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In the city-square with the Lebanese youth
Arturo Diaconale
From Beirut we receive informal news that Syria will announce today
the withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon. If the news
will be confirmed, the youth demonstrating for days in the Lebanese capital
will have won their battle. But in this
case, no one should deceive himself thinking that the war for freedom,
democracy and the end of the occupation in Lebanon has ended definitively. As it was
highlighted in an appeal, of which “L’opinione della libertà” was the
promoter, the return back home of the Syrian troops is not the end of the
vicissitude. There
are the political prisoners in Lebanon who should be liberated. There are
the Lebanese deported in Syria who should be tracked and brought back home to
Lebanon as soon as possible. There are
thousands of Syrian spies who for many years nourish tensions in the country
of cedars and thus should leave it and turn to the sender. It should be
assured that the coming elections should happen without violence and in full
respect of the democratic rules which are all but not unfamiliar to the
country known to have been the Switzerland of the Middle East. The battle
is still long then. And the youth, authors of the non-violent-revolution of
the last weeks need extreme solidarity which they have never received from the
public opinion of European countries in general and from the Italian public
opinion particularly.
Let’s say things right: the great movement for peace, always ready
to spring up when it comes to reproving the USA or the West, has not lifted a
single finger and has not put in a single good word in favour of the
liberation of Lebanon. Fausto
Bertinotti can even sustain the senseless and fraudulent thesis that the
international pacifist movement is the first agent in baiting the dominion of
liberation and democratization in the Middle East, but not even his most
faithful follower can believe him. For the
simple reason that pacifists not only have ignored but also looked with
hostility at the demonstrates of Beirut. Those latter
did not burn American and Israeli flags and so they are automatically formed
by enemies.
This is also why “L’opinione della libertà” promotes the
appeal for freedom in Lebanon. Not only in
the name of peace and democracy in the Middle East. But most of
all to show that in our country there are voices that disagree with the unique
thought of the anti-occidental pacifism, which demonstrates in the squares to
demand the liberation of Giuliana Sgrena without saying one word of
condemnation towards her criminal kidnappers.
It is probable that the answer to the appeal won’t be massive. Liberals and
democrats do not like the ganging along and the liturgies dear to the Left. But, surely,
those who will sign the document and will line up with the youth of Beirut
represent the extreme majority of the Italians who know very well the
difference between freedom and oppression. And when it
comes to choose, they are not taken in by any sort of hesitation.
http://www.opinione.it/pages.php?naz=naz&key=art&edi=51&id=787
05-03-05
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