“What completely isolated world live the Germans! A look at yesterday’s newspapers has been enough to remind me. While the rest of the world considers that Germany is about to break peace, since it is she who threatens to attack Poland for Danzig’s issue, here in Germany, in the world that local newspapers create, exactly the opposite is maintained.” It is an extract of Berlin newspaper of William Shirer. Specifically, of the, three weeks before the German invasion of Danzig, which caused the outbreak of World War II. Shirer, a American correspondent in Berlin author of brilliant transmissions for the CBS in which Nazi Germany deciphered, documented in that August the scope of the misrepresentation: the Berliners consumed daily that it was Poland that disturbed world peace with the threat of an invasion. Relieving your work in full boom of extremist populisms provides perspective about the damage of. Lies conscientiously prepared, which daily emit the megaphones of extreme rights, here and in other latitudes.
The certain sample of and its rejection of the massacre perpetrated by the Israeli army in Gaza, expressed in the mass demonstration of the weekend -the most relevant of the Postprocés-, he left those who in the last month have ridiculed the Global Sumud Flotilla, with teasing and lies, in networks and parliamentary headquarters. The protests reproduced in different European capitals in denunciation of the genocide and with messages of support to the activists – often and subsequently deported by Israel – certify the, but are also a deeper expression of indignation to insensitivity. Caricaturizing who mobilizes against the pain of others is the first step to banalize evil. It is what the flotilla has been a victim, causing tares in the conservative and reactionary universe.
The ships that sailed from Barcelona and other Mediterranean ports did not have at their fingertips mitigate the famine in Gaza -despite the rhetoric of channeling a humanitarian corridor -but they were pursuing to turn on the flame of a reaction, with the media impact of one. The action at the sea, coinciding over time with the negotiations of a peace plan with many shadows, has fed mobilizations that now make up the public discussion, as will be certified in the Parliament’s general policy debate. And, by extension, the episode has left the leaders who belittled the journey of the flotilla on the border of indignity comparing it with a vacation paid on idyllic beaches or a teenage excursion to conflict zone. They will not blush, but it is pertinent to remember that in the choteo without anchor with the truth they share a list. From the Trumpist leader of the PP to the new boss of the extreme right of Catalan root.
