2023-12-04 06:00:00
Amid the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip – which was briefly interrupted by a seven-day truce – this Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen accused President Gustavo Petro of promoting “baseless and anti-Semitic attacks.” ” against the State of Israel.
Through his account on the social network
Previously, Petro – who has had an ambiguous position on the conflict and has not been emphatic in condemning Hamas – spoke about Palestine, the Nazis and the climate crisis within the framework of his intervention at COP28 (the United Nations Conference on Climate Change).
From there, the president assured that “Hitler is knocking on the doors of the homes of the European and North American middle class and many have already made him enter. The exodus (of migrants) will be responded to with a lot of violence, with barbarism itself. “What we see in Gaza is the rehearsal of the future.”
Just this Sunday, through X, the president reacted to a video that shows several Palestinian children crying after their father supposedly died in the middle of a bombing at the hands of Israel. Given this, Petro insisted that this type of aggression is typical of Nazism.
“Nazism is a form of fascism, deeply violent and genocidal. It is based on the belief of a superior race that gives it the right to exterminate and subordinate those who are different, whom it even considers non-human. That is happening in Palestine. Fascism is in each of us. “It spreads through unreason, hatred and lies,” he said.
Faced with this, the Israeli Foreign Minister alleged that, despite the fact that almost two months have passed since the Hamas incursion on Israeli soil – in which 1,200 people died according to that country –, Petro has not “unequivocally condemned the massacre.” committed by the monsters of Hamas.”
“More than 1,200 Israelis were killed, entire families were executed in cold blood, children and babies. They were burned alive, Israeli citizens were beheaded, women were raped and murdered, and 240 Israelis and foreigners were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. The words of the president of Colombia indicate historical ignorance and denial of the Holocaust,” Cohen said harshly.
Additionally, he urged Petro to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and learn about the history of the Jewish people and the Holocaust “before it is expressed in this way again.”
Petro’s statements, his reference to Hitler and the comparisons with what is happening between Palestine and Israel were emphatically rejected by Germany.
Through X, the Foreign Ministry of that country responded: “Identifying the consequences of the climate crises for the most vulnerable in the world is legitimate and important. Combining that with the suffering in Gaza is strange. It is unacceptable to make crude comparisons with the Nazi era and thus relativize the Holocaust, as Mr. Petro of Colombia did.”
Through X, the Foreign Ministry of that country responded: “Identifying the consequences of the climate crises for the most vulnerable in the world is legitimate and important. Combining that with the suffering in Gaza is strange. It is unacceptable to make crude comparisons with the Nazi era and thus relativize the Holocaust, as Mr. Petro of Colombia did.”
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