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Monday, February 1, 2010
Mussolini iPhone App is Best-Seller in Italy

Fascism and Mussolini would NOT have been possible with out the Early and Disproportionately HIGH Participation and Leadership of members of the Jewish Community,  This continued for 16 years until the Loyalty Oaths in 1938, when Jews in Italy, especially in delicate positions in the government were required to sign Loyalty Oaths to Italy, so that their decisions would not be to the advantage of Zionists, and to the disadvantage of Italy. Yet most Jews continued to be loyal to Mussolini, and he protected the Italian Jews, and Non Italian Refugees despite extreme heavy demands from Hitler. 

Either these Jewish Groups protesting this App do not know the facts, or choose to ignore them in order to further another Agenda.  It is shocking that Jewish groups would be protesting against Free Speech. What Next Burning Books? Oops they already did that. Mein Kampf is Banned in Germany as a result of Jewish Demands. Sounds awfully fascist dictator-esque to me.


Mussolini iPhone App is Best-Seller in Italy
From London Times Online,  Richard Owen in Rome; January 31, 2010 

Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors have protested to Apple over Italy's current best-selling iPhone application: a collection of the speeches of Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator. 
Demand for "iMussolini", subtitled "The man who changed the history of our country", has risen to the point where it is being downloaded 1,000 times a day according to Luigi Marino, 25, its creator. 
It is more popular than a video game based on the film Avatar and an X-ray machine app which "allows you to see your friends naked". 
The app, which costs 79 Euro cents, contains audio, video and text of 100 speeches dating to 1914. Mr Marino said today that it had been downloaded 6,000 times since it was launched earlier this month,.... 
Mussolini, who came to power in 1922, introduced [ Pro Italy/Anti Zionist Loyalty] laws in 1938 and allied himself with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.[After, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Britain rejected Mussolini proposal for an alliance !!!!] 
Alessandra Mussolini, the dictator's granddaughter, who is a far-right politician, said: "Whether you like it or not, my grandfather's speeches are part of history." 
Leone Soued, head of the Jewish community in Milan, said: "One can hope it will not be a success, but I can understand why the man in the street might download it." Apple was "a serious multinational which deserves respect for its innovations", he added. 
However, Tullia Zevi, former head of the Jewish community in Rome, said the app was part of the "the slide towards legitimising fascism and the rehabilitation of Mussolini". 
Armando Cossutta, deputy head of the Italian Association of Partisans, said it was "an unacceptable attempt to exalt a filthy past". 
In the US Elan Steinberg, vice-president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said: "It is a disgrace and a surrender to crass commercialism that the Apple computing company has approved the release of this 'app' through their online iTunes store." 
He added: "We are protesting to them, as their tight regulation and control of release of such apps makes them responsible. This is an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism, Jew and non-Jew, and should be condemned for its offence to decency and conscience." 
Mr Marino, from Naples, said Mussolini's speeches were freely available in libraries. He said he was not an apologist for Fascism "and I express total solidarity with its victims". He asked people who downloaded the app not to post comments in praise of Fascism. iPhone Italy said the application was "not a political item but one of history". 
Italian historians have published revisionist views of the Mussolini era in recent years, and a growing nostalgia for the Fascist period is reflected in sales of calendars, T-shirts, mugs and other souvenirs bearing Mussolini's name and image, not least in Predappio, the town in Emilia-Romagna where the dictator is buried. 

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
news/tech_and_web/article7010252.ece
 
 

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