{"id":57283,"date":"2024-10-02T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57283"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:37:39","slug":"the-shameful-attitude-of-almost-the-entire-spanish-political-class-towards-the-iranian-attack-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/02\/the-shameful-attitude-of-almost-the-entire-spanish-political-class-towards-the-iranian-attack-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"The shameful attitude of almost the entire Spanish political class towards the Iranian attack on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Spanish citizen who loves his country, but I feel ashamed of the political class we have, with a few honourable exceptions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/01\/images-of-the-massive-missile-attack-launched-by-iran-on-israel\/\">Images of the massive missile attack launched by Iran on Israel<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/22\/abascals-excellent-speech-pointing-out-sanchezs-favors-to-putin-and-hamas\/\">Abascal's excellent speech pointing out S\u00e1nchez's favors to Putin and Hamas<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A massive attack with 181 Iranian missiles<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/01\/images-of-the-massive-missile-attack-launched-by-iran-on-israel\/\">the Iranian terrorist regime launched 181 missiles against the people of Israel<\/a>, in an unprecedented attack that sought to sow death and terror among the civilian population of that country indiscriminately. <strong>The attack killed one person, a Palestinian, in Jericho.<\/strong> If its effects have not been bloodier, it is exclusively thanks to Israeli air defenses, which managed to shoot down most of the Iranian missiles aimed at populated areas.<\/p>\n<p><big>Israel's strong support for Spain after the Islamist attacks in 2017<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel is not the only country that has suffered from Islamist terrorism.<\/strong> Spain has also suffered. Let us recall, without going any further, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/08\/17\/attack-on-barcelona-united-we-are-stronger-against-the-threat-of-terrorism\/\">the Islamist attacks of August 17, 2017 in Catalonia<\/a>. I would like to recall how the State of Israel reacted to that attack. <strong>That same day,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/embassies.gov.il\/madrid\/NewsAndEvents\/Pages\/Palabras-de-Daniel-Kutner,-Embajador-de-Israel-en-Espa%C3%B1a,-tras-el-atentado-de-Barcelona.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wrote a letter to King Felipe VI of Spain<\/a>, in which he told him the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>Our hearts and thoughts at this difficult time are with the people of Spain.<\/strong> Sadly, we in Israel are no strangers to the horror and suffering caused by these criminal attacks, and we can truly understand the pain you are feeling at this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terrorism is terrorism is terrorism, whether it happens in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bParis, Istanbul or Jerusalem.<\/strong> These appalling events prove once again that we must remain united in the fight against those who <strong>seek to use violence to attack individual freedom and freedom of thought and belief<\/strong>, and who continue to destroy the lives of so many.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The citizens of Israel share with me the mourning for the sad loss of life<\/strong> and the suffering.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/embassies.gov.il\/MFA\/PressRoom\/2017\/Pages\/PM-Netanyahu-condemns-Barcelona-terrorist-attack-17-August-2017.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhyahu stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>On behalf of the citizens of Israel, I send my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives<\/strong> and wish a speedy recovery to those injured. This evening we have seen once again that terrorism strikes everywhere; <strong>the civilized world must fight against it together to defeat it<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the attacks in Barcelona, \u200b\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IsraelinSpain\/status\/898271921086676992\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tel Aviv City Hall was lit up in the colors of the Spanish flag<\/a> in support of our country. In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IsraelinSpain\/status\/898515884364500992\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Israeli Embassy in Spain flew its flag at half-mast<\/a> in solidarity with our country. With these gestures, <strong>Israel clearly expressed its support for Spain in a time of pain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>The cold and terse messages of the S\u00e1nchez government on the Iranian attack<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <strong>after the massive Iranian attack on Israel<\/strong>, which forced 10 million Israeli citizens (Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze) to flee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exteriores.gob.es\/es\/Comunicacion\/Comunicados\/Paginas\/2024_COMUNICADOS\/20241001_COMU057.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez issued a very brief and cold note<\/a> (only 26 words, in Spanish) <strong>in which it did not even show its support for Israel:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The Government strongly condemns Iran's bombing of Israel tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The international community must immediately mobilize to stop the regional escalation with unforeseeable consequences.\"\u200b<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exteriores.gob.es\/es\/Comunicacion\/Comunicados\/Paginas\/2024_COMUNICADOS\/20240923COMU054.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Spanish government's note condemning Israel's attack on Hezbollah terrorists<\/a> a few days ago was much longer (105 words). Apparently, Israel's counterattack against a terrorist organization that has been attacking Israel for 11 months bothered S\u00e1nchez's government much more than yesterday's Iranian attack on Israel. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1841188366861418843\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez published an equally lukewarm message yesterday<\/a> condemning the attack but without showing his support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p><big>PSOE, PP and Sumar remain silent and Podemos acts again as a puppet of Iran<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The response from the rest of the Spanish political class has not been much better. <strong>The PSOE, the Popular Party and Sumar have not said anything about the Iranian attack<\/strong> on their official Twitter channel. In turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EuroPodemos\/status\/1841201438308929639\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podemos has accused Israel of being terrorist<\/a> and has accused Europe and the US of being responsible for this \"escalation of war.\" <strong>Not a single condemnation of Iran.<\/strong> Nothing strange, considering that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2014\/11\/12\/pablo-iglesias-reconoce-que-se-ha-dejado-usar-por-iran-para-desestabilizar-espana\/\">the founder of Podemos acknowledged that he allowed himself to be used by the Iranian dictatorship to destabilize Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Vox was the only Spanish political party that expressed its support for Israel<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As with many other issues in current Spanish affairs, there was only one exception to this shame. <strong>Only Vox expressed its support for Israel<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Santi_ABASCAL\/status\/1841216760004902951\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">through a message from its leader, Santiago Abascal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The only path to peace is the defeat and total disarmament of the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We fully support Israel and its offensive against terrorism.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>As this party often says, only Vox remains<\/strong>, even when the time comes to return to Israel the support that country showed Spain against terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Spanish citizen who loves his country, but I feel ashamed of the political class we have, with a few honourable exceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[2746,95,641,693,7841,22803,2169,16942,7535],"class_list":["post-57283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-israel","tag-partido-popular","tag-psoe","tag-podemos","tag-reuven-rivlin","tag-santiago-abascal-conde","tag-sumar","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}