Reply #1: Fini retracted his comments on Mussolini... [View All]

[Paschall]

In Jan. 2002: "His sense of timing has not deserted him - Mr Fini's new, politically correct opinion was expressed just a day before the Italian government announced that he would be representing the country on the EU's constitutional convention, a considerable achievement for the leader of a party that was not invited to participate in the writing of Italy's post-war constitution."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,638579,00.html

It apparently took him several months to consider the problem of fascist persecution of Italian Jews. Because he didn't issue an apology for the deportation of 6000 Jews under Mussolini until Sept. 2002.

As a "friend of Israel" he's barely dry behind the ears, this Mr. Fini.