“A huge war is raging in Ukraine, but we cannot ignore what is happening in Gaza, which is a real genocide,” Defense Minister Margarita Robles said on Saturday. in an interview with RTVE. “We should also not forget what is happening in Africa or Sudan, where millions are dying.” This is how Robles has expressed himself, becoming the first socialist minister to describe the Israeli offensive in Gaza as “genocide,” which has already left more than 35,000 dead.
Moreover, Robles has ruled out reprisals by Israel regarding the cooperation of the intelligence services following the recognition of the State of Palestine by the Spanish government on May 28 and has justified this act of the Spanish executive.
The minister, during an event in Oviedo on the occasion of Armed Forces Day, emphasized the professionalism of intelligence experts and emphasized that both Spain and Israel have “common objectives”, for example in “the fight against terrorism”. “One issue concerns the more diplomatic or more political aspects, but what is the fight against terrorism, in which we are all involved to achieve a better and more just society, I am sure that we will continue to work,” noted them up.
Robles recalled that the recognition of the Palestinian state is “a commitment to peace and the coexistence of two states.” That is why he asked to “look at it positively”. “This is not against anyone, this is not against the Israeli state, this is not against the Israelites, people we respect,” he insisted, later emphasizing that recognition is also a gamble for “an end to the violence in Gaza.”
The Defense Minister has stressed that Spain has a contingent in Lebanon under the mandate of the United Nations which, as she has defended, is “doing an excellent job in maintaining peace”. “The Lebanese people love the Spanish people. And that commitment that our forces have put into Lebanon means that Spain will be an important factor in restoring peace at that time,” he asserted.
The government of Israel announced this Friday its decision to “sever the connection between the representation of Spain in Israel and the Palestinians” and to “ban” the consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians living in the West Bank, following the recognition of the State of Israel. Palestine, which will enter into force on May 28, and the “anti-Semitic” statements of the government's second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, who used a video in support of the recognition of the Palestinian State with the phrase “of the Palestinian stands”. river to the sea.”