Verónica Fumanal writes that when international politics breaks into national politics, the criterion is not internationalized, but rather the conflict is nationalized. And the advisor and analyst finishes her opinion by pointing out the Manichean positions and the simplification of matters to the point of ridiculousness. Everything is Spanishized here, from the Hamas attack to Israel’s repression. And thus there is no one who can find the basis for an opinion free of prejudices and away from propaganda.
That the Middle East conflict is marked by the irreducible positions of a large part of world public opinion is a historical observation. In Europe, especially. The long shadow of the Holocaust It is not unrelated to one of the explanations. Neither the creation of the State of Israelhis defensive evolution, the abuses of his force, the support for Zionism, its opposite, the sympathy for the Palestinian cause, the solidarity with the weak and a typical consideration of a certain intellectual left that went from living the experience in the kibbutz as an ideal socialist to systematically criticize everything that has to do with the Jewish State.
We are seeing it in Cataloniawhere the current dramatic dispute has distanced even more Esquerra and Junts, as if they needed other people’s firewood to continue feeding their machine of mutual reproaches at the expense of the wood of their own wagons. The disparate sympathies even force us to accept the possible negative repercussions of those who leave the fold, as if the ideology were not moldable according to the circumstances because it has become an immutable religion, similar to that lavished by the radicals of both international factions in permanent dispute. .
The Spanish Government itself is experiencing it firsthand to the point of having to remember that the lines of its foreign policy are set by the president. He was referring to the distance established by Podemos in the voice of his general secretary, at the same time that Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030.
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The homeland right dips bread in the new nonsense, while The Israeli left laments the abandonment of its European counterparts, his lack of compassion in the face of his double pain and asks: “Why?” Probably because it is more difficult to destroy a prejudice than an atom.