The League in general, which knows only think the wave of illegal immigrants who could pour on the Italian coast (it is come to assume 3 million refugees). Almost certainly the concern of the League are unfounded so far those who flee from Libya found refuge and hospitality in Egypt and Tunisia, perhaps because they know what rules are applied in Italy barbaric even against those who would be entitled, under the rules international right to political asylum.
repeat what we said yesterday: "God is compassionate and merciful, but it is also fair and no discounts to those who violate the basic laws of justice and truth."
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