Petro receives the Great Necklace of Palestine for his support of the Palestinian people

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The Colombian president thanks the Palestinian people for having granted him the “most valuable” decoration of his existence

June 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, received this Monday in a ceremony held at the Casa de Nariño the Great Necklace of Palestine, one of the highest distinctions awarded by the Palestinian Government, from its Foreign Minister, Riad al Maliki. in recognition of the Colombian leader’s support for the Palestinian cause.

“Your voice in defense of the Palestinians has become a voice of hope and of life itself. (…) Thank you for working bravely so that neither Palestine nor humanity dies,” declared the head of Palestinian diplomacy , as reported by the Caracol Radio station.

For his part, Petro thanked the Palestinian people for having granted him this decoration, which he considers “the most valuable” of his existence “for what it means, undoubtedly, in the history of the world, in the history of resistance, and now in these unfortunate days that we are experiencing, which mark a before and after in the history of humanity.

During his speech, Petro stated that Gaza is being used as a “laboratory” in a “terrifying experiment that has to do with the Nazis.” “What Hitler proposed is what is being applied in Gaza, but as an experiment for the world. This is how they want to dominate us,” she declared.

“The bombs in Gaza are not fired by simple Israeli soldiers. It is a huge capital in the world, centralized, coordinated, which influences big governments,” he noted, before stating that “the Nazis are in power” and that “they ascend through financial capital”, managing to “lead the United States Government”, even though it is “self-proclaimed Democrat, with progressive currents.”

In this sense, he has regretted that those “progressive currents” that exist in Washington – which includes black, Latino and Arab communities – “fail to change the will of the State, which continues to help fire the bombs.” Nor in Europe, which, “after so many workers’ struggles and socialist and democratic revolutions, after so many barricades erected in the great European cities, building the democratic and humanist project,” is “surrendered to the Nazis.”

Israel launched a military offensive against Gaza after the attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7, which left nearly 1,200 dead and about 240 kidnapped. According to the Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamist group, almost 36,500 Palestinians have died to date, in addition to more than 510 deaths at the hands of Israeli forces and in attacks carried out by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since that date.