Aznar and Ayuso amend Feijóo's position regarding Gaza

Barcelona / MadridThe leader of the People's Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, took advantage of Wednesday's scrutiny session with the Spanish government to seek a way out of the impasse that Pedro Sánchez's administration has been placing him in for days, urging him and the party to speak openly about a genocide in Gaza. Although the PP has not commented on whether they believe a genocide is taking place in Gaza, during Wednesday's face-to-face meeting with Spanish President Feijóo, he attempted to move forward by speaking for the first time about a "massacre in Gaza." "Save the lessons in humanity," he rebuked Sánchez, accusing him of making partisan use of the Palestinian cause. "You would even make a pact with Netanyahu to stay in power," Feijóo retorted. However, not everyone within the PP ranks is pulling in the same direction. In fact, the unbalanced stance within the PP has been constant for days.

Thus, at the inauguration of the FAES campus this Wednesday, the former Popular Party president of the Spanish government, José María Aznar, went a step further in his criticism of the policy that Pedro Sánchez has assumed with Gaza and warned that if Israel were to lose "in what it is doing [to Gaza]" and Rus, it would have "incalculable" dimensions for the Western world. Then, when asked if the world would have been safer with the victory of Kamala Harris in the US instead of Donald Trump, Aznar considered that "obviously the world is much safer now, fortunately," for both Europeans and Americans.

Furthermore, the spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, yesterday downplayed the UN resolution declaring that Israel commits genocide, arguing that it is a resolution that "three people have made." However, this morning Xavier García Albiol assured in an interview on RTVE that if a UN body says it is committing genocide, he will not be the one to deny it.

In Moncloa they believe that the PP is "disoriented" regarding the conflict and they exemplify this, precisely, with their inability to verbalize that a "genocide" is taking place in Gaza. "Mr. Feijóo tries to juggle so as not to clarify the position of the PP, but history will judge them [the PP] for siding with the cowards who remain silent while thousands of people are murdered in Gaza," reproached the First Vice President and Minister of Finance (PSOE), María Jesús Montero, . "This government will be put alongside human rights," Montero defended.

Ayuso transfers the tension to the classrooms

Meanwhile, still reeling from the pro-Palestinian protests at the Vuelta a España last Sunday, which led to the cancellation of the final stage in Madrid, Madrid's president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has decided to transfer the tension between the Spanish government and the PP into the classroom.

According to Marea Palestina, some schools in Madrid have received "an instruction" from the Madrid Education Department to remove all symbols, such as flags, that have to do with Palestine or that represent a show of support for Gaza. Sources from this department deny to Europa Press that any such instruction has been given and assure that when the administration learns that a school wants to organize an activity that may be related to a political issue, it reminds school and institute directors that the centers must be "absolutely apolitical."

In a press conference after meeting with her cabinet, Isabel Díaz Ayuso asserted that she did not personally give "any instructions" but called for an end to "indoctrination" in schools. The president of the Community of Madrid, therefore, is in favor of not discussing the conflict in the classroom. Ayuso noted that "using" educational centers "for political purposes" is reminiscent of "the worst episodes of the 20th century" and accused Pedro Sánchez's administration of carrying out the "kale borroka" in the classrooms, an accusation that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has called "frivolous." "They have no dignity," Marlaska has reproached the PP. However, Ayuso's own government launched it in 202, focusing precisely on educational centers. The initiative consisted of collecting food and hygiene and sanitary products from 1,580 centers to send them to the attacked country. "of ambassador of genocide."

Felipe VI defends a "viable Palestinian state"

Finally, King Felipe VI also spoke out this Wednesday, during his official visit to Egypt, advocating for the creation of a "viable Palestinian state" with Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Felipe VI again criticized "the brutal and unacceptable suffering of hundreds of thousands of people" in the Strip and thanked Cairo for its "mediating" role in trying to achieve a ceasefire.