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)