The Kremlin wanted to use Hamas to divert attention from Ukraine: the far-left obeyed

There are two major wars underway, and both are demonstrating the blatant double standards of the Western far left.

Sánchez equates Israel, an attacked country, with Russia but doesn't accuse Putin of 'genocide'
Russia's influence on Hamas' attack on Israel and its use against Ukraine and Europe

Israel accused of 'genocide', but not Russia or Putin

We are seeing this double standard through action and, above all, through omission. The same far left that falsely accuses Israel of committing "genocide" for the military operations it is carrying out to eliminate Hamas terrorists and free the hostages it has held for two years, has not once accused Russia or Putin of "genocide," who have been subjecting the Ukrainian civilian population to indiscriminate and constant attacks.

This double standard includes Pedro Sánchez's government, a coalition of socialists and communists that has ended up adopting the strategies of the far left, including its support for violence for political purposes, as we have seen in recent days. Last Monday, Sanchez once again slandered Israel by accusing it of "genocide," an accusation he has not once leveled against Russia or Putin.

The support for Palestine from the far left that did not condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine

We must not forget that a few days after the start of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning that aggression and the Spanish far-left MEPs did not support that resolution, among them the communist Sira Rego, currently a minister in Pedro Sánchez's government. Two years later, that minister attended a march called in Madrid by a Palestinian terrorist group, the PFLP, the only call authorized by a European government for an event organized by an organization classified as terrorist by the EU.

The same double standard can be seen in the far-left protests. A year ago, I pointed out here that Russia had already attacked 1,940 medical centers in Ukraine. There hasn't been a single leftist demonstration against this or against the numerous crimes Russia has been committing in Ukraine. Demonstrations in support of the Ukrainian people in the West are almost always called by Ukrainian associations, while the left looks the other way.

The far left returns to the role it played in the Cold War

Of course, none of this is a coincidence. During the Cold War, the far left acted as the Kremlin's foreign policy transmission belt, putting the interests of the Soviet Union above all other considerations. Putin's dictatorship has been actively supporting the far left in the West and is now receiving favors from them in return, a continuation of the radical left's following of Moscow's dictates before the fall of the USSR. Sometimes these dictates are public, and their effects are too, as we can see in the case of those two wars.

The Kremlin wanted to use Hamas to divert attention from Ukraine.

On October 9, 2023, I already pointed out here the influence of Putin's dictatorship in Hamas's attack against Israel, in an article in which I commented that the Kremlin has had good relations with that Islamist terrorist group since 2006, when Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip. In that text I already pointed out what Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said during the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, which he called "an expected event" on the same morning when the terrorists were torturing, raping and murdering Israeli civilians: "This is what Washington and its allies should be busy with".

The Kremlin's instructions were clear, and many analysts interpreted them as such: Moscow wanted to use the Hamas attack to divert attention from Ukraine, with the obvious aim of cutting off Western aid to the Ukrainians. The far left meekly obeyed the instructions, as was their custom during the Cold War.

The case of Spain and Sánchez's favors to Putin

It doesn't seem like a coincidence to me that the Sánchez government, which is one of the European governments that has sent the least military aid to Ukraine (according to the Ukraine Weapons Tracker of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy), has allowed itself to be dragged along by its communist partners and is unleashing against Israel all the fury it didn't display against Russia, a country from which Sánchez buys gas for a much higher amount than the aid that Ukraine sends, helping Putin to finance its aggression against the Ukrainian people while pretending to support Ukraine to other European governments.

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Photo: Sputnik.