One - or rather two - points of departure, and a single destination. The
recent political-humanitarian mission of the Handala, the vessel of the
Freedom Flotilla, aimed to symbolically chart the course for
mobilization campaigns in support of the Palestinian population of the
Gaza Strip, victims of the genocide carried out by the Israeli
government and its main international partners. ---- The points of
departure, as mentioned, were the ports from which the Handala set sail:
Syracuse and Gallipoli in Salento. A deliberate choice, dictated by the
need of Freedom Flotilla Italia to draw public attention to the
strategic role assumed by the regions of Sicily and Apulia in the
processes of militarization of territory and economy. But above all, to
denounce the shameful support provided by these regions to the
implementation of the "final Palestinian solution" by Benjamin Netanyahu
- the total occupation of the Strip and the deportation, driven by
tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers, of over a million people to who
knows which refugee camp in one of the many hells of the planet.
From Sicily, from its main death base Sigonella, depart the large cargo
planes with which the United States transfers weapons and ammunition to
Israel for use in the genocide unleashed after October 7, 2023. From
Sigonella, every day, manned and unmanned aircraft of the US Navy, US
Air Force, NATO, and military units of some European countries take off,
reach the skies of the Eastern Mediterranean, and help identify and
track the targets later bombed by the Israeli armed forces in Gaza, the
West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
Italy plays a role of true belligerence, highlighted by the use of
several major bases in Apulia. By some cynical twist of fate, in 2023
the elite naval unit from Tel Aviv - Shayetet 13 of Haifa, responsible
for the last two acts of maritime piracy in the Mediterranean against
the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, the "Madaleine" and the "Handala" -
trained in Brindisi side by side with the marines of the "San Marco"
Brigade, simulating precisely those high-seas boarding actions. In
Amendola (Foggia) a year ago, the Italian Air Force paid the highest
honors to the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Air Force, General Tomer
Bar, identified by several NGOs as primarily responsible for the
massacre of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza on August 10. Also in
Amendola and over the Tyrrhenian Sea, Israeli F-16 and F-35 top gun
pilots trained alongside Italian pilots - the same who laid waste to the
Strip and southern Lebanon. And the airmen of the 32nd Stormo from the
Foggia base have repeatedly traveled to the Negev Desert to practice
drone strike operations together with the Israelis...
Sicily and Apulia are also important laboratories to reproduce,
Italian-style, Israel's military-industrial-financial-academic complex:
in Galatina (Lecce) an international advanced flight training school for
fighter pilots has been opened, partnered by the Italian Air Force and
Leonardo SpA. Here, training courses are offered to "rogue states"
worldwide while simultaneously selling the most innovative killing
technologies produced by the publicly owned industrial group. Something
similar will be done in Sicily in the coming months: Minister Crosetto
announced the creation on the island of an academy for training F-35
fighter pilots (dual-use, with conventional and nuclear weapons),
through an agreement between the Air Force, Leonardo and Lockheed
Martin, including collaborations with start-ups and university research
centers. Leading candidates for this new war school: Sigonella,
Trapani-Birgi, Pantelleria and even the former missile base of Comiso
(Ragusa), now a civilian airport in irreversible crisis.
The Handala mission, brutally interrupted by the raid of Israeli
commandos, nevertheless indicated a clear and immediate path of action
and struggle. Faced with the bloody collaborationism of governments and
the main international political and social forces, it is up to all of
us to put our bodies, hands and faces on the line - to dirty them with
earth, mud and salt water rather than with the blood of our Palestinian
sisters and brothers. Direct action at sea, in squares, streets,
universities, arms factories, ports and airports of war logistics to
block every process feeding the chain of Israeli genocide. Immediate
boycotts and sanctions against all economic, financial, diplomatic,
military, "cultural," and sporting entities that legitimize the ethnic
cleansing and apartheid of the Palestinian people.
In less than a month, Tel Aviv's "game" against the residents of the
Gaza Strip could be definitively concluded - with the eradication of all
forms of life and the total desertification of the territory and its
coast. Netanyahu and the IDF have announced that on October 7, 2025,
they will celebrate the second anniversary of Hamas's offensive with
full military and administrative control of Gaza and the imprisonment of
a million exhausted men, women, and children in the largest open-air
zoo-prison on the planet. Seven days later another "match" is scheduled
to be played in Udine: Italy-Israel, a 2026 World Cup qualifier. On a
field drenched in blood, some would like to hide the holocaust and
absolve its brutal perpetrators. Handala - the humanity on board that
called for a small act of humanity where humanity has been annihilated
by Israeli barbarism - asks us to prevent this death-delirium match by
any means. Italy-Israel must not be played now or ever, whatever the cost.
In Naples, the fans are clear. In an alley of the Spanish Quarters, a
large mural was created with Diego Armando Maradona and the Palestinian
flag. If Diego were alive, he - who held Palestine in his heart - would
call for desertion. Deserting, boycotting, and blocking with our bodies
the slaughter under the bombs, hunger and thirst of the Palestinian
people are imperatives no one today can shirk.
We will answer to history and to the children of our children for what
we have and have not done in these tragic late summer days of 2025.
Antonio Mazzeo
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
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recent political-humanitarian mission of the Handala, the vessel of the
Freedom Flotilla, aimed to symbolically chart the course for
mobilization campaigns in support of the Palestinian population of the
Gaza Strip, victims of the genocide carried out by the Israeli
government and its main international partners. ---- The points of
departure, as mentioned, were the ports from which the Handala set sail:
Syracuse and Gallipoli in Salento. A deliberate choice, dictated by the
need of Freedom Flotilla Italia to draw public attention to the
strategic role assumed by the regions of Sicily and Apulia in the
processes of militarization of territory and economy. But above all, to
denounce the shameful support provided by these regions to the
implementation of the "final Palestinian solution" by Benjamin Netanyahu
- the total occupation of the Strip and the deportation, driven by
tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers, of over a million people to who
knows which refugee camp in one of the many hells of the planet.
From Sicily, from its main death base Sigonella, depart the large cargo
planes with which the United States transfers weapons and ammunition to
Israel for use in the genocide unleashed after October 7, 2023. From
Sigonella, every day, manned and unmanned aircraft of the US Navy, US
Air Force, NATO, and military units of some European countries take off,
reach the skies of the Eastern Mediterranean, and help identify and
track the targets later bombed by the Israeli armed forces in Gaza, the
West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
Italy plays a role of true belligerence, highlighted by the use of
several major bases in Apulia. By some cynical twist of fate, in 2023
the elite naval unit from Tel Aviv - Shayetet 13 of Haifa, responsible
for the last two acts of maritime piracy in the Mediterranean against
the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, the "Madaleine" and the "Handala" -
trained in Brindisi side by side with the marines of the "San Marco"
Brigade, simulating precisely those high-seas boarding actions. In
Amendola (Foggia) a year ago, the Italian Air Force paid the highest
honors to the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Air Force, General Tomer
Bar, identified by several NGOs as primarily responsible for the
massacre of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza on August 10. Also in
Amendola and over the Tyrrhenian Sea, Israeli F-16 and F-35 top gun
pilots trained alongside Italian pilots - the same who laid waste to the
Strip and southern Lebanon. And the airmen of the 32nd Stormo from the
Foggia base have repeatedly traveled to the Negev Desert to practice
drone strike operations together with the Israelis...
Sicily and Apulia are also important laboratories to reproduce,
Italian-style, Israel's military-industrial-financial-academic complex:
in Galatina (Lecce) an international advanced flight training school for
fighter pilots has been opened, partnered by the Italian Air Force and
Leonardo SpA. Here, training courses are offered to "rogue states"
worldwide while simultaneously selling the most innovative killing
technologies produced by the publicly owned industrial group. Something
similar will be done in Sicily in the coming months: Minister Crosetto
announced the creation on the island of an academy for training F-35
fighter pilots (dual-use, with conventional and nuclear weapons),
through an agreement between the Air Force, Leonardo and Lockheed
Martin, including collaborations with start-ups and university research
centers. Leading candidates for this new war school: Sigonella,
Trapani-Birgi, Pantelleria and even the former missile base of Comiso
(Ragusa), now a civilian airport in irreversible crisis.
The Handala mission, brutally interrupted by the raid of Israeli
commandos, nevertheless indicated a clear and immediate path of action
and struggle. Faced with the bloody collaborationism of governments and
the main international political and social forces, it is up to all of
us to put our bodies, hands and faces on the line - to dirty them with
earth, mud and salt water rather than with the blood of our Palestinian
sisters and brothers. Direct action at sea, in squares, streets,
universities, arms factories, ports and airports of war logistics to
block every process feeding the chain of Israeli genocide. Immediate
boycotts and sanctions against all economic, financial, diplomatic,
military, "cultural," and sporting entities that legitimize the ethnic
cleansing and apartheid of the Palestinian people.
In less than a month, Tel Aviv's "game" against the residents of the
Gaza Strip could be definitively concluded - with the eradication of all
forms of life and the total desertification of the territory and its
coast. Netanyahu and the IDF have announced that on October 7, 2025,
they will celebrate the second anniversary of Hamas's offensive with
full military and administrative control of Gaza and the imprisonment of
a million exhausted men, women, and children in the largest open-air
zoo-prison on the planet. Seven days later another "match" is scheduled
to be played in Udine: Italy-Israel, a 2026 World Cup qualifier. On a
field drenched in blood, some would like to hide the holocaust and
absolve its brutal perpetrators. Handala - the humanity on board that
called for a small act of humanity where humanity has been annihilated
by Israeli barbarism - asks us to prevent this death-delirium match by
any means. Italy-Israel must not be played now or ever, whatever the cost.
In Naples, the fans are clear. In an alley of the Spanish Quarters, a
large mural was created with Diego Armando Maradona and the Palestinian
flag. If Diego were alive, he - who held Palestine in his heart - would
call for desertion. Deserting, boycotting, and blocking with our bodies
the slaughter under the bombs, hunger and thirst of the Palestinian
people are imperatives no one today can shirk.
We will answer to history and to the children of our children for what
we have and have not done in these tragic late summer days of 2025.
Antonio Mazzeo
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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