Milei calls Hamas “modern Nazism” during his visit to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem

Some of the world's most important leaders have traveled to Israel during the war that entered its fifth month this Wednesday.

But the visit of the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, is the most comfortable that the Israeli Government has found.

A balm for a prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in low times.

“We cannot remain silent in the face of modern Nazism, today disguised as the terrorist group Hamas,” Milei said during his visit to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.

The president called for the release of the more than 100 hostages still held by the Islamist group, but he made no reference to the deaths of nearly 28,000 Gazans at the hands of Israeli troops.

His speech maintained the line drawn during the current contest by Netanyahu himself, who already said that “Hamas are the new Nazis.”

The prime minister had previously extended a warm welcome to his guest, unaware, according to the statement made public, of the turbulent times the country is experiencing.

“You are a great friend of the Jewish State.

“We are delighted with your decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the diplomatic team there and, of course, also the embassy,” Netanyahu told the Argentine president.

This new headquarters of the legation, although already announced, is the most important movement of the visit and of the new relations between both countries.

The head of the Israeli Executive expressed his wishes for “prosperity, security and peace” without delving into the armed conflict unleashed since the massacre of some 1,200 people in Israel at the hands of Hamas on October 7 and whose management is becoming increasingly complicated. further.

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“As I admire the dark images of the Holocaust, I wonder where the free world was then.

And today I ask myself the exact same question again.

Where is the voice of the free world demanding and demanding the release of the more than 100 kidnapped for more than 100 days” in Gaza, said Javier Milei in reference to one of the thorniest issues that the Israeli authorities face in this war.

Never before the current war situation had the country faced such a heinous attack or such a high number of hostages in its 75 years of history.

More than 100 of the approximately 240 captured on October 7 were released in a ceasefire in late November.

But these days there are still around 130 in the Palestinian enclave, of which 31 are already dead, according to data from the Israeli authorities.

Among them, there are nine of Argentine origin, an important community in Israel.

“It is the first time I have visited Israel and this museum.

Today my eyes and my heart saw images of some of the darkest moments in the history of humanity.

But I see contrasts, inside the museum I see destruction and death while outside I see the opposite extreme, reconstruction and life,” commented Milei on the second of his three-day official visit to Israel, the first bilateral visit to a foreign country after devastating in the presidential elections in November last year.

This Thursday, she plans to travel to the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the scenes where Hamas committed the massacre on October 7.

Freedom and life were the terms most repeated by the Argentine president at the lectern.

The cry of “Long live freedom, damn it!”, chanted as a slogan by Milei, has become so famous that even a group of schoolchildren visiting the museum shouted it when they observed the procession.

It had already been heard on Tuesday night, when Milei, who does not hide her desire to convert to Judaism, went to the Wailing Wall in the old area of ​​East Jerusalem occupied by Israel.

There she cried emotionally and received a warm bath from the citizens, many of them of Argentine origin.

The extermination of six million people during World War II fueled the birth of the crime of genocide.

On these pillars and on Nazi barbarism, the Jerusalem Holocaust Museum was built.

Today, in the shadow of those more than 28,000 Palestinian lives taken by Israeli troops in Gaza, the international community has put the term back on the table.

The International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, considered at the end of January “plausible” that Israel is committing actions in the Palestinian Strip that constitute this international crime.

That institution demanded that the authorities and the army take measures to prevent a genocide against the Palestinians from being carried out now.

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