It's clear that the balance of a coalition government (and the competition for left-wing votes) with Sumar forces Pedro Sánchez to be a sort of leader of the most critical positions toward Israel in the European Union. And seeing him at nine in the morning on a Monday reading an institutional statement in which he calls what Israel is doing in Gaza genocide (former Socialist minister and current commissioner Teresa Ribera preceded him on Friday in using the qualifier) is a way to retain the media initiative and generate a new and noisy controversy.
At the same time, accusing Sánchez of using international politics to play domestic politics is ridiculous, because all leaders do it. Like Netanyahu, for example. His coalition government with far-right ministers is one of the reasons that has forced him to continue a massacre that is now climbing towards 65,000 dead. Netanyahu knows that if his government were to fall, apart from making it very difficult to win a new election, he would still be dogged by charges of corruption, in addition to those of crimes against humanity.
All international policy is national policy, and every decision in the international arena is strongly influenced by the electoral interests of the ruler making it. And regardless of sympathies for Palestinians or Israelis, Sánchez has given a (relatively comfortable, considering Spain's international influence) response to the common comment: how come no one is doing anything?
