So far, so close. The hell of Gaza, land of the last of the wars, two thousand and four hundred kilometers from the Island that once belonged to the Peoples of the Seas, sinks deeper every day in a disastrous rain that does not irrigate the fields of the Promised Land with life. Devastation that razes every moment of survival to the ground, in an advance that inflames not only that "Strip", but which risks triggering an apocalyptic scenario on the eastern side of the Mare Nostrum , the ancient Mediterranean. The umpteenth flare-up of a world in turmoil where the borders of war become increasingly entangled with those of the affairs of death, of gas and oil wells, of the perverse relations between rogue states and terrorism, between exorbitant interests and imperialist cravings.

What does Sardinia have to do with it?

Asking yourself what the land of the Nuraghi has to do with that conflict, with that unprecedented war, is not an obvious question. The geographical map, the land and sea borders, have not said everything for a long time. Or rather, they don't tell the truth, the underground, subtle one denied to most. It is the circumspect chessboard of what cannot be said and must, for love of country, remain silent. It is the representation of the most obvious contradictions and ambiguities, of subtle relationships that for the sake of base money, we must pretend to ignore. In this map of dangerous relationships, of circumspect affairs, of economic interests that prevail over everything, Sardinia is not a marginal land.

Perverse entanglements

If we open the treasure chest of economic balance sheets and corporate structures, we discover that the intertwining of weapons and healthcare, high-class tourism and energy, high finance and transport transforms the Island into a truly crucial hub between the West and the Middle East. A synthesis of contradictions and obvious ambiguities, of unscrupulousness capable of bordering without caution on cheap opportunism. They call them economic relations, but the reality, in a war scenario like the Israeli-Palestinian one, is quite different, especially when the border between states and terrorism becomes tenuous to the point of being completely annihilated with rivers of money that have always, according to the most accredited international reports, end up in the undergrowth of weapons or underground tunnels in Gaza.

Pretend nothing happened

In Europe, as in Italy, the rule is to pretend nothing happened. Ignore, as if nothing had happened, that river of money which for decades, with an increasingly significant volume in recent years, has secretly financed the terrorist channels that have always been enemies of the West, from Hamas to Al Qaeda, from ISIS to the Muslim Brotherhood . To the point of voraciously insinuating itself into the folds of European corruption, complete with bribes poured like a flood into the safes of European parliamentarians and others, with the sole objective of representing certain Arab countries as icons of democracy and respect for rights, from women's to civil rights.

Qatar, at home on the island

The first cornerstone of this financial-terrorist, economic and business chessboard has a suspect who is at home in Sardinia, or rather has in many ways taken up residence. According to American and Western reports, Qatar is under accusation, the smallest and most powerful state on the Middle Eastern side. In Brussels, as in Rome, in Cagliari as in the Costa Smeralda, when Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, sets foot on foreign land there are more salamis than handshakes, more bows than institutional dignity. Yet, everyone is shooting at the Hamas "terrorists" for the September 7th massacre in the lands of Israeli settlers, beyond the insurmountable border of the Gaza Strip. It doesn't matter if Hamas has always knocked on Qatar's door when it needed money. It is no coincidence that the real headquarters of the terrorists who controlled the Gaza Strip, contrary to what the Israelis are currently claiming, is not under the Shifa hospital, but in the heart of Doha, the capital of Qatar. Of course, in the emirate, they have one objective above all: to try to wash their conscience and image in every way.

Facade charity

The reasons for the support are justified with the "noble" commitment to "alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people". It is no coincidence, in fact, that everyone is hanging on the lips of Qatari "diplomacy", which they say is involved in negotiations for the release of the hostages. Few, however, in military and international "intelligence" believe it. Since 2012, Qatar has been the "home" of Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, but has hosted with full honors Saleh al-Arouri, the founder of the military wing of Hamas up to the members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades , known for their ability to plan attacks from abroad, to Husam Badran, Hamas' current spokesperson in the media and who instigated several suicide bombings during the Second Intifada.

Tunnels & weapons

The financial reports tell of "devolutions" to the Gaza Strip of over a billion dollars by the lords of Qatar, those at home in Sardinia. Money hardly ended up in the cultivation of wheat and well-being, rather in the meshes of terrorism with the aim of making Gaza an inviolable fortress. And it is precisely with Qatar that the first major business-economic connection between the Middle East and Sardinia takes place. International and domestic relationships, sometimes explicit and shameless, both in Sardinia and in Rome. From an ad hoc law of the Italian parliament to build the emirs' hospital in the land of Gallura, the Mater Olbia, complete with an annual fee of 70 million euros to be taken from the devastated Sardinian health budgets, up to the Costa Smeralda, tourism elite still stuck in the fifty-day policy, a sort of pot with holes that fills with dollars but a good part of which ends up on the Middle Eastern side, leaving little or nothing in Sardinia compared to the great potential that could have been generated for the Island . Not to mention the collapse of Meridiana, the first and only Sardinian airline, born under the aegis of Prince Aga Khan, defunct under that of the emirs friends of Hamas. A Sardinian-Middle Eastern chessboard full of money, business, weapons and even the boundless goal of expanding the borders, those of the sea, towards Sardinia.

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