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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has just expressed regret that his country does not have nuclear weapons. O why? In order, apparently, to be able to defend his country against the mad-dog settler-colonial ethnic-cleansing genocidal state of Israel. More on his comment, and on the angry riposte from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, can be found here: “Netanyahu accuses Spain’s Sanchez of ‘genocidal threat’ after nuclear weapons comment,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, September 11,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused his Spanish counterpart of making a “blatant genocidal threat” after the latter lamented Spain’s lack of “nuclear weapons” to defend against Israel during his announcement of sanctions against the Jewish State.
In his speech on Monday, Pedro Sanchez said “Spain, as you know, doesn’t have nuclear bombs, nor aircraft carriers, nor large oil reserves. We alone can’t stop the Israeli offensive, but that doesn’t mean we won’t stop trying, because there are causes worth fighting for even if it’s not in our sole power to win them.”
Sanchez then introduced nine new measures, including a full arms embargo on Israel and a ban on imports of goods from illegal Israeli settlements.
Responding to this on Thursday, Netanyahu tweeted: “Spanish PM Sanchez said yesterday that Spain can’t stop Israel’s battle against Hamas terrorists because ‘Spain does not have nuclear weapons.’ That’s a blatant genocidal threat to the world’s only Jewish State.”
“Apparently, the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews of Spain and the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust, is not enough for Sanchez,” he added.
Sanchez was also criticized by other Spanish politicians, including the leader of the Vox party, Santiago Abascal, who said “ Sánchez would like to have nuclear weapons … but not to defend Spain. To defend Hamas. And surely Maduro too. Cornered tyrants always end up going mad.”
Abascal accused Sanchez of “allying with Hamas to cover up that his wife, charged with theft, is testifying before a judge this very week.”…
Sanchez’ wife is in deep trouble, now on trial for embezzlement of public funds, and the Sanchez regime has already experienced a series of corruption scandals. Abascal’s charge is very likely true: Sanchez wants to shore up his support on the left by taking a whack at Israel, hoping that his wife’s defalcations will then be overlooked.
The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) called for Sanchez’s comments to be investigated using international legal courts and treaties….
CAM asked Sanchez to apologize “unreservedly” or else “international legal courts and authorities should explore charging him with incitement to genocide.”
I doubt that either the anti-Israel International Criminal Court, or the International Court of Justice, would want to consider such a case. Pedro Sanchez will continue displaying his extraordinary anti-Israel animus — his thought seems to be “Ojalà que tuviese un bomba nuclearo” (“if I only had a nuclear bomb”) — until he is finally voted out of office, to be replaced either by the Vox Party’s Santiago Abascal or by the Partido Popular’s head, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. For many of us, that vote to remove him can’t come soon enough.
