(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. Tormenta de oprobio)

In Israel they could not believe it. Because, like the rest of the world, they did not yet know the true face of Pedro Sánchez. After repeating day in and day out that Israel commits deliberate massacres of the civilian population and especially of children, that is, that Israel is a genocidal state.

After spreading, defending and promoting in all the media that his vassal journalistic hordes control the propaganda of Hamas, the (always false) data of Hamas and the disinformation of Hamas, Sánchez described as an anecdote the video, with all the inconceivable atrocities of Hamas on October 7, recorded by their own perpetrators, that was shown to him on his visit to Israel.

But it is not only in Israel that they have learned these days what millions of Spaniards have known since long before the head of government decided that it was worth the trouble and the risk to perpetrate a coup d’état with the amnesty that the fugitive criminal coup-plotters demanded of him in exchange for their votes. In order to obtain the majority, to remain in the government and thus to prolong his own impunity. Because the one who is being amnestied here above all is Sánchez and his hard core of already-consummated coup-plotters.

But Sánchez has not only attacked Israel these days. From Italy, the foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, who moved Spaniards at the Campoamor theater when he received the Princess of Asturias Award with a hymn to Spain, its history and its greatness that Sánchez cannot even conceive of, responded to the insults of the Spanish head of government against the Italian government, in a hostile obsession with Giorgia Meloni that blows up all courtesy, good manners and civilized relations in diplomacy. Tajani let Sánchez know that in Rome too they now know that he is dismantling the rule of law and democracy in Spain with his separatist accomplices.

Bulgaria and Romania have also learned how Sánchez-style thuggery operates, this time through the mouth of the outstanding disciple in ignominy and pettiness who is the minister Albares. He has threatened both countries with vetoing their entry into Schengen if they do not support the maneuver imposed by the separatists to do away with Spanish as the common and sole language of external representation in the European Parliament.

National diplomacy in the service of the coup-plotters, with threats to other countries, is a phenomenon so vile and base that it has probably not been seen in the long history of Spanish diplomacy. But these people never stop breaking the mold. And each day they resemble more the criminal tyrants they have as partners in the São Paulo Forum.

Insults and threats outward and repression and mass intimidation inward. It is as if the coup-plotting alliance had learned, induced by thousands of Delcy’s suitcases over the years, to copy all the ways of acting to create a new regime on the ruins of the extinct democratic institutions. With the clear warning to anyone who wishes to remember and defend the laws in force until now that there will be no scruple in destroying him. Pure socialism of the 21st century.

For the moment, Israel has already withdrawn its ambassador in Spain. It is logical. A head of government who speaks with Hamas data and has all the media under his control spreading pure Hamas propaganda is an enemy of the people of Israel, and while he is in office there can be little progress.

Because Sánchez’s repeated message accusing Israel of the deliberate slaughter of the civilian population and especially of children is a barbarity, an unbearable falsehood, proper to the mortal enemies of Israel such as the regimes of Iran or Venezuela with which Spain has not only been aligning itself. They are regimes to which the existence of this sinister alliance, which José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero already set on course, owes much, the adviser whom Sánchez shares with the greatest murderer and one of the greatest drug traffickers of America, Nicolás Maduro.

The Commission of the European Union yesterday contradicted another of the ringleaders of the band of malefactors that is the Spanish government, the three-portfolio minister Bolaños. Bolaños lied when he said there is no concern in the Commission, just as all those who three months ago charged themselves, by their current acts, are lying when they say that the amnesty is illegal, impossible and unconstitutional and therefore a crime against the State. Which is what they are perpetrating.

To think that they can distract by sowing diplomatic fires is to believe that everyone has as little information as the Spaniards who only have access to media obedient to power, with commentators and journalists who are lackeys and obsequious to the point of nausea.

And they do not understand that, although they live only for their miserable ambitions, benefits and advancements, history is in motion with immense gravity and transcendence. Israel has the duty to destroy Hamas, and to lament that it does not stop while it has not finished is to want to help the enemy. The Allies totally destroyed Berlin and Tokyo because there was an unrenounceable objective of doing away with Nazism and Japanese imperial expansionism. Well, let everyone know that October 7 was Pearl Harbor for Israel.

Although here we are always talking about malefactors, cowards and the indolent, there are ever more Spaniards and other Europeans who know what is at stake.

Israel’s will to defend itself is Israel’s will to exist. Gaza is one more front in a hybrid war of a totalitarian alliance against Western civilization. May the European nations show the same will to exist when decisive moments arrive.

Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.