WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UCADI, #208 - CHECKMATE (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has been intercepted and boarded for the second time by Israeli pirates, who are threatening free navigation in the Mediterranean. They looted and destroyed the vessel, kidnapping and torturing the sailors, who boarded the ship driven by humanitarian reasons to bring aid to a suffering and war-torn population, providing them with medical care and food aid. The pirates used weapons, shot, handcuffed, imprisoned, and tortured the sailors, even though they had surrendered. They taunted them and used forms of coercion, involving physical abuse and the violation of their human dignity. Meanwhile, the political authorities of the countries of origin limited themselves to formal protests, when governments should at least have the courage to sever economic and financial relations with the criminal aggressor and thus their financial support for the Israeli state pirates, thus demonstrating their distance. One might think that the consciences of the German and Italian governments, in particular, are too guilty to even offer a single criticism, but the reality is sadder and more dramatic, as German and Italian industries are tied to Israel through the design, construction, and development of weapons and security devices that are placed on the market and made available to Israel to pursue its criminal policies.

This de facto coexistence translates into a significant limitation of their sovereignty, because it asserts Israeli jurisdiction over the entire Mediterranean and lays the foundation for Israeli claims to the gas fields off the coast of Gaza. Therefore, if only to defend their economic interests, all Mediterranean-bordering governments should have an interest in limiting the interventions of the new pirates.
If government inaction is to blame, it's not our consciences, and not because of a form of anti-Semitismalso because the indigenous Palestinian populations are also Semiticbut because we make a clear distinction between Judaism and Zionism, identifying Zionism as a supremacist political movement, both juridical and religious, supporting a project of ethnic colonization that must be politically defeated and rendered incapable of doing harm.
For us, apartheid remains unacceptable, no matter how it is practiced. It must be fought in the name of the equal dignity of all peoples, even when it is cloaked in religious motivations. Indeed, in this case, it is even more odious, because it appropriates the name of God to raise it on the banners of an army and call for war.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/05/23/scacco-matto/
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