The Friends of Israel Initiative (European Lobby)

The Friends of Israel Initiative (FOII) is an international effort, to "seek to counter the attempts to delegitimize the State of Israel and its right to live in peace within safe and defensible borders", initiated and led by former Prime Minister of Spain and People's Party leader José María Aznar in 2010.

It was co-founded by twelve other international figures. They include Republican Party former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Forza Italia's former President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera, former President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, and billionaire financier, Robert Agostinelli and British Conservative Party peer, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble.

Italo Bocchino and supporting Zionism

Italo Bocchino (born 6 July 1957) is an Italian politician and journalist.

Bocchino was born at Naples, and in his youth he was a members of the Italian Social Movement (or MSI, a post-fascist formation) and worked as a spokesman for the member of parliament Giuseppe Tatarella, and subsequently as a journalist for Il Secolo d'Italia. In 1996, 2001 and 2006 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for Alleanza Nazionale, the party founded by Gianfranco Fini to replace MSI.

Name:Italo Bocchino 
Year of birth:1957 
Placeof birth:Italy

In 2005 he was the centre-right candidate to the presidency of Campania region, but was defeated by Antonio Bassolino. In 2007 he founded Con, a conservative magazine.

Despite having been elected to the Italian Parliament into the People of Freedom lists in 2008, Bocchino in 2010 followed Gianfranco Fini to found Future and Freedom, a centre-right party which aims to counter Silvio Berlusconi's predominance in the Italian right area.

Within the party, he is the founder of the Generation Italy movement.

Mass European Rally for Israel October 6, 2010 by Hillel Fendel:

A mass rally-demonstration entitled “For the truth, for Israel” will be held in Rome this Thursday. It is being organized by Fiamma Nirenstein – journalist, MP, and vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Italian Chamber of Deputies – and other leading European personalities. MK Nirenstein forwarded the information about the rally to IsraelNationalNews.      

Gaetano Quagliariello and supporting Zionism

Gaetano Quagliariello

Name:Gaetano Quagliariello
Year of birth:1960
Placeof birth:I

The rally is billed as "the first European, bipartisan event aimed at restoring the truth regarding Israel, putting an end to the barrage of lies that are hurled at Israel every day and to the double standard used by the media and international organizations." More than 80 personalities, politicians, intellectuals, artists and journalists from all over Europe are registered to take the floor for a maximum of five minutes each.

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Mass European Rally for Israel October 6, 2010 by Hillel Fendel

A mass rally-demonstration entitled "For the truth, for Israel" will be held in Rome this Thursday. It is being organized by Fiamma Nirenstein – journalist, MP, and vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Italian Chamber of Deputies – and other leading European personalities. MK Nirenstein forwarded the information about the rally to IsraelNationalNews.

Benedetto Della Vedova and Zionism

Name:Benedetto Della Vedova
Year of birth:1962
Placeof birth:Ital

Benedetto Della Vedova (Sondrio, April 3, 1962) is an Italian politician, formerly the leader of Liberal Reformers, a minor liberal and libertarian party, and currently member of The Liberal Part, a liberal faction within the centre-right People of Freedom party. His political experience began in 1994 with the Radicals of Marco Pannella, of whose list (the Pannella List) he had been secretary. 

He was elected to the European Parliament in 1999 and served as MEP until 2004, when he was the first of the non-elected. From 2001 to 2003, he was president of the Italian Radicals. In 2003 he was the strongest challenger to Daniele Capezzone for the leadership of the Italian Radicals, on a platform based on free-market and the hidden proposal of joining Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedom's coalition. In 2005 he launched the Liberal Reformers (with Marco Taradash and Peppino Calderisi), after the Radicals had decided to support Romano Prodi and his centre-left coalition The Union. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 general election on the list of Forza Italia, being the only member of the Liberal Reformers to take part in the newly-elected parliament.