The Middle Eastern powder keg, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book ‘Palestine Israel – The long deception’ explains the reasons and responsibilities for a war that has its roots in a distant past. The essential solution’, published by Mimesis, co-written by Mario Capanna and Luciano Neri. Who caused the Oslo Accords to fail? Who favored and financed the growth of Hamas up to the current tragedy? In this book Capanna and Neri report their direct experience from the West Bank, Gaza and Israel, free from the constraints of Western propaganda. A journey that began over fifty years ago, in the Seventies, which led to meetings, reports and precious testimonies from the occupied territories. By rigorously documenting the responsibilities in the failure to resolve the conflict, the authors clearly show that the only alternative to a war that seems destined to last forever is the peaceful creation of a true Palestinian state that can coexist with that of Israel.
“Beyond the contortions of chanceries and governments, world public opinion is now realizing that without the establishment of a true Palestinian state, which coexists in peace with that of Israel, there will never be peace in the Middle East – the authors write -. Every other hypothesis is based on sand. In this regard, the words of Saint Augustine are valid: ‘Hope has two beautiful children: indignation and courage. Disdain for the reality of things and the courage to change them. We all make sure that the two children grow up vigorously.”
Politician, writer and journalist, Capanna, student leader in 1968, national secretary of Proletarian Democracy until 1987, Italian parliamentarian and MEP, is an environmentalist and pacifist exponent. In the volume Capanna reports reflections, writings (ancient and recent) collected during the many trips made to Palestine, starting from the interview with the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his words: “Hope is that thing that I have not lost even for a day during my lifetime”, and again: “If we had not taken up arms, we Palestinians would have ended up like the American Indians”. The reflections on long journeys together with Nemer Hammad, PLO representative in Italy, the meeting with Abu Jihad, Arafat’s right-hand man, assassinated in 1988 by an Israeli commando, and much more. Capanna denounces the ‘one-way propaganda’ of the Italian press on the conflict.
In the second part of the book, edited by the geopolitical analyst and president of the International Relations Center, Luciano Neri, there is a chapter on the rise of Hamas ‘a predictable event, an avoidable disaster’, the reflections of the Israeli journalist and pacifist Uri Avnery, starting from his words of love for Gaza, the city today tormented by Israeli bombs. Appendix to the volume the UN resolutions violated by Israel.
