“Di Battista does not know the values of freedom and democracy” The meetings on Tuesday-Tuesday on La 7 between Italo Bocchino and Alessandro Di Battista are never banal. In fact, the director of Il Secolo d’Italia and the former deputy of the 5 Star Movement have been seeing each other in Giovanni Floris’s ring for weeks and every time it is a blind blow. What makes Bocchino angry this time is the connection that Di Battista makes between what is happening in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine and our country’s foreign policy. “I listened to Alessandro Di Battista’s two and a half minute game,” begins the former center-right MP and “I believe that Di Battista does not know the values of freedom and democracy,” because “there was a country that was in one “Violation of international norms” – Russia invades Ukraine – and we “must stand on the side of the victim,” he remembers. There was “Hamas, which attacked a democracy – the only one in the Middle East – and we must stand with democracy,” says Bocchino.
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“Di Battista is targeting terrorists,” emphasizes the director and attacks across the board. “In an article today, a gem by Di Battista, ‘Isis what to do?’, he looked at Hamas today. “We can’t even engage in a discussion. Bocchino is a river in flood: “So for you, the person who beheaded a fetus just because he was a Jew is a human being,” now addresses him directly. “You wrote: ‘Unfortunately, terrorism is the only weapon of violence left to those who rebel’; I think that those who rebel, protest democratically, you think that those who rebel should become terrorists. This is very serious in a democracy.”
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Di Battista wants to answer, but doesn’t have time: “You write: ‘If a plane bombs my village, the only way I can defend myself is to blow myself up in a subway,’ and if you go over the subway speak – assuming they exist.” No subways – do you mean the Rome subway? Paris? From Madrid? From London? From New York?”. Bocchino is angry and does not calm down, while Di Battista goes on the defensive. “It’s a shame,” says the director of Il Secolo d’Italia, recalling the recent accusation against Di Battista: “You write: ‘You don’t defeat the terrorist by sending more drones, but by making him an interlocutor.'” They want to make terrorists an interlocutor. The terrorists must be taken away house by house, arrested, convicted and imprisoned for life. “