Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani told local media Saturday that his country had halted all arms shipments to Israel since Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...’s brutal October 7 onslaught.
The minister’s comments, made in an interview with Italian newspapers Nazione, Giorno, and Resto del Carlino, were a response to a demand by opposition leader Elly Schlein that the Italian government stop weapons exports to the Middle East. Tajani accused her of being "misinformed."
"Since October 7, we have decided not to send any more arms to Israel, so there is no need to discuss this point," said Tajani, according to a report from Italian news agency ANSA.
Speaking at a Friday meeting of the center-left Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase
white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
, which she heads, Schlein said that "we must face the issue of avoiding fueling these conflicts, of avoiding sending arms and exporting arms to conflicts, to the conflict in the Middle East, in this case particularly to Israel," according to ANSA.
"We cannot risk weapons being used to commit what could be construed as war crimes," added the opposition politician.
According to Israeli news site Walla, some five percent of Israeli arms purchases over the past decade have come from Italia, which include helicopters and naval artillery.
Oh. So the stoppage is more in the way of an annoyance than an existential crisis.
In separate news, Tajani said in an interview with Italian radio Friday that his country would be willing to send troops to a peacekeeping mission in Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, ANSA reported.
That’s nice.
On Sunday, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated refusal to accept a two-state formula for peace, Tajani told news hounds that President Isaac Herzog is nonetheless open to such a solution, according to a report in Italian daily Il Tempo.But the president of Israel is a ceremonial post without power, like an elected constitutional monarch. His agreement or disagreement matters not in the least.
Tajani, a former air force officer ...he was an air defense controller on a radar base in the middle of Italy...
who has led the conservative Forza Italia party since the death of its chairman Silvio Berlusconi in July, made an early solidarity visit to Israel at the start of the war on Hamas, and in November reaffirmed with other G7 nations his belief in Israel’s right to defend itself, within the bounds of international law, against Hamas aggression.By December, the Italian foreign minister struck a more critical tone, condemning Israel for shooting inside a Gaza church.
Wasn’t that shown to actually have been the work of Hamas?
In January, as president of the G7, Tajani explored with other foreign ministers in the group the possibility of applying pressure on Israel to bring the war to a "rapid" end.Hamas has promised to repeat the October 7th massacre over and over until the Jews are all gone. Forcing a premature end to the Israeli response will just bring the next kidnap-and-massacre attack that much closer.
On the subject of South Africa’s ongoing claim at the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing "genocide" against Gazooks, Tajani has said that although Israel has hit civilians in Gaza, it is not committing genocide.Good to hear.
Berlusconi, the erstwhile leader of Tajani’s party, and a colorful, scandal-ridden, media mogul who served as Italia’s prime minister for a cumulative nine years, was known to be a strong supporter of Israel, even raising the possibility that the Jewish state join the European Union...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. It was under Berlusconi that Italia sold 30 jet trainers to Israel, in a billion-dollar deal. Though critical of Israel’s West Bank settlements, Berlusconi at one time stated that the West should support Israel in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.