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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this second installment of a two-part series, we look at how the Biden administration's actions are influenced by history, internal politics, and US Middle East policy. In the first section, we look at Biden's relationships, both personal and professional, to Israel and how his stance on the Gaza War<\/a> may impact his electoral prospects. About US-Israeli relations, Jarrar remarked, \"It is very deeply entrenched.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Power Of Lobbying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this second installment of a two-part series, we look at how the Biden administration's actions are influenced by history, internal politics, and US Middle East policy. In the first section, we look at Biden's relationships, both personal and professional, to Israel and how his stance on the Gaza War<\/a> may impact his electoral prospects. About US-Israeli relations, Jarrar remarked, \"It is very deeply entrenched.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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UN experts have warned that there might be hunger and genocide<\/a> in Gaza, where more than 26,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. More than a dozen specialists, human rights activists, and former US government officials discuss the many reasons behind Biden's current behavior and his \"unwavering\" support of Israel<\/a>. The topic of \"why does Israel continue to enjoy exceptionalism in US foreign policy\" is one that I don't think has a simple response. stated Raed Jarrar, the head of advocacy<\/a> for the Washington, DC-based think group Democracy<\/a> for the Arab World Now (DAWN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power Of Lobbying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this second installment of a two-part series, we look at how the Biden administration's actions are influenced by history, internal politics, and US Middle East policy. In the first section, we look at Biden's relationships, both personal and professional, to Israel and how his stance on the Gaza War<\/a> may impact his electoral prospects. About US-Israeli relations, Jarrar remarked, \"It is very deeply entrenched.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both Democratic and Republican administrations have left the two nations with close connections throughout the years, and the US provides Israel with at least $3.8 billion<\/a> in military aid annually. But as the Biden administration pushes for more arms sales and funding to Israel, despite grave human rights<\/a> concerns about its military operation, resentment over US foreign policy<\/a> has peaked throughout the Gaza war.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN experts have warned that there might be hunger and genocide<\/a> in Gaza, where more than 26,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. More than a dozen specialists, human rights activists, and former US government officials discuss the many reasons behind Biden's current behavior and his \"unwavering\" support of Israel<\/a>. The topic of \"why does Israel continue to enjoy exceptionalism in US foreign policy\" is one that I don't think has a simple response. stated Raed Jarrar, the head of advocacy<\/a> for the Washington, DC-based think group Democracy<\/a> for the Arab World Now (DAWN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power Of Lobbying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this second installment of a two-part series, we look at how the Biden administration's actions are influenced by history, internal politics, and US Middle East policy. In the first section, we look at Biden's relationships, both personal and professional, to Israel and how his stance on the Gaza War<\/a> may impact his electoral prospects. About US-Israeli relations, Jarrar remarked, \"It is very deeply entrenched.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Defining Strategic Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Both Democratic and Republican administrations have left the two nations with close connections throughout the years, and the US provides Israel with at least $3.8 billion<\/a> in military aid annually. But as the Biden administration pushes for more arms sales and funding to Israel, despite grave human rights<\/a> concerns about its military operation, resentment over US foreign policy<\/a> has peaked throughout the Gaza war.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN experts have warned that there might be hunger and genocide<\/a> in Gaza, where more than 26,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. More than a dozen specialists, human rights activists, and former US government officials discuss the many reasons behind Biden's current behavior and his \"unwavering\" support of Israel<\/a>. The topic of \"why does Israel continue to enjoy exceptionalism in US foreign policy\" is one that I don't think has a simple response. stated Raed Jarrar, the head of advocacy<\/a> for the Washington, DC-based think group Democracy<\/a> for the Arab World Now (DAWN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power Of Lobbying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this second installment of a two-part series, we look at how the Biden administration's actions are influenced by history, internal politics, and US Middle East policy. In the first section, we look at Biden's relationships, both personal and professional, to Israel and how his stance on the Gaza War<\/a> may impact his electoral prospects. About US-Israeli relations, Jarrar remarked, \"It is very deeply entrenched.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On October 25, he declared, \"I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed.\" The conversation was only one of several instances since the start of the conflict<\/a> on October 7 that, according to analysts, demonstrated an unprecedented degree of US military and diplomatic backing for Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defining Strategic Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Both Democratic and Republican administrations have left the two nations with close connections throughout the years, and the US provides Israel with at least $3.8 billion<\/a> in military aid annually. But as the Biden administration pushes for more arms sales and funding to Israel, despite grave human rights<\/a> concerns about its military operation, resentment over US foreign policy<\/a> has peaked throughout the Gaza war.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN experts have warned that there might be hunger and genocide<\/a> in Gaza, where more than 26,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. More than a dozen specialists, human rights activists, and former US government officials discuss the many reasons behind Biden's current behavior and his \"unwavering\" support of Israel<\/a>. The topic of \"why does Israel continue to enjoy exceptionalism in US foreign policy\" is one that I don't think has a simple response. stated Raed Jarrar, the head of advocacy<\/a> for the Washington, DC-based think group Democracy<\/a> for the Arab World Now (DAWN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power Of Lobbying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this second installment of a two-part series, we look at how the Biden administration's actions are influenced by history, internal politics, and US Middle East policy. In the first section, we look at Biden's relationships, both personal and professional, to Israel and how his stance on the Gaza War<\/a> may impact his electoral prospects. About US-Israeli relations, Jarrar remarked, \"It is very deeply entrenched.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Ukrainian Holodomor between myth and reality","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ukrainian-holodomor-between-myth-and-reality","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6811","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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When questioned about civilian deaths in Gaza's conflict-torn region , US President Joe Biden<\/a> responded in this manner. Israel's bombing of the besieged enclave had already claimed thousands of Palestinian lives, and UN representatives were calling for a quick ceasefire<\/a> in the face of a worsening humanitarian disaster. But rather than urging Israel to exercise greater restraint, Biden, a staunch ally of Israel cast doubt on the number of deaths in Gaza<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 25, he declared, \"I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed.\" The conversation was only one of several instances since the start of the conflict<\/a> on October 7 that, according to analysts, demonstrated an unprecedented degree of US military and diplomatic backing for Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defining Strategic Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Both Democratic and Republican administrations have left the two nations with close connections throughout the years, and the US provides Israel with at least $3.8 billion<\/a> in military aid annually. But as the Biden administration pushes for more arms sales and funding to Israel, despite grave human rights<\/a> concerns about its military operation, resentment over US foreign policy<\/a> has peaked throughout the Gaza war.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN experts have warned that there might be hunger and genocide<\/a> in Gaza, where more than 26,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. More than a dozen specialists, human rights activists, and former US government officials discuss the many reasons behind Biden's current behavior and his \"unwavering\" support of Israel<\/a>. The topic of \"why does Israel continue to enjoy exceptionalism in US foreign policy\" is one that I don't think has a simple response. stated Raed Jarrar, the head of advocacy<\/a> for the Washington, DC-based think group Democracy<\/a> for the Arab World Now (DAWN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power Of Lobbying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this second installment of a two-part series, we look at how the Biden administration's actions are influenced by history, internal politics, and US Middle East policy. In the first section, we look at Biden's relationships, both personal and professional, to Israel and how his stance on the Gaza War<\/a> may impact his electoral prospects. About US-Israeli relations, Jarrar remarked, \"It is very deeply entrenched.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He claimed that despite the carnage in Gaza, Israel has essentially created \"a very well-oiled machine\" that can endure pressure from both the inside and the outside. Over the course of its decades-long relationship with the United States<\/a>, Israel has received several accolades. It has been referred to as a \"miracle,\" a \"unbreakable\" companion, and a \"ironclad\" comrade. It continues to be the \u201cprimary worldwide beneficiary\u201d of US military aid abroad, as stated by Biden\u2019s State Department. Israel has benefited from \"some of the most advanced military equipment in the world\" and a 2008 legislation requires the US to preserve its \"qualitative military edge.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Experts like Harvard University professor of international affairs Stephen Walt say that puts Israel<\/a> in a class by itself. Walt said , \"There's nothing like the US relationship with Israel.\" The unique connection between the United States and Great Britain<\/a> is a topic of conversation. Even tighter than that is the US-Israeli alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that \"the United States has provided such consistent and generous support - and nearly unconditionally - to a state of eight, nine million people\" is \"no comparable case anywhere in American foreign policy,\" Walt said. Walt clarified that historically, the US's strong connections with Israel have been supported by two key ideas. First, in a turbulent region<\/a> of the world, Israel serves as a \"strategic asset.\" The second claim is that Israel \"shares the same values as the US because it is a heroic democracy and the only democracy in the Middle East<\/a>.\" But both of those stories have been called into doubt by critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents have long maintained that Israel is not a true democracy because of laws and policies that discriminate against Palestinian and Jewish residents of the country. Prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International have said that Israel upholds an apartheid-like system of control intended \"to oppress and dominate Palestinians<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, experts and researchers, such as University of Southern California lecturer Fayez Hammad, have also questioned Israel's worth as a \"strategic\" US ally in the Middle East. According to Hammad, he finds it difficult to see how the US can benefit from its ongoing backing of Israel, especially as public anger over its bloody assault in Gaza grows. Since the start of the Gaza conflict, thousands of demonstrators have gone to the streets around the Middle East, with some holding their demonstrations in front of US embassies. Recently, Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a> have fired missiles at US ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, supposedly in support of Gazans, while US soldiers have been attacked in both Syria<\/a> and Iraq.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Navigating Global Influence: Strategic Interests And Lobby Power Intersection","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"navigating-global-influence-strategic-interests-and-lobby-power-intersection","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6851","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6847,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-29 17:14:01","post_content":"\n

Senior officials at Australia's national broadcaster angrily contested the allegations and denied that they had ever dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf, providing evidence that pro-Israel campaigners were using two WhatsApp groups to exert pressure on ABC management to terminate her. After just three days on a short-term contract to work on a lifestyle radio program over the Christmas season, Lattouf, an Australian-Lebanese woman, said that she had been fired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying Dynamics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby, which seeks to maintain US financial and military backing for the Jewish state, is a powerful factor in US foreign policy. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the country's officially acknowledged capital, to Jerusalem, a move long supported by those in the pro-Israel lobby, represents the lobby's most recent legislative win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lattouf claimed she was informed she was doing a \"great\" job at an all-staff meeting, but it was less than an hour later when three supervisors dragged her into a room and told her she was out of a job and needed to leave the premises right away.It discovered through a series of WhatsApp communications that a group named Lawyers for Israel had advocated for Lattouf's dismissal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist was fired shortly after releasing a Human Rights Watch report on social media that claimed Israel was waging war in Gaza by starving its citizens to death. Lattouf argued that her termination was illegal, claiming that it was due to \"political opinion or a reason that included political opinion.\" Josh Bornstein, one of her attorneys, asserted that the dismissal was \"based on both political opinion and race.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Independence and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a result of their opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, a number of journalists have been suspended or fired worldwide since October 7, when Hamas and Israel started to escalate their hostilities. Without offering a remark, Lattouf reposted the tweet and informed the management that ABC had indeed covered the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster first claimed that she had been let go for going against the company's social media rules. Messages from a Lawyers for Israel WhatsApp group, however, were compromised and exposed. According to reports, the pro-Israel attorneys plotted a plan in the messages to bombard ABC with complaints over Maattouf. While acknowledging that there were no valid reasons to fire the journalist, one attorney threatened to file a lawsuit if the journalist was not fired. Attack advertisements and primary opposition support are being aired by the pro-Israel lobby in the US in an effort to confront members of Congress who do not support or vote in favor of Israel's war on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating Controversial Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"The ABC assigned Antoinette Lattouff (sic) an advocacy 'journalist' (with an active anti-Israel social media presence despite ABC policies to the contrary) to host the ABC morning show in Sydney,\" says one of the comments, which comes from someone going by the name \"MG.\" \"To put it briefly, we pay the bills and the ABC does as it pleases!\" \"Something needs to be done,\" MG said in a different message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WhatsApp message from someone going under the name of Esther says, \"I just got an email from Ita Buttrose in response to my letter.\" The report continues, stating that Lattouf \"no longer works at the ABC,\" as Buttrose informed Estther. More than a hundred members of the ABC union chastised David Anderson, the organization's managing director, while global affairs editor John Lyons expressed his embarrassment at his job, accusing it of being pro-Israel and neglecting to defend its employees against grievances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC issued a guideline prohibiting the use of the phrase \"genocide\" to characterize Israel's assault in Gaza, even when referencing someone. The ABC frequently receives and addresses complaints from people or organizations, so it is simply incorrect to assume that the managing director, in capacity as editor-in-chief, or it would be swayed by lobbying pressure of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Controversy surrounds WhatsApp's ties to Israel and Jan Koum's philanthropy. Questions about the platform's impartiality and ethical stance arise from its alignment with pro-Israel entities, evident through donations and the promotion of biased content. Christians United for Israel, boasting over seven million members, stands as the largest pro-Israel lobbying group. Meanwhile, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), representing a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish organizations, holds significant influence in the lobbying sphere.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Corridor Controversy: Pro-Israel WhatsApp Groups And ABC Journalist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"digital-corridor-controversy-pro-israel-whatsapp-groups-and-abc-journalist","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6847","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6844,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-27 17:19:21","post_content":"\n

The US is supporting Israel's offensive in Gaza. Now in its fourth month, the conflict runs the risk of becoming a regional conflict. There is unrest in Iraq, the Houthis are targeting ships that are approaching Israel, and there is a growing likelihood that Hezbollah and Israel will engage in a major conflict. Stability in the area depends on a ceasefire. The disparity between popular sentiment and US Middle East strategy and national interest is particularly evident in the case of the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Lobbying in US Foreign Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US is the only power capable of forcing Israel to declare a ceasefire. Sixty-eight percent of Americans want a truce. Nevertheless, the US keeps writing Israel a blank check. Despite popular support for a ceasefire, the US continues to back Israel. Furthermore, the US has no interest in becoming involved in a regional conflict, even if it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that US policy in the Middle East is more about defending Israel than it is about considering the preferences of the American people or the interests of the nation. The United States of America will defend its interests in space, but it now cedes its sovereignty to a foreign politician who is being investigated. A collection of groups known as the pro-Israel lobby seeks to advance US Middle East policies that benefits Israel. AIPAC, or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is perhaps its most significant component. Because its supporters and members are US residents, it is governed by domestic group lobbying rules. AIPAC is permitted to contribute to political campaigns, just like any other domestic lobby group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disproportionate Influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After militants from the radical Palestinian organization Hamas unexpectedly entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing people in border communities and kidnapping over 240<\/a> others, including women, children, and the elderly, hostage, tensions in the Middle East flared up once more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City was the target of Israeli authorities' harsh activities, which prompted Hamas to launch its attack. Israel began attacking targets in the Gaza Strip, as well as certain regions in Lebanon and Syria, after declaring an end to all communication with the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also clashes happening on the West Bank. It's time for the US to amend its legal system to stop a select few from dictating what is best for the country. Domestic policy should be the exclusive focus of domestic lobbying organizations. They must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they wish to lobby on foreign policy. Foreign policy lobbying will become more balanced and in line with the actual interests of the nation once the financial component is eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency and Accountability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pro-Israel lobby is the driving force behind US support for Israel. Despite the perception that the lobby is a cabal or some sort of conspiracy, US law regards it as a completely legal business. The US Constitution's First Amendment grants citizens the right to \"petition the government for a redress of grievances.\" It was as a result that lobbying began. After a politician is elected, their campaign pledges may become laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this appears to be a manifestation of democracy. This arrangement gives some organizations the ability to shape the foreign policy of the whole country. The situation of the pro-Israel lobby and its impact on US policy toward the Middle East is the most egregious example. Foreign nations are required to register their agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act if they engage a lobbyist or public relations professional to further their interests in the US. This regulation was implemented to restrict foreign governments' capacity to sway US policy. However, because they are seen as American citizens with the right to participate in the nation's governance, domestic organizations have a great deal of flexibility to organize and push for a particular foreign policy outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel will lose in Gaza once more if there's no clear goal in sight. It may be able to vanquish Hamas, but it cannot destroy it. Israel will destroy Gaza militarily, but what does it mean for the rest of the situation? This is the outcome of Israel's six wars in Gaza as well as its conflicts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans have the ability to band together and form pressure groups, which they may use to lobby the government and advance their preferred policies. This is how organizations may participate in the nation's decision-making process as part of the democratic process. Election campaigns are further financed by lobby or pressure groups.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Gaza War Sparks Call For US Lobbying Overhaul","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gaza-war-sparks-call-for-us-lobbying-overhaul","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6844","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6838,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:37:07","post_content":"\n

The battle broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an air, sea, and land attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The conflict was between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, particularly Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, made it the deadliest day for Israel since the country's independence. During the raid, about 240 persons were also held hostage. Israel declared war on itself the following day, marking the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to start the conflict, and weeks later, armored vehicles and ground forces invaded the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 240 more people were kidnapped and transported as hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were removed from the music event, while many more were abducted from their houses. More than half of those taken hostage, including dual-citizen Israelis, had passports from over twenty different nations combined, enlisting the aid of other nations in the struggle to free their individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceasefire as a Precursor to Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2008, Israel launched its first major offensive against Hamas, involving airstrikes and a land invasion. There were more incidents of hostilities, mostly in 2012, 2014, and 2021. The dense population and extensive network of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip were two of the many elements that complicated the conflicts. Hamas and other Gazans utilized the tunnels to evade the siege, carry out activities, and conceal themselves from Israeli forces. It was challenging to find or destroy them, particularly when they were built beneath residential buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of war<\/a> objectives that Israel has declared is ever-growing and includes eliminating Hamas, freeing all hostages, guaranteeing that Gaza won't ever pose a threat to Israel, prohibiting the Palestinian Authority from having any authority over the region, stopping any \"element\" that \"educates its children for terrorism, supports terrorism, finances terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel,\" and establishing a large buffer zone inside Gaza that divides Israel from the people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Support For Palestinian Statehood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the eighth week in a row, thousands of people have marched through Jordan in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the end of a humanitarian ceasefire and the beginning of Israeli strikes. Hebron was the center of a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli attack on Gaza. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians through Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Western nations along with those of Japan, South Korea, and India. numerous foreign ministries, including those of Turkey, Russia, China, and numerous Arab nations, advised moderation rather than outright denouncing Hamas. In addition to pledging unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden visited the country on October 18, making history as the first president to do so during a conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israel came under intense international pressure to permit restricted supplies into the Gaza Strip as the conflict caused the situation there to worsen in terms of humanitarian relief. There were also worries expressed about the war's potential to turn into a larger regional struggle. Strong feelings generated by the conflict also gave rise to a surge of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported 312 anti-Semitic acts in the US during the first few weeks of the conflict, an increase over the 64 instances they documented during the same period in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that aims to build an autonomous Islamic state in the historical region of Palestine.  Meanwhile, only a two-State solution could bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permanently. Both Israelis and Palestinians must see the fulfillment of their justifiable demands for security and the establishment of a completely autonomous, self-governing state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab world is expected to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon efforts to publicly embrace Israel indefinitely, according to Hamas and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. For Egypt and Jordan, who have taken in hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the past but have refused to admit any more during the current conflict, the relocation of millions more Palestinians poses a challenge. They worry that when they depart, Gazans, many of whom were previously uprooted from other parts of Israel won't be able to return.<\/p>\n","post_title":"End of Israel-Hamas War Coincides with Creation of Palestine","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"end-of-israel-hamas-war-coincides-with-creation-of-palestine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6838","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6811,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_date_gmt":"2023-11-14 17:56:53","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Pino Nicotri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing Russophobic mainstream have suddenly made us discover the Holodomor, recognised on 26 July this year by our parliament as the genocide of the Russians against the Ukrainians, starved to death by Stalin with the forced collectivisation of the countryside and the fight against the kulaks, i.e., the latifundists[1]<\/a> . Thus, on 26 July, the process begun in May by PD parliamentarians Fausto Raciti, Andrea Romano and Flavia Nardelli Piccoli, the first signatories of a motion to have parliament recognise the Holodomor as a Stalinist genocide, was concluded. A motion based on studies and in-depth studies of considerable value, as evidenced by the participation of Professor Andrea Graziosi in the drafting of the text, which does not take into account some fundamental things[2]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us therefore try to better understand how things really are. What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian Holodomor? And is Ukraine exempt from responsibility and blame for its Holodomor? Among the unfortunately nonchalant and sometimes omissive narratives of the current Ukrainian tragedy, it is often insisted that Ukrainians still today resent the Russians because in 1932-33 the policy of industrialisation and forced collectivisation imposed by Joseph Stalin caused a few million deaths by starvation in Ukraine: the Holodomor, in fact, which in Ukrainian means 'extermination by starvation'[3]<\/a> . Stalin with the forced collectivisation of agriculture also ordered the physical elimination of the kulaks, i.e. the wealthy peasants who had other peasants in their employ[4]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current narrative speaks of the Holodomor as a real Russian genocide against the Ukrainians - just as the Shoah was the German genocide of the Jews and the Samudaripen the (forgotten) German genocide of the 'gypsies', more correctly called roman\u00e8s (hence the term rom, nowadays often used instead of the word gypsy, considered offensive)[5]<\/a> . Things, however, are not as that narrative tells them. On the contrary, there is a Ukrainian paw or rather a big paw in the Holodomor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we note that Stalin was Georgian, NOT Russian. He was in fact born in Gori, Georgia, on 6 December 1878, father a shoemaker and mother a peasant. In Georgia, he studied up to four of his five years at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. A seminary that was in fact a university, run by the Jesuits[6]<\/a> . On 29 May 1899, a month before the end of the fifth and final year, they expelled him because he propagated Marxism not only among the workers in the railway workshops but also among the seminarians themselves[7]<\/a> . Between detentions in Siberia and clandestine political activity in Georgia, Stalin only arrived in Russia in 1917. That is, when he was already 39 years old. He settled in St. Petersburg, where he contributed to the revival of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper[8]<\/a> . Everything can therefore be said about Stalin except that he was Russian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia, as an autonomous kingdom and nation, was born at the beginning of the 11th century, heir to the ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia (nothing to do with today's Iberian Peninsula, formed by Spain and Portugal). Fragmented and dominated by the Ottomans and Iranians, it was reunified and annexed to the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Becoming independent as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1921, in 1922 it became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 1936[9]<\/a> . Later it became the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR it became independent, just like Ukraine and other states that were also former members of the USSR[10]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1954: Nikita Khrushchev on an official visit to 'his' Ukraine<\/strong>[11]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the USSR ALSO included Russia just as it included Ukraine itself. Whose representatives in the UNCP and its Central Committee did NOT oppose Stalin in any significant way. Stalin and the Central Committee, composed NOT only of Russians, made decisions NOT in the name of Russia, but of the entire Soviet Union, including Ukraine. And Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was from a Ukrainian family. Raised in Ukraine since he was 14, he had made Ukraine the basis of his political power[12]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make a career Khrushchev endorsed ALL of Stalin's decisions, including industrialisation in forced stages based on the rapid development of heavy industry. It is the policy that led to the disasters of agricultural food production with the resulting famine of 1932-1933[13]<\/a> , the one that killed millions NOT only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself, including its Crimean peninsula. Ukraine was more affected only because, as it still does today, it had a formidable agricultural production, larger than that of the other USSR states[14]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev made a career of it, big time. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik, i.e. maximalist) from 27 January 1938 to 3 March 1947, then also from 26 December 1947 to 16 December 1949. He then succeeded Stalin after his death on 5 March 1953[15]<\/a> . And the year after Stalin's death his successor Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by family and decades of life, 'gave' Crimea to his beloved Ukraine[16]<\/a> . A gigantic case of conflict of interest... which, however, no one talks about: either out of ignorance. likely because on certain times widespread, or out of dishonesty and expediency not to obstruct the official narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Ukrainian was Lazar' Moiseevi\u010d Kaganovi\u010d, who attended all Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) conferences in Ukraine and gave the order to implement the policy of the collectivisation of the countryside and the physical elimination of the kulaks as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian zealot Kaganovi\u010d thus made a considerable contribution to his Ukraine's Holodomor: as an envoy of the Communist Party's Central Commission, Kaganovi\u010d not only travelled extensively in Ukraine but also in Siberia, the central regions of the USSR and the North Caucasus[17]<\/a> . To do what? To demand the acceleration of the collectivisation process and the repression of the kulaks[18]<\/a> . And so suffering, disaster and death by starvation were inflicted not only on Ukraine but also on Crimea, which was Russian and NOT of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the lower Volga, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kuban region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To claim that Stalin wanted the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainians essentially appears to be a historical fallacy. Just as it essentially appears to be a historical falsehood to claim that it was Russia rather than the entire Soviet Union that was responsible for that great tragedy: including Ukraine, including Ukrainian Khrushchev, and including above all Ukrainian Kaganovich. It was a tragedy that affected NOT only Ukraine, but the entire agricultural production of the USSR, with a flood of victims also in the other states and regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia. With good peace to the signatories of the motion presented in May, in Italy, by the PD parliamentarians - and to the parliament that approved it: unless one wants to make anti-Russian propaganda, one can therefore speak of the Holodomor as a huge tragedy that affected above all (but not only) Ukraine, but never as a genocide, moreover wanted by Stalin to punish the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 1918: Street demonstration after the signing of the Ukrainian independence treaty<\/strong>[19]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the vote on this matter on 26 July 2023 was influenced not only by ignorance, but also by a considerable prejudice against Russia, is shown by another fact, which has gone strangely unnoticed, which is not a good sign at all. On 29 April 2022, at the programmatic conference of the far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), which lasted three days in Milan and was entitled 'Italy, energy to be liberated', its leader Giorgia Meloni, who became prime minister on 22 October, shouted with her chest out. \"Now in Ukraine our future, our balances are being decided. It is not surprising that those who fight against the communist yoke, those who love their homeland, are willing to fight for that homeland'[20]<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 'COMMUNIST yoke'? Who? How? Where? When? Why? Our current PM is therefore stuck in 1990-91, she is still convinced that Russia is still communist!!! And that its president Putin is therefore!!! Convictions that make blood well up in the eyes not only of those on the right. Convictions that make one's eyes bleed, given that Putin is actually a member of the nationalist and conservative United Russia party, which in turn is part of the Pan-Russian Popular Front coalition, two political realities that have absolutely nothing to do with communism, not even by accident and from afar[21]<\/a> . Since no one has pointed out that gigantic crab and tawdry historical falsehood, it is possible that the foreign policy, including military policy, of our Meloni-led government has been and still is greatly influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conviction, Meloni's about communist Russia, is widespread not only among politicians, journalists and pundits, but also among a large part of the population. I did a test by asking 200 people chosen at random in supermarkets and transport facilities, or chosen from among my friends, what they thought the form of government in Russia was and what Putin's party was. The vast majority, including people close to me who I thought were informed, answered that Russia is communist and that Putin's party is the communist party. NO ONE knew that in reality the Communist Party in Russia is a small party in opposition, i.e. opposed to Putin and his government. And that it therefore has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference in Milan, Giorgia Meloni uttered a cry that was as quivering as it was based more on her own dreams before historical reality: 'If we want Italy to be a great nation again, we Italians must be the ones to grow'[22]<\/a> . As a TV personality would say: \"According to Giorgia Meloni, when was Italy a great nation?\". A question to which it is appropriate, indeed necessary, to give a clear and NOT ambiguous answer. Because it is clear that the concept of 'great nation' in the mouth of a right-wing politician like her also lends itself to decidedly deplorable interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be good if the premier would clarify whether Italy was 'a great nation' for example during fascism or even during the Roman empire, a nail that many people, not only on the right, like to beat. It is good that you clarify this because it is legitimate to suspect that you are convinced of this and with that sentence you meant to say so. And if, on the other hand, she meant to say that Italy was a great nation during the Risorgimento, which she mentioned in her speech in Milan, there are two things to note, or rather three. The first is that Italy was NOT yet a nation, but a collection of nations and (another term dear to Meloni) of homelands. Nor was Italy a nation during the Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is that the Risorgimento was also a set of invasions of legitimate states and kingdoms scattered across the Italian peninsula and conquered through wars and battles to eventually result on 17 March 1861 in the national kingdom of the Savoy. They spoke Piedmontese and French, but not Italian. The third is that they were defeated in favour of the monarchy - Savoy! which penalised the South and launched our colonialism - the republican ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini and the federal ideas of Carlo Cattaneo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulaki_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deputatipd.it\/news\/ucraina-mozione-riconoscimento-holodomor-come-genocidio<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/05\/news\/mozione_pd_genocidio_fame_ucraini_90_anni_fa_raciti_putin-348263310\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2023\/07\/28\/news\/quanto-tempo-ci-vuole-per-riconoscere-l-holodomor-parla-graziosi-5543950\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/it.gariwo.net\/educazione\/approfondimenti\/holodomor-3502.html#:~:<\/a>text=Holodomor%20is%20the%20name%20with%20the%20collective%20property%20system   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/kulak\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilprimatonazionale.it\/cronaca\/facebook-sospende-matteo-salvini-parola-zingaro-20936\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.chiarelettere.it\/libro\/non-chiamarmi-zingaro-pino-petruzzelli-9788861900509.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2015\/03\/11\/discriminazione-uso-parola-zingaro-in-testo-giudirico-condannato\/1495328\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/opinioni\/fatti-nostri\/e-offensivo-usare-la-parola-zingaro-268791<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.21luglio.org\/zingaro-parola-comune-che-diventa-offesa\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalinbiografiacap01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> http:\/\/www.pmli.it\/stalincennibiografici.htm<\/a> ; https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iosif_Stalin#Origini_e_formazione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/pravda\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/georgia-stato-della-transcaucasia_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29\/#:~:<\/a>text=a%20Democratic%20Republic%20guided%20by%201936%20as%20a%20Federal%20Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a>  ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.quotidiano.net\/esteri\/2014\/02\/27\/1031899-crimea-scheda-mosca-kiev.shtml<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/usa\/2022-01-29\/in-the-conflict-with-ukraine-moscow-is-clinging-on-to-the-excuses-of-the-past.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/nikita-sergeevic-chruscev\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carestia_sovietica_del_1932-1933<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cessione_della_Crimea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikita_Sergeevi\u010d_Chru\u0161\u010d\u00ebv#:~:<\/a>text=After%20the%20fight%20for%20the%20leader%20of%27the%20Soviet%20Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/lettere-al-corriere\/14_marzo_18\/LA-CRIMEA-DONATA-ALL-UCRAINA-LE-RAGIONI-DELLA-GENEROSITA_6d7a68fc-ae65-11e3-a415-108350ae7b5e.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazar%27_Moiseevi\u010d_Kaganovi\u010d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.treccani.it\/enciclopedia\/ucraina_res-42c540d4-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/politica\/2022\/04\/29\/news\/fdi_conferenza_programmatica_milano_meloni-347433428\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/er.ru\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/alloranews.com\/opinions\/la-lettera-della-farnesina-ai-diplomatici-un-monito\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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