“When the one ordered Moses to break the first tables of the law, the first word he delivered was Jerusalem. Therefore, the embassy must be taken from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.” The one who delivered these words was no religious leader of the Middle East or a feudal king of some centuries ago: it was nothing less than the Argentine president, on a trip to Israel last year where he explained that he wanted to make that controversial transfer because this was established by a religious text. Now Javier Milei traveled to that country again and confirmed what he had advanced in 2024. It is a more than sensitive decision that even affects one of the only state policies in Argentina, such as the sovereign claim for the Falkland Islands, and that the president took based on his own personal beliefs. There also appears the influence of the mystical. It is that political theology lives in the fifth of Olivos.
The forces of heaven
“It is important to understand that we are in an existential and moral battle between good and evil, battle on which the future of civilization depends, in the face To act accordingly, as King David asked. ” Thus explained his decision in the Knéset, the Parliament of Israel, on Wednesday 11. However, despite the fact that the story is deeply religious, the back room of this move is even more sensitive. The funny thing is that in both the same biblical figure appears, increasingly cited by Milei.
An ambassador swear who heard her from the mouth of the president himself, at the beginning of last year, when he tried to convince the libertarian to give up with the idea that he had already outlined in public. Milei’s man, of Milei, presented some reasons that sound logical: that Israel is not even among the main 30 commercial partners of Argentina, and to move the embassy – something that only made six countries in the world – would fall lousy throughout the Arab community. Historically, those nations, more than 20, voted in favor of the Argentine claim for Malvinas in the United Nations, support that is very likely to disappear if the transfer of the Argentine embassy materializes. Milei’s explanation, however, left him stunned and unanswered: “King David asked me in a dream.” Misticism and religion intersect in which it is perhaps the most sensitive international policy decision that this administration took.
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While Milei lives his spiritual journey in public – although he has still delayed his formal conversion to Judaism – his administration adapts to his own convictions. The president already sent twice to vote against the high on the fire in Gaza in the UN General Assembly, a minority position he shares with the United States and Israel. He also signed agreements on this last trip: direct flights between the two nations – in addition to putting free returns for Argentines living there that they want to escape from the conflict with Iran – and a treaty was ratified that establishes that any Israeli citizen with legal residence in Argentina can receive social benefits such as retirement, pensions, maternity assignments, disability and other benefits.
It was not the only novelty in matters of religion and politics. It is that the internal in the government between the bands of Santiago Caputo and Karina Milei is not only worse but now added a novel focus. It is that Lucas Luna, who militates within the Swiss Advisor’s team, published a very hard message against Islam: “We do not hate them enough.” “Deletes this, Pelotudo,” Sharif Menem, Martín’s nephew and one of the karinism bishops replied. Then the president of the Chamber of Deputies picked up the glove: “That was a stupidity that someone who has to read a little more, you cannot mix all Islam with terrorism.” Santiago Caputo’s comment was swift: “He who proposes to differentiate the religion of terrorism, that is the traitor.” The forces of heaven are seen, act in mysterious ways, and not always following the same religious directives. We must expect King David not to bother.
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