Forty thousand, forty-two thousand, fifty thousand: there is always some “expert” willing to raise the bar for civilian deaths in <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/us-wing-movement-allegedly-provides-arms-to-hamas-page-all/" title="US Wing Movement Allegedly Provides Arms to Hamas Page all”>Gaza. For the Hamas health authorities they are obviously all civilians, except for a few fighters martyred by the “Zionist Entity”. For their part, the UN organizations (UNRWA and OCHA) present in the Strip speak of over forty thousand victims, “mostly civilians”. A modest aside, which however disappears in the anti-Israeli papers of many newspapers and in television debates that exude disdain for the slaughter of women and children. The Israeli Ministry of Defense, however, estimates that around fifteen thousand members of the al-Qassam brigade lost their lives in the bombings and clashes with the IDF.
I’ll get to the point. The Palestinian civilians killed, to whom Yahya Sinwar has always denied shelter in the kilometer-long tunnels built with humanitarian aid money, are however many thousands. There are too many. In fact, even one is too many. Why, then, is their number swelling? The reason is obvious: to traumatize public opinion, fuel the campaign of hatred towards the Jewish state and accredit the thesis of ethnic cleansing or even genocide, i.e. the lies shouted at the top of one’s lungs in the anti-Semitic demonstrations of “from the river to the sea” ».
Today in Italy, unfortunately, there is an abundance of card-slayers who play dirty on the conflict in the Middle East, regardless of Gaetano Salvemini’s incomparable warning: «We cannot be impartial. We can only be intellectually honest, that is, realize our passions, guard against them, and warn our readers against the dangers of our partiality. Impartiality is a dream, probity a duty” (Preface to “Diplomatic Mussolini”, 1932).
