Israel Minister of the Exterior, Israel Katz, announced that he was severing diplomatic ties with Spain and forbidding the Spanish Consulate from giving out aid to resident Spaniards.
The Minister took this decision after Spanish Vice-PM, Yolanda Díaz, announced in a speech that Palestine will “be free from the river to the sea,” which the Minister considers anti-Semite, eventhough members of his own government use that exact same terminology for the creation of Greater Israel with the Palestinians removed from the West Bank and Gaza. In fact, the Israeli PM’s party, Likud, has this included in its founding charter.
Furthermore, Israeli Minister for Energy, Eli Cohen, posted on social media after Spain, Ireland and Norway announced its decision (thus prior to Yolanda Díaz made her statement), “From the river to the sea there will only be one state,” which raised no objections from Israel’s top diplomat.
The Consulate is situated in East Jerusalem, which is part of the city occupied by Israel since 1967, along with the West Bank and Gaza. The Consulate has distributed food aid on a daily basis to resident Spanish citizens, the majority of whom have double nationality.
This comes also comes after Spain, Norway and Ireland officially recognised the Palestinian State, joining the majority of other states within The United Nations; a move labelled by Netanyahu as, “rewarding Hamas.” He also announced that he would punish the Palestinian National Authority for seeking via diplomatic means statehood recognition.
Editorial comment: Israel cannot act as it does with virtual impunity without the USA protecting it from international retribution, all the while stuffing Israel with weapons used in its brutal attacks against Palestinian civilians. Therefore USA shares the blame for what is happening.
It took Russia two years to massacre nearly 500 Ukrainian minors whereas Israel took just six months to massacre nearly 15,000 Palestinian minors; the former considered inexcusable by the USA and the latter glossed over with “Israel’s right to defend itself.”
(News/Noticias: Spain)
Warren: Agreed 😉
All around the world no matter what race what religion what their social standing you Should be allowed to get on with your lives; be it comfortable or be it harsh, without the threat of being obliterated by a bomb or a bullet from someone or somewhere they have got no control over.
It makes me sick
Viva pleasantness
Warren
Shiner: how quickly people forget that Israel ushered in Hamas by the busload because they wanted to undermine Fatah. Remember, the PLO were left-wing political terrorists and Hamas are a religious nutter group of terrorists! This, an Israel coronel in Mossad, publicly lamented in a news article.
It is also quickly forgotten that Israel financed Hamas when they first arrived. Should we also remember that Hamas (much to the joy of Israel) won the elections in Gaza in 2006 and they have not held further elections since then but rule with an iron fist? Going up against Hamas in Gaza for a normal civilian was like going up against the IRA if you lived in Belfast.
Here’s a quote about how Israel allowed Qatar to finance Hamas because they believed support Hamas against Fatah would mean there would be no partner in peace talks for a 2-state solution:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/middleeast/qatar-hamas-funds-israel-backing-intl/index.html
Also
https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-funded-hamas-claims-eu-top-diplomat-josep-borrell/
And lastly:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2023/11/21/world/israel-failed-policy/
How quick people forget that it was Hamas that started all of this. The Palestinians allowed Hamas to take control. The Israelis will never feel safe if Hamas is allowed to continue. The Palestinians were fully aware of what the Israelis would do after the Hamas attacked. The Palestinians should have evacuated the areas of conflict, thereby saving many lives. History shows that Israel just want to be left alone, but should any Arab faction attack their country, then the response is swift and hard.
Chapeau i say, alas other wester countries benefit from Israel’ warmongering. Hamas a terrible organisation but would not exist if the Palestinian people were so oppressed….. one extreme breeds another as history continues to tell us
Julie: Completely agree.
I have to say, some of the comments on social media against Spain, Norway
and Ireland for recognising Palestine as an independent State are the most
vile I have ever read.
This period in history will not be forgotton for the obvious genocide which is taking
place now and those people who have lost their humanity through indifference, lack of
knowledge and downright racism. If 15,000 white chidlren had been slaughtered,
it would be on the front pages of the press and headline news every day, as it should.
But not so for the children of Gaza and the West Bank.