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Posted: 26 Jul 2014

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Bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao

Bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao
One of the most pleasurable experiences of visiting Italy this spring was being in Florence on Liberation Day, April 25th, and being able to follow along the riverbank for a kilometre, onto the Ponte Vecchio, this band. Here they are singing the old Resistance song "Bella Ciao." The band is called Fiati Sprecati. Among this holiday crowd were a few tourists like me who didn't know the words, but many were locals who gladly joined in to sing, dance, and throw their fists in the air. That's Benvenuto Cellini whose bust hovers over the band approvingly.

Given the horrors in Palestine right now, I thought it appropriate to post this as a small token of hope and support.
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 Justfolk
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I agree with almost everything you say, except your statement (a mis-statement, maybe?) that violence is inherent in them. Both cultures have an ingrained fear and resentment, but this is certainly a cultural thing, a cultural thing that is aggravated and reproduced over and over by politics. Political leaders, especially in Israel, are culpable. A younger generation could very easily change all that.

Israelis often like to say that being against Israel is anti-semitic. Of course, Arabs are Semites, too, something that points out the fraternal nature of the argument that has grown up there. Fraternal (or 'civil') wars are often the dirtiest ones. And the war on Palestine is certainly a dirty war.

Yes, Bella Ciao is a well-known song. I had no sooner finished making another version of this picture last night when it (in the original Italian) started playing on the radio station I was listening to (REE, Radio Exterior de España). It's a wonderful song.
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
 Justfolk
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I am a big believer in the idea that most (all?) religion falls on a continuum that ranges from useless and wasteful to hurtful and dangerous. When it's close to the dangerous end, as lots of modern religion is, it is the civilised responsibility of others to reduce or even prevent damage. Right now, there, that would be best done by not supporting the Israeli military -- as the USA (primarily) has done for decades.

Our vocabulary differs but I think you and I are very similar in how we read what's going on.
10 years ago.

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