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05/08/2008: "Italian Rightist horrified by burning Israeli flags"

Gianfranco Fini, the president of the Italian Parliament, is facing a firestorm of controversy after saying that the May 1 burning of Israeli flags in Turin by far-left protesters was "much more serious" than the savage beating of a 29-year-old that same day in Verona by a neo-Nazi gang. The victim of the beating, Nicola Tommasoli, died late Monday after several days in a coma. Five young fans of the Verona soccer team have been arrested for the murder.

To fulfill his big ambitions, Fini understood in the early 1990s that he had to distance himself from his past. Eventually, he came to believe that the shortest path from marginal Mussolini nostalgic to mainstream political power was unwavering support for the state of Israel.

[ He should support Israel as a place he intends the Jews in Italy to go to asap. That is where he fails. What if the immigrant had been Jewish? ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080506/wl_time/italianrightistsparksoutrage