2023-10-09 01:54:06
With a disobliging trill, President Gustavo Petro responded to the director of the Jewish community in Colombia, Marcos Peckel. “Governments that get used to bombing children do not seem fair to me. “God does not bomb children.”
The leader of that community in the country had written him a respectful message in which he made a claim against his statements about the war that is shaking the Middle East and that has left a tragic number of victims in Israel. The country has experienced an unprecedented terrorist escalation that leaves more than 1,000 dead, 100 kidnapped and nearly 2,000 injured.
“The innocent children who died today were Jews and Israelis massacred by Palestinian terrorists,” Peckel had noted.
The Israeli ambassador to Colombia, Gali Dagan, denounced today that at the embassy in Bogotá, unknown persons had left graffiti with swastikas, an act that the United States embassy in Colombia classified as “anti-Semitic vandalism.”
A group of hooded men attack the headquarters of the Israeli Embassy in the capital of Colombia. | Photo: Taken from Twitter @galida12
The president has flooded the social network X (formerly Twitter) with messages about this conflict that have generated pain and rejection in the Jewish community.
“If I had lived in Germany in 1933 I would have fought alongside the Jews and if I had lived in Palestine in 1948 I would have fought on the Palestinian side,” Petro said on Sunday in X. “Judaism is one thing and Zionism is another thing.” ”said a post shared by the head of state on the same day.
Until Sunday, Petro had shared at least 40 publications and had argued with the Israeli ambassador who on Saturday told SEMANA magazine: “We hope that a country friendly to Israel strongly and clearly condemns the terrorist attack against innocent civilians.”
In response, Petro wrote in
President Gustavo Petro and the Israeli ambassador to Colombia Gali Dagan. | Photo: Presidential photo and SEMANA photo
The Israeli diplomat responded, also via X: “Gustavo Petro, in the hands of the terrorist army of Hamas more than 100 Israeli citizens were kidnapped from their homes.”
“The Colombian government is there to ensure that there is not a single hostage in the entire territory of Palestine and Israel,” the president then replied.
On Saturday, the Colombian Foreign Ministry released a statement in which it assured that the government “vehemently condemns the terrorism and attacks against civilians that occurred this morning in Israel, and expresses solidarity with the victims and their families.”
On Sunday the link was disabled. Instead, the ministry published a new statement that does not mention the word “terrorism,” although it “expresses its strongest condemnation of the harm to civilians.”
In September, Petro said in his speech to the UN General Assembly: “What is the difference between Ukraine and Palestine? Isn’t it time to end both wars?
Thus, the head of state asked nations to sponsor two “international peace conferences” to end this and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
A missile explodes in Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike, October 8, 2023. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP). | Photo: AFP or licensors
In June, after a bombing wounded three Colombian citizens in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Petro for the first time condemned Russia’s armed action in that country. “Russia has attacked three defenseless Colombian civilians. Thus violating the protocols of war,” she wrote.
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