Bat-Zion, Fiamma, Enrico Piccinini, mariana

Shalom Achoti, eyn kol baaya,

Mah Ha’Inyanim? Yesterday, I received troubling news from Hon. Fiamma Nirenstein’ office in Italy – the usual newsletter in Italian. She’s  unsettled and upset. She informs her public and her friends how she was portrayed in an anti-Semitic cartoon* — an ad hominem attack of the basest kind — (author publishes on a commie rag, of course!) some years back (2008). A journalist, whom I believe is also a politician, wrote some counter-sarcastic article in her defense (cannot find the article  to illustrate facts fully; but it balanced the hatred the cartoon offered, that’s easy to understand, without offering hatred back).

The author of the commie cartoon – vulgar, vitriolic and basely anti-Semitic – brought the journalist-politician to court for defamation. Defamation indeed! Hon. Nirenstein was supported at the time of the blatant defaming, anti-Semitic attack also by the Anti-Defamation League.

Lately, an Italian enlightened magistrate, to call it a court is to give too much status and importance, took a seemingly anti-Semitic stance [not impartial if we considers the unbalanced tit for tat*] and finally condemned the journalist-politician for defamation, while the blatant defamatory [ad hominem] anti-Semitic cartoonist can flout impunity to this day!

No outrage, no disgust from any side, or so it seems. I was unable to find any resonance of this episode in main papers – perhaps I don’t know how to search, since I don’t read the Italian press much; I find it  trashy and ignorant, filled with bias and fabricated reporting. If one does not accept their [press] dogmas blindly, one is an idiot, punishable with serious consequences or simply dismissed — a true enlightened road to dialogue and balanced sense of argumentation.

With this judgment, we have clear confirmation that there are two weights and two measures everywhere we look, in Italy and elsewhere: such is our world, and I don’t know where to begin to look for or demand factual truths. Even close friends (ex-close friends perhaps) refuse to listen to or analyze facts, and to open their eyes to reality.

The eternal question remains: who can benefit from the truth? Why is truth hard to face, particularly by totalitarian minded people and movements. If anyone has an answer, a balanced one, I’d love to have it, too

That’s the latest for today… hopefully!

*reminder of another cartoon, not an ad hominem attack, just an ironic depiction that created an enormous brouhaha in and around the West media et alia – the hypocrites!

Hakol B’seder

Blessed is the One Who keeps His promise to Israel, blessed is He. That the Holy One, Blessed is He, calculated the end, just like He told Avraham our father at the covenant between the parts, as it says, (Breishis 15:13-14) “And He said to Avraham, ‘Know with certainty that your children will be strangers in a land not theirs, and they will enslave them and oppress them four hundred years, and also the nation that oppresses them I will judge and afterwards they will go out with a great wealth.