Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez announced that his country, along with Ireland and Norway, will provide a “firm” response to the Israeli diplomatic attacks on them, after their simultaneous recognition of the State of Palestine yesterday, Monday, angered Tel Aviv.
Albares told reporters in Madrid today, “We will provide a coordinated response with Norway and Ireland, which are subject to the same type of despicable media misinformation and attacks on social media,” speaking of a “firm and calm response to these provocations.”
He added at the conclusion of the cabinet session after adopting the decree officially recognizing the State of Palestine, “No one can intimidate us. We do not make our foreign policy by responding with tweets. We have clear ideas about the path we must take.” He stressed that the response of Dublin, Madrid and Oslo “will come at the appropriate time.”
Albaris said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry is “more interested in talking about the tweets, than in the decisions of the International Court of Justice,” the highest judicial body of the United Nations, which ordered Israel to stop its military attack in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
In an angry response to the decision of Madrid, Dublin and Oslo to recognize the State of Palestine, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz intensified angry messages against these three countries over a period of days on the X platform.
Katz accused Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of being “complicit in calls to exterminate the Jewish people” by recognizing the State of Palestine and keeping the third official in the Spanish government, Yolanda Diaz, in her position after she recently called for the liberation of Palestine “from the river to the sea.”
Katz also posted a video clip on the Internet last Sunday that combines images of the Al-Aqsa flood attack on October 7, and images of flamenco dancers, stressing that Hamas was saying “thank you for the services” to Pedro Sanchez. The Israeli Foreign Minister also posted other videos targeting the leaders of Ireland and Norway.