Israel and Argentina “mocked” Sanchez’s defeat at the European Championship at the same time
International reactions
Netanyahu and Miley’s ministers celebrate the PSOE’s result in the European elections with the recognition of Palestine and the contempt of the Argentine president as backdrop
The governments of Israel and Argentina, declared enemies in recent days for the attacks by the government of Pedro Sánchez, have celebrated the defeat of the PSOE in the European elections last Sunday.
The Netanyahu executive celebrated, through his foreign minister, Israel Katz, that the Spanish had “punished” both Pedro Sánchez, who lost one seat and more than two and a half points of support, and Yolanda Díaz, who is far from expected, with only one seat more than Podemos and less than 11,000 votes ahead of Acabo La Fiesta and Alvise.
Katz, through a tweet, publicly showed the joy that has been generated in the Israeli cabinet by this 9J “decisive defeat” of the two leaders of the ruling parties who have decided to recognize Palestine as a State in the context of the war in Gaza and the genocide complaint against them before the UN International Court of Justice (CJI), promoted by South Africa.
Jerusalem’s response was to ban our country from providing consular care to all Palestinian citizens at the Spanish Consulate in the Israeli capital from June 1, as they have been doing for decades.
Although the embassy is in the other main city, Tel Aviv, it is the consular headquarters that assumes diplomatic relations with the Palestinian National Authority.
“It turns out that embracing Hamas murderers and rapists is not worth it,” said the diplomacy chief of the Middle Eastern country that has been battling the Hamas terror group since a kidnapping at a music festival near the Strip last October.
The message, in addition to mentioning the Twitter accounts of the popular Núñez Feijóo and Abascal, includes an image generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool in which the President of the Government and the Second Vice President appear with eggs smeared on their faces as a symbol of popular attacks on politicians as a form of protest or rejection of their decisions.
Excitement over Miley and the “progress of new rights” in Europe
The main figures of Javier Mieli’s Argentine government have also wanted to emphasize with satisfaction that they feel that Pedro Sánchez’s party has not won and has obtained a worse result than the 2019 European Parliament elections and the last June 23 general elections.
The liberal president described the victory of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in France, her counterpart in Austria and the far-right’s second place in Germany as a “tremendous advance of the new right” in the EU.
In the words of Miley, some “great news” for the Argentine executive, who with his speech welcomes the rise of European powers, to the detriment of those who “advance the 2030 Agenda” and “strongly attack” them. “Today we took a fundamental step in defense of our ideas,” the president claimed.
Also his partner in government as leader of Together for Change and now security minister, Patricia Bullrich, referred to the PSOE leader in a tweet, saying: “You insulted our government and you lost Europe.”
Bullrich points to the controversial statements of the Minister of Transport, Oscar Puente, who revealed that Miley would take narcotics, or to the statements of the head of science, Diana Morante, who accused him of maintaining the thesis of “science deniers” and representing a model that “attacks democracy.”
All this culminated, for the moment, in the withdrawal of the Spanish ambassador to Buenos Aires, ordered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following the corruption accusations that Miley leveled against Pedro Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, without naming her.