The third vice president and minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has responded to the minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, that it is up to the Foreign and Economy portfolios to determine the relationship of Spanish companies with Israel , after the Sumar leader has asked them to take measures to not contribute to the "genocide" in Gaza. A term, genocide, that the Israeli embassy in Spain has rejected.
The head of the PSOE list for the European elections has recalled that “the political involvement of the Government” corresponds to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Presidency of the Government, and that “the relationship with companies and their impact on trade” corresponds to the Ministry of Economy.
“Regardless of the fact that everyone may have their opinion, it is not something that can be unrelated to the management of the Government,” the third vice president indicated about the letter distributed this Wednesday by Bustinduy, whose content, as the minister has admitted, has known “by the media”.
Ribera has continued to defend that the Government must “defend values, Human Rights, rules and international law in any format and against any action” by any country, whether due to the terrorist attack that Israel suffered on October 7 or due to “the disproportionate, unfair and suffering that comes with” his reaction in Gaza.
For this reason, he recalled that “recognition of the State of Palestine is required”, and compliance with the rules, the protection of human rights, the safeguarding of Gazans and the immediate cessation of this conflict are “essential”.
Ribera's statements come after Bustinduy's letter became known in which he asks Spanish companies with interests in Israel to inform him of the measures they are adopting to guarantee that they do not contribute with their activities to the "genocide" in Israel. Loop.
The Israeli embassy in Spain has rejected, through a statement, the “false accusation” spread by some ministers that they are committing “genocide” in Palestine.
"The demonization and delegitimization of Israel, resorting to baseless accusations, gives encouragement to Hamas and those who pursue the disappearance of the State of Israel, is a clear incitement to hatred and encourages anti-Semitism," adds the statement, in which it is not They refer directly to Bustinduy but do refer to “some ministers, intellectuals and the media.”
For Israel, the silence in Spain of the majority of intellectuals and human rights organizations in the face of the drama of the 132 kidnapped people who remain in the hands of Hamas terrorists is “incomprehensible.”
