A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #208 - CHECKMATE (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has been intercepted and boarded for the 
second time by Israeli pirates, who are threatening free navigation in 
the Mediterranean. They looted and destroyed the vessel, kidnapping and 
torturing the sailors, who boarded the ship driven by humanitarian 
reasons to bring aid to a suffering and war-torn population, providing 
them with medical care and food aid. The pirates used weapons, shot, 
handcuffed, imprisoned, and tortured the sailors, even though they had 
surrendered. They taunted them and used forms of coercion, involving 
physical abuse and the violation of their human dignity. Meanwhile, the 
political authorities of the countries of origin limited themselves to 
formal protests, when governments should at least have the courage to 
sever economic and financial relations with the criminal aggressor and 
thus their financial support for the Israeli state pirates, thus 
demonstrating their distance. One might think that the consciences of 
the German and Italian governments, in particular, are too guilty to 
even offer a single criticism, but the reality is sadder and more 
dramatic, as German and Italian industries are tied to Israel through 
the design, construction, and development of weapons and security 
devices that are placed on the market and made available to Israel to 
pursue its criminal policies.
This de facto coexistence translates into a significant limitation of 
their sovereignty, because it asserts Israeli jurisdiction over the 
entire Mediterranean and lays the foundation for Israeli claims to the 
gas fields off the coast of Gaza. Therefore, if only to defend their 
economic interests, all Mediterranean-bordering governments should have 
an interest in limiting the interventions of the new pirates.
If government inaction is to blame, it's not our consciences, and not 
because of a form of anti-Semitismalso because the indigenous 
Palestinian populations are also Semiticbut because we make a clear 
distinction between Judaism and Zionism, identifying Zionism as a 
supremacist political movement, both juridical and religious, supporting 
a project of ethnic colonization that must be politically defeated and 
rendered incapable of doing harm.
For us, apartheid remains unacceptable, no matter how it is practiced. 
It must be fought in the name of the equal dignity of all peoples, even 
when it is cloaked in religious motivations. Indeed, in this case, it is 
even more odious, because it appropriates the name of God to raise it on 
the banners of an army and call for war.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/05/23/scacco-matto/
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