Colombian Foreign Minister urged Israeli ambassador in his country to leave after issuing message to Gustavo Petro
Colombian Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva urged the Israeli ambassador to his country, Gali Dagan, to apologize to President Gustavo Petro and leave, after issuing a message to the president.
"The history of universal diplomacy will consign as a milestone the senseless loutishness of the ambassador of Israel in Colombia to (the) president of the Republic. Shame on him. At least apologize and leave. Intelligence is confronted with intelligence. There are States at stake",
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No one sensible can applaud the scorched earth policy, no matter where it comes from. It violates the dignity of the human person. It kills innocents. Gustavo Petro's Total Peace Doctrine is based on the duty of universal justice: Total peace as Synthesis Law", expressed Leyva Durán through X (ex Twitter).
What happened between Petro and the Israeli ambassador?
Last Saturday, the president of Colombia published in the social network X a message in which he expressed several comments regarding the current situation in the Gaza Strip. In that sense, he indicated that Hamas would be an "invention" of Mosad, the Israeli intelligence service.
"An incapable leadership of the world has decided to use the little time we have to save the species and life to bomb thousands of children (...) They say that I support Hamas, as they used to say that I supported the FARC.
Hamas is the invention of the Mossad to divide the Palestinian people and to have the excuse to punish them", said the president.
"Replacing dialogue between worthy peoples with pure apartheid and repression only creates desperate and murderous terrorism (...) What they really want is to expel the Palestinian people from their ancient land and destroy them", he added.
Minutes after this message was published, the Israeli ambassador to Colombia, Gali Dagan, responded through the same social network,
ironizing what the head of state said.
"It is true Mr. President (...), Hamas is indeed an invention of the Mossad. However, I would like to share with you additional information from our intelligence services (...): The Sages of Zion founded the Gulf Clan. There are still Jews, with big, aquiline noses, who command the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia", the Israeli diplomat indicated.
Yesterday, Sunday, Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lior Haiat, announced that his country was suspending exports of "security material" to Colombia in response to "hostile and anti-Semitic statements" by the president.
To this, the Colombian head of state responded, via X, that "if foreign relations with Israel have to be suspended, we suspend them.
We do not support genocides. The president of Colombia is not insulted".
El canciller colombiano Álvaro Leyva tildó de "patanería insensata" los dichos del embajador de Israel en su país, Gali Dagan, como respuesta a la acusación de Petro de que Hamás es un "invento" de la Inteligencia israelí.
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One less friend of Israel. Petro also said "I call on Latin America to show real solidarity with Colombia" after the disagreement with the Israeli ambassador.
Any disagreement with Israel regarding its policy of razing Palestine to the ground is
anti-Semitic.