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Onde se esconde, afinal, o poder?

30 October 2026 at 00:14

“People have the power”, canta Patti Smith e parecem acreditar os manifestantes que tumultuam as cidades europeias reclamando um futuro. Mas será mesmo assim nos dias de hoje? A democracia, na clássica definição de Abraham Lincoln, é “o governo do povo, pelo povo e para o povo.” Acontece que, na verdade, a democracia é o governo da maioria. Como elucida Alexis de Tocqueville na obra “Democracia na América”, “em todos os países onde o povo é soberano, é a maioria que governa em nome do povo.” O busílis está no facto de essa maioria ser a maioria dos que votam, o que pode levar a que muitos cidadãos não se sintam verdadeiramente representados pelas instituições democráticas.

Talvez seja esse o caso dos jovens que se manifestam nas cidades europeias, causando aquilo que António Guerreiro apelida de “guerra civil planetária”. O mal-estar social que faz emergir movimentos inorgânicos e leva a contestação às ruas expõe os limites da democracia liberal, num tempo em que o poder é cada vez mais difuso e fragmentado. A hiperpolítica, conceito popularizado pelo historiador Anton Jäger no livro homónimo, invadiu o espaço público entendido quer como conceito urbanístico, quer como conceito filosófico de lugar de debate e formação de opiniões.

A politização exacerbada e contínua do espaço público no seu duplo sentido não trará, muito provavelmente, reformas estruturais ou soluções concretas para problemas coletivos. Quando a maré descer, só ficarão na restinga os despojos da degradação das democracias liberais, bem patente na incapacidade dos governos de exercerem a sua autoridade e de conterem a fúria dos manifestantes dentro dos limites da civilidade democrática. Enquadrar a natureza inorgânica e muitas vezes violenta dos movimentos de rua na organização institucional das democracias é, hoje, um dos principais desafios do poder político nos países ocidentais.

Novas geografias do poder

Historicamente, o poder esteve sempre associado a lugares e símbolos identificáveis: o trono, o palácio, o parlamento, o quartel, a fábrica… O poder tinha um rosto, uma hierarquia e um território. Mesmo quando se encontrava disperso por diferentes instituições, era possível reconhecer os seus centros de gravidade e os limites da sua ação. Hoje, a geografia do poder tornou-se mais complexa. Embora o poder continue a habitar os lugares tradicionais, também circula, e cada vez mais, por redes financeiras, infraestruturas tecnológicas, sistemas de informação, plataformas digitais e mecanismos algorítmicos cuja influência nem sempre é visível.

É atribuída a William Shakespeare a frase “o horror visível tem menos poder sobre a alma do que o horror imaginado.” O problema contemporâneo com o poder é, justamente, a sua invisibilidade aos olhos da maioria dos cidadãos. A questão decisiva do nosso tempo já não consiste, por isso, em saber apenas quem governa. Consiste em perceber quem define as condições em que se governa, quem controla os instrumentos que permitem decidir e quem tem capacidade para impor limites aos decisores.

O poder formal nem sempre coincide com a capacidade real de influenciar os acontecimentos. Um governo empoderado pela legitimidade eleitoral pode, ainda assim, estar condicionado por múltiplos poderes difusos. A distância entre a titularidade formal do poder e a capacidade efetiva de intervenção constitui uma das questões centrais das democracias contemporâneas, como se vê pela inépcia dos governos europeus em encontrar respostas para quem protesta nas ruas.

Tradicionalmente, o poder é distribuído por diferentes esferas que se cruzam e ora cooperam, ora entram em conflito. Grosso modo, o Estado conserva os três monopólios legítimos: legislar, tributar e punir. O poder económico condiciona o investimento, o emprego, os salários e a distribuição da riqueza. O poder tecnológico controla infraestruturas essenciais à comunicação, ao acesso à informação e à gestão de dados. O poder mediático participa na definição dos assuntos que merecem atenção coletiva e influencia a formação da opinião pública. E o poder cultural contribui para estabelecer os valores, as aspirações e as representações através das quais uma sociedade questiona a sua própria condição.

Atualmente, estes poderes continuam a existir e a influenciar o modo de vida nas sociedades democráticas. Mas, entretanto, verificou-se a concentração num número restrito de pessoas, grupos ou instituições de poderes com menor visibilidade e, por isso, menos escrutináveis. O poder contemporâneo já não é piramidal, mas sim uma imbricada rede de relações e dependências. Neste sentido, o exercício do poder depende da posição ocupada nessa rede, dos recursos disponíveis e da capacidade de transformar esses recursos em influência.

Longa manus da tecnologia

Nas novas geografias do poder, o capital, a informação e a tecnologia estão, seguramente, entre os fatores que mais condicionam e influenciam quem decide. No caso da tecnologia, a inteligência artificial veio, aliás, acentuar o carácter concêntrico, etéreo, manipulador e inescrutável dos novos instrumentos de poder. De repente, os centros tradicionais de poder ficaram expostos a mecanismos de influência cuja lógica desconhecemos e muito menos controlamos. A inteligência artificial permite ampliar a vigilância, dificultar a identificação de manipulações e concentrar poder nas organizações que controlam os dados, os modelos e a infraestrutura digital.

O pequeno grupo de oligarcas tecnológicos acumula um poder económico, político e social sem precedentes, através do controlo dos sistemas digitais globais. Dispõe de uma extraordinária capacidade de moldar a opinião pública a partir das redes sociais, de avançar sem regras no desenvolvimento da superinteligência, de investir na reversão do envelhecimento celular, de esboroar as regras da privacidade ou de acelerar a crise ambiental. Tudo isto tem efeitos profundos no funcionamento das democracias liberais e até no equilíbrio geopolítico.

Há poucos dias, as forças militares ucranianas deram conta de que os terminais Starshield começaram, sem aviso prévio, a perder conectividade acima de 160 km/h, dificultando a ação dos drones intercetores usados contra os drones russos impulsionados a jato. As limitações à velocidade da rede de internet via satélite desenvolvida pela SpaceX, de Elon Musk, estão a servir para forçar a Ucrânia a ceder a um acordo de paz (ou de capitulação, na verdade) com a Rússia, como deseja a administração Trump.

Um tech oligarch é, portanto, capaz de influenciar decisivamente o desfecho de uma guerra que está a massacrar um povo e que tem implicações profundas na segurança da Europa. É um sinal dos tempos e representa a tendência para impor o poder pela superioridade tecnológica, através de parcerias entre governos e setor privado. Assim será cada vez mais no futuro, considerando a velocidade de desenvolvimento de tecnologias complexas com fins simultaneamente civis e militares.

É claro que a superioridade económica, tecnológica, energética ou militar sempre ditou as regras no mundo, ao longo da História. A diferença é que o poder hoje é cada vez mais difuso e fragmentado, o que torna difícil o seu controlo, limitação e escrutínio democráticos. Das ruas de Paris aos escritórios de Silicon Valley, das corretoras de Wall Street ao estreito de Ormuz, da linha da frente da Ucrânia às redes de bots, dos campos de morte de Gaza ao luxo de Mar-a-Lago, da opacidade dos offshores à sede da ONU, onde se esconde, afinal, o poder?

Beyond Netanyahu: what Israel’s election means for Palestinians

By: aletho
29 October 2026 at 23:45
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | October 29, 2026

In the past, many Palestinians and Arabs followed Israeli elections closely. They did so not because they entertained illusions that a Zionist leader would deliver peace and justice, dismantle the occupation or remove illegal settlements. Rather, they feared that some Israeli leaders were worse than others. They hoped to avert the worst-case scenario.

Over time, however, that distinction gave way to the belief that all Israeli leaders were essentially the same. This is not pessimism. It is experience.

Consider, for example, the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements during the Oslo peace process under Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Between 1992 and 1995, the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, increased from 111,673 to 140,235 – a rise of more than 25 per cent, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), drawing on Israeli statistical records.

The same pattern continued under the Labour government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Within his first six months, Barak’s government issued tenders for 3,196 settlement housing units, exceeding the annual average under his right-wing predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu.

When Naftali Bennett formed a coalition government in June 2021 that included the Arab party Ra’am, settlement expansion continued unabated.

According to the Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now, the Bennett–Lapid government advanced plans for 7,292 settlement housing units during its first year, a 26 per cent increase over the annual average recorded under previous Netanyahu governments.

The settlements are themselves a driving force behind the occupation. They require land, and therefore land confiscation; protection, and therefore an expanded military presence; water, roads and infrastructure, and therefore the appropriation of Palestinian resources. Together, these elements deepen dispossession and generate further Israeli violence.

According to the PCBS, the West Bank contained 645 Israeli settlement sites, outposts and other occupation installations by the end of 2025, including 350 settlement outposts.

The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a Palestinian Authority body, reported that Israeli authorities targeted approximately 29,335 dunums of Palestinian land through declarations of so-called “state land” between October 2023 and August 2026 – one of the largest waves of such land appropriation since Oslo.

By September 2026, the Commission had also documented the advancement or consideration of plans for more than 18,000 additional settlement housing units across the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

Alongside this expansion is the violence unfolding across the West Bank.

By the end of 2023, the West Bank had experienced its deadliest year for Palestinians since the UN began systematically recording casualties in 2005.

The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission documented 23,827 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians and their property during 2025 alone. In the first seven months of 2026, settler attacks increased by 63 per cent compared with the corresponding period of the previous year.

Typically, this violence, carried out by the Israeli occupation army and armed illegal settlers, is contextualised within the ongoing genocide in Gaza. But violence in the West Bank also serves another purpose beyond collective punishment: the confiscation of Palestinian orchards, the annexation of land, the expansion of settlements and the crushing of Palestinian resistance, including non-violent opposition to this colonial enterprise.

Any Israeli candidate in the 27 October elections who supports settlement expansion does so with full knowledge of its consequences: further dispossession, military occupation, annexation and violence.

The difference between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and politicians presented as less extreme, is often one of language, strategy and timing.

Former Israeli military chief and Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot, for example, openly supports the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite his reputation as a more “moderate” alternative to Netanyahu.

What, then, about Gaza?

Who among Israel’s leading political figures is promising to end the genocide, lift the siege, ensure unrestricted humanitarian aid, restrain the army or investigate violations of international law? None.

Israeli media have spent the past three years reporting on major disagreements between the government, military establishment, intelligence agencies and political opposition over what should happen in Gaza.

Yet Eisenkot has pledged to end Hamas’s rule in Gaza within 18 months of taking office, whether through US President Donald Trump’s framework or through continued war.

For his part, Yesh Atid leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid has proposed placing Gaza under Egyptian administration for up to 15 years, effectively shifting responsibility for Israel’s actions onto Arab states.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, meanwhile, supports continued Israeli military control until Palestinian groups are disarmed.

The disagreement, therefore, is often over how Israel should achieve its objectives, rather than whether those objectives should change.

Other major disagreements primarily concern Israeli society: the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews, judicial reform and accountability for the failures of 7 October.

But these disputes should not be confused with the questions that matter most to Palestinians.

If Netanyahu succeeds in forming another right-wing coalition, the policies of occupation, settlement expansion and military confrontation will continue, potentially with renewed momentum.

If Israel produces a broader coalition, its members may reach compromises over judicial reform, conscription and other domestic disputes. The occupation, however, is unlikely to become the central point of disagreement.

More troubling still, even a government leaning towards the centre-left might succeed in presenting Israel to the international community as a country ready to move beyond the image it acquired during three years of genocide, without fundamentally changing its conduct on the ground.

The international community must therefore remain vigilant. It cannot allow a future Israeli government to present itself as a peacemaker, or sell the illusion of a newly reformed Israel, while continuing to invest in settlements, occupation, war and genocide.

Israel kills six Palestinians in Gaza on eve of announcement of election results

29 October 2026 at 22:14

The Israeli military intensified its deadly attacks on Palestinians in different parts of the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours that preceded the announcement of the Knesset election results, which are expected by the morning of Friday, October 30.

Read more: Israel’s elections: all roads lead to genocide

At least six Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in Israeli strikes that targeted different areas of the war-torn enclave.

The fatalities include four government employees, who were killed in an Israeli strike on the Ministry of Economy in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the southern city of Rafah. Thirty others were wounded in the same offensive. 

The Gaza-based government media office condemned the assault in a statement published on Telegram, describing it as “a new crime and a horrific massacre that targeted a group of civilian public-sector employees.”

It added that “targeting government teams and civilian public employees is part of the organized crime that the Israeli occupation has practiced, and a malicious exposed attempt to push towards chaos and disorder by undermining the work of government crews and institutions, which seek to maintain the stability and safety of society.”

Meanwhile, two people were killed and several others were wounded when an Israeli drone struck a civilian vehicle near the entrance to the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Deir al-Balah Governorate.

The latest deaths take the toll of people killed by Israel in Gaza since the US-brokered ceasefire deal was reached in October 2025 to more than 1,574 people, with 5,867 others wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The ministry also reported that at least 74,570 people have been killed since Israel started its genocidal aggression on the besieged strip in October 2023.

"Rússia a mediar no Médio Oriente é ficção cientifica"

29 October 2026 at 20:39
​João Albuquerque diz que não faz sentido olhar para a Rússia como um possível mediador para o conflito no Médio Oriente. ​Sublinha que há cada vez mais sinais de um ataque dos EUA ao Irão em breve.

Israeli Strike on Car in Central Gaza Kills Two Palestinians

29 October 2026 at 18:41
An Israeli drone strike hit a civilian car in central Gaza on Thursday, killing at least two Palestinians, medical sources told the Anadolu Agency, as the IDF continues its relentless attacks across the Strip. The car was bombed near the entrance of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, and at least one other person was wounded. Footage […]

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‘Who Will Bomb Me Next?’: Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank on Israel’s Election

As Netanyahu's hold on power hangs in the balance, there is a mixture of hope and skepticism among Palestinians. 'This is a time for caution, not celebration.' In the past, all Israeli leaders turned out to be essentially the same

"Netanyahu tem uma vitória que não podemos ofuscar"

29 October 2026 at 08:12
Tenente-general Marco Serronha prevê eleições antecipadas em Israel se a oposição rejeitar os partidos árabes. E ainda defende que um cessar-fogo na Ucrânia beneficiaria todos.

Israeli Attacks Across Gaza Kill Five Palestinians, Wound 32

29 October 2026 at 00:46
Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday have killed at least five Palestinians and injured 32, medical sources told the Anadolu Agency, as the IDF continues its relentless strikes in the Strip following Tuesday’s Knesset elections. Attacks on Wednesday included an Israeli drone strike in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah, southern Gaza, that killed at least […]

How Pro-Palestine Activists Attempted to Ignite a Boycott of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G Sequel

28 October 2026 at 23:37
The campaign against the film, which included AI-fueled mass mailings to pressure exhibitors, was run by a group with ties to other efforts against Disney for employing the Israeli actresses Gal Gadot and Shira Haas.

Six Palestinians Killed In Gaza In 24 Hours

Ministry of Health stated on Tuesday that six Palestinians were killed and 32 injured during the preceding 24 hours, as Israeli shooting and shelling continued across Gaza. Israeli naval vessels fired live ammunition & shells at Gaza's coast and fishermen

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Israel’s elections: all roads lead to genocide

28 October 2026 at 19:56

Israelis headed to voting centers on Tuesday, October 27, in legislative elections to choose the members of the parliament, known as the Knesset.

The event marks Israel’s first general election since the October 7 attacks, which Netanyahu’s government expanded into a multi-front regional war. 

Who is competing in the elections?

For many, these elections serve as a direct referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right bloc he heads. 

The Pro-Netanyahu Bloc 

This bloc comprises the National Liberal Party (Likud) led by Netanyahu, the Religious Zionist Party (HaTzionut HaDatit) led by current Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Jewish Power Party (Otzma Yehudit) led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

The coalition advocates for the consolidation of Israeli rule throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, explicitly rejects the possibility of Palestinian statehood, promotes the expansion of settlements and the implementation of hardline security measures against Palestinians. It also calls for disavowing the Oslo Accords, and the total disarmament of Hamas.

The anti-Netanyahu bloc 

The primary competitor to Netanyahu and his coalition is the bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief of the Israeli forces. It represents a center-right to center-left opposition when it comes to Israeli internal affairs, but of course not to Palestinians and their destiny.

Eisenkot is the architect of the “Dahiya Doctrine,” an Israeli military strategy that calls for applying massive, disproportionate firepower and the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure in order to create long-term deterrence, and discourage the local population from supporting any force resisting Israel.

He was also a member of Netanyahu’s war cabinet for the first eight months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Eisenkot’s bloc includes the Yashar Party, led by Eisenkot, and the Together alliance (Beyachad), led by former prime minister Naftali Bennett. It also includes The Democrats (HaDemokratim) – a merger of the Labor and Meretz parties – led by Yair Golan, a retired IDF Major General.

Israel Is Our Home Party (Yisrael Beiteinu) led by Avigdor Liberman, is also part of Eisenkot’s coalition.

Liberman, who formerly held ministerial portfolios in the Israeli government as minister of finance, defense, foreign affairs, strategic affairs, transportation, and national infrastructure alongside being a deputy prime minister, is known for his hawkish stances towards Palestinians. 

Defending the use of live ammunition by Israeli forces against Palestinian demonstrators during the 2018 Gaza border protests (known as the Great March of Return), Liberman stated: 

“There are no innocents in Gaza.”

Although the components of this coalition are united by their goal to oust Netanyahu, they remain deeply aligned with their political rival’s traditional right-wing stance regarding the Palestinian cause.

The coalition opposes the creation of an independent Palestinian state, while supporting the ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and other parts of West Asia, and maintaining existing settlement frameworks.

Some of the coalition’s affiliated parties further encourage separating Israeli and Palestinian populations, and retaining complete Israeli security control over strategic areas such as the Jordan Valley. They also demand the full demilitarization of any future Palestinian entity.

Others call for the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority, the annexation of Area C in the West Bank, and the entrenchment of discriminatory policies against Arab citizens in Israel.

The Arab-led lists

The Arab-led lists represent the minority of Palestinian citizens in Israel (also known as Arab-Israelis), a community that makes up roughly 21% of Israel’s total population, estimated at 10.3 million.

Even though both lists fight for the same minority group’s rights, they hold opposing views on the goals, values, and strategy needed to represent them effectively.

While representing a minority, these lists hold a critical and often polarizing role in Israeli elections, as they frequently act as a critical balance of power that strongly determines whether a governing coalition can be formed.

These lists include the Joint List and the United Arab List.

The Joint List

The Joint List consists of:

  • The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) led by Yousef Jabareen, a prominent Palestinian legal scholar, academic, and politician.
  • The Arab Movement for Renewal (Ta’al) led by Dr. Ahmad Tibi, a prominent Palestinian politician, who has served as a member of Knesset since 1999.
  • The National Democratic Alliance (Balad) led by a prominent Palestinian politician and historian Sami Abu Shehadeh.

The coalition  advocates for Palestinian self-determination and civil rights, for an end to the Israeli occupation, and for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state along the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.

It also demands full legal equality and state recognition for Palestinian Arab citizens as an indigenous national minority, and calls for immediate government and law enforcement intervention to curb the increase in organized crime in Arab municipalities.

Structural reforms to secure building rights, expand municipal boundaries, and stop punitive home demolitions are top priorities on the Joint List’s agenda.

The United Arab List 

The United Arab List (Ra’am) is an Islamist and conservative political party led by Mansour Abbas, a prominent Palestinian politician, whose party was the first independent Arab-Muslim faction to join an Israeli government.

Unlike traditional Arab political lists, Ra’am demonstrates a willingness to ally with Jewish political parties in government. It uses a pragmatic, integration-focused strategy to gain political influence and enhance the socioeconomic wellbeing of Arab-Israeli citizens.

Ra’am prioritizes the immediate domestic needs of Arab communities inside Israel, such as fighting local organized crime, improving public infrastructure, securing budgets, and resolving housing issues.

Netanyahu is alarmed by surging Arab voter turnout

Media reports indicated that Arab citizens voted in numbers not seen in decades, which in turn pushed Netanyahu to launch an urgent social media campaign, warning of the growing participation of Arabs.

Urging his supporters to go out and vote, Netanyahu appeared in a video, accusing Ra’am of bribing voters with envelopes of cash in the southern areas occupied by Israel.

“My brothers and sisters, Likud voters, this is an emergency call, because they are trying to steal the election from us. This morning, the police announced something serious and unusual. They caught three of Ra’am’s senior financial figures with envelopes of cash in the south. This is criminal. They will get to everyone. You have been warned, the voter turnout in the Arab sector in the south is incomparably higher than in the Jewish sector. You must go out and vote,” Netanyahu said.  

He also claimed that left-wing women escorted Arab women to the polls.

Shortly before polls closed at 10:00 pm local time, the final reported voter turnout reached 74.3%, the highest in decades, with exit polls showing no clear winner, and pointing to a political deadlock.

It is expected that the final tally and initial results will be published between Thursday afternoon, October 29, and Friday morning, October 30, while the official results will be announced on November 4, 2026. 

All roads lead to genocide, no matter which bloc wins

While many are looking forward to the loss of Netanyahu’s bloc in the elections, hoping that a new government will be less brutal against Palestinians and people across the West Asia region, analysts suggest that Eisenkot’s bloc adopts the same Zionist ethnic cleansing-based ideology. 

In an interview with BreakThrough News, Israeli-American author, activist and founder of Palestine House of Freedom Miko Peled argued that there are no differences between the two competing blocs when it comes to issues like Israel’s war on Iran, the mass killing in Gaza, forcing Palestinians to flee the besieged enclave. Meanwhile, disputes on the internal Israeli issues – mainly the draft of ultra-orthodox jews in the military and initiating an independent inquiry into the failure of the army and intelligence on the October 7 attacks – remain serious.

Il Giornale contro la gip di Siher: “Firmò un appello per Gaza”. Ma c’era anche la firma della pm che ha chiesto il carcere

28 October 2026 at 19:52

“Esclusivo – La toga che ha liberato Siher ha firmato un appello per Gaza“. Non si è fatto attendere il dossieraggio nei confronti di Tiziana Landoni, la gip di Milano che ha rimesso in libertà il 30enne accusato di istigazione a delinquere con finalità di terrorismo. Nel tentativo di mettere in dubbio l’imparzialità della giudice, però, tutto ciò che la stampa di destra ha trovato è la sua firma in calce a un “Appello di giuristi per Gaza”, pubblicato a settembre per invocare “la tutela dei diritti umani e la persecuzione dei crimini contro l’umanità” compiuti da Israele nell’enclave palestinese. Secondo Il Giornale, che pubblica la “notizia”, questa circostanza dovrebbe “far riflettere sulla decisione” adottata. Per quale motivo? L’articolo non lo dice, ein effetti risulta assai difficile trovare ragioni di inopportunità nel testo dell’appello, che si limita a ricordare l’impegno della comunità internazionale al perseguimento dei crimini di guerra e contro l’umanità, contenuto nel Preambolo dello Statuto della Corte penale internazionale. Soprattutto, però, il quotidiano omette – o forse non conosce – un elemento che smonta la tesi implicita nel pezzo: a firmare quell’appello, infatti, fu anche Francesca Crupi, la pm che ha disposto il fermo nei confronti di Siher e avrebbe voluto per lui la custodia cautelare in carcere. A dimostrazione che schierarsi contro il genocidio di Gaza non vuol dire necessariamente essere amici dei delinquenti.

Ecco il testo integrale dell’appello:

Di fronte alle notizie sulla violazione sistematica e protratta del diritto alla vita e degli altri diritti fondamentali della popolazione civile di Gaza, il silenzio ha smesso da tempo di essere un’opzione. Come giuristi, sentiamo il dovere di ricordare che lo Stato italiano, per Costituzione e per legge, e con l’adesione a trattati e convenzioni, ha scelto la tutela dei diritti fondamentali e la persecuzione dei crimini internazionali. Le ragioni di questa scelta sono tra l’altro compendiate nello Statuto della Corte penale internazionale, firmato a Roma nel 1998, sottoscritto da 125 Paesi, e ratificato con legge dello Stato nel 1999. Vogliamo ricordare queste ragioni, unitamente ai rappresentanti dell’avvocatura e dell’università che vorranno aderire, leggendo ogni giorno – nelle aule d’udienza e in quelle universitarie – il preambolo allo Statuto della Corte penale internazionale, per testimoniare che le coscienze di chi ogni giorno contribuisce all’amministrazione della giustizia non sono indifferenti alle ingiustizie perpetrate nei confronti dei più deboli, e per fare appello a tutte le istituzioni perché si pretenda il rispetto del diritto e dei diritti fondamentali dei civili.

Seguiva il testo che i firmatari si proponevano di leggere all’inizio di ogni udienza.

“Preliminarmente, il Tribunale intende oggi ricordare quanto enunciato nella Legge 12 luglio 1999, n. 232, di ratifica ed esecuzione dello statuto istitutivo della Corte penale internazionale, e segnatamente nel suo Preambolo.

“Consapevoli che tutti i popoli sono uniti da stretti vincoli e che le loro culture formano un patrimonio da tutti condiviso, un delicato mosaico che rischia in ogni momento di essere distrutto;

Memori che nel corso di questo secolo, milioni di bambini, donne e uomini sono stati vittime di atrocità inimmaginabili che turbano profondamente la coscienza dell’umanità;

Riconoscendo che crimini di tale gravità minacciano la pace, la sicurezza ed il benessere del mondo;

Affermando che i delitti più gravi che riguardano l’insieme della comunità internazionale non possono rimanere impuniti e che la loro repressione deve essere efficacemente garantita mediante provvedimenti adottati in ambito nazionale ed attraverso il rafforzamento della cooperazione internazionale;

Determinati a porre termine all’impunità degli autori di tali crimini contribuendo in tal modo alla prevenzione di nuovi crimini;

Rammentando che è dovere di ciascuno Stato esercitare la propria giurisdizione penale nei confronti dei responsabili di crimini internazionali”,

procediamo con la trattazione dell’odierna udienza”.

L'articolo Il Giornale contro la gip di Siher: “Firmò un appello per Gaza”. Ma c’era anche la firma della pm che ha chiesto il carcere proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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