EFA: Mintoff's positives outweighed the negatives

Mario Camilleri

Aug 24th 2012, 12:36

Kulħadd jista jgħid li Mintoff kellu xi ħażin fih, imma żgur ĦADD ma jista jgħid li Mintoff kien IPOKRITA!
Imma fuq kollox min kien li lil Mintoff pproġettah u pinġieh bħala l-ħażin u stampa fl-imħuħ tan-nies speċjalment iż-żagħżagħ il-krudellta u t-tiranija ta' dan il-bniedem kbir u statistika? Illum qiegħed jintqal dak li kellu jintqal fuqu żmien ilu. Issa troppo tardi.
Hawn nixtieq nagħmel kumment ta' riflessjoni "l-uniku żewġ affarijiet li qatt ma jerġgħu jidħlu lura minfejn ħarġu huma l-bnedmin u l-kliem".
Mitt elf skuża ma tagħmilx tajjeb għal imqar gidba waħda!

Toni Borg

Aug 22nd 2012, 15:57

infakru meta bdew jajtu ghal Mintoff "Salbuh Salbuh" u issa x'gara

Jesmond Farrugia

Aug 22nd 2012, 13:54

"Eddie Fenech Adami said today that all considered, Dom Mintoff's positives outweighed his many negatives."

Correction: Dr EFA said that "while many will remember his negatives, on balance the positives outweighed the negatives".

S Bartolo

Aug 21st 2012, 18:16

First of all my condoliences to his family. I think he did the good and the bad, like all of us. But please do not try to compare 1980's Labour and 2012' s Nationalist. It is like comparing Paceville in the 80's and Today. Still Paceville but not the same in all aspects... almost 35 years passed so everything change.

Joseph E Briffa

Aug 21st 2012, 17:33

@ Joseph Grech Attard....I am sorry but I never imagined I would read such a comment. Despite your well-known sympathies, I would have expected you to make an effort and desist for one day from writing such comments, which only fan the flames and don't do any good to any body, particularly your party. Dr Fenech Adami, like the statesman he is, buried the hatchet; we all know what he and his family went through when Mintoff was Prime Minister, yet he let bygones be bygones and in true gentlemanly fashion he refrained from spelling out Mintoff's negatives and reopening old wounds. Dr Fenech Adami's appeal for reconciliation and calm has been the hallmark of his leadership and continues to this very day; it definitely was not an easy job to keep the feelings of some of his followers in check both before and after 1987. But he sure did, and the whole of Malta was spared from the horrible acts of retribution; he did not allow any witch-hunting and concentrated on the onerous task of bringing Malta back on the road to full democracy and prosperity; an extremely difficult task which he carried out with dignity and humanity.

C Busuttil

Aug 21st 2012, 17:14

Prosiet Dr. Fenech Adami, kellu bzonn in-nazzjonalisti jew ahjar il-pseudo nazzjoanlisti li mimli bihom il-partit jitkellmu bhalek.
Mintoff kellu kliem ta tifhir ghal Nerik u ghal Gorg meta mietu, imma llum minghand partitarji nazzjonalisti li suppost partit nisrani!!!!!! hlief kliem ta' mibeda ma qrajtx.

Victor Pulis

Aug 21st 2012, 17:10

Antoine Grima

Today, 15:18

EFA said , Dom Mintoff's positives outweighed his many negatives. Why not say Dom Mintoff's many positives outweighed his negatives ? That's what EFA should have said if he really wanted to be a gentleman.


Mr. Grima that's exactly what EFA said.
Now be a gentleman and admit that you misunderstood.

j brincat

Aug 21st 2012, 17:04

"EFA: Mintoff's positives outweighed the negatives"

Yeah! And how!

And about time too!




(jb)

cesco di luigi

Aug 21st 2012, 16:53

"too quickly at times" for lawyers and priests, everything is too quickly, always.

Martin Saliba

Aug 21st 2012, 16:42

Too little too late. You should have said so when he was alive.

R. Gauci

Aug 21st 2012, 16:36

Hawn zewg tipi ta` Malta, dik ta` QABEL MIntoff fejn kienet ikkaraterizzata mill-emigrazzjoni en masse, faqar, injoranza, tallaba, mard relatat ma malnutrizzjoni, mahkuma mil-barrani u dik ta` WARA Mintoff fejn il-poplu Malti beda jipprospera, jahdem f'pajjizu jobs dicenti, jkollu djar sbieh fejn jghix, faqar ma baqax jezistu, edukazzjoni u kura medika b'xejn, vot lin-nisa u zaghzagh, drittijiet lill-gays, nehha l-ghanqbut, investimenti, Air Malta, banek, cekkijiet dejjem gejjin fil-letterbox mhux bhal-lum jiguk il-kontijiet u mitt haga ohra.

Tghidu xi tghidu n-Nazzjonalisti 100 sena ohra meta tigi studjata l-istorja ta` Malta dan kollu se jaraw.

J Degabriele

Aug 21st 2012, 16:26

I'm so glad that I'm not a politician!

Joseph Mifsud

Aug 21st 2012, 16:14

EFA must have said that the PN in government dismentelled all Mintoff done because the PN doesn't beleive in the Maltese people

Karl Consiglio

Aug 21st 2012, 16:03

Death makes heros of us all.

Antoine Grima

Aug 21st 2012, 15:18

EFA said , Dom Mintoff's positives outweighed his many negatives. Why not say Dom Mintoff's many positives outweighed his negatives ? That's what EFA should have said if he really wanted to be a gentleman.

Mario Zammit

Aug 21st 2012, 15:09

Well said Onor Fenech Adami, but if these words were said when you was Prim Minister and when Mr. Mintoff was still alive, it would had made more sense

Anthony Scicluna

Aug 21st 2012, 15:03

To all commenting negatively on Dr Fenech Adami, please do realise that our former President and Prime Minister is trying to reconcile. Instead of everyone saying how much they hated Mintoff and Fenech Adami, can we just for once try to reconcile?

There is a level of respect we are duty bound to award to those who are grieving for Mintoff. Irrespective of what we feel, the only way to heal this deep division in Malta is to join in the grieving or keep to ourselves. Come on.

We are a single nation and our children deserve inheriting a united country rather than more dision and more hate and more personal vendettas

stephen mifsud

Aug 21st 2012, 14:54

lets face Eddie you like Mintoff very much ...he is our father and we are like his children that wanted everthng and we cried if we did not get our way but Mintoff thought us with Dixxiplina like a FATHER should. god bless you father of malta .

A Dimech

Aug 21st 2012, 14:20

well said EFA - that is very good words.

good words that unite the nation!

Eugene Sapiano

Aug 21st 2012, 14:12

I remember quite well during Dr Gorg Borg Olivier's funeral, when Mr Mintoff who was attending had to leave because a few people were strring up trouble.

So let us hope that during Mr Mintoff's funeral no one will do likewise because I am sure that members of the cabinet will attend.

Violence has no place in things like these let alone funerals!

Frans Aguis

Aug 21st 2012, 14:02

At least he spoke.Such a far cry from Gonzi's statement which dances around not saying anything.

Edmond Micallef

Aug 21st 2012, 13:45

Nobody should speak negatively of a dead person.

This was the case when Gwido died. And he was surely not entirely a saint, was he?

RIP to all the deceased, irrespective of their political colour.

Peter Midler

Aug 21st 2012, 13:38

Dr Eddie Fenech Adami, you just earned my respect.

fred sammut

Aug 21st 2012, 13:32

EFA jawgura lil Mintoff bil kliem, imma bil Fatti bnielu Power Station quddiemu.......

N. Agius

Aug 21st 2012, 13:31

Prosit dr. fenech adami. Kellu bzonn n- nazzjonalisti jahsbuha kollha bhalek!

fred sammut

Aug 21st 2012, 13:30

Rip Perit u grazzi ta Kollox......... niftakar fid diskors ta waqt il glieda mal Inglizi u kien qal .." jekk ma nigildux lil Inglizi...... inkunu GIFA ! u wliedna jishtuna !! " Illum Perit, jghidu x jghidu, fil Fond ta qalbu kulhadd jaf li int kont il Persuna adatta ,ghal dak iz zmien. Ma kontx perfett imma kont MALTI aktar minn Kull Malti iehor. Malta hadet isem u Malta hadet pozzizjoni u ghal pajjizek tajt Kollox.

Strieh fis sliem Perit tibqa f qalbna u f Mohhna

Daniel Borg

Aug 21st 2012, 13:29

Mhux tajjeb hallilek il kaxxa ta.malta mifquha bil miljuni ha jkollok xtonfoq jew u llum qed nitkelmu fuq.dejn

Charles Micallef

Aug 21st 2012, 13:26

Beautiful and fair words from one elder statesman about another!