Remembering Gernika

Today we commemorate the bombing of the sacred Basque town of Gernika which was inmortalized by Pablo Picasso's painting "Guernica", a painting so powerful that today it embodies the anti-war sentiments of those who understand that nothing good comes from not giving peace a chance.

Gernika may be by now a chapter forgotten by bogus historians, martini communists and weekend human right activists, but it will stand forever as the first carpet bombing of a civilian population in history. It was also a the Nazi's first big scale ethnic cleansing operation, one that the modern keepers of the Nazi Holocoust willingly hide from the hundreds of books about the darkest era in Europe's modern history.

That attack was directed to the heart and soul of the Basques, that attack was part of a ravenous attempt by an old colonial power to retain at least a bit of its imperial image, and it was conceived in the minds of the worst fascist monsters of the XX century. But the Basques stood tall, the indomitable Basque looked at the enemy on the eye and fought it till the end and today Gernika represents our will to prevail.

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