BOGOTÁ, Oct 17 — Colombia yesterday said Israel’s ambassador should leave the South American country before rowing back comments amid a worsening spat over President Gustavo...
BOGOTÁ, Oct 17 — Colombia yesterday 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, apologise and leave” after criticising Petro’s comparison of Israeli attacks on Gaza with the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
Then on Sunday Israel, one of the main providers of arms to Colombia’s military, said it was “halting security exports” to the South American country as the diplomatic feud escalated.Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said Colombia’s ambassador, Margarita Manjarrez, had been summoned over Petro’s “hostile and anti-Semitic statements.
Colombia’s armed forces, engaged in a decades-long conflict with leftist guerrillas, rightwing paramilitaries and drug cartels, uses Israeli-made weapons and aircraft. Petro has also engaged in an online war of words directly with the ambassador, Dagan, who had urged the president to condemn a “terrorist attack against innocent civilians”.
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