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Italy faces a growing housing emergency, highlighted by the story of a woman who, after reporting her violent husband, finds herself at risk of eviction, while unions and collectives mobilize to protest against a government plan deemed insufficient. #EmergenzaCasa #Sfratti #ProtesteRoma (translated)

Luigi Marattin corrected a mistake made on Piazzapulita, where he referred to UN Security Council Resolution 242 as "282." He argued that the text, adopted after the Six-Day War in June 1967, stipulated two conditions to be met together: the Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and the recognition of the right to existence and peace of all states in the region, including Israel. Marattin recalled that in 1979 Egypt accepted a land exchange for peace and that Israel returned the Sinai. He added that the Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat was then assassinated. According to Marattin, other Arab states and Hamas, which emerged in the late 1980s, did not recognize Israel's right to exist. He stated that after Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, Hamas did not initiate a disarmament and peace process. He linked this position to Arafat's rejection of the Camp David Accords in 2000 and accused Hamas of oppressing Palestinians, launching rockets at civilians in southern Israel, and preparing the attack on October 7, 2023. In conclusion, he urged readers to verify the text of the resolution and accused pro-Palestinian propagandists of spreading falsehoods. #ONU #Pace #MedioOriente (translated)

At 20 years old, Paul Seixas enters the history of the Giro di Lombardia, becoming the youngest winner of the competition, and after 15 hours, he gets back on his bike to participate in the Roc d’Azur, highlighting his passion for cycling beyond the results. #Ciclismo #GiroDiLombardia #PaulSeixas (translated)

Matteo Di Gangi wrote that Lazio had earned 16 points in the first six matchdays of the league for the first time in its history, describing it as the club's best start. He added that the team risked wasting their two-goal lead and the extra man after Monza, playing with ten against eleven, missed several opportunities to equalize at 2-2 at the start of the second half. Looking ahead to Juventus-Lazio next Sunday, he noted that Gattuso would arrive at the Stadium as league leaders along with Inter. He concluded that if someone had told him this two months earlier, after Lazio-Mantova, he would have been immediately hospitalized. #Lazio #SerieA #Calcio (translated)

A great trauma. A black hole in the history of the Republic that must be told without rhetoric, it is history. John Foot's analysis is sober: "A great trauma. A black hole in the history of the Republic that must be told without rhetoric, it is history." #BrigateRosse #StoriaItaliano #JohnFoot (translated)

John Foot, an English historian, analyzes the Red Brigades in his essay, highlighting the great trauma they represented for Italy and the necessity of an amnesty in exchange for the truth about murders and responsibilities, emphasizing how the organization emerged from diverse socio-cultural contexts and was initially underestimated by the State. #BrigateRosse #StoriaItaliano #JohnFoot (translated)

Fabrizio Biasin wrote that Marcus Thuram, 29 years old, had made 146 appearances, scored 54 goals, and provided 34 assists, at a cost of zero euros plus 8 million in fees. He called his signing one of the greatest deals in the history of Inter. https://t.co/o34OWAKOGs #Inter #Calcio #Mercato (translated)

Rula Jebreal wrote that, in her opinion, there was an attempt underway to dismantle the legacies of the Allied victory over Nazi fascism, starting with international criminal justice, which was born in Nuremberg and is today represented by the International Criminal Court. She called the comment attributed to Israel regarding the Nobel to Navi Pillay, stating that "Joseph Goebbels is applauding from hell," a "grotesque reversal of history." Jebreal argued that the applause should rather go to those who, in her opinion, were trying to dismantle international justice and ensure impunity for war criminals. According to Jebreal, the delegitimization of the courts was the first step towards replacing the law with the will of those in power, with democracy as the ultimate target. She also criticized the announcement of a live-streamed execution by firing squad of the perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre, describing it as a transformation of punishment into spectacle and the state into a stage of vengeance. She concluded that, in addition to international justice, the principles of national rule of law were also under attack. #GiustiziaInternazionale #DirittiUmani #Democrazia (translated)

Luigi Marattin responded to Corrado Formigli, who in the Corriere had described as "an embarrassing confusion" what the deputy said on Piazzapulita. Marattin mentioned that he has been reading investigative journalism and historical studies on conflicts for decades and cited Il Legionario, a book about Giustino De Vuono, arguing that its author documented the presented theses. Marattin accused the documentary Naza of making unfounded accusations. He cited the bombing which, according to the mentioned reconstruction, would have killed 500 civilians, stating that no evidence of either the attack or the death toll had been presented. He argued that the only source was Hamas's word, treated as truth, while Israeli accounts were dismissed as propaganda. He added that he had said on air that, in wartime, he did not consider the reports of the involved parties reliable and preferred those from independent observers. For this reason, he described Israel's decision not to allow foreign journalists into Gaza, even at their own risk, as a mistake. Marattin accused Formigli of not listening to this point and of silencing dissenters, imposing his own opinion. Finally, he wrote that he would have liked to read a "mea culpa" from the host for his statements about Israeli children on October 7. #giornalismodinchiesta #storia #media (translated)

Lunacharsky wrote that the time had come for Ukraine to find a new president. He argued that the politician he was referring to fully accepted Putin's demands and was paid by him. He called that politician the best deal in Russian history and added that they even got back Alaska. https://t.co/XsFBClPkAl #Ucraina #politica #Putin (translated)

Riccardo Cucchi had shared a passage from *Every Morning in Jenin* by Susan Abulhawa, set in Palestine in 1948. In the excerpt, Ari was telling Hassan that the Zionists had many rifles and had formed an army with the Jews who arrived daily by ship; he added that they also had armored vehicles and planes. #Palestina #Guerra #Storia (translated)

The article explores the history of the nicknames of Italian electoral laws, such as Stabilicum and Porcellum, highlighting how expressions in maccheronic Latin have become a satirical tradition used by politicians and the media to describe otherwise complex and bureaucratic reforms. #Stabilicum #Meloncellum #leggeelettorale (translated)

Alessandro Orsini stated that Europe depended on Russia for energy supplies and described as humiliating the announcement, attributed to Donald Trump, of an agreement with Vladimir Putin for the supply of over 300,000 tons of diesel, which would lower prices. Citing the Corriere della Sera, he reported that Europe was facing winter with the lowest gas reserves in the last fifteen years and was purchasing more gas by ship from Russia than ever before. According to the data he provided, European storage was 72% full, compared to 83% a year earlier, while in Germany and the Netherlands it was below 60%. Orsini claimed that the agreement would give Putin more resources to strike Ukraine. Orsini recalled predicting that an attempt by NATO to defeat Russia on the battlefield would provoke a more intense Russian response against Ukraine and a severe economic crisis for Europe and Italy. He said that the prediction, made on February 24, 2022, had not been believed and that subsequent events had confirmed it. He also announced his participation that evening in the program *Accordi e Disaccordi* and the presentation, on October 17, at the Feltrinelli in Largo Argentina in Rome with Luca Sommi, of his book *Nato, l’espansione verso la Russia*. He described the volume as a historical reconstruction of NATO's enlargement towards Russia, from the promises to Gorbachev during the negotiations for German reunification to the war in Ukraine. The thesis of the book, he explained, connected the documentary origins of tensions between NATO and Russia to the contradiction between Article 5 and the minutes attached to the Treaty on the Final Settlement of Germany of September 12, 1990. https://t.co/2KWZ8kSEG9 #Russia #Europa #Gas (translated)

The author described the responsibility that the American president would assume before history as extremely serious and unprecedented, adding that the United States remained, despite him, a free and democratic country. He said he thought about the struggle of the Ukrainians and what Europe should have done and been. #Democrazia #Libertà #Ucraina #US #UA #EU (translated)

Luigi Marattin argued that the conflict in Gaza was the only one in history where the international community accepted the data provided by one of the parties as credible, likening the situation to the official dissemination, in 1943, of the numbers from the SS bulletins. He cited the case of a school for which, according to him, rumors of hundreds of casualties had spread: he stated that it later emerged that a missile from Islamic Jihad had mistakenly hit a Palestinian building and that the number of casualties had been scaled down. Marattin added that the manipulation of public opinion in that affair would be studied for centuries. #Gaza #Conflitto #Manipolazione (translated)