The newspaper El Mundo calls a member of an active terrorist group a 'Palestinian militant'

@ElentirENG ES 4·18·2024 · 17:49 0

The whitewashing of terrorism by ETA criminals by foreign means has been causing outrage in Spain for years.

The infamous attitude of the Spanish left with terrorism, and not only with that of ETA
The Sánchez government allows a march of a Palestinian terrorist group in Madrid

However, there are Spanish media that do something similar with foreign terrorist groups. We have an example of this in the newspaper El Mundo, a medium identified by many as liberal but which has the habit of subscribing to the ideological theses of the left in many aspects. Yesterday, that newspaper referred to Leila Khaled, describing her as "historical Palestinian militant", stating about her that she was "the female alternative to the myth of Che Guevara".

Already in the first paragraph, El Mundo says that "continues to defend the armed struggle to confront the Israeli occupation", thus using the usual expression of the terrorists themselves to refer to his criminal activity. In the text of the news (you can read it openly here), El Mundo recognizes that Khaled is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and that Khaled participated in kidnappings of that Palestinian criminal organization of communist ideology, but at all times it refers to the PFLP terrorists as "militants".

The newspaper limits the qualification of Khaled and the PFLP as terrorists to a position of "Israel and its followers." El Mundo does not say that the PFLP is an organization currently classified as terrorist by the European Union, United States and Canada. Despite this, in January the government of Pedro Sánchez allowed a march called in Madrid by that criminal group. A march about which El Mundo did not offer any information, not even to mention that Israel publicly criticized that the Sánchez government allowed this call.

In that piece, El Mundo does the same with another terrorist group, the disappeared Japanese Red Army, and does so by calling the terrorists of that criminal group who murdered "trio of activists" and "militiamen" 26 people in an attack against the Lod Airport in Israel in 1972. Would El Mundo call the ETA terrorists who attacked the Barajas Airport in 2006, murdering two people, "activists" and "militiamen"? Why does this newspaper whitewash far-left terrorist organizations from other countries in this way?

In the end, once again, El Mundo demonstrates that its editorial line is less and less distinguished from the line of the socialist newspaper El País, which does exactly the same thing when talk about Palestinian terrorism. Let's remember this the next time certain media boast of having a commitment against terrorism and supporting its victims.

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Photo: Pacific Press Media Production Corp. PFLP terrorists in Gaza in 2014.