He strongly condemns the anti -Semitism and the “hateful attack” of the terrorists of Hamas who killed thousands of Israelis and kidnapped hostages that are still in their hands. But it doesn’t make discounts even to Netanyahu’s policy. Sergio Mattarella, in meeting the parliamentary press, for the usual ceremony of delivery of the range, speaks of the attack on the Catholic parish of Gaza that the Israeli government has defined a mistake. «There has also been talk of errors in having shot on ambulances And killed doctors and nurses who rescued by injuries, in having taken a target and killed thirsty children in line to have water, for the killing of many people hungry in line to get food, for the destruction of hospitals, also killing children hospitalized for undernourcing, “he recalls. And adds. «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 ». The President of the Republic speaks of peace and war. And the need to defend international institutions such as the UN who have guaranteed the absence of world war. It is not intimidated by the attacks that come from Russia, but reads the speech he had already prepared without changing anything about his judgment on aggression to Ukraine.
“The aggression of Russia to Ukraine,” he says clearly, “has changed the history of Europe. That great country – that such remains, despite the serious responsibilities that its current management took place in the face of history – and on whose collaboration we had nourished wide confidence in the European Union, has increasingly assumed a disconcerting configuration aimed at the clash of military power. It is well known that the countries of the Union and NATO that, together with Russia, overlook the Baltic Sea, nourish the serious concern, if not – as it is stated – 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. These changes – so deep and unexpected – have caused, among other consequences, an understandable disorientation in public opinions. Disorientation aggravated by a skilled and perverse work of spreading false news and false depictions. In terms of the reality of international relations, the choice and posture of Russia have more than distorted, canceled the balance; Balance that guarantees peace and dissuades from war adventures ».
The custom of giving the range, recalls the president, dates back to 1893. “Farm, but I can’t help noticing that, in international life, we are approaching, dangerously, to the behavior criteria of that time. Sometimes, in this period, I think of an element that, in the past decades – after the Second World War – contributed to supporting peace worldwide and facilitating development in the world: the aspiration of numerous states – large, medium and small – to be, rather than feared, as happened in the past, admired for their system and lifestyle; and consequently be heard and followed. Today many protagonists of international life aspire to be feared more than estimated and admired. This choice can, perhaps, produce some advantage in the immediate one but affects, he crashes widely and perhaps resets, for the future, trust, prestige, authority; And, therefore, stable and effective influence in the international community. The experiences that history presents with evidence are ignored: authentic lessons, not to be forgotten; Because the life of the world does not begin today and has already been seen in the past ».
Mattarella’s all -field discourse is a speech. He defends “the WHO – the World Health Organization – a fundamental reference point for the safety of all and particularly essential for Africa”. It speaks of the environmental catastrophes “increasingly frequent, with the dramatic consequences that we have also undergone in Italy”. Of “economic activities of great social impact that are exercised outside any rule of law or market, because they have developed – and they expand more and more – outside any state systemsupranational, global ». Delal polarization of wealth, of the “widespread tendency to the irreducible contrast, to intolerance to the opinions other than their own, to the refuge in superficial slogans, in prejudices, among which, very serious, anti -Semitism, which also feeds on stupidity, resurfaces”. He deals with the theme “of artificial intelligence, a fascinating tool, of immensely positive scope in the field of health, which – like all the new opportunities that science delivers to humanity – puts in the face of the responsibility for positive and not perverse use, particularly because, for the first time, the intellectual sphere is invested”.
And he returns to the “the indispensable centrality of multilateralism” which many would like to set aside “to also through the attempt to discredit and demolish the role of the UN, its organisms, its agencies, making the pin on gaps and poor effectiveness of its action, conditions that, to a large extent, derive from limits and privileges produced by selfishness of power of individual states, starting from the anti -historical right of vetoes”. But we must ask ourselves if the world would have been better without the United Nations Charter.
He denounces those who dedicate themselves to “wars of territorial conquest, to strength tests, to pursue the domain on their neighbors”.
“In the Middle East,” he says, “it is even obvious, unfortunately, to say that the situation in Gaza becomes, day by day, dramatically more serious and intolerable; And we hope that the Annunziate breaks correspond to the spaces of effective fire. Two months ago, on one of the most solemn occasions of the Quirinale – the meeting, for our national feast, with the ambassadors representing the countries of all parts of the world in Italy – after recalling the horror of the barbaric attack of Hamas of 7 October two years ago, with many victims between deflected Israeli citizens and with the ignoble kidnapping of hostages, still hatefully detained, I underlined how the refusal of the government is inaccessible Israel to respect the rules of humanitarian law in Gaza, remembered a few days ago – precisely – by Leone XIV.
In that meeting, I added that it is inhuman to reduce an entire population to hunger, from children to the elderly and that the abusive, violent occupation of territories attributed to the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank is serious. I expressed the alarm for the sowing of suffering and resentment that is produced, which, in addition to being unfair, contrasts with any true need for safety.
What happened in the following weeks is further shocking. It seems that the path of continuous war has been chosen and everywhere, forgetting that the war arouses new adverse ranks, new recruits of enemies, also induced by resentment, frustration, despair ».
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