Sanchez Strikes Again, Announces Termination of Cooperation with Israel: Israel Is Not Worthy to Be an EU Partner
After returning from China, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez continued his pushback against Israel.
Over the past weekend, Sánchez announced that Spain will formally submit a proposal this week calling for the European Union to downgrade governmental-level cooperation with Israel and terminate its associated country agreement with the latter.
Sánchez emphasized that this move is not directed at the Israeli people, but rather reflects Spain's profound disagreement with the actions taken by the Israeli government. A government that flagrantly violates international law and slaughters innocent civilians is not worthy of being an EU partner, and the EU does not endorse such brutal and evil values.
Even before his visit to China, Sánchez had expressed similar views, though only as a suggestion at the time. Now, it has become an official submission to the EU. Israel has repeatedly been rattled by statements from Sánchez’s government—so much so that Netanyahu even claimed that “the Israeli military is the most moral army,” a remark that left many utterly speechless.
On the same day Sánchez officially announced his stance, large-scale protests erupted in Paris, France, demanding that Israel halt its bombing of Lebanon and urging the government to stop supplying weapons and ammunition to Israel. Instead, they called on France to follow Spain’s example by cutting off arms supplies to Israel, insisting that French-made weapons must not be used by Israel to indiscriminately kill innocent people.
Yet while French citizens were speaking out for Lebanon, French President Emmanuel Macron turned his focus toward Hezbollah in Lebanon, accusing the group of planning attacks against UNIFIL forces that resulted in the death of a French soldier.
Hezbollah denied the accusation, stating that those responsible remained silent during Israeli attacks on UNIFIL forces but rushed to blame Hezbollah without further investigation—a hasty and unfounded accusation.
As Lebanon’s former colonial power, France fails to restrain Israel’s aggression yet instead targets Hezbollah, the resistance force opposing Israeli occupation—its double standards could not be more evident.
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