The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, continues to portray himself. In an interview with French television has compared the Normandy landingsmade in 1944 and which was key to defeating Nazi Germany, with the incursion that his army is carrying out in Rafah and that is leaving dozens of dead. During his speech he tried on several occasions to define Israel’s conflict against Gaza as the struggle of a democracy against an extremist regime.

“For us it is a tragedy, for Hamas it is a strategy. They use civilians as human shields“he noted, making it clear that they are trying to avoid the greatest number of civilian deaths.

Among the obvious differences that exist between the Normandy landings and Israel’s incursion into Rafah is that the international community has already rejected on several occasions the massacre that is being perpetrated against the people of Palestine and More and more voices describe what is happening as genocide and extermination. While the landing was a key strategy to defeat the Nazis in Europe.

Besides, Netanyahu has compared his offensive to the fights carried out by other democratic leaders against Adolf Hitler, like Winston Churchill; and has systematically hidden behind other anti-Semitic events in history, such as the Holocaust or the persecutions of the Middle Ages.

For its part, in France, whose Government has requested the cessation of Israeli offensive in Rafahhas banned the military industry from Netanyahu exhibit their weapons at a defense fair being held this coming month near Paris. According to the organizers, “the conditions are not met to receive them.”

In the middle of this offensive against Rafah and after the declaration of the Palestinian state by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, Israel has threatened our country with close the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem starting this Saturday if Spain continues to serve Palestinian citizens.

The minister Albares has officially shown its complete rejection and has communicated it to Israel this Friday through a “first verbal note”, in which they reject “any limitation on the consulate” and reminds Netanyahu that has a “protected status under international law and the Vienna convention”.