'El País' plays the king card against the PP

BarcelonaWhat's the way to do more damage to the PP's ambiguity on the Palestinian issue? The Country He is clear about it and opens the front page with the following words from King Felipe VI: "The suffering in Gaza is brutal and unacceptable." The mere fact of writing a four-column headline about the monarch's statements already indicates the newspaper's intention: to underline that even Felipe VI, always very attentive to the tendencies of public opinion to align himself, is outraged by what is happening in Gaza.

In reality, the king is obliged to align his words with Spain's official position and that is why he defended a Palestinian state that includes the Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, in accordance with the resolutions approved by the UN. Felipe VI did not go into, for example, whether what is happening in Gaza is or is not genocide, but being what he was in an Arab country, in this case Egypt, he wanted to emphasize Spanish solidarity with the suffering of the Palestinian people, although he also demanded the release of the Israeli hostages. In diplomatic terms, it was clear that the monarch represented the positions of Pedro Sánchez's government and that is why the Egyptian president, Al Sisi, thanked Spain for its "firm position" on this matter.

The debate surrounding Gaza is becoming a kind of black hole for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is forced to balance between the majority public opinion in Spain and its most pro-Israeli sector, represented, as always, by the Madrid PP of José María Aznar and Isabel Díaz Ay. Pedro Sánchez, who they call Goro Disdainfully, he demonstrates a knack for choosing topics with which to polarize the right. A very canine skill that he knows how to exploit with Gaza.