Today is a historic day for Greece as it is the beginning of the epic of the 1940s.
Little Greece then managed to fend off at first and then defeat the invading Italians.
Those who wanted us to hand over our lands to Mussolini’s fascists.
Greece fought for its freedom.
And in order to reach victory, she united all her forces.
Or almost all of them since the Metaxas dictatorship did not allow the leftist prisoners in the prisons and the officers on the xeronesia to go to the front.
Nevertheless, it is a peak moment in the modern history of Hellenism.
Every year the same…
For another year, on the occasion of today’s anniversary, we will bring back the theme of the central celebration.
Which is done brilliantly in Thessaloniki.
A city that has nothing to do with the battles of the first days of the 1940s.
Instead it celebrates its liberation from the Turks in 1912.
This is another historical event, very important but unrelated to the epic of the Greek-Italian war.
So… If we really want to celebrate NO then the central events should be held in Kalpaki. End of story.
She is… a co-owner
But Thessaloniki is our co-capital.
Now what does co-capital mean, don’t look for it.
It is another invention of politics to keep balances.
Let’s also give the bride of Thermaikos a title just so she can have it.
On to our topic now.
I really wonder about our politicians…
So many years have passed since the relevant request was made by the local bodies, (to hold the central events for the anniversary of NO) and they are still not able to realize the law!!!
Just don’t get into the process of breaking eggs.
Why do they have to break eggs to change the place of the celebration…
And a clarification
However, given the opportunity to write something so that we can learn.
It has become established to call it the battle of Kalpakios.
This is incorrect.
It is the battle of Elia – Kalama.
I say this because in 1940 the largest and main settlement was Elaia.
Kalpaki – which means fez, hat – was a small district consisting mainly of huts of the Sarakatsans of Zagori and was located at the exit of the current settlement towards Konitsa.
That’s it for the story.
To today
Since we are talking about war days, let’s go to today.
Let’s go to the Middle East.
Where hundreds of civilians are trapped in a narrow strip of land, smaller than Epirus and are killed every day.
Among them hundreds of small children.
Innocent souls.
And it’s not the first time something like this has happened with the West tolerating it.
Obviously we condemn it
Obviously, I unhesitatingly condemn the criminal act of the terrorist organization Hamas.
But that’s enough.
Until there.
None of the hundreds of children are responsible for the acts of the terrorist organization to die from the bombings of the Israeli military machine.
None of the hundreds of women are responsible for the acts of the terrorist organization to die from the bombings of the Israeli military machine.
Apparently it isn’t
Obviously, the death of more than 8,000 women and children, so far, cannot be considered a collateral loss of the war that Israel is waging in the name of the right of self-defense.
Obviously, the state of Israel has the right to self-defense, but not by killing civilians.
For everything somewhere there is a limit.
Here, too, the limits have been exceeded.
For three million people to be cut off from water, electricity, and medicine for days now is going too far.
Gaza today looks like a huge detention camp.
In which dozens of innocent creatures die every day.
The clash of two justices
Once again Israel is over-punishing some of its own losses.
And that reminds me of something.
I would agree with the sentence formulated by Petros Efthymiou.
That in the Middle East there is a conflict between two states that are both right.
And Israel is right not to fear attacks against it by terrorist organizations every time.
And the Palestinians are right to finally demand a state of their own.
And to this day no one listens to them and few support them.
We know why it happens
And of course the whole world knows why this unequal treatment occurs.
Because the Palestinians are an economically impossible nation, a nation that has been rendered non-existent.
On the other hand Israel with thousands of “colonies” throughout its land is an economically strong state. With people who control a large part of the international economy.
For this reason, therefore, where it started with its establishment to have a certain area of land, today it has become much larger. Mainly at the expense of the Palestinians.
This is unfair, but no one is talking about it…
They are preparing tomorrow’s terrorists
Even if today Israel succeeds in wiping out Hamas from the face of the earth, as it says, it will not solve its problem.
All these children who today experience the lack of mercy from the leaders of Israel, will be tomorrow’s adversaries.
They will become tomorrow’s terrorists as they call them.
With the logic of revenge, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we simply recycle a tragic situation like today.
Finally, let’s find the right and sustainable solution that everyone already knows is but no one dares to propose and implement it.
