The Israeli Embassy has settled the diplomatic conflict with Spain after releasing a statement on Monday to criticize the “shameful statements” of “members of Pedro Sánchez's Government whom it accused of “aligning with the terrorism” of Hamas.. “We have already turned the page. We have already said what we had to say,” said its head, Rodica Radian-Gordon.
However, he has once again expressed his disagreement with the public statements of “some ministers”, in implicit allusion to those of the head of the Social Rights portfolio and general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra: “These types of statements then have a a result that worries us a lot, because we are seeing more incidents of anti-Semitism. “In fact, it is not the first time that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has led to anti-Semitic demonstrations.”
The warning comes after the leader of the purple formation raised the tone this Wednesday to publicly ask the PSOE to “suspend” relations with the Israeli State and encourage the European Union to impose “exemplary economic sanctions” against “the political leaders.” of the “planned genocide” that, as he stressed, is being committed in Gaza. In previous days he had asked to go to the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court to investigate “the war crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“We have heard again the president [Sánchez] say that the only [international] policy of Spain is made by the president and by the Minister of Foreign Affairs [José Manuel Albares]. “We are satisfied with this response,” Radian-Gordon has tried to downplay.. Even so, he has insisted that they hope that the Government “does everything to avoid having more manifestations, not only of anti-Semitism, but of expressions of hate and statements that are not appropriate.”
Moncloa tried this Tuesday to stop the diplomatic clash with Israel by disavowing both Podemos and Sumar – the space of which it is a part – with the argument that “there are only two authorized voices” to define Spanish policy abroad. The day before, through another statement, he had responded to the Embassy to “flatly reject the falsehoods expressed” about some ministers and warned that he would not accept “unfounded insinuations about them.”
Podemos participates this Wednesday in a rally in front of the Israeli Embassy in Madrid called under the motto Let's stop the massacre in Gaza represented by its secretary of Horizonte Republicano, Rafa Mayoral, and Julio Rodríguez, secretary of Peace. “I also hope to have other types of demonstrations in the coming days,” the ambassador said in this regard.