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Thumbs up An article I found and sent to Natallnews two years ago

However, Alessandra Mussolini(Mussolini's granddaughter) is too much of a femininst and she is allied with a bunch of neocon politicians at the moment, however this was a highlight that should be remembered.

She is also a niece of Sofia Loren.



Better a Fascist than a Faggot – Alessandra Mussolini

http://www.natallnews.com/story.php?id=1190
 
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Default Italian solidarity with Palestinian filmmaker on trial in Israel

At the end of last November, filmmaker Mohammad Bakri furiously left a press conference organizaed at the Library of the Auditorium of Rome. He was present because of the performance of the opera Al Kamandjati based on the story of Palestinian musician Ramzi Aburedwan and his music school in Ramallah. The reason for his anger was that not a single journalist asked him any questions when he announced that he would soon be tried in Israel because of his 2002 film Jenin Jenin.

Jenin Jenin documents the aftermath of Israel's April 2002 siege of the northern West Bank refugee camp, during which many of the residents were killed and a large part of the camp was leveled by bulldozers. Journalists were not allowed into the camp during the incursion and Israeli forces did not allow human rights organizations in immediately afterwards, and the film documents the destruction of the camp and the exasperation of camp residents during this time. Jenin Jenin co-producer Iyad Samudi was killed by Israeli forces shortly after the film's completion.

In 2002 the film was banned by the Israeli Film Ratings Board but a year later the ban was lifted by the Israel's high court after one year of media attacks against Mohammad. The attacks went on in the following years, through 2007, when five Israeli army reservists who participated in the Jenin massacre accused Bakri of defamation of character. Their names, their faces and their bodies don't appear in the film. But what if they were in the film? If they were filmed committing shootings, demolitions, the massacre perpetrated with the consensus of the political and military chain of Israel, could we say that the images were a form of defamation? Photos and images, in a certain sense, are the icons of the object that they represent. But the point of the trial isn't that it does or doesn't show images of the soldiers in the film; the problem is that it gives voice to the survivors of Jenin.

During those days in the Auditorium of Rome we phoned a journalist who interviewed Mohammad Bakri, but we thought that the interview wasn't enough. The issue was too complicated and serious to be dealt with only in an article. If Mohammad will be found guilty by an Israeli court in Petah Tikva he will have to pay 2.5 million new Israeli shekels in "compensation," but more than that he will be forced to (but he won't do so) declare that the film is not truthful -- an intimidating precedent for all filmmakers (Palestinian as well as Jewish Israeli) seeking to document Israel's crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Bakri's film is strong largely because it doesn't rely on quantitatively stating how many executions took place in Jenin. Instead, it gives opportunity for the testimony a mother who says that one of her children was publicly executed, in front of her eyes. A disabled man expresses what happened to him and to his family during the siege, something more impressive and dangerous (for the soldiers who participated in the massacre) than quantitative data with which victims are mere statistics.

In response, we in Italy organized a campaign and contacted the most important Italian actors and filmmakers (including Giuseppe Bertolucci, Saverio Costanzo, Marco Tullio Giordana, Mario Monicelli and Moni Ovadia), asking for their signatures in a petition of solidarity with Mohammad. Some of them worked with Mohammad in the past, others just knew his story and recognized the same danger that we felt: the risk of something stronger than censorship, the risk that some soldiers responsible for a massacre would demand compensation from the director of a film documenting their crimes.

From 28 January until now, Jenin Jenin has been screened in more than 40 Italian cities and towns, with the fundamental help of the Association Hawiyya and its Project "Mediazione," which aims to correct official media by providing alternative information from sevaral areas of the world. In Rome, Naples, Bologna, Siena and Turin, Mohammad Bakri told his story and participated in several debates on his trial. The screenings continue, with new towns and cities are organizing the events, lending an even wider audience to the film.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9382.shtml
 
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Default Row over 'Fascist' candidate in Berlusconi's party

Rome - The decision by Silvio Berlusconi's party to field a self-confessed "proud lifelong Fascist" in Italy's April elections drew widespread condemnation Monday. Centre-left politicians said the inclusion of publisher Giuseppe Ciarrapico in the People of Freedom party's list presented Monday - the deadline for the submission of candidates for the April 13-14 poll - was proof of the party's "slide to the far-right".
"Berlusconi has filled his list with just about everything," said Dario Franceschini, deputy leader of the Democratic Party.
He said was not only referring to Ciarrapico, but also Gianfranco Fini - whose right-wing National Alliance merged with Berlusconi's Forza Italia to form the People of Freedom - and candidates belonging to a movement led by Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini, who has also joined forces with People of Freedom.
Some members of Berlusconi's party which is currently leading in opinion polls also expressed dismay.
"I am incompatible with Fascism. Anyone who has read my articles or books knows I'm against all sorts of totalitarianism and anti- Semitism," said Fiamma Nirenstein, a journalist who is also running for People of Freedom.
Asked at a news conference what her thoughts on sharing a ticket with Ciarrapico were, Nirenstein who is Jewish said: "I will tell him what I have always believed in".
Fini, a former leader of the Social Movement, a party formed from the ashes of Mussolini's Fascist Party, but who has since distanced himself from his past - a process which culminated in a 2003 visit to Israel where he described Fascism as "absolute evil" - said he played no part in selecting Ciarrapico.
Ciarrapico who publishes several newspapers in the Lazio region near Rome described Berlusconi as a "dear old friend," suggesting that the billionaire-turned-politician had personally invited him to stand in the election.
Commenting on the row, Berlusconi's spokesman Paolo Bonaiuti on Monday said it was "high-time the Left stops with its presumed moral superiority."
"We are all tired of them, of a Left that passes judgement on others," Bonaiuti said.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/p...hp?news=191290
 
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However, Alessandra Mussolini(Mussolini's granddaughter) is too much of a femininst and she is allied with a bunch of neocon politicians at the moment, however this was a highlight that should be remembered.

She is also a niece of Sofia Loren.



Better a Fascist than a Faggot – Alessandra Mussolini

http://www.natallnews.com/story.php?id=1190
 
Old March 11th, 2008 #28
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Rome - The decision by Silvio Berlusconi's party to field a self-confessed "proud lifelong Fascist" in Italy's April elections drew widespread condemnation Monday. Centre-left politicians said the inclusion of publisher Giuseppe Ciarrapico in the People of Freedom party's list presented Monday - the deadline for the submission of candidates for the April 13-14 poll - was proof of the party's "slide to the far-right".
"Berlusconi has filled his list with just about everything," said Dario Franceschini, deputy leader of the Democratic Party.
He said was not only referring to Ciarrapico, but also Gianfranco Fini - whose right-wing National Alliance merged with Berlusconi's Forza Italia to form the People of Freedom - and candidates belonging to a movement led by Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini, who has also joined forces with People of Freedom.
Some members of Berlusconi's party which is currently leading in opinion polls also expressed dismay.
"I am incompatible with Fascism. Anyone who has read my articles or books knows I'm against all sorts of totalitarianism and anti- Semitism," said Fiamma Nirenstein, a journalist who is also running for People of Freedom.
Asked at a news conference what her thoughts on sharing a ticket with Ciarrapico were, Nirenstein who is Jewish said: "I will tell him what I have always believed in".
Fini, a former leader of the Social Movement, a party formed from the ashes of Mussolini's Fascist Party, but who has since distanced himself from his past - a process which culminated in a 2003 visit to Israel where he described Fascism as "absolute evil" - said he played no part in selecting Ciarrapico.
Ciarrapico who publishes several newspapers in the Lazio region near Rome described Berlusconi as a "dear old friend," suggesting that the billionaire-turned-politician had personally invited him to stand in the election.
Commenting on the row, Berlusconi's spokesman Paolo Bonaiuti on Monday said it was "high-time the Left stops with its presumed moral superiority."
"We are all tired of them, of a Left that passes judgement on others," Bonaiuti said.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/p...hp?news=191290
Italian candidate at April vote says he is lifelong Fascist, embarrassing Berlusconi

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ROME: Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives suffered a major embarrassment this week as one of their candidates for April elections said he is an unrepentant and lifelong Fascist.

The comments by Giuseppe Ciarrapico, a veteran Rome businessman who is running for a Senate seat, drew quick criticism from center-left politicians and leaders of the Jewish community.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/...-Candidate.php
 
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Warning: This site contains some graphic images of the realities and horrors of war. Students under 18 are encouraged to view this site with the guidance of a parent or teacher. It is not my intent to shock. Rather, it's my intent to educate and share an important historical event. If you don't want to see the images, simply don't go any further.
http://home.comcast.net/~lowe9101/mussolini/index.html

I apologize for not warning about the graphic images I posted earlier in the thread ...
 
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Italians mark war massacre

Killing of 15,000 men, women and children commemorated after 60 years

Sophie Arie in Rome
Friday February 11, 2005
The Guardian

Over the past few days millions of Italians have been watching dramatic scenes of ethnic cleansing on their television screens.

But the images are not of the Holocaust, Rwanda or Darfur: it is the first film to be made in Italy about the massacre of up to 15,000 men, women and children, many killed by Yugoslav communists towards the end of the second world war just for being Italian.

It is the hardest-hitting part of a government campaign to draw attention to a little-known event which was marked for the first time yesterday, 60 years on, with a national day of remembrance.

Parliament observed a minute's silence and the foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, and other dignitaries attended a military ceremony in the north-eastern city of Trieste, where many of the crimes were committed.

Red, white and green lapel ribbons and 3.5m special stamps were issued by the newly formed 10th February Committee.

Between 1943 and 1945 thousands of Italians living in Trieste, Gorizia and the Istrian peninsula were tortured, shot or pushed to their deaths in rocky chasms by communists determined to cleanse Yugoslavia of its Italian population.

Some were sympathisers of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy. Others were innocent civilians.

They were left, some still alive to rot in natural ditches known in Italian as foibe.

About 300,000 Italians had been forced to flee the area by 1947 and estimates of the number killed vary between 6,000 and 15,000.

After the war the massacres were swept under the political carpet as Italy sought to heal its wartime wounds.

Most of the so-called foibe killings have never been properly investigated.

Italian history books have traditionally portrayed communist partisans as national heroes who fought to free the country from fascism.

Italian communists and today's hard left have long tried to bury the matter, out of embarrassment.

But the centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi, who personally considers communists a lingering threat to Italy, is determined to make sure that as many Italians as possible are aware of this dark part of the country's past.

In the run up to the memorial day, more than 10 million people watched the first film on the subject, Il Cuore nel Pozzo (Heart in the ditch) which cost the state television service RAI €4.5m (Ł3.09m) to produce.

The film shows the atrocities through through the eyes of a group of children who manage to escape, though the priest accompanying them is shot.

"If we look back to the 20th century we see pages of history we'd prefer to forget," Mr Berlusconi said in advance of yesterday's events.

"But we cannot and should not forget."

The communications minister, Maurizio Gasparri, a member of the National Alliance, which traces its roots back to Mussolini's fascist party, said: "We must pull from this abyss of lies a truth hidden by the imposition of a cultural bias."

The party has openly supported Il Cuore nel Pozzo, which had its premiere in a conference hall built for Mussolini outside Rome, calling it "a historic event".

While the Italian hard-left has long tried to bury this part of the country's history, centre-left politicians have agreed that it is time to face up to the past

Last week the mayor of Rime, Walter Veltroni, went to the killing grounds to pay homage to the dead.

"The Holocaust was a tragedy without equal, but it was not the only tragedy of the 20th century," he said.

"What is certain is what I have seen here is witness to a guilty silence, even involving the left, the communists".

But critics argue that the film fails to address all sides of the story. The region around Trieste and the Istrian peninsula had come under Italian control after the first world war and had been brutally "Italianised" by Mussolini's henchmen.

The Slovenian foreign minister, Ivo Vajgl, criticised the making of the film last year as an "offence and provocation" to the Slovenian people.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...410549,00.html
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(AGI) - Rome, mar. 14 - "The next government, like my last one, will keep on fighting anti-semitism, in Italy and in Europe.
This action will include prevention and severely contrast those who promote and carry out anti-semitic actions as well as a capillary education of new generation. The issue of education will become central for the government both in Italy and in Europe, a way to contain growing anti-semitism". Silvio Berlusconi stated as much during a meeting with Pdl candidate Alessandro Ruben and some exponents of the jewish community.

http://www.agi.it/italy/news/2008031...n0076-art.html

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New York, NY, March 19, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the editors of il manifesto, a newspaper associated with the Italian Communist Party, to apologize for a caricature that depicted a Jewish candidate for parliament with Fascist insignia, a campaign button and a Star of David.

The March 13 caricature by Vauro Senisi, "Electoral Monsters," was subtitled "Fiamma Frankenstein" in a clear reference to Fiamma Nirenstein, a Jewish candidate for parliament and a member of the People of Freedom (PdL) party.

"We are outraged that il manifesto published an indisputably anti-Semitic cartoon," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "Whether intentional or not, the clear effect of the cartoon was to associate Jews with the Fascists who persecuted them, denigrate the PdL by associating it with Jews, and highlight the presence of an Italian Jew on the PdL electoral list.

"In any case, the result is the same: anti-Semitism."

In a letter to the co-directors of the Rome-based publication, ADL urged the newspaper to issue a formal apology in the space where Senisi's cartoons are featured.

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/5261_13.htm

Il Manifesto is still garbage because Communism is Jewish and will always remain so, but this is a slightly positive happening.

Note that on the right breast there is a Roman/Fascist symbo(as stated, but of course ADL will not say Roman), so therefore it is anti-fascist too. The ADL has too much time on their hands to cry "anti-Semitism." They must be abolished for all the crimes they engage in.

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Italy's college students and academics condemned today the atrocities committed by the illegal Zionist entity against innocent Palestinians and called for annulling the permission issued to the usurper state of Israel for participation in Italy's Torino Book Fair. According to IRIB, Italian protesters staged a sit-in Sunday in a central square in Rome, denouncing the presence of the Zionists in the upcoming book fair to be held in Torino, May 8-12.
Concurrent with this protest, similar demonstrations were carried out in Torino and Milan. The demonstrators raised Palestine's flag and held placards declaring their support of the Palestinian people.
An organizer of the demonstrations disclosed that more than 70 percent of Italian people considered Israel as a racist and usurper regime.
Many authors and publishers from different parts of the world have condemned Israel's participation in the Torino Book Fair, and called for banning Israel as a gesture of sympathy for the innocent Palestinians.

http://english.irib.ir/index.php?opt...9834&Itemid=24
 
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ROME (EJP)--- What do the 30,000 Italian Jews expect from the early general elections?

48 million Italians will vote next Sunday and Monday to renew the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate after the outgoing Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s centre-left coalition government lost a confidence vote in January.

Despite its modest size, the Italian Jewish community is well-integrated in society and somewhat influential, since it includes a number of prominent journalists, intellectuals and, last but not least, a life Senator – Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine Prof. Rita Levi Montalcini (99) - whose uninterrupted support to the outgoing cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi proved to be essential during the last legislature.

Half of Italian Jews live in Rome, 8,000 in Milan and the rest in 19 tiny communities across central and northern Italy.

Because of their deep integration in Italian society, Jews do not have open issues with the institutions. Therefore, the attitude that the Italian parties have towards Israel might become the decisive criterion for the Jews' political choice.

Traditionally anti-Fascist, secular and politically neo-liberal, in the last 30 years Italian Jews have been dealing with the anti-Israeli attitude of the Communist and Catholic left.

Media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi

At the same time, they started appreciating former centre-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's political revolution. The 71-year-old media tycoon openly embraced Israel's issues, continuously sympathized with Jerusalem and helped turn its ally, the post-Fascist Alleanza Nazionale party of Gianfranco Fini, into a pro-Israeli political organization.

This does not mean, however, that most Italian Jews will be voting for Berlusconi's 'People's Freedom Party' (PDL), observers say.

When his cabinet lost its majority in the Senate, Romano Prodi, a former president of the European Commission, announced his withdrawal from active politics and Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni took the centre-left political spectrum.

Veltroni made his own political revolution by "sacking" two communist parties and the Greens. At the same time, he “cleaned” his Democratic Party (PD) from the most anti-Israeli fringes, challenging his rival Silvio Berlusconi on the same centrist ground.

Although outgoing Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, a politician who more than once urged Israel to talk to Hamas and Hezbollah representatives, is still a prominent member of the PD, Veltroni declared earlier this week to Israeli newspaper Maariv that "Israel should not dialogue with those who wish its destruction" and that "the international community underestimated Iran's actual threats to Israel".

Berlusconi's sympathy for Israel is probably more deep-rooted.

However, many Roman Jews - those who are over 50 in particular -, cannot forget that his party also includes representatives issuing from the former radical right, such as Alessandra Mussolini, the grand-daughter of the Fascist dictator.

She however has never said anything that could sound even remotely anti-Semitic in the last ten years.

According to political observers, while the Italian "old guard" is keeping closer to the centre-left, the new generations appear to be less ideological in their choices and will not mind to cast their vote for Berlusconi.

Related story:
www.ejpress.org/article/26099

http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/...n_europe/26116

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ROME, April 13--Polls opened on Sunday in Italy's general elections to give media magnate Silvio Berlusconi or former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, two very different men with similar policies, the task of trying to cure Italy's economic malaise.

Polling stations opened at 8:00 am (0600 GMT), with voting to continue until 10:00 pm. Voting resumes at 7:00 am on Monday until 3:00 pm.

Against a backdrop of a stumbling economy, years of political instability and general malaise, some one-third of the 50-million-strong electorate remained undecided when the last permitted surveys were conducted two weeks ago.

The economy, slowing towards stagnation, is the main challenge for the next prime minister.

But his ability to carry out reforms may depend on a complex election law that makes it hard to win a clear majority in the upper house of parliament.

Flamboyant centre-right opposition leader Berlusconi, seeking a third term, and his low-key centre-left rival both promise modest tax cuts aimed at spurring consumption.

They have also both said Italy needs more police to tackle crime.

Berlusconi, 71, has consistently led opinion polls by 6-9 percentage points but the outcome of the parliamentary election could be close, with up to a third of the 47.3 million electorate expected to chose who to vote for at the last minute.

Veltroni, 52, has presented himself as the candidate for change, copying the "Yes we can" slogan of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Many Italians are gloomy as they vote for their 62nd government since World War Two.

"I wasn't going to vote at first, but my friend kept telling me I should," said Flavio Rossi, a Milan waiter.

"My father hasn't voted since 1990. Italy needs a complete makeover and none of them are capable."

He said he would wait until he arrives at the polling booth to decide how to vote.

Voting starts at 8 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Sunday and ends at 3 p.m. on Monday. A clear indication of the outcome is expected by Monday evening.

The voting system was put in place by Berlusconi's last government before he narrowly lost a 2006 election to Romano Prodi, who preceded Veltroni as the centre left's leader.

This makes it difficult for one party to win a strong majority in the Senate, the upper house, essential for a government wanting to making unpopular economic reforms.

The election winner may have to broker a deal with smaller parties he has held at arms length during the election campaign -- the communist/green Rainbow Left, the centrist Union of Christian Democrats and the hard right La Destra.

The next prime minister will want as strong a coalition as possible to avoid the fate of Prodi's government, which collapsed 20 months into a five-year term.

A "grand coalition" uniting Veltroni and Berlusconi now seems less likely than at the start of the campaign.

Italy's economy is suffering from poor domestic demand and the strong euro making exports more costly.

The economic malaise is symbolized by the failure to sell the state's controlling stake in airline Alitalia, a major issue for the new government.

The Treasury recently cut its 2008 forecast for economic growth to 0.6 from 1.5 percent.

The International Monetary Fund says it will be half the revised figure.

http://english.alalam.ir/en-NewsPage...20080413090826
 
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