Could anyone foresee the unexpected irruption of an international policy issue that is moving the ground of internal policy in Spain? It already happened with the Iraq war. But no one could see that two years after October 7, 2023, Gaza would become a relevant factor. Because the genocide of the Palestinian people had become, by force of being broadcast on live television, a daily matter. Normalized Inevitable. Inexorable. But often the unexpected happens. Pedro Sánchez He captured it.
And 50 days after the rupture of the wall and the operation of the militias of Hamas in the Israeli part visited Israel along with the Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo. Both offered a press conference in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, which would be shortly after the Israeli army. Both warned about the spiral of unleashed violence.
And in a bilateral encounter with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on November 23, 2023, Sánchez He pointed out: “We must take the necessary steps towards that high humanitarian and durable fire,” he explained. “It is what we ask the Israelis authorities, with which we have maintained sincere exchanges,” he added.
He continued with the complaint, regularly of the massacre of civilians, women and children. David Hatchwellone of the visible heads of the Israeli Lobi in Madrid, president of the Jewish Hispanic Foundation, said: “Sánchez He has gone to Israel to stay as the strong man of Europe when he really wants to use a political situation. Hamás’s subsequent congratulation Sánchez He says everything. “
It remained Sánchez in the gap against the attacks against him of the government of Netanyahu, Hatchwell and accompany the PP of Alberto Nuñez Feijóoand above all, for the fury, of the statements and messages of José María Aznar, Isabel Díaz Ayuso y Miguel Ángel Rodríguezwho present to the Spanish government as the ally of Hamas.
The King Felipe VI He captured it.
The first time he intervened, publicly, on Gaza after the Israeli offensive, was on January 11, 2024. He took advantage of his speech before 130 Spanish ambassadors in the world gathered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Madrid. At that time, the Israeli army had killed 23,500 Palestinians.
The king said that without the establishment of a Palestinian state “it will not be possible to stop the cycle of violence or prevent it from repeating again,” he said. “The tragedy that Gazza lives is shaking the conscience of humanity, as did the terrorist attack that Israel suffered on October 7, the worst in its history. Give Israel, it will not be possible to stop this cycle of violence or prevent it from repeating again, ”he said.
In February 2024, the Government intervened in the sessions of the International Court of Justice of The Hague, the UN Court, with a denunciation intervention of the Israeli offensive in the occupied territories of Gaza, Bank and East Jerusalem.
Finally, in May 2024, the Spanish government announced the recognition of Palestine. Already closer, the king of Spain denounced, on September 16, during the state visit of the kings to Egypt “the unbearable humanitarian crisis and the total devastation of Gaza”. Until raising the level of decibels in their speech on September 24 on the 80th anniversary of the creation of the UN in New York.
“We cannot remain silent, or look the other way, given the devastation of bombings, even hospitals, schools or refuge places, before so many deaths between the civilian population, or before the famine and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. What destiny? They are aberrant acts that are in the antipodes of what this forum represents. We condemn the slaughter of October 7, 2023 against the Israeli population … We recognize Israel’s right to defend themselves, but with the same firmness we demand that the Israel government will apply without reservations the international humanitarian law throughout Gaza and the West Bank … it is hard for us to understand what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip, “said the king.
The attack on the king has been immediate. Vox leaders have said that the king is “abducted” by Sánchez When the photo of both is known at the UN. Israeli lobi in Spain released a statement in which it warns that Felipe VI “He will not be a friend of the Jews.” Apparently, Felipe VI y Hatchwell They have agreed as students at Georgetown University, in Washington DC
But there is another point, apart from Gaza, which is interested in taking into account in the parallel lives of Sánchez y Felipe VI: The president’s wife, Begoña Gómezand King’s sister, Cristina de BorbónThey share the fact that the Clean Hands Union has gone for both.
Cristinawho was accused in the trial of the Nóos case, was acquitted of the fiscal crimes for which he was accused. However, he was required to pay a lucrative civil liability of 137,000 euros. But there is more, because Felipe He withdrew the title of Duchess of Palma in June 2015 after the refusal of this, for more than three years, to renounce his succession rights to the throne of Spain.
Meanwhile, the water open by Gaza adds to the Vox climb in the surveys. While Aznar y Ayuso They defend Israel unconditionally, Bean It makes balances to avoid qualifying a reality that is already incontrovertible even for some PP barons. It started Xavier García Albiol With his natural pragmatism: “I will not be the one who denies the UN if he says it is genocide.” And they have followed him Moreno Bonillafrom Andalusia, and Alfonso Ruedafrom Galicia. Now they have already learned the prohibited word in the PP dictionary: genocide.
Although the king has not pronounced that word, his description of the situation has been evident. And while Sánchez He does nothing to take advantage of the monarch, the attempt to Bean to use the king to justify his absence of going to the opening ceremony of the judicial year, on September 5, which bothered the King’s house.
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