Fiamma Nirenstein won't run for reelection, making aliya instead
Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein isn't running for reelection.
She's making aliya to Israel instead.
You mentioned bipartisan relations here, but you really didn’t like a decision in particular that Monti made …“On
one side I can express satisfaction with the bipartisan works in the
committee on Anti-Semitism and on many other issues; nonetheless I was
deeply disappointed by Monti’s indication to vote for the Palestinian
non-member observer status at the UN”.
Why do you think he made such a decision?
“In the
prospective of a better relationship with the left. He believes, like
many others, that the pro-Arab ante might pay off. I am concerned that
should a new D’Alema be appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
would once again plunge in a backward position, with a distorted view of
the issues of the Arab world and Israel”.
Any plans for the next future?
“I want to go back to Israel and take the citizenship. I have good reasons to do so. January 27thwill
be Holocaust Remembrance Day; nevertheless, widespread anti-Semitism
still persists across the world, Israel is the only really secure
homeland for the jews. Plus I also think that Israel is the only country
offering nowadays a cultivated and intelligent future, a country where
people lead a simpler and more naturallife, in solidarity, finding its
strengths in the love of the nation and a deep meaning of life”.
Welcome home Fiamma!
Labels: aliya, Fiamma Nirenstein, Italy
100 Italian MP's sign petition against government's vote for 'Palestine'
100 Italian members of parliament have signed a petition against their own government's vote in favor of 'Palestine' at the United Nations General Assembly last week. This story came to me by email from Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein (pictured above).
Statement by Hon Fiamma Nirenstein,
Vice-President of the Foreign Affairs
Committee
"To my
satisfaction, a staunch opposition against the Government’s decision to vote on
November 29th for the
unilateral recognition of a Palestinian non-member state has been translated
into political value by one hundred signatures of PDL Members of Parliament.
This open letter, whose first subscriber is Fabrizio Cicchitto, Chamber PDL
group leader, harshly criticizes both methods and contents of the government’s
choice” explains Nirenstein. “First of all, regarding the methods: the political
stance of the Parliament that the current government ought to represent has not
only been totally disregarded, but actually overturned. Secondly, the avail to
the Palestinian rejection to relate with Israel, hence to recognize it as a
Jewish State, is fully inconsistent with the Italian position which promotes the
peace process through negotiations. The government choice dismantles
negotiations, falling in line with one of the usual automatic decisions of the
United Nations, which never miss a chance to delegitimize
Israel.”
Rome,
December 7th, 2012
Hmmm.
Labels: Fiamma Nirenstein, Italy, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, United Nations General Assembly
Heh....
You can't fool all the Europeans all of the time. A group of French and Italian lawmakers opposed last week's decision to make the 'Palestinian Authority' a '
partner in democracy' for Europe. The reasons: Widespread human rights violations and a fractured 'Palestinian' government.
The objections, outlined in a two-page letter to the council, was sent in advance of the decision to make the PA the second non-European body to become a partner for democracy. Morocco’s parliament was the first legislature to become affiliated with the council.
The European lawmakers, including Fiamma Nirenstein, vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, wrote to the Council of Europe: “We are worried that this well-intentioned upgrading could result in the opposite of what we expect and hope for the future of the Palestinian Authority. The PA is very dramatically divided, from the political point of view, basically into two factions, Fatah and Hamas. In May 2011 there was a controversial pact of reconciliation and now, notwithstanding several disagreements, Mr. Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] is trying very hard to renew it and make it effective.”
The seven lawmakers continued, “But Hamas is listed among the terrorist organizations in the European Union and in the USA; it bases its work on an anti-Semitic and anti-Western charter in which it promises to destroy Israel; it keeps the soldier Gilad Schalit as a prisoner in a secret refuge while nobody, not even the Red Cross, has ever been allowed to get direct information about him; it keeps its population under a heavy Shari’a law.”
In addition to Nirenstein, the letter was signed by Italian lawmakers Rossana Boldi, Marco Zacchera, Giacomo Stucchi and Giuseppe Saro. French legislators Rudy Salles and Roland Blum also signed the letter.
In contrast to the European Parliament in Brussels, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg is a largely symbolic legislative body of 47 members and aims to develop democratic principles and advance human rights. Abbas addressed the council on Thursday, seeking its support for the Palestinian bid to become a member state at the United Nations. The council asked its members – France, Russia, Britain, Germany, Portugal, and Bosnia and Herzegovina – that have seats on the UN Security Council to support Palestinian statehood.
The seven legislators took the PA’s and Hamas’s human rights record to task in their letter.
“About citizens’ rights: According to the 2010 report of Freedom House, women ‘are subjected to restrictive personal status law, which retain discriminatory provisions related to marriage, divorce, and child custody. Domestic abuse remains a significant problem and violence against women has increased in the recent years... Discriminatory laws and tradition also affect inheritance, alimony, employment opportunities... So-called ‘honor killings,’ which typically involve the murder of women by relatives as punishment for extramarital sex, have also escalated,’” the lawmakers wrote.
“As far as Hamas is concerned, the Islamist organization has incorporated in Gaza the hudud, a seventh- century unified penal code that features punishments as amputations, whipping, stoning.”
The Council of Europe did not respond to the letter.
Labels: Council of Europe, Fiamma Nirenstein, Palestinian Authority
Over 150 Italian parliamentarians sign letter opposing 'Palestinian' unilateralism
Led by Fiamma Nirenstein, over 150 Italian MP's have signed on to a petition
opposing planned 'Palestinian' unilateralism at the UN in September.
The same letter has been presented in several States worldwide by the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, chaired by Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein.
The document, launched in Italy by the board of the Italy-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Association – MPs Enrico Pianetta (Pdl), Fiamma Nirenstein (Pdl), Gianni Vernetti (Api) and Rossana Boldi (Lega Nord) – calls for a rapid resumption of negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships, aimed at reaching a peace based on mutual agreement. “Unilateralism”, the document asserts, “violates international legality and harms the value of treaties among people”. The preamble of the UN Charter itself states that the UN is determined “to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties (… ) can be maintained”.
The 150 MPs letter explains how unilateralism undermine all accepted international frameworks for peace such as UN Security Council resolutions 242, 338, and 1850; the Roadmap for Peace; and various Quartet statements and in fact it obliterates all the pre-existent agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. Moreover, if a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State were to take place at the upcoming General Assembly, it will effectively constitute a recognition of Hamas, a terrorist organization outlawed in the European Union, the US and Canada and nowadays part of the Palestinian executive.
The collection of signatures is being updated daily and they will be delivered to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, before the opening of the next General Assembly session.
Read the whole thing.
I am skeptical whether any of these petitions will have any effect, but it cannot hurt to try. The decision whether or not to recognize a 'Palestinian state' is being made at the highest executive levels of government (where most foreign policy decisions are made). Legislators have little voice in the process.
Labels: Fiamma Nirenstein, Italian parliament, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, unilateral declaration of statehood
Being an enemy of the Jews did not save him from the Muslims
Fiamma Nirenstein weighs in on
Vittorio Arrigoni.
To understand the death of this Italian activist, one important fact must be grasped: his death was triggered by the spurious way he mixed his humanitarian ideals with the cause of fundamentalist Gaza, by the fact that he mixed his life with that of his potential enemies, that he thought about as his best friends. But fundamentalists do not have stable affinities. Only their interpretation of Quran counts. Hamas Gaza, where Arrigoni has been killed, is for us a land ruled by awful and distant laws. Arrigoni loved the Palestinians, but he remained a total foreigner for them. It is for us unconcivable, even if you are a militant like Arrigoni, to live alongside those who fire missiles on civilians, wear belts packed with explosives and hand out sweets when an Israeli family is killed in Itamar, including a three months baby, a four years old child and another of nine.
This is a crucial issue: when you go to Gaza, or Afghanistan, you have to realise that our conception of life, is complitely different from any Islamic political conception of life. You can die because you are Jewish, because you are Italian, or Christian, because you are an apostate, or a corrupt Westerner... the extremist mentality, make no bones about it, cancels out friends and allies. No matter how much you have worked against the «Zionist power» or that you have called Zionists «rats» (and Arrigoni did this), nothing is of any worth if you break their rule, a rule which will remain unclear until the knife blade comes. Arrigoni was fan of political Islamism because he was an enemy of the Jews, but this did not save him from a cruel execution in front of the camera, just as the one of many others friends or enemies of Hamas or the Islamic Jihad, never mind.
So it is intellectually sad and even dangerous that a demonstration in front of the Italian Parliament blamed Israel and Italy for Arrigoni’s death; or that the ISM, the pro-Palestinian NGO Arrigoni belonged to, attributed «moral responsibility to the State of Israel». These reactions seem to be triggered only by ideological hatred. But what is more striking still, with sincerest respect for the figure of the President of Republic, was the statement of condolences which Giorgio Napolitano rightly delivered; instead of laying the blame on Islamic fundamentalism, he asked that «a negotiated solution be found to the conflict which sees bloodshed in the region». With the same coherence, he could have invoked any good cause: the fight against world hunger, or child prostitution. Yet instead, Israel is being summoned to face some mysterious responsibility. But the fault is only of Islamic fundamentalism; what is the point of dragging the pained witness and victim of Hamas terrorism into the question?
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Fiamma Nirenstein, Gaza, Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni
