" The use of force prevails on too many occasions , and the scenario we face is the one Pope Francis described with rare effectiveness: a third world war fought piecemeal ." Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this during her speech at the United Nations General Assembly underway in New York . "We are living in an accelerated, complex historical phase, rich in opportunities, but also, perhaps above all, fraught with danger," she added. "We are suspended between war and peace," that is, we live "in a world profoundly different from the one in which the United Nations was born, when in 1945, 51 nations, which today have become almost all of them, decided to unite to found an international organization whose primary purpose was to avoid war. The question we must ask ourselves 80 years later is looking around, and we have succeeded. You all know the answer, because it is in the news and it is merciless . Peace, dialogue, diplomacy no longer seem able to convince and win ."

Meloni then spoke about the ongoing war in Gaza. " We believe that Israel has no right to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state tomorrow , nor to build new settlements in the West Bank in order to prevent it. This is why we signed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution. It is Italy's historic position on the Palestinian question, a position that has never changed ." "At the same time," she added, "we believe that the recognition of Palestine must have two essential preconditions : the release of all Israeli hostages and the renunciation by Hamas of any role in the government of Palestine. Because those who started the conflict cannot be rewarded."

(Unioneonline)