Pedro Sánchez gave Israel a blow to Israel whose government responded by sanctioning Yolanda Díaz and Sira Rego. The president of the Government announced nine measures with the aim of pressing Tel Aviv to put an end to the offensive in Gaza.
But diplomatic sources consulted by reason warn that Sánchez’s movementwho already calls the Israeli operation, will further complicate the relationship of Spain with the United States. As explained by the aforementioned sources, the administration of Donald Trump will take note by far that the US planes have been left out of the exclusion of airspace to aircraft that transport defensive material to Israel.
Among the proposals that Sánchez raised in an appearance without questions, the urgent approval of a royal law that consolidates the embargo on Israel in force since October 2023. The norm, in principle, will permanently prohibit the sale of armament, ammunition and military equipment. It is also necessary to indicate the prohibition of traffic through ports of ships that transport fuels for the Israeli armed forces.
As well as the restriction of access to Spain of “the people directly involved in the genocide in the Gaza Strip.” In truth, according to these sources, the measures will not have great impact: «They are designed for domestic consumption. Although time is playing in favor of the Government, because these types of measures are even taking in Germany. What they intend is to give the feeling that they go ahead and, as always, play polarization, ”explains a diplomat who held high positions in a socialist government.
Sánchez, who has been suffering the pressure of its leftist partners for months to break relations with IsraelHe launched this gesture to try to content them for the negotiation of the General State Budgets that are about to address with the parliamentary forces. One of the matches that most insists on dynamiting bridges with Tel Aviv is Podemos, which put it as a condition to even talk about the accounts.
Things between Spain and Israel do not seem to improve, at least in the short term. Outside raised the tension yesterday through a statement: “The Minister of Foreign Affairs has called for consultations to the Spanish ambassador to Tel Aviv before the slanderous accusations towards Spain and the unacceptable measures against two members of the government of our country.”
The head of the diplomatic mission in Israeli soil, Ana Salomón Pérez, has been summoned several times by the Benjamín Neyanyahu cabinet in recent months. The repeated criticism of Pedro Sánchez to the campaign in Gaza who followed the brutal wave of Hamas attacks was heating the atmosphere until the final break in May 2024, when the government recognized the Palestinian state.
Immediately after that gesture, Israeli prime minister called consultations with his ambassador to Madrid, Rodica Radian Gordon. It is very possible that Solomon does not return to Israel. According to various diplomatic sources, the ambassador would have wanted to come back a while ago but exterior did not see it feasible due to the high probability that the Hebrew government did not grant the PLACET to anyone else to relieve it and thus remained such an important square. President Sánchez knows that his last play will further damage the nexus of Spain with the United States.
But it does not matter to him, since Sanchez’s team wants the socialist leader. For the Executive, the PP and Vox are Trump disciples.
And that is the reason why in the Moncloa Palace each displacement is prepared very well to the White House, as the recent refusal to allocate 5% of GDP to defense expenses. A long fear that Sanchez also has: that Trump changes Spain for Morocco as a strategic military partner at the doors of the Mediterranean.
In Moncloa, as this newspaper has known, they have information that suggests that Washington is not putting things easy for Spain on the southern flank, the geopolitical obsession of the Executive. Trump has pushed the European Union to the abyss. The 27 face the colossal challenge of raising a defense infrastructure that allows them to emancipate Washington to protect themselves from Russian threat.
The geopolitical change undertaken by the first power of the planet has the Spanish government very worried. A high -level diplomatic source explains the door to hell that has been opened on the southern flank: «The perspectives in that area are not brilliant. Having the United States and Israel very hostile governments to Spain and being the two key strategic partners for Morocco, the thing does not look good. At the same time, Spain has a very cold relationship with Algeria, which is a partner of Russia, the other fundamental actor in the area ». Spain is in a hard -way drunk.