BOGOTA, Colombia -Colombia on Monday said Israel's ambassador should leave the South American country before rowing back comments amid a worsening spat over President Gustavo Petro's remarks on the war with Hamas.
BOGOTA, Colombia -Colombia on Monday said Israel's ambassador should leave the South American country before rowing back comments amid a worsening spat over President Gustavo Petro's remarks on the war with Hamas.Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva initially said the envoy, Gali Dagan, should"at a minimum, apologize and leave" after criticizing Petro's comparison of Israeli attacks on Gaza with the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
Petro, Colombia's first leftist president, asserted in one of several posts on X, formerly Twitter, that"democratic peoples cannot allow Nazism to reestablish itself in international politics." Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said Colombia's ambassador, Margarita Manjarrez, had been summoned over Petro's"hostile and anti-Semitic statements."He accused Petro of"expressing support for the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists, fuelling anti-Semitism, affecting the representatives of the State of Israel and threatening the peace of the Jewish community in Colombia.
The country has a history of strong diplomatic and military relations with Israel and the United States.
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