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Although, according to Herodotus, the correlation of forces between 4000 Greeks under the sun leaden August 480 BC tried to defend this strategic move not too different from Roncesvalles and three million people who wanted to force-I believe that this last figure owed be given to the father of historians by counter demonstrators from the Community of Madrid- was much more unequal than that now exists among the 601,000 registered inhabitants in Navarra and the Basque 2,133,000, which was in geostrategic terms metaphorically involved was very similar.For those not set, according to modern estimates , the Persian forces in this battle is not exceeded, if that figure reached nearly 500,000 units. Too bad they did not exist back then the Manifestómetro . Pego
Navarra, our Thermopylae
PEDRO J. RAMIREZ
In a passage from the long interview I gave in April last year President Zapatero said literally: "I have a pending conversation with President of Navarre, whom I much respect, but I think his latest effort, summoning the PSOE to define themselves against the claim panvasquistas-anticipated debate in a somewhat hasty. " Already at that moment there was something in the inflection of his voice or loss of brilliance in his eyes that reminded me of that unforgettable Forges joke in the 70 information which saw a guy within a wound on a box spring mattress with broken springs, surrounded by cigarette butts and other debris, which, in the middle of a room with the air of a den, sighed: "One of these days I have to make my bed!".
Eleven months after the facts have shown that Zapatero was even less eager to welcome Miguel Sanz to visit Japan because, with "respect" or not, the "conversation" continues just as 'pending' and meanwhile an emboldened Batasuna has placed the annexation of the Old Kingdom at the head of their inalienable claims both public and private demands of its recurring in the talks has been keeping secrets the PNV and the Socialist Party of Euskadi. In that interview
Zapatero rejected the recommendation of the State Council to propose the repeal of the Fourth Transitional Provision of the Constitution which leaves open the hypothesis of the incorporation of Navarre in the Basque Country-Spain would do differently today if the president had followed, as promised, the road map of his top advisory body, and it referred to "possible dialogue" between "a majority of Navarre with very clear ideas" and "a minority that also has very clear ideas." So now then she pondered something to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable and, knowing his love to imagine that the deepest conflict can be solved with clever wordplay, it is assumed that has not stopped a single day to do so. How
settle the matter according to the pattern Navarre by recognizing the existence of the Catalan nation (but within the English nation), proclaims the right to decide of the Basques (but within the framework of the Constitution) and supports the annexation Moroccan Sahara (while respecting their right to self-determination)? As revealed on Thursday, El Semanal Digital our creative statesman had finally seen the light through a basic analogy: "If neither you nor I have any problem to say that we are citizens of Castilla y León, "he reportedly said to a fellow businessman and host, what problem could there be for someone to say that is both a citizen of the Basque Country and Navarra." The chicken.
When the other day, referring to the two shades of brown wrappers used in various items of explosives, the commissioner heard Sánchez Manzano declare that in his view, "light and dark are the same," then I understood why sloppy and muddy EOD chief fell so well the president in his brief meeting earlier this year in La Moncloa. Only confusing opposites together can sponsor, or as even contemplate, in these times a political project Basque-Navarre, comparing the Castilian-Leonese. Eye, we are not talking or cultural cooperation, and sports and commercial relations, but of the attachment via common representative institutions. And that to this day as much sense as the parliamentary body to which it is scheduled to begin the merger is not Basque-Navarre, Basque but Leon. Is said to be the land of Bierzo and not those of the Bank which are added to the Gohierri.
boutade not to arouse a touching Zapatero's homeland, but the reductio ad absurdum of that stupid call mummified "Historical rights" that Basque nationalists invoked to claim Navarra and under which the leaders of Batasuna shelter no less than to refer to Pamplona "our Jerusalem." As it happens that the most remarkable feat of arms that seminal Sancho III whose scepter as "lord of the Basques' diffuse source uses this self-justifying nationalist frenzy, it was his conquest through blood and fire in 1034 in the city of León , overthrowing their lawful ruler, and brother of his daughter-Bermudo III. So the great medievalist July Valdeón reminded us in his millennial Sancho III was presented in a contemporary document as "imperium in Aragone et tenentis in Pampilonia et in Legione et in Castella. "
The superb monograph that our magazine's Adventure History Navarra dedicates this month to let things clear from a retrospective point of view: political union then called the Kingdom of Pamplona with the three Basque provinces is but a fleeting sway that survives even to the twelfth century, as its end the manors of Alava, Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa are finally reunited with the crown of Castile to that traditionally belonged. Support a common identity and differentiated into what did not happen to be one more of the reciprocal systole and diastole of the peninsular kingdoms among which was forged construction history of Spain over 900 years, no wonder that Sancho the Great was also mentioned then as rex or Hispaniorum ibericus-Rex is so fanciful that the same manner could serve to vindicate the Leonese mountains as part of lebensraum traditional venue.
Although the annexation policy to dual monarchy not compulsory until 1512 Ferdinand, the testimony of English Navarra called out permeate from the Old to the Chronicle of the Prince of Viana. "Navarre, everywhere you gnaw," said the hapless enemy son of John II, referring to the claims of Castile and Aragon, so similar to the Basque today, while portraying his land as "one of the oldest towns in our Spain." The conversion to Protestantism of the leading members of the dynasty was overthrown, the Albret, who take refuge in his court of Nérac beyond the Pyrenees, dispels any alternative other than the development of the Councils as a genuine form of integration into the Habsburg Spain . Navarre loyalty rebellions against Catalonia and Portugal in the seventeenth-and its commitment to the Bourbons in the War of Succession strengthen the continuity of the covenant between the state and one of its parts substantially identified with the whole.
The rest is History day before. The implication in the Carlist wars, the revolt of 1893 against the tax uniformity, the famous minister Gamazo Gamazada whose spirit seemed to fly over the rally on Saturday, or the actual contribution of the red berets of the revolt of 1936 are but expressions of the same Traditional sensitivity, and therefore conservative, by which the Navarrese English feel. When our generation reaches democracy the Improvement of the Charter Act, equivalent to the statutes of other communities, fits as the most dexterous fingers in the glove comfortable state of autonomous.
There is no other example travel straight towards modernity, keeping essence, that of the Navarra Foral and English. Meanwhile, Basque nationalism was with and against the Republic, was pre-fascist to Marxist-Sabino Arana and the ETA terrorist De Juana Chaos ilk made a pact with the Democrats in Ajuria Enea and the totalitarian-Lizarra Estella ... Now your project is to build up forces for self-determination and secession porch, agreed or not with Spain, and aims to engulf Navarra out of its natural pivot. "We are the object of desire for the dream of Euskal Herria can not survive without Navarra," he told us three months ago José Javier Uranga from his double authority as Dean of good journalism of opinion and survivor one of the most vile attacks by ETA. The only problem with the promoters of the Anschluss to Bilbao is that 80% of Navarre, the estimate is our excellent columnist Manuel Hidalgo, nothing but accommodating to Pamplona to UPN after all, not want.
The Navarrese not want, and the rest of the English, either. If Otegi said that Pamplona is their Jerusalem, and now with the movie 300 is going to be fashionable this decisive episode in ancient history, we reply that the whole of Navarre is our Thermopylae. And I will explain why.
Although, according to Herodotus, the correlation of forces between 4000 Greeks under the sun leaden August year 480 BC sought to defend this strategic move not too different from Roncesvalles and three million people who wanted to force-I believe that this last figure he should be given to the father of historians by counter demonstrators from the Community Madrid-was much more unequal than that now exists among the 601,000 registered inhabitants in Navarra and the Basque 2,133,000, which in geostrategic terms metaphorically stakes were very similar.
Similarly, if the invaders arrived from the east forced those Thermos Hot Gates Pyla-first would be falling into Delphi, Mount Parnassus, Thebes and Athens itself, then move to the Peloponnese, where they would have bowed to the very Spartan, and would collapse like dominoes also the pillars of constitutional Spain Basque achieved if the sovereign ownership of Navarra. At that stage dementia, the state of autonomous self-serve bar with the law of the strongest, darkest dreams as those of the Països Catalans, the annexation of certain counties bordering Galicia or the taking of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco and end up materializing the most that subtract from this shipwreck would be a balkanized Iberian Confederation of Peoples in their hatred and resentment.
I truly hope to complete Miguel Sanz, Yolanda Barcina the thriving, constant and lucid Jaime Ignacio del Burgo and all the other leaders of the Unión del Pueblo Navarro better in the polls than they did Leonidas and 300 Spartans when they were alone on the battlefield , which last requetés. But even if they obtain their electoral goals, only absolute guarantee that Navarre Navarre remains strong efforts to contain the nationalist tide is already having immense importance for all, by reducing the discretion of the Government and the PSOE, as it is essential to buy time and strengthen the position for the brutal attack that can be triggered in the coming months will not take him all before. I wish
wrong, but my first guess is that, they are called they are called, the ETA-Batasuna candidates will get a spectacular result in the Basque city because the most heinous of the current government policy is its moral money to voters . And my next prediction is that in their likely second term in power, only an illusory absolute majority of the PP could help it, "Zapatero depend numerically and politically superior national minorities as now. If both predictions are true, our democracy will enter a serious red alarm which will be essential for such important elements to stay the course of the ship and Navarra are firmly tied to the mast and except as the violent blows of the sea and seductive siren songs.
Just as the resistance at Thermopylae allowed to salvage the Greek fleet, setting the stage for the spectacular victories of Salamis and Plataea that definitely threw the Persians Hellenic soil, the underpinning of Navarra can give us the necessary time margin to rebuild the consensus of the Transition with or without-Zapatero, PSOE to recover the Anti-Terrorism Pact with or without Zapatero, and put a few candles to the Constitutional Court to get us out of this, with or without Zapatero ", giving a good the catastrophic pit Catalan Statute.
mobilization this weekend in this context has a dual purpose as a closing of ranks around UPN and as a serious warning to the Socialist Party of Navarre. You know your leader Fernando Puras, if at some point has crossed his mind the temptation to play the role of that Greek named Ephialtes showed the Persians a shortcut to surround and overwhelm the positions of Leonidas, all of Navarre English and many are watching. Given part of a majority Nafarroa Bai alternative that includes the PNV, EA and Batasuna and Aralar-and accept the creation of a permanent coordinating body Parliament Navarra Basque would stab in the back. No wonder the so Ephialtes, whose name means "nightmare" - appears in the highest places in the ranking of the universal history of infamy.
the same way that Mariano Rajoy last Saturday with a warm goodbye to the civic eloquence protesters in Madrid - "Return to your homes and tell the world what happened here" - taking his words of sly harangue Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Henry V on the day of the battle of Agincourt, I would like those who came yesterday to the streets in Pamplona are aware of the importance of their cause, dedicating "this time with the specific duty-some quotes literary.
"Even the most beautiful victories with his eyes have seen the sun never dared to oppose all their glory to the King Leonidas and his men in the pass at Thermopylae," wrote the great Montaigne.
"Oh, Earth, returns to your chest / a remnant of our Spartan dead! / Of the three hundred and three that were awarded, / to build a new Thermopylae," sang Lord Byron.
"If the Greeks had succumbed to the invasion of Xerxes, just ask Tom Holland in his book Persian Fire," the Western world would have not only lost its first struggle for independence and survival, but probably never have existed an entity called Western world. "
Maybe that's why William Golding used to say that "a little of Leonidas remains in the fact that I can go anywhere and write whatever he wants because he helped to set us free."
's been 2,500 years, but now it is the same.