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Titolo: Pilar Rahola

Pilar Rahola
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     Why don’t we see demonstrations against Islamic dictatorships in
London, Paris, Barcelona? Or demonstrations against the Burmese
dictatorship? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the enslavement of
millions of women who live without any legal protection? Why aren’t
there demonstrations against the use of children as human bombs where
there is conflict with Islam? Why has there been no leadership in
support of the victims of Islamic dictatorship in Sudan? Why is there
never any outrage against the acts of terrorism committed against
Israel? Why is there no outcry by the European left against Islamic
fanaticism? Why don’t they defend Israel’s right to exist? Why confuse
support of the Palestinian cause with the defense of Palestinian
terrorism? An finally, the million dollar question:Why is the left in
Europe and around the world obsessed with the two most solid
democracies, the United States and Israel, and not with the worst
dictatorships on the planet? The two most solid democracies, who have
suffered the bloodiest attacks of terrorism, and the left doesn’t care.
     And then, to the concept of freedom. In every pro Palestinian
European forum I hear the left yelling with fervor: “We want freedom for
the people!” Not true. They are never concerned with freedom for the
people of Syria or Yemen or Iran or Sudan, or other such nations. And
they are never preoccupied when Hammas destroys freedom for the
Palestinians. They are only concerned with using the concept of
Palestinian freedom as a weapon against Israeli freedom. The resulting
consequence of these ideological pathologies is the manipulation of the
press.
     The international press does major damage when reporting on the
question of the Israeli-Palestinian issue. On this topic they don’t
inform, they propagandize. When reporting about Israel the majority of
journalists forget the reporter code of ethics. And so, any Israeli act
of self-defense becomes a massacre, and any confrontation, genocide. So
many stupid things have been written about Israel, that there aren’t any
accusations left to level against her. At the same time, this press
never discusses Syrian and Iranian interference in propagating violence
against Israel; the indoctrination of children and the corruption of the
Palestinians. And when reporting about victims, every Palestinian
casualty is reported as tragedy and every Israeli victim is camouflaged,
hidden or reported about with disdain.
     And let me add on the topic of the Spanish left. Many are the
examples that illustrate the anti-Americanism and anti-Israeli
sentiments that define the Spanish left. For example, one of the leftist
parties in Spain has just expelled one of its members for creating a
pro-Israel website. I quote from the expulsion document: “Our friends
are the people of Iran, Libya and Venezuela, oppressed by imperialism,
and not a Nazi state like Israel.”
     In another example, the socialist mayor of Campozuelos changed
Shoah Day, commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, with Palestinian
Nabka Day, which mourns the establishment of the State of Israel, thus
showing contempt for the six million European Jews murdered in the
Holocaust. Or in my native city of Barcelona, the city council decided
to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the creation of the State of
Israel, by having a week of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Thus, they invited Leila Khaled, a noted terrorist from the 70’s and
current leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a
terrorist organization so described by the European Union, which
promotes the use of bombs against Israel. And so on and so on.
     This politically correct way of thinking has even polluted the
speeches of president Zapatero. His foreign policy falls within the
lunatic left, and on issues of the Middle East he is unequivocally pro
Arab. I can assure you that in private, Zapatero places on Israel the
blame for the conflict in the Middle East, and the policies of foreign
minister Moratinos reflect this. The fact that Zapatero chose to wear a
kafiah in the midst of the Lebanon conflict is no coincidence; it’s a
symbol.
     Spain has suffered the worst terrorist attack in Europe and it is
in the crosshairs of every Islamic terrorist organization. As I wrote
before, they kill us will cell phones hooked to satellites connected to
the Middle Ages. An yet the Spanish left is the most anti Israeli in the
world.
     And then it says it is anti Israeli because of solidarity. This is
the madness I want to denounce in this conference.
     Conclusion:
     I am not Jewish. Ideologically I am left and by profession a
journalist. Why am I not as anti Israeli as my colleagues? Because as a
non-Jew I have the historical responsibility to fight against Jewish
hatred and currently against the hatred for their historic homeland,
Israel. To fight against anti-Semitism is not the duty of the Jews, it
is the duty of the non-Jews.
     As a journalist it is my duty to search for the truth beyond
prejudice, lies and manipulations. The truth about Israel is not told.
As a person from the left who loves progress, I am obligated to defend
liberty, culture, civic education for children, coexistence and the laws
that the Tablets of the Covenant made into universal principles.
Principles that Islamic fundamentalism systematically destroys. That is
to say that as a non-Jew, journalist and lefty I have a triple moral
duty with Israel, because if Israel is destroyed, liberty, modernity and
culture will be destroyed too.
     The struggle of Israel, even if the world doesn’t want to accept
it, is the struggle of the world.

 democracies, the United States and Israel,
democrazie che sterminano 1500 vicini ogni 2 anni (la piccola) o cifre
di un migliaio di volte maggiori (la grande). Se la democrazia si
fonda sulle cataste di cadaveri, non è democrazia, e la sinistra lo
capisce, a differenza di chi di sinistra non è