J’accuse the United Kingdom of recognizing the Palestinian state on July 30, 2025, or the straw that breaks the backs of former Nazi-Fascist dictatorships.

Charlie Chaplin

Moscow's inclusion of our President Mattarella on the Russophobe blacklist is certainly not surprising, nor is it new, given the series of statements he has made regarding the war in Ukraine, which have been openly viewed by Moscow as hostile and undiplomatic. Let's recall one: the speech he gave at the University of Marseille on February 5. In particular, the sentence in which the Italian head of state drew a parallel between the wars of conquest of the German Third Reich and the Russian attack on Ukraine. In short, with all due respect to our head of state, I would say that the two comparisons, or rather the two contexts, are completely incomparable and distinct. Now, why I cited this example of the failure of our current foreign policy is because we find ourselves on the margins of history and it seems our current politicians are no longer capable of shaping its course, limiting themselves to endorsing policies that not only go against our very history, culture, and democratic constitution, but are even now viewed by the vast majority of Italians, Europeans, and I would include the entire international community as absurd, barbaric, and intolerable. I am referring to the statement made yesterday by British Prime Minister Starmer: "The United Kingdom will recognize the Palestinian state in September if Israel does not cease fire in Gaza and propose a serious plan for the recognition of Palestine." Good! The two states that refuse to recognize the Palestinian state in Europe are: Italy and Germany. The question that naturally arises: why are former Nazis and fascists going against the grain and even denying the existence of a state that existed before their own constitution? Is it a debt they feel after the racial laws and the genocide inflicted on the Jews in the Second World War, or is it an attitude rooted in the indelible totalitarian imprint that marks their fragile and recent democratic identities? It's clear that this is a dualism between democratic and totalitarian forces, and I would say without hesitation, between the affirmation of law and barbarism. Neither Berlin nor Rome understand that the train of history is headed straight for the affirmation of the denied and erased rights of the Palestinians, and that their very persecution of militants and their own citizens who dissent from their policies is an own goal against their own nations and their own national histories. After receiving redemption and salvation from democratic forces and nations, they now shamelessly deny this to others, establishing themselves as the second and third state suppliers of weapons to Netanyahu's executioners. And it's true to say that every nation, if it doesn't rebel against its tyrants, if it doesn't express its dissent, if it doesn't see itself reflected in the tragedies and splendor of others, is a nation on the margins of history. And the scenario we see is a faithful mirror of the moral and political decline we are experiencing today.