Pablo Iglesias criticizes in FIL the position of the Spanish Government in the Israel-Palestine conflict

Guadalajara (Mexico), Dec 1 (EFE).- The former vice president of the Spanish Government Pablo Iglesias criticized this Friday in Mexico the position of the Pedro Sánchez administration in the face of the conflict between Israel and Palestine and questioned “the international hypocrisy” in the face of what he considered a genocide.

“It is said that Pedro Sánchez has been very brave. Spain is buying weapons from Israel. It would be brave to stop buying weapons from Israel and stop selling them weapons. “Brave would be to break diplomatic relations, brave would be to withdraw the ambassadors,” he said at a conference in the city of Guadalajara, capital of the state of Jalisco, western Mexico.

He recalled that other countries such as Chile, Colombia, South Africa or Bolivia have taken “proportional measures that are braver than any democratic State.”

The former general secretary of the Podemos party visited the Mexican International Book Fair (FIL) in Guadalajara to give a conference at the International Meeting of Journalists that concludes this Friday.

During the talk, Iglesias criticized “the poor quality of journalism” to help explain this conflict and said that “he buys the approaches of an oppressive State,” which is an example of “a macabre school of journalism” in which media companies have the power of the story.

“What we are seeing in Israel and Palestine is a war over narrative. The problem is that the facts are the facts, and the facts are that a genocide is occurring. (…) those facts are not debatable and what we are seeing are propaganda machines that ultimately try to justify what Israel is doing,” he expressed.

He said that it is no coincidence that Israel is attacking press correspondents and does not allow certain media outlets to enter its territory.

“There is not so much difference between public opinion and published opinion, what exists is an enormous difference between who controls the published opinion and who does not control it, as long as the elites have control of what is published, control of a good part From what can be read and seen, we will have a very defective democracy,” he noted.

From November 25 to December 3, the 37th edition of the FIL brings together 650 writers from 45 countries and a program of activities that includes 630 book presentations of different genres and some 3,000 literary, cultural, gastronomic meetings and musical presentations. EFE

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