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Colombia will break diplomatic relations with Israel. “Diplomatic relations with Israel will be severed for having a genocidal president,” President Gustavo Petro said at a May Day rally in Bogotá, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Petro told thousands of supporters that the world cannot accept genocide and destruction. “If Palestine dies, humanity dies,”
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Israel responded by calling Petro “anti-Semitic and disgusting” and saying his stance amounted to a reward for Hamas. “The Colombian president has promised to reward Hamas’s murderers and rapists – and today he delivered,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Twitter. Katz said, “History will remember that Gustavo Petro decided to stand with humanity’s most despicable monsters, those who burned infants, murdered children, raped women, and kidnapped innocent civilians.”
In October, days after the war began, Israel announced it was halting security exports to Colombia. When Petro accused Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant of using the same language about the people of Gaza that the Nazis used about Jews. At that time, Israel accused Petro of expressing support for atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists and promoting anti-Semitism and summoned Colombia’s ambassador.
Bogota later demanded that Israel’s envoy leave the South American country. Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president, has also stressed that “democrats cannot allow Nazism to be re-established in international politics.”
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