Rome march, Scotto: ‘Piazza for Gaza like a river in flood’

Rome, 5 October (LaPresse) – The Rome march for Gaza ‘is a river that has burst its banks, especially among young people, in the face of the leaders who hold power in the world today, from Netanyahu to Trump and Putin, who flout every rule, reject any idea of multilateralism and imagine the world through the logic of the Wild West’. This was stated by Arturo Scotto in an interview with La Repubblica. The Democratic Party MP has just returned to Italy after being on board the Global Sumud Flotilla. “The lid has blown off in the face of the unsustainable images we have been seeing on social media for two years and after the Flotilla’s humanitarian mission tried to do what governments have refused to do. A people set out on a journey for another people and for a world order built not on arrogance but on international law,‘ he added. As for the banners praising 7 October, Scotto describes them as ’inappropriate banners that are out of keeping with the spirit of a peaceful march”. “7 October was one of the lowest points for humanity in recent years, a terrorist attack that shocked the Israeli population. I was among the first to visit a kibbutz that had been attacked and to meet the families of the hostages: I can testify to what horror means. We must not justify 7 October in order to defend the Palestinians. Not only is it unacceptable, it is historically false and politically stupid,” he concludes.