Bibi will be visiting Italy this week, while the Israeli state is being torn apart by his gangster coalition. As you know we’ve been talking about Israel’s other occupation which has now gone hot.
An interesting episode took place beforehand--an incident, even. The Italian translator slated for Bibi has now publicly refused to translate for him, and the reasons are interesting:
"Not only do I not share Netanyahu's political views, but his leadership is extremely dangerous in my view when it comes to democracy in Israel. What's more: if I agree to cooperate in translating his words, my children will not forgive me."
"I tried to convince them that it was only a matter of work, and that if I refused, my gesture would change almost nothing - but they were not ready to accept any explanation. They amazed me: they usually seem to have little hope for the future of the human race during these troubled and turbulent times, and they always encourage me to take on new jobs. But in this case they were determined: they will not cooperate with those who promote fascist principles and suppress freedom, they simply will not do it. I decided to listen to them," Padua said.
Why is he even going to Italy during this time? Why is he going anywhere?
"On Friday, Netanyahu is expected to hold a meeting with businessmen at the Italian Ministry of Economy and in the afternoon there will be a meeting with the Prime Minister, during which Netanyahu will ask her to relocate her country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."
These are his priorities at this time, apparently. It's a rule for tyrants to be out of touch.
The narrative of the Likud-Meloni relationship, I'm sure, however tenuous, is something like them representing "Judeo-Christian values," whatever that is, or even "Western civilization." The reality is that they represent thugocracy and the interests of the Russian-Jewish mob.
Let's talk about the Italian PM, Giorgia Meloni. Indeed, she and Bibi have a lot in common. Namely, they're both leaders of Russian-compromised political coalitions in their respective countries.
Meloni really started her career in government when she was appointed as "Minister of Youth" (whatever that is) by then PM Silvio Berlusconi in 2008, in this way, she owes her political success to him.
Who is Berlusconi? One cannot summarize such a man briefly. He is 86 now and has done a lot in politics, and is still doing things--not unlike Joe Biden. But unlike Joe, he likes malarkey.
To really understand Berlusconi, one must understand his membership in Propaganda Due, run by the banker Michele Sindona, who was closely conneceted to the Sicilian Mafia. This was, and perhaps still is, the real power in Italy. Is Berlusconi still the boss of bosses in Italy? Looks like it.
But what's most relevant for us here is that Berlusconi is a close friend of Putin, which has caused diplomatic inconveniences to Meloni herself, as is surely amusing to us.
"Though the Italian premier ran her election campaign in 2022 with the firm promise that she would send military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine should her right-wing coalition win, one of her key allies—Silvio Berlusconi—has repeatedly undermined her position.
Berlusconi—a controversial media tycoon and Italy's longest-serving prime minister—is the leader of Forza Italia, one of the parties within the right-wing coalition in power. He has long considered himself a close friend and admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin."
""It would have been enough for him to stop attacking the two autonomous republics of Donbas, and this wouldn't have happened," he said to reporters on February 13, referring to Russia's invasion. "So I judge very, very negatively the behavior of this man," he said, calling the Ukrainian president "Mr. Zelensky."
He added that, in contrast with Meloni, he would never have gone to speak to Zelensky."
Let's talk about Meloni's relationship with Bannon:
"Bannon has long supported Meloni and the Brothers of Italy. In 2018, Bannon described how he was working with the Brothers of Italy to The Guardian, calling them "one of the old fascist parties," but predicted they will become one of the far-right movements who will "become quite mainstream, over time.
"In 2017, Bannon announced he was launching a European operation called "The Movement" which sought to unite European nationalists such as Nigel Farage, British politician and key Brexit campaigner, France's Marine Le Pen of the National Rally party and Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in a bid to get more far-right politicians elected in the European Parliament elections."
Bannon celebrated her election in 2022, on his War Room podcast, with Matt Schlapp:
"The irony is that all the antisemitism, most of it is on the left. They hate the state of Israel, they hated Netanyahu, they hated the Trump-Netanyahu relationship, and they just hate the state of Israel for all kinds of reasons. So they use this term far-right, which our American media is now picking up.
Let me tell you what she is. She is pro-life, she's pro-Constitution, she's pro-family, and she's anti-globalist. And she fits right neatly in the term of what we call conservative here in America, so as people start reading this propaganda media saying that she's some kind of fascist, just remember, they've called us all fascists, or semi-fascists or whatever they have this week for us."
Bannon assures us, Meloni might be fascist, but she is also pro-Constitution. And she's anti-globalist, just like Alex Jones. Does any of this make sense? It's not supposed to make sense. The point is that they had their guys in Italy elected.
In case you thought there are no other connections to Putin and Meloni's government, oh no, Berlusconi is just the tip of the Russian iceberg.
Meloni's government is constituted, primarily, from three parties (that's how they do it in Italy): Brother of Italy (Meloni), Forza Italia (Berlusconi), and Lega (Salvini)--we talked about the first two, let's talk about Lega and Salvini.
To put it bluntly, the Lega party is a Russian construct. This has been well-documented in Anglophone and Italian media, perhaps this Daily Beast article is the best introduction to it:
"Salvini's key tie to Russia is his former spokesman, Gianluca Savoini, who is not present in the current Italian government, but who remains a trusted ally of the leader. Savoini, who is married to a Russian woman named Irina, is listed as president of the Russia-Lombardy Association based in the north of Italy and frequently tweets from Moscow, even referring to a shot he took of Red Square as the “third Rome,” and often praising Putin and his United Russia party. In a profile last March, Italian Vanity Fair referred to Savoini as Salvini's “sherpa,” who “doesn't speak a word of Russian but who is fluent in the language of politics.”
The L'Espresso exposé refers to “dozens of trips to Moscow, the Crimea and the Donbass” by Savoini, and, they claim, “he has conducted the negotiation for Russian financing from the beginning.”
Savoini is an associate of Aleksey Komov, a name often associated with Putin-connected Russian oligarch Konstanin Malofeev, who happens to have a religious media propaganda TV station in the same Novinsky Boulevard building as Avangard Oil & Gas.
Komov, who L'Espresso says works for Malofeev at his massive St. Basil the Great Charitable Foundation, is also tied to U.S. President Trump's former campaign chairman Steve Bannon through the Catholic group Dignitatis Humanae, which is building a university for alt-right politicians in an 800-year-old monastery outside of Rome. Komov is the Russian ambassador of the World Congress of Families, which fights abortion and same sex unions on whatever platform it can."
So, there you have it. The evidence points to Italy being currently, and perhaps for quite a while, being ruled by Russian-tied mobsters. One is especially disturbed when seeing Savoini refer to Russia as "Terza Roma." How the mighty have fallen, when the Romans are calling Moscow, of all places, the next Rome.
Now let's go back to Netanyahu. What does Chabad (a Russian-controlled movement) have to say about Bibi's relationship with Russia?
The early meetings between Bibi and Putin were orchestrated by Chabad? Very interesting. Just exactly how deep are Russian-Likud ties? Watch the whole video here:
One wonders that now as China is distancing itself from Israel and aligning with Iran, that perhaps the Likudniks are doubling down on Russia, which is surely suicidal, yet they're doing it.
The world was mistaken about Putin. It was also mistaken about Bibi. We can take it further: the world was mistaken by the Soviet Union, and it was mistaken by Likud. We've awakened, most of us, from the former dream, but many are still dreaming the second one.
Russia is a mob state, it always has been. It's on the brink of collapse, but it's emissaries, it's oligarchs, want to bring the anarchy to Israel and Italy, and ultimately everywhere, because that's where mobsters thrive.
It doesn't matter if the Russian state collapses, it has collapsed before. Their state is weak by design--the oligarchs don't want strong states. On the contrary, if the Russian state were not prone to collapse, but had real power, that would be the real issue for the mob.
Israel is where the Russian oligarchs run to when there's trouble, and Italy is where they vacation with their yachts. But they cannot hide anymore.