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Italy Enabled Palestinian Terrorists to Target Jews in Rome
(Israel Hayom-JNS) Fiamma Nirenstein - According to a front-page story last week in the left-leaning Italian daily Il Riformista, Italian authorities had been warned prior to the Oct. 9, 1982, Palestinian terrorist attack on the Great Synagogue of Rome, in which two-year-old Stefano Gaj Tache was killed and 37 others were wounded. The implication is that there had been a political agreement between former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and Palestinian organizations that vowed not to assault "innocent" Italians (i.e. non-Jews). Such a promise meant nothing, as Palestinian terrorists attacked Rome's Fiumicino airport in 1973 (killing 34); hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, and attacked the Rome and Vienna airports in twin attacks in 1985 (killing 19). Allowing, acquiescing to and negotiating over the aggression against and killing of Jews is a classic aspect of anti-Semitism. The agreement exposed the secret belief that Jewish lives are not worth as much as those of others. Jewish lives matter. The writer, former vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.