US Senator Marco Rubio expressed strong criticism this Tuesday against President Gustavo Petro for what he called his “anti-Israeli narrative” in the face of the Hamas terrorist attacks that shook that country over the weekend.
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Rubio, who represents the Republican party in the United States Congress, called the Colombian president a “spokesman for murderers and criminals” for not condemning attacks in which hundreds of civilians have died.
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“President Petro’s anti-Israeli narrative following the barbaric terrorist attacks in Israel has only fueled anti-Semitic vandalism in Colombia. As a far-left Marxist, Petro continues to be a spokesman for murderers and criminals who are brutally killing innocent Israelis. I join to the Colombian-American and Israeli-American community who watched with dismay as the Israeli Embassy in Bogotá was shamefully vandalized,” Rubio wrote on his X account, in both English and Spanish.
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Although the Colombian Foreign Ministry initially condemned the attack, He then changed his speech by calling for Israelis and Palestinians to resume dialogue for a peace process “that leads to peaceful coexistence.”.
Petro, in parallel, has used his and my government too. I ask Israel and Palestine to come to a table to negotiate peace and to allow the existence of two states and two free and sovereign nations: Israel and Palestine,” said the president.
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And this Monday, after Israel’s announcement that it will impose a total blockade against Gaza, Petro equated it with creating a Nazi “concentration camp.”
SERGIO GÓMEZ MASERI
EL TIEMPO correspondent
Washington
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