Monday,
May 05, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
Italian
Jews who were amongst Mussolini
Not
only are the Rome Jews opening themselves up to charges of "Dual
Loyalty", by openly basing their voting on their perception that the
Fascists are more Pro Israel.
Can
anyone tell me which of the current US Presidential Candidates are "Best
for
The Financial Times
By Guy Dinmore in
May 4 2008
Packs of young, thuggish
supporters of Gianni Alemanno greeted the new
mayors appearance at the Campidoglio city hall
with straight-armed Roman salutes, shouting abuse at communists and
immigrants.
Before, if you were a
fascist you had to pretend to be part of the mainstream to have respectability.
Now they are coming out of the closet, said an aide to the defeated
centre-left candidate, Francesco Rutelli.
Debate over the
significance of the
National
Michel Bokhobza, whose family fled from
Even if his past was
very close to fascism and ex-fascism, Alemanno
belongs to the coalition guided by [Silvio]
Berlusconi and [Gianfranco] Fini, he said,
referring to the People of Liberty alliance that also swept national elections
last month.
Mr Bokhobza
had always voted for centre-left candidates for
Sandro Di Castro, president of the Jewish
communitys Bene Berith
association, says the present sense of danger posed to
[The deportation
of 8,000 Eastern European Refugee Jews AFTER
Times had changed, he said,
since 1993 and the first open elections for
Fini
was then seen as a demon and neo-fascist, said Mr
Di Castro. The turning point came in 1995 when Mr
Fini became head of the new National Alliance and
started to steer it towards the mainstream. That process was completed in 2003
when, as deputy prime minister in the second Berlusconi government, Mr Fini denounced fascism as an
absolute evil in a ground-breaking visit to
Mr Alemannos
personal journey is less certain. Leftwing commentators have called the
50-year-old former agriculture minister fascist, neo-fascist and post-fascist in the 1980s he headed the sometimes violent
youth wing of the MSI in
But, campaigning on a
law-and-order platform, he was also astute in courting the Jewish vote,
promising to continue school visits to Auschwitz and to complete work on a
Holocaust museum in
Dominique Sicouri, from
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d07386e-19fd-11dd-ba02-0000779fd2ac.html
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