May 21, 2026
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Milan’s Liberation Day fiasco: the police remove the Jews from parade to avoid repelling the pro-Palestinian far-left extremists

by Giovanni Giacalone The April 25 Liberation Day celebrations in Milan had an embarrassing outcome for local authorities as Jews were removed from the procession after a paralysis lasting over two hours as the group was blocked by hundreds of far-left, pro-Palestinian and pro-Iranian regime demonstrators carrying Palestinian, Hezbollah and Iranian flags and yelling anti-Semitic […]

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The judicial battle on the Hamas network in Italy and the threats to journalists raise serious questions

by Giovanni Giacalone The judicial battle on the Hamas network in Italy and the threats to journalists raise serious questions The issue involving the Italy-based Hamas-linked network and its leader, the Palestinian preacher Mohammad Hannoun, has already been extensively covered by the Washington Outsider in the past two years.  However, the latest judicial developments raised […]

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Trump’s Middle East fiascos to satisfy Qatar

by Giovanni Giacalone The Middle East is in turmoil as the Kurds in the north-east of Syria are being massacred by al-Jolani’s jihadists while prisoners belonging to ISIS are escaping from prisons. In Gaza, Hamas is rebuilding its forces and gathering weapons for a new offensive against Israel. In Lebanon, Hezbollah did not disarm and […]

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“Operation Domino”: The widespread Hamas network uncovered in Italy

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by Giovanni Giacalone On Saturday, December 27, the Italian State Police and the Financial Guard arrested seven Palestinians suspected of collecting millions of euros in support of Hamas. Authorities also issued international arrests for two others outside the country. Three associations, officially supporting Palestinian civilians but allegedly serving as a front for funding Hamas, are […]

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Is Italy using a soft approach on Palestinian extremism and terrorism?

by Giovanni Giacalone On Saturday, October 25, 2025, Italy-based Palestinian leader Mohammad Hannoun was barred from entering the city of Milan for one year. The city’s police chief had the measure delivered to Hannoun as he stepped off the plane from Rome to Linate airport, where he was supposed to join a pro-Palestinian demonstration scheduled […]

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Hamas-linked activist sanctioned by DOT attacks the US administration from Italian soil: “liars”

by Giovanni Giacalone On Saturday, August 16, the controversial Italy-based Palestinian preacher Mohammad Hannoun attacked the US Treasury Department during a street demonstration in Milan organized by the Association of Palestinians in Italy, of which he is president. Hannoun and two of his associations (ABSPP and Golden Dome) were blacklisted by the US DOT twice, […]

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Evolving Middle East Diplomacy: Palestine’s Strategic Repositioning and Its Implications for Turkey

by Turan Rzayev Recent statements by Abdullah Attari, the Palestinian ambassador to the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus, have created uncertainty in Palestine-Turkey relations. Attari’s remarks in an interview with the Greek Cypriot newspaper Politis have caused surprise and widespread debate in Turkey. He sharply criticized Ankara’s approach to the Palestinian issue. Generally, Turkey […]

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Albanese’s acrobatics after US sanctions – A potential political future in Italy with the anti-US far-left?

by Giovanni Giacalone On July 29 and 30, 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, Italian citizen Francesca Albanese, was invited to hold a series of press conferences at the Italian parliament by Alessandra Maiorino and Stefania Ascari, representatives of the Five Star Movement respectively at the […]

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How not to win a war: negotiations, procrastination and terror-empowerment

by Giovanni Giacalone The war initiated by the IDF in Gaza to release the hostages and eradicate Hamas has been dragging on for over sixteen months now. Around 58 hostages, two dozen of whom possibly alive, are still in the hands of the Palestinian terrorist organization which hasn’t been defeated or eradicated yet. The war […]

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Trump is no ally of Israel and Netanyahu needs to act now

by Giovanni Giacalone It is widely known how the Biden administration was quite problematic for Israel with its pressure to limit the IDF’s actions against Hamas, the entrance into Rafah, cutting the weapon shipment and imposing continuous “humanitarian aid” into Gaza that went straight into Hamas’ pockets. However, sometimes things can only get worse and, […]

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