Spain's PM Sanchez is attacking Israel for his political survival

• Published date: 12 April 2024
• Author: ANGEL MAS
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Sánchez did not win the last elections in Spain. He formed a government thanks to what the Spanish press dubbed the "Frankenstein coalition," a parliamentary alliance that includes communists (financed by the Islamic Republic of Iran), members of terrorist organizations, and Basque and Catalan separatist parties working to break the Spanish constitutional order

His recent statement on the recognition of a "Palestinian state" by the summer of 2024 has nothing to do with Spain's interests, nor does it respond to popular Spanish demand. If he goes through with it, Sanchez's decision will reward Hamas and the Palestinians for the October 7th Massacre, the largest slaughter of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.

Why would Pedro Sanchez reward terrorism? I think for two reasons: the need to distract the local public opinion from his government's corruption scandals, while mobilizing his most activist supporters, and the ideological shift of Sanchez's Socialist Party towards extremism and communism, in line with his antisemitic political partners.

Pedro Sánchez is known in Spain as an immoral character and a compulsive liar: there is no promise he hasn't broken, as he does the opposite of what he says. He embodies the model of the unscrupulous leader - a politician who doesn't care about the legality of the means to achieve his ends.

While Hamas was massacring Israelis on October 7th, Sánchez's ministers supported the terrorist offensive with calls for a "Free Palestine." Shortly after, former minister Ione Belarra urged Spain to break diplomatic relations with Israel and called for Prime Minister Netanyahu to be tried by the International Criminal Court as a "war criminal." Communist vice-president Yolanda Díaz referred to the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces in response to Hamas' carnage as war crimes, with no lament for the pogrom. Sánchez suggested that Israel's actions were illegal and demanded a "two-state solution" during a visit with the relatives of the Israeli hostages.

Sanchez refused to freeze Spanish taxpayer funds to UNRWA even after undeniable evidence of its involvement in Hamas' crimes and even increased the donations. He also maintains the Palestinian Authority's "pay for slay" program to provide financial support to families of Palestinian terrorists.

A Local Failure

Domestically, Sánchez is destroying the institutions of Spanish democracy like a Latin American populist. He amplifies the typical antisemitic lies of the European...