Bobo resembles – according to many observers – more and more like his father Bettino Craxi. And history should not be forgotten. On October 11, 1985…
Bobo Craxi leader of the left. The hypothesis takes shape in these dramatic days after Hamas launched the attack against Israel last Saturday. Bobo, in his historic quarrel with his sister Stefania, stated in several interviews that to stop the conflict we must “also dialogue with the Devil”, and therefore also with the Hamas terrorists. While the official position of the Democratic Party, expressed by secretary Elly Schlein, is of total condemnation of terrorists.
Bobo resembles – “even in the tone of his voice”, as we hear in various meetings at Montecitorio and Palazzo Madama – more and more like his father Bettino Craxi. And history should not be forgotten. On 11 October 1985, with Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini, pro-Israeli and Atlanticist, and Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti busy with other matters, Craxi found himself surrounded and alone, but went on the counterattack. The plane with on board four members of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) who had seized the Achille Lauro ship to request the release of around fifty of their comrades detained in Israeli prisons, landed on Italian territory in Sigonella, on the runway of the Naval Air Station.
The carabinieri, stationed in Sigonella and those coming from the nearby barracks of Catania and Syracuse, surrounded those of the American Delta Force. Craxi reaffirmed Italian sovereignty and turned against the United States. The plan orchestrated by Ronald ReaganRobert McFarlane and Oliver North (of the US National Security Council), fell apart.
According to many observers, including international ones, it was precisely from that very hard no to the USA that Craxi’s political (and not only) end began. Today Bobo Craxi, all things considered, emerges on the left as a figure who does not bend to the will of the White House and who also asks for dialogue with Hamas, while clearly condemning all forms of terrorism. A position that certainly causes discussion but which also gathers consensus in the PD, clearly aligned against Islamist terrorism but concerned about the civilian population of Gaza City (40% under 14 years old). And in fact the now certain military invasion with Israel’s army and tanks in Gaza could shake up the Democratic Party.
Lorenzo Guerini, president of Copasir and former super-Atlantic defense minister, is ready to support Israel without any ifs or buts. With him the entire minority that voted for Stefano Bonaccini in the primaries, but also Nicola Zingaretti who is very close to Israel. At that point, however, an important segment of the Dem left, faced with the inevitable civilian victims connected to Israel’s military invasion in Gaza, would rise up against Tel Aviv, causing a deep split in the party. For example the former Article 1 such as Arturo Scotto and Roberto Speranza, but also Andrea Orlando. Schlein would find himself in the middle of a deep quarrel and the split would be almost inevitable. And it is here that Bobo Craxi (who has always remained on the left compared to his sister Stefania, who chose the centre-right), with his positions today which in some way recall those of his father on the Palestinian question (although it is necessary to remember that Bettino he dialogued with Arafat’s PLO which wanted the liberation of Palestine while Hamas wants the erasure of Israel from the face of the Earth and the killing of all the Jews in the world, as the former PD deputy Emanuele Fiano well explained to Affaritaliani. it), could take control of that left-wing part of the Democratic Party to create a new political entity that distances itself from the exasperated Atlanticism of the Center-Right and many Big Dems.
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