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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: "At the proposal of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, and following deliberation by the Council of Ministers at its meeting on 10 March 2026, I hereby order the termination of Ms Ana Mara Salomon Prez's appointment as Ambassador of Spain to the State of Israel."

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NATO and EU member Spain has been a leading critic of ICC-indicted war criminal Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his inhuman military operations against the people in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. This month Spain PM Pedro Sanchez blasted Israel and the US for their "illegitimate" attack on Iran.

South Africa, Jordan, Turkiye, Chile, Colombia, Chad, Honduras, and Bahrain have also pulled their ambassadors from Israel.

~snip~!

Responsible Statecraft reports that Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East. Source: Israel is Pariah Nation and Rogue State

Benjamin Netanyahu is Mass Murderer Like Jeffrey Dahmer

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-11 11:52 PM | Reply

Bomb Him. Like they bombed Khamenei.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 07:28 AM | Reply

Yet Spain will keep embassies in country's with far worse human rights abuses than Israel.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 03:40 PM | Reply

Sorry, ambassadors, not embassies.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 03:40 PM | Reply

Examples?

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 08:27 PM | Reply

Yet Spain will keep embassies in country's with far worse human rights abuses than Israel.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger

Are those countries committing a genocide, warring with their neighbors and instigating a war of aggression?

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 08:29 PM | Reply

Israel isn't committing genocide. I showed this to you the other night, although you may have missed it.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 09:49 PM | Reply

China IS committing genocide against the Ughurs and I'm willing to bet Spain hasn't removed their ambassador.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 09:50 PM | Reply

"Israel isn't committing genocide."

You can't define genocide.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-12 09:51 PM | Reply

Israel is committing a genocide

Just because the Palestinian population increased over 26 years does not mean that a genocide is taking place. Especially since Israel moved from the Apartheid state to the active violence against the Palestinian people following October 7.

It is a simple fact.

You are a simple ton

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:01 PM | Reply

Look at the intentional targeting of civilians
Look at the land theft
Look at the starvation
Look at the collective punishment
Look at the forced displacement
Look at statements from the Netanyahu government
Look at the treatment of Palestinian detainees (aka hostages)
Look at the destruction of the Gaza strip
Look at the restriction of aid and food

Genocide

Jeff is a lying piece of shit and apparently a genocide apologist

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:02 PM | Reply

It's the only genocide in the history of genocides were the targeted population grew at all, much less substantially.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:03 PM | Reply

They elected Hamas as their leadership and precipitated a war with Israel with the 10/7 attack which was brutally savage in its execution.

Did you approve of that attack?

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:05 PM | Reply

Is Lewzer going to bomb Spain before or after he bombs Cuba?

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-12 10:08 PM | Reply

I'm going with after.

#15 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:14 PM | Reply

You do understand how time works, right? 2000 happened before 2023. You understand that correct?
You do understand that the genocide did not start in 2000, it started in 2023. You understand that right?
You understand that 2023 is LATER than 2000? Right?
You do understand that the population growth rate is not the definition of a genocide right? You understand that right?
A genocide are the actions and the intent of one group over another.

Look at the intentional targeting of civilians
Look at the land theft
Look at the starvation
Look at the collective punishment
Look at the forced displacement
Look at statements from the Netanyahu government
Look at the treatment of Palestinian detainees (aka hostages)
Look at the destruction of the Gaza strip
Look at the restriction of aid and food
Genocide

In their own words.

the deputy speaker of Israel's parliament, said was the country's "one common goal" after October 7, 2023: "erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth."

Netanyahu described the operation as Israel's "concluding moves," the purpose of which was to ensure that "Gazans choose to emigrate outside the Strip."

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared in early May that in six months, Gaza would cease to exist. The surviving population, he added, would be herded into a single "humanitarian zone" and"broken by despair"would depart, "understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza."

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He's already cut off all US trade with Spain, so that will hold them for a while.

#17 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-12 10:17 PM | Reply

They elected Hamas as their leadership and precipitated a war with Israel with the 10/7 attack which was brutally savage in its execution.
Did you approve of that attack?

#13 | Posted by BellRinger

Nope to your stupid question

Do you support the collective punishment of children?

#18 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:17 PM | Reply

It wasn't a stupid question given your hostility toward Israel, especially given you throw around the word genocide' without understanding what it means.

genocide
noun
genocide je-n'-sd
Synonyms of genocide
: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:25 PM | Reply

which is accomplished through specific acts you drooling idiot

Like

Starvation
Killing
Displacement
Denial of education
Denial of medicine
Destruction of housing
Denial of clean water
Denial of basic rights

You know, Israeli policy

You really are an idiot.

#20 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

But one must always keep in mind

I'm a borderline Hall of Fame troll, Alexandrite. I easily elicit multiple responses with a single post. And it doesn't take any effort.
#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 05:42 PM

so, umm yeah fuck off shitgibbon

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:31 PM | Reply

That's not Israel "policy".

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:32 PM | Reply

#19 "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group"




#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-03-12 10:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Roughly 18% of Israel's population is Muslim. How can that be?

#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:33 PM | Reply

Name me one genocide in the history of genocides where the geographical location of the targeted group substantially increased its population over the course of a couple of decades. Just one.

#25 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:35 PM | Reply

Jeff

I know you aren't this stupid.

The genocide did not start until October 2023 or more precisely developed during the Gaza war.

I realize I have said that to you several times in this thread

This is why you are considered a liar.

You are a disgusting piece of filth

Seriously, grow the fuck up

#26 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:38 PM | Reply

They haven't Expelled them yet.

They use them as Tokens to give fools like you a false sense of justice when they are Apartheid Killers and Usurping Assholes.

Jews are the only people with Self Determination in Israel, by Law.

The Others, Christian or Muslim are de Jure second class citizens with No legal right to Self Determination.

It's a Bigot State of Jewish Supremacists.

#27 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 10:39 PM | Reply

www.btselem.org

State policy to steal the West Bank

#28 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:40 PM | Reply

www.hrw.org

" The Israeli government's plan to demolish what remains of Gaza's civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an abhorrent escalation of its ongoing crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and acts of genocide, Human Rights Watch said today.

Concentration of the Palestinian people while destroying their civilian infrastructure

Official Israeli state policy

#29 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:42 PM | Reply

#19 "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group"




#30 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-03-12 10:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" The genocide did not start until October 2023 or more precisely developed during the Gaza war."

Gee, I wonder what happened in October 2023 that could have resulted in military action in the region?

Twoothy, "After 10/7 Israel should have just said thank you sir, may I have another?'."

#31 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:45 PM | Reply


You can't define genocide.

#9 | Posted by snoofy

No one can, thats the game

#32 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-12 10:46 PM | Reply

"Steal" the West Bank? Hmmmm ... ..I wonder why they'd do that. I can't imagine any reason why they'd want a buffer zone.

#33 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 10:46 PM | Reply

www.facebook.com

Before and after

#34 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" The genocide did not start until October 2023 or more precisely developed during the Gaza war."

Liar, the claim goes all the way back to 2006 at least.

#35 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-12 10:47 PM | Reply

"Steal" the West Bank? Hmmmm ... ..I wonder why they'd do that. I can't imagine any reason why they'd want a buffer zone.

#33 | Posted by BellRinger

Like I said, a genocide apologist

#36 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:47 PM | Reply

" The genocide did not start until October 2023 or more precisely developed during the Gaza war."
Gee, I wonder what happened in October 2023 that could have resulted in military action in the region?
Twoothy, "After 10/7 Israel should have just said thank you sir, may I have another?'."

#31 | Posted by BellRinger

Did all 2 million Palestinians commit the October 7 terrorist attack?

Like I said genocide apoligist

#37 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 10:48 PM | Reply

I can't imagine any reason why they'd want a buffer zone.

Probably because the IDF can't even defend their border from a bunch of guys on dirt bikes.

#38 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-12 10:50 PM | Reply

Israel is Nazis with a good Rap.

Same Expansionist Vision, Same Ethnic Vainglory, Same Violent Intolerance of anyone but themselves having Self Determination.

Not willing to see Humanity in anyone Not Jewish.

ZIONAZIS

If Calling them that is Antisemitic I guess I Am.

I want to be a Rational Hater

#39 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 10:53 PM | Reply

" Did all 2 million Palestinians commit the October 7 terrorist attack?

Like I said genocide apoligist
#37 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2026-03-12 10:48 PM | FLAG: "

70% of them voted into power the group that carried out the attack. Like I said, Hamas apologist.

#40 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 11:07 PM | Reply

What about the 30% who DIDN'T vote for Hamas?

Where does all this leave them?

Collective Punishment is a War Crime for Good Reason.

#41 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 11:10 PM | Reply

That's roughly 700,000 Palestinians being tormented and killed who DIDN'T vote for Hamas.

Genocide is an Appropriate Word I would think.

#42 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 11:14 PM | Reply

70% of them voted into power the group that carried out the attack.

And 77 million Americans voted to go to war with Iran.

#43 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-12 11:15 PM | Reply

Ballgagger is a troll. Not a good one either.

She's kind of Simple and not Good at logical Argument.

Waste of time.

#44 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 11:18 PM | Reply

Should Iran Kill 77 Million Americans?

Askin' for a Friend.

#45 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 11:19 PM | Reply

70% of them voted into power the group that carried out the attack. Like I said, Hamas apologist.

#40 | Posted by BellRinger

47.3% of Gaza Palestinians were under the age of 18 on October 7, 2023

Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections on 25 January 2006

nearly half of the population was either unborn or under the age of 1 when Hamas was voted in

Like I said you're scum

Truly truly scum

#46 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 11:26 PM | Reply

#46. That's a fair point.

#47 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 11:28 PM | Reply

I will say, you are missing the larger point - in war a country responds with overwhelming force in order to crush the enemy.

The ceasefire wasn't brokered until January of this year. Criticisms of actions taken after the cease fire carry legitimacy. Prior to the cease fire, far less legitimacy.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 11:31 PM | Reply

Like I said you're scum
Truly truly scum

#46 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 11:26 PM | Reply | Flag:
(Choose)

#46. That's a fair point.

#47 | Posted by BellRinger a

Thanks for admitting it, that took a long time

#49 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 11:32 PM | Reply

I will say, you are missing the larger point - in war a country responds with overwhelming force in order to crush the enemy.
The ceasefire wasn't brokered until January of this year. Criticisms of actions taken after the cease fire carry legitimacy. Prior to the cease fire, far less legitimacy.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger

Christ you're stupid

Ask yourself why we aren't targeting Iran's desalination plant, yet

Ask yourself why killing 165 children was wrong

Hint

There are rules to war.

Israel broke them, repeatedly and intentionally

to destroy gaza so that the Palestinians couldn't live there

#50 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 11:34 PM | Reply

Should Iran Kill 77 Million Americans?

If they could, do you think they wouldn't?

#51 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-12 11:35 PM | Reply

What about the 30% who DIDN'T vote for Hamas?

Those are probably the ones still alive.

So whats your point?

#52 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-12 11:36 PM | Reply

To be clear if it is genocide Israel isn't doing a very good job ... there are 2.1 to 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza today.

#53 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-12 11:38 PM | Reply

#49. Well played.

#54 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 11:55 PM | Reply

#51 No I don't think they would.

They didn't have the BOMB everyone is so scared of because the Ayatollah, the One Trump had MURDERED,issued a binding Fatwa against Nuclear Weapons as UnIslamic and Anti Life.

Iran is more Moral than The US or Especially Israel.

That's why they were targeted for destruction.

They were too Moral to get the one thing that could have prevented this.

They won't continue in that Error.

The Iranian Bombs are Coming, Soon.

Overdue given the Situation, I would say.

Israel Sabotaged Themselves with their Paranoia and Viciousness.

It's Ironic.

#55 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-12 11:57 PM | Reply

" There are rules to war.

Israel broke them, repeatedly and intentionally"

Has Hamas adhered to the rules of warfare?

#56 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 11:57 PM | Reply

" Iran is more Moral than The US or Especially Israel. "

Uh huh. Over the course of 1 month the mullahs murdered 30,000 protesters. That's morality in your book. Apparently.

#57 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 11:59 PM | Reply

Has Hamas adhered to the rules of warfare?

#56 | Posted by BellRinger

No and that is immaterial

#58 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-13 12:02 AM | Reply

Uh huh. Over the course of 1 month the mullahs murdered 30,000 protesters. That's morality in your book. Apparently.

#57 | Posted by BellRinger

Can you fit in your pea brain that Israel, Hamas, Iran AND the US are acting evily?

#59 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-13 12:02 AM | Reply

Propaganda isn't Real. 30,000? How did they get that number?

You don't know the circumstances and neither do I.

The Government there was fighting for it's life and any Government gets violent if seriously threatened by Unrest.

Do you think Trump could kill 30,000 Americans if Protests involving huge numbers of Murders, massive Property damage, and looting, Presented a Real Threat to his Rule, and outside Spies from an Enemy Power were instigating them?

I DO.

#60 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-13 12:08 AM | Reply

How many has Putin killed, drool-boy?

#61 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-13 12:13 AM | Reply

How many has Ukraine killed?

How Many has Israel?

Zelinsky wants Ukraine to be the Israel of Europe.

What does THAT even Mean?

#62 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-13 12:16 AM | Reply

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#63 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-13 12:20 AM | Reply

" Can you fit in your pea brain that Israel, Hamas, Iran AND the US are acting evily?
#59 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2026-03-13 12:02 AM | FLAG: "

I certainly recognize that there are no completely innocent actors in all of this.

" No and that is immaterial

#58 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2026-03-13 12:02 AM | FLAG: "

That's a stretch.

#64 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-13 12:42 AM | Reply

Effeteposer,

This is actually a very good piece of journalism. If you are an honest broker, give it a read:

www.theguardian.com

#65 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-13 12:46 AM | Reply

I Read it. It's typical Horror Propaganda, I can't possibly know what is actually true.

No way to Confirm anything.

3000 is bad Enough. Believable too,given the Pressure in Iran.

30,000+ with horrific killings of patients being treated in hospitals?

I don't know. Honestly.

Israel has killed three times that under equally horrible conditions for no good reason but Pure Malice and Vengeance.

Humans are Capable of real Horrors to be sure.

Lying is also something Humans do a lot of.

Especially in War.

???

I just don't know.

#66 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-13 01:08 AM | Reply

Name me one genocide in the history of genocides where the geographical location of the targeted group substantially increased its population over the course of a couple of decades. Just one.
#25 | Posted by BellRinger

Gaza.

#67 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-13 02:54 AM | Reply

Name me one genocide in the history of genocides where the geographical location of the targeted group substantially increased its population over the course of a couple of decades. Just one.
#25 | Posted by BellRinger

Slavery in the Untied States.
Less than a half million brought to the Untied States before 1808.
The African Slaves numbered nearly 4 million by 1860.
And their ethnic ties to their ancestors in Africa?
Cleansed as best as we could.

Our Founders raped them and enslaved their own children born by them.

#68 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-13 02:58 AM | Reply

genocide
: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
#19 | Posted by BellRinger

Is there a racial, political, or cultural group of people called "Palestinians?"
Has there ever been a racial, political, or cultural place called "Palestine?"
Did someone destroy it?

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-13 03:04 AM | Reply

www.ohchr.org

#70 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-13 03:34 AM | Reply

Brian Allen
@allenanalysis

3h
A Spanish assembly member just stood up in the Madrid parliament and said what most world leaders won't:

"Do you think the mothers of 160 dead girls would thank Trump for killing their children? You have become a bootlicker of Trump."

The chamber erupted in support.

This is happening in Madrid.

In Washington, senators are competing to prove their loyalty to a foreign government.

In Texas, Ted Cruz told Christians he won't stand with them if they won't stand with Israel.

In South Carolina, Lindsey Graham is recruiting parents to send their children to the Middle East.

In Madrid, an elected official is saying the mothers of 160 dead girls out loud " in parliament " on the record.

Spine: 100%.

The moral clarity that is absent in Washington is showing up everywhere else.
x.com

#71 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-13 03:55 AM | Reply

There is a reason why Spain was one of the first countries I ever visited last century.

I wonder what that Spanish legislator would tell people in the US who are pushing us to vote for AIPAC candidates on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026?

images.squarespace-cdn.com

#72 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-13 04:05 AM | Reply

At the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last month, with an eye on a POTUS run in 2028, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) cynically entreated the Western powers "not to give up on America" and to "stand up to Dummkopf Trumpf."

"Trumpf is temporary," Newsom implored, "he's gone in three years."

But the rich telegenic protege of the fabulously wealthy Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did not address Amerikka's sick corpus of warmongers, lobbyists, oligarchs (Felon Musk, Larry Ellison, Miriam Adelson, Peter Thiel), and Republicans who are not temporary and will still be there in 2029-- like the ones mentioned above-- after Dummkopf Trumpf is gone.

Gavin Newsom may be against the illegal war on Iran and dislikes ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu (who doesn't?), but the potential 2028 presidential candidate did not address the real underlying problem when he singled out Dummkopf Trumpf at the MSC.

images.squarespace-cdn.com

#73 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-13 05:14 AM | Reply

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