Gaza is perceived obstinacy in killing and Russia persevere in its aggression to Ukraine: this represents a boulder for the entire European Union since many countries seem to seem the possibility that Moscow can also pour its appetites on other European countries.
On the day when the Moscow Foreign Ministry draws up a list of “Russofobi” characters and puts the name of the Italian President at the top, Sergio Mattarella does not relegate a millimeter in his concerns about the war that has been devastating Ukraine for over three years: “He continues, anguished, the aggressive posture of Russia in Ukraine. A boulder – explains the head of state by meeting the parliamentary press – on the prospects of the European continent and its young people. It is well known that the countries of the Union and NATO which, together with Russia, overlook the Baltic Sea, nourish the serious concern, if not the belief that Russia, after that of Ukraine, cultivates the purpose of others, new initiatives of aggression, at the expense of their security if not even of the independence of some of them “.
The intervention of the president is long and articulated and is pronounced in the range ceremony, a tradition of meeting with journalists dating back to 1893. But archived the Russian dossier, the president enters the heart of his thoughts and goes on to analyze the situation in the Middle East.
There are no ambiguity or diplomatic prudenze in the words of Mattarella on the tragedy of Gaza and, therefore, on the responsibilities of the Netanyahu government. “There was talk of errors also in having shot on ambulances and killed doctors and nurses who gave rescue to injured, in having taken a target and killed thirsty children in line to have water, for the killing of many people hungry in a row to get food, for the destruction of hospitals, also killing children hospitalized by denutrition”, is the premise. So the conclusion: «It is difficult, in a similar chain, to see an involuntary repetition of errors and not to recognize the obstinacy to kill indiscriminately. A condition depicted, in an emblematic way, by the child welcomed with his mother in an Italian hospital, after having lost his father and nine brothers – all children – in the bombing of his home ». But that’s not enough: “The incredible bombing of the parish of the Holy Family of Gaza has also been defined as a mistake. For many centuries, from Seneca to S. Agostino, we are remembered that ‘errare humanun est, persevere diabolicum'”. Perhaps it is no coincidence that in the evening the premier Giorgia Meloni spoke with Netanyahu, also with a decisive terms: ” To hostility, in the face of a situation in Gaza that is unsustainable and unjustifiable », reads a note from Palazzo Chigi. Refuge in superficial slogans and in prejudices, among which, very serious, anti -Semitism, which also feeds on stupidity, “reaches,” assures the head of state perhaps thinking about the aggression near Milan of a French Jewish tourist guilty only of wearing the Kippa.
If the incipit of his speech was dedicated to the Russian threat, the president could only return to the European Union today grappling with the negotiation on the duties that risks putting the European Commission itself in crisis. For Mattarella there is no doubt, the “commercial collaboration with peace and well -being”. On the contrary, the “economic contrast risks producing other forms, more rough and dangerous, of contrast”