Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'The flotilla is a gesture; the important thing is Gaza.'

Demonstration yesterday afternoon in Barcelona, in support of those detained by the Israeli army during the Flotilla. And as in Barcelona, ​​the protests spread to other Catalan cities and dozens of European cities.

Months and months of deaths in Gaza, killed by bombs, malnutrition, or lack of medical care, have finally brought out into the streets the unrest we've been incubating in front of screens that brought us images of the genocide. No one could have expected us to witness this massacre without reacting. Late, but still reacting. And, in this sense, the more than foreseeable arrest of the flotilla members has ended up acting as a catalyst. We can reduce the flotilla to a gesture and we can wonder about the personal and political agendas of some of its members, but their actions have had the virtue of answering a question that everyone has been asking themselves during these months of destruction in Gaza: "Have they killed more than 60,000 people and nothing happens?"

At this point, it's important that we can continue to condemn Netanyahu without descending into anti-Semitism. Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of forgiveness, the greatest holiday in Judaism, and a man arrived at the doors of a synagogue in Manchester, England (where there is an ancient and large Jewish community), and killed two people and injured fourHe was a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent.

A tragedy like Gaza, which stirs so many emotions, is easily manipulated by all kinds of interests. All kinds. Now I'll share some words from Ayuso, yesterday in the Madrid Assembly. We already knew that Ayuso is a person with more political language than brains, and her provocations are taken for granted and we no longer make much of a fuss. But today we've decided to make an exception.

"If the Floating Faculty Assembly believed that Israel was genocidal, that it was a genocidal state, there would have been no lunatics, no lunatics. But they've already had their fill of crowds, and from now on, well, come on, subsidies for beach bars, for the moment, and for the theater, for the cinema. They're trying to achieve peace, and the world is holding its breath. Let's see if they stop this once and for all, because they don't want peace, that's what they're about. And now they're trying to destroy it by all means.

It's about making speeches that fit the entire creed: Bildu, subsidies for artists, and social hatred. Ayuso is a puppet of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, director of the Madrid president's office and spokesperson for Aznar's governments. Together, they have created a botched, defiant, exaggerated, histrionic character who wins by an absolute majority.

Good morning.