venerdì 18 aprile 2008

The Israeli 'settler' serving in Italy's parliament

un'intervista al neodeputato Fiamma Nirenstein ... che vive a Gilo, un settlement israeliano in terra palestinese ...

Almost 50,000 people live in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, one of the largest in Israel. Up until now, it had no representative in parliament. As of this week, it does. Fiamma Nirenstein, a neighborhood resident for 10 years, was just elected to the Italian parliament. If we stick to the definitions of the UN, which views Gilo, on the capital's southern edge, as a settlement, one could say that Nirenstein is the first settler to be a member of a non-Israeli parliament. (...)

fonte Haaretz

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