Spain Pedro Sanchez castigated an alleged nuclear threat against Israel

The Prime Minister Anti-Israeli of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, is under the fire of Israel and the Spaniards for his alleged comments to use nuclear weapons against the Jewish state.

Socialist Prime Minister Sanchez, said in a speech last week that “Spain, as you know, has no nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers or large oil reserves”, adding: “We alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive. But that does not mean that we will not stop trying. in our sole. ”

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused his Spanish counterpart of having made a “flagrant genocidal threat to the only Jewish state in the world. Apparently, the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews of Spain and the systematic mass murder of the Jews in the Holocaust, is not enough for Sanchez.”

THE Israel said Spain had summoned Israel’s first diplomat in the country to “categorically reject the false and slanderous statements from the Israeli Prime Minister’s office”.

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Prime Minister Spain Pedro Sanchez (left), when he met the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohamed Mustafa (right), at the international conference on the emergency humanitarian response for Gaza, King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center Center on June 11, 2024. (Moncloa via Getty Images)

Juan Caldes, the European plea coordinator of the European Jewish Association, told Fox News Digital that “it is beyond the hypocritical and cynical to call a genocidal state to Israel when we mention how the fact that Spain has no nuclear intention to arrest Israel.

Caldez, who is Spanish, said: “Sanchez has embraced the Palestinian cause in order to avoid talking about his own personal corruption scandals surrounding some of his family members as well as many corruption scandals involving many of his colleagues from the Socialist Party.”

He said: “The Sanchez coalition (socialists and communists) has expressed very anti -Semitic opinions since October 7.” He quoted Yolanda Diaz, vice-president of Spain, who, in a televised speech last year, said: “From the River to the Palestine Sea will be free … In other words, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean state, a solution to a state erasering all the Jews in the country.”

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The Spaniards protest against Israel. The unions have called for a general strike day in solidarity with the Palestinians and Lebanon demanding that the Spanish government break relations with Israel. September 2024. (Marcos del Mazo / Lightrocket via Getty Images)

According to Caldes, “the rhetoric and the actions of Sanchez show how integrated anti -Semitism is part of the Spanish government. That being said, it is always important not to confuse it with the majority of Spaniards who have no anti -Semitic views”.

Santiago Abascal, the head of the right -wing party Vox, said: “Sanchez would like to have nuclear weapons … but not to defend Spain. To defend Hamas.”

According to statistics from the Jewish agency for Israel in September, the size of the Spanish Jewish community had 12,900 on a population of just over 49 million inhabitants.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on December 9, 2024. (Maya Alleruzzo / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)

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Last year, Spain experienced “the strongest increase in modern history in anti -Semitic speech, incidents and attacks, up 321% compared to 2023 and 567% compared to 2022”, according to a report by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain.

Fox News Digital contacted the Spanish Embassy in Washington and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs to comment.