On Monday, Colombian Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva asked the Israeli ambassador in Bogota to “apologize and leave,” after Israeli diplomacy responded to statements by President Gustavo Petro in which he addressed the war between Israel and Hamas.
On Sunday, Israel, which is one of the largest suppliers of weapons to the Colombian army, announced “the cessation of security-related exports” to the Latin American country.
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He stressed that “democratic peoples cannot allow Nazism to re-establish itself in international politics.”
On Sunday, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Hayat reported that Colombia’s ambassador to Israel, Margarita Manarez, had been summoned against the backdrop of Petro’s “hostile and anti-Semitic” statements.
He added that these statements raised “astonishment” and accused Petro of “expressing his support for the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists, fueling anti-Semitism, influencing representatives of the State of Israel, and threatening the safety of the Jewish community in Colombia.”
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2023-10-16 17:15:05
