Alberto Fernández summons DAIA president to Casa Rosada, after criticizing government for voting against Israel at UN

The last Friday after the Argentine vote against Israel at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights CouncilRegarding an initiative to investigate alleged war crimes against Palestine, DAIA President Jorge Knoblovits called on Argentines to condemn this position. After these statements, Alberto Fernández summoned him to a meeting at Casa Rosada.

The meeting, to which other DAIA authorities have also been convened, will take place at 17. It will take place in a climate of tension between the Jewish community and the national government due to Fernández’s approval of a resolution rejected by Joseph biden (UNITED STATES), Angela Merkel (Germany), Emmanuel Macron (France) and Mario draghi (Italy). With your posture, the Argentine government was aligned with China, Russia, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela, who also supported the creation of the commission of inquiry.

“I regret that my country finds allies who do not respect democratic rights, who have their meeting point to condemn Israel. I regret that my country, which adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism months ago, does not comply with what it claims. All of us Argentines must condemn this membership and this alliance against Israel and in favor of a terrorist organization “Knoblovits told the site Vis a Vis.

The resolution creates a permanent commission of inquiry into allegations of human rights violations and abuses committed by Israel in the Palestinian territories. In addition, it will analyze the recent confrontation between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The decision of the Argentinian executive could generate a short circuit in the negotiations it is conducting with Israel for the acquisition of vaccines against the coronavirus and also its negotiations to garner the support of the United States in the process of debt restructuring of Argentina with the Monetary Fund International (IMF) and the Paris Club.

Of Israel, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also categorically rejected the investigation and called the decision “shameful”. “This is one more example of the unabashedly anti-Israel obsession with the UN Human Rights Council,” the prime minister said through his social media.

Argentina was not alone in voting against Israel; four others Latin American countries voted in favor of the creation of an international commission with a broad mandate to investigate alleged human rights violations before and during the latest conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, it stopped a week ago.

A first short circuit had already occurred on May 11, whereas before the attacks with hundreds of missiles of the terrorist group Hamas on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, the Argentine government issued a statement that initially questioned the “disproportionate use of forceWhich, in his opinion, were deployed by the defense forces of Israel in response to attacks received and avoided condemning the actions of the attacking Palestinian group.

This statement by the Alberto Fernández government had a strong impact on the diplomatic world. Argentina, as now with its vote at the UN, joined the list of countries that had criticized Israeli actions, namely: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. The government of Uruguay, for its part, has expressed without half measures “ its strong condemnation of the commission of terrorist acts. and the resurgence of attacks from Gaza against Israeli territory ”. From Europe, the German Foreign Ministry also condemned the missiles dropped on Tel Aviv: “The rocket fire is unacceptable and must stop immediately. Israel has the right to act in self-defense ”.

Argentina, on the other hand, adopted the line of equate Israel’s performance with that of those responsible for launching more than 130 missiles into this territory.

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