“Press release from the Colombian government – Bogotá D.C., October 15, 2023

If we need to suspend foreign relations with Israel, we will do so. We do not support genocides. The President of Colombia should not be insulted. I call on Latin America to show real solidarity with Colombia. And if it is incapable, it will be the development of history that will have the final say, as in the great Chaco War. Neither Yair Klein nor Raifal Eithan can determine the history of peace in Colombia. They unleashed the massacre and genocide in Colombia. From the people of Israel, I demand assistance in the peace of Colombia and assistance in the peace of Palestine and the world.

Colombia, as Bolívar and Nariño taught us, is an independent, sovereign, and just nation. Someday, the army and government of Israel will ask for forgiveness for what their men did in our land, unleashing genocide. I will embrace them and cry for the Holocaust in Auschwitz and Gaza, and for the Colombian Auschwitz. Hitler will be defeated for the good of humanity, democracy, peace, and the freedom of the world”.

Up to here Petro’s statement, in failing to condemn Hammas, Petro is giving cover to a terrorist group that brutalizes innocent civilians, on the contrary he is accusing Israel, it is his view and not the Colombian population, who in its vast majority are friends of the people of Israel and we have been able to live in peace until now, in a country that received with open hands my family and so many others after the horrors of the Holocaust and were able to build so many families in this beautiful country.

This is personal if you know the history of Colombia, you would understand, his war as a leftist guerrilla is no reason to believe that all of Israel are mercenaries that came to train his enemies, the paramilitaries. Killing civilians is not something that is strange for him and that he doesn’t disapprove the massacre that Hammas inflicted on innocent children women and elderly, shows his deeply rooted antisemitism. If those who voted for him thought he had left his radical views, now can see how mistaken they were.

That he is an ignorant is not an excuse. He just needs to understand the difference between the Palestinians that want to work for a peaceful solution with Israel and the terrorist Hammas and its allies who want to wipe us out. Time will show Mr Petro as it has in the past, that the Jewish people will endure the hate of people like you, we need no lessons on history.

To use the name of Hitler and mention Auschwitz is an insult to the memory of six million that as the more than 1400 innocent victims of Hammas last 7th of Oct only died because they were Jews. May their souls rest in peace.