As if the debate on the possible amnesty were not enough, international politics has contributed to raising the tone of the political debate even further. Specifically in relation to Spain's position in the Israeli war unleashed after the surprise attack launched this weekend by Hamas on Israeli soil.
At the national level, Alberto Núñez Feijóo issued his reproach minutes before meeting with Pedro Sánchez for the "not forceful" attitude that, in the opinion of the PP, the Government has taken when condemning the hostilities that have begun. The Popular Party asks the Government for all members of the Executive, especially the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, to condemn "this terrorist act", given the position of "ideological closeness" of some of the Government's partners with the perpetrators of the attack.
This supposed lack of forcefulness has not taken long to be refuted from Brussels by the acting Minister of the Interior: "From the first moment, from the first minute, the Hamas attacks on Israel were expressly condemned," he said. said Fernando Grande-Marlaska upon his arrival at the European Parliament where he will outline the priorities of his portfolio during the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has joined the condemnation, ensuring that the Hamas attack is "terrorism, there is no doubt, nor can there be any qualification in this regard," he said.
This forcefulness, however, is not unanimous within the government, whose partners have also disagreed when it comes to condemning the outbreak of violence in the Middle East since, after hearing the socialist side describe what happened as an act of "terrorism" On the part of Hamas, Sumar's spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, has not hesitated to criticize "the double standard" towards the Palestinians to summarize it with a single word: "Hypocrisy."
In the same way, but in the Madrid Assembly, the positions of the left and the right have highlighted the differences between the blocks, resulting in the impossibility of agreeing on an institutional declaration.
While Vox has demanded that a minute of silence be held in next Friday's plenary session in solidarity with the Israeli people, Más Madrid has requested that the institutional declaration include a mention of "all the victims." Both those of the Hamas terrorist attack on Saturday and those of the subsequent Israeli bombings.
This statement by Más Madrid has motivated Vox and PP to appear on the Board of Spokespersons, causing a heated discussion that has prevented the achievement of any agreement. And while the ultranationalist spokesperson, Rocío Monasterio, called it "disgusting" that the "left-wing scum" of Spain "justifies" the kidnapping of children or "cold-blooded murder", the leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, has criticized the "hypocrisy" of PP and Vox to condemn the attack by terrorists but "silence and remain silent" in the face of the "attack by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians."
In the Catalan sphere, at first there was condemnation of the attack perpetrated by Hamas of the Government of the Generalitat and also of parties such as ERC, Junts and PSC. Beyond these statements, the JxCat parliamentary group has registered a motion that will be debated and voted on within two weeks and that may raise dust in the Catalan Chamber, where post-convergents and republicans have already clashed on some occasions in relation to this matter.
Specifically, the JxCat group asks that the Parliament reaffirm its commitment to the peaceful resolution of the conflict between Israel and Palestine "based on the two-state solution, which has had, over the years, the majority support of the United Nations and the majority of the international community" while recognizing "Israel's right to exist. Likewise, on another point, the training "recognizes and corrects the error and political, historical and conceptual inaccuracy of defining as apartheid the political system that governs any of the Palestinian or Israeli territories."
