I was about to write that, “without serving as a precedent”, I applaud the position of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on his trip to Israel. I put aside that mental reservation, because his reasonable and reasoned objection to the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed face to face before the deceased, is not going to redeem him from his indefensible internal alliance with the enemies of Spain, supposedly for the good of Spain..

One does not remove the other.

I recognize myself in Sánchez's position: inexcusable rejection of the execrable terrorist attack of October 7 on the unsuspecting and defenseless civilian population of Israel. The Hamas murders have been unequivocally condemned by Sánchez, along with the no less inexcusable disapproval of the indiscriminate response against the civilian population of Gaza. A condemnation expressed in light of the mandates of international law.

It includes the urgent need to stop the humanitarian catastrophe through a ceasefire, negotiation of a lasting peace and the two-state solution.. It is the official European position, coinciding with the exercise of the rotating presidency. Although it did not coincide, because Sánchez already warns that Spain will make its own decision (recognition of a Palestinian State), if the European countries continue not to agree.

And what seems to me most important in the name of the human condition (humanism, together with democracy and law, is the third founding pillar of what we call Europe). Namely: whether or not it influences the performance of an international policy led by regional powers and the complicity of Israel with the US, while the UN plays the violin.

The loss of dialogue in the area may worsen in the face of this new diplomatic clash with the Israeli Government, which yesterday called our ambassador to chapter to convey its discomfort over Sánchez's statements.. We may lose influence in the area, but Spain will gain moral strength in the public opinions of its country and the rest of the European countries, because it is fair and necessary to say publicly what the President of the Government has also said to Netanyahu. On the contrary, it is unnecessary, false and unfair to accuse him of supporting Hamas terrorism. That awful. An accusation that, also unfairly, sounds in the upper echelons of the PP, only concerned about the foreseeable loss of political weight of our country in this punished coastal area of our Mediterranean..

Sánchez has told Netanyahu that Spain knows what it is talking about as a suffering country in terms of terrorism (ETA's nightmare against democracy and the blows of furious Islamism in Madrid 2004 and Barcelona 2017).. And there was never the temptation to respond with blood and fire to calm the instincts of revenge outside of legal and moral mandates.. Those who at this point should refrain from referring to the “dirty war” of the State in years of ETA lead. Equally condemnable, but nothing to do with the size and nature of the savages. Even so, they were specific and selective responses condemned in court..

Many of us would like the moral traits of Sánchez's position on the Middle East conflict to spread to national politics.. In other words: that the courage he has had to make the Israeli Prime Minister uncomfortable, whatever it costs Spain in bilateral relations or in loss of international influence, he would also have with those who maintain poisonous complicities for the health of the Kingdom of Spain.

The difference is that he owes Puigdemont the position. He owes Netanyahu nothing. On the contrary, he owes us the apathy for not having previously taken out of hell the Gazans with Spanish passports, ignored by other nationals who were emerging from the Rafah mousetrap, due to the lack of dialogue from Spain..

On the other hand, the surrender and surrender to the humiliating demands of a minor character, like the Waterloo fugitive, is well worth a tribute of loyalty in exchange for four more years in Moncloa.. Although, to explain it, Sánchez has had to distribute among his people an instruction manual with lies at the service of the inconsistency that breaks the waist of traditional PSOE militants and voters..