Mediterraneo, Società Civile, Politica e Interculturalità
“Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us”. When the German Chancellor stated it during the last G7, held in mid-June, he was proud of himself and proud of being a pro-Israel supporter whatever it happens. Those words, however, were probably the clearest statement ever by a European politician of this century which…
Continua a leggere
Years ago, a Palestinian writer, we were in Ramallah, told me that every time Israel comes with good news, you have to worry about the bad news hidden behind it. She had given me the keys to understanding how things work, and I didn’t realise it. It was 2005, Arafat had disappeared, and the second…
Continua a leggere
It is so hard to switch the radio off and forget about the developments on the ground, especially since I was there years ago, and am now struggling to imagine the level of destruction. Each hour, each event counts in the tragedy of Gaza. Each piece of writing in Western and Arab magazines deserves a look…
Continua a leggere
Israel’s biggest challenge is how to cope with ghost people. The Palestinians, the Palestinian question have been removed since several years from Israel’s political agenda and from the majority of its citizens’ collective soul. Palestinians are simply ghost people. I saw it with my eyes. There are highways connecting Israeli cities with Israeli settlements located…
Continua a leggere
LIBERATING PALESTINE/ISRAEL: DECOLONIZATION, NOT CONFLICT MANAGEMENT. Originally published on Raseef22, June 29, 2021. غاصت عقولنا بدويّ الحرب مجدداً. الصراع من أجل القدس، من أجل الضفة الغربية، من أجل غزة، ومن أجل شوارع إسرائيل نفسها، هي ليست صراعات مستقلة بل صراع واحد على جميع الأراضي بين نهر الأردن والبحر المتوسط. يتطلب تفسير أحداث الأسابيع الماضية المتسارعة…
Continua a leggere
On May 2008, I was invited by the Turin Book Fair to join a debate on Jerusalem. At the speakers’ table, there were as well a couple of Italian journalists who had just published a stylish book on the Holy City. At the end of the debate, I asked one of them: “When were you…
Continua a leggereبعد خمس ساعات من الاعتداء الإسرائيلي على أسطول الحرية كان صديقي النمساوي ماركوس في طريقة للدخول لغزة عن طريق معبر اريز الإسرائيلي. ماركوس باحث في العلوم السياسية و كان في طريقه للمشاركة في مؤتمر حول البحث المقارن عن مواجهة التصعيد في حالات النزاع. كان التوقيت مبكراً و كان صديقي في غاية السعادة لحصوله على تصريح…
Continua a leggerePerché quello che è successo in Palestina dopo le rivoluzioni arabe è una forma di rivoluzione tutta particolare, al femminile. Prendiamo Hebron, che in arabo si chiama al-Khalīl, in onore del beneamato patriarca Abramo, sepolto, si dice, insieme ad altri patriarchi biblici nella città della Cisgiordania meridionale; una città di commercianti, divisa in due per…
Continua a leggere
It is difficult to add other things on what happens in Gaza these days, which has already raised the frustration and the disgust of thousands of squares around the world. The same movie is screened: Israeli massive military intervention against Palestinian rocket rainfall on the one hand, and large-scale destruction with numerous casualties in the…
Continua a leggere
The book “Walls, Tears and Z’atar” is now available in Arabic language. The book was presented in Alexandria, Egypt, on the 20th of June with the participation of the famous international writer Alaa Al-Aswani. Book introduction “Palestine doesn’t exist,” said a young, freckle-faced soldier at Kalandia checkpoint as he checked my papers on the road…
Continua a leggere
Gianluca Solera 