Amos Oz, who fought in the Six Day War and Yom Kippur, left this confession written in What is an apple made of? (Siruela): "War is something stinky. It is impossible to express in words the stench of the battlefield, I have given up." All those inflamed who confuse the serious situation that Catalonia is going through with a potential war conflict should read the Israeli intellectual's reflections on violence. Perhaps they would understand the importance of calling things by name. Not even what happens in Catalonia is only a political "conflict", as the secessionists argue; nor a revolutionary insurrection , as the prophets of the apocalypse roar.

The imminence of 10-N pollutes the reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling, which considers that the violence of 2017 was not aimed at secession but to force a negotiation with the State. The criminal classification of the proven facts reported by the Second Chamber has raised blisters. And not only among the CDRs that try to impose self-determination at the blow of marches and political strikes. Marchena was on his way to being declared Spanish of the year, but now he is no longer a judge at the service of the PSOE . How is it possible that some of the toughest attacks on Justice in the last hours come from constitutionalist sectors?

Perhaps frustration explains this fact. The same cause that underlies the spiral of violence . The indepeted mass is fed up, fed up with human chains in exchange for an unviable reverie. And those who endorsed the task of the Executive and the Legislative are frustrated to Justice. Sanchez buried the rajoyesco tancredismo , but the secessionists continue burning bridges . Now literally. Prime for so long the disobedience has resurrected the rose of fire , which is how the anarchists called Barcelona. The fires in the Eixample reveal that the ANC and Òmnium Cultural - social arms of Puigdemont and ERC - have lost control of the street, which makes an institutional challenge a threat to security.

Torra behaves cynically and irresponsibly by calling insubordination to those he beats through the Mossos. And it exceeds indignity when it refuses to condemn the riots. The Government does well not to rule out any measures, although it would be counterproductive to apply the National Security Law just when coordination between the different bodies has been oiled. If the problem is of public order, yours is that the security forces operate . And all this, if possible, without hysteria, without shouting on Twitter. With a loyal opposition to the Government. Behaving, for once, as a State.

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