Giorgia Meloni’s moral retreat on Gaza
Key takeaways
- Italy’s prime minister once condemned the killing of Palestinian children.
- Italian-Egyptian journalist and writer based in London.
- No cause is fair when it sheds the blood of the innocent.”
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Italy’s prime minister once condemned the killing of Palestinian children. Today, her government’s actions reveal a foreign policy shaped less by principle than by political calculation.
Italian-Egyptian journalist and writer based in London.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a news conference after their meeting at Palazzo Chigi, in Rome, Italy, March 10, 2023 [Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters]In 2014, during the Israeli assault on Gaza that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, Giorgia Meloni, then just a member of the Italian parliament, wrote on social media: “Another massacre of children in Gaza. No cause is fair when it sheds the blood of the innocent.”