Colombian President Gustavo Petro vows to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza war, threatens to turn join South Africa’s petition to the International Court of Justice.

By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

The far-left president of Colombia threatened Wednesday to join South Africa’s petition to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip, while pledging to end diplomatic ties with the Jewish state.

In an address in the city of Bogota Wednesday, marking International Worker’s Day, President Gustavo Petro, former member of the M-19 terrorist organization, said that his government would end diplomatic relations with Israel Thursday.

“Here in front of you, the government of change, of the president of the republic announces that tomorrow we will break diplomatic relations with the state of Israel…for having a government, for having a president who is genocidal,” Petro said.

Shortly afterwards, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded to Petro’s comments on Twitter/X.

“History will remember that Gustavo Petro decided to side with the most despicable monsters known to mankind who burned babies, murdered children, raped women and kidnapped innocent civilians,” Katz tweeted.

Colombia, once an ally of the Jewish state, has over the last two years moved to curb ties with Israel.

Petro, a long-time Israel critic, accused Israel of Nazism following the October 7th Hamas invasion of the Jewish state, and threatened to expel Israel’s ambassador to Colombia.

In March, Petro again compared the State of Israel to Nazi Germany, and declared that his country would impose an arms embargo on the Jewish state.

“Asking for food, more than 100 Palestinians were killed by Netanyahu. This is called genocide and is reminiscent of the Holocaust even if the world powers do not like to recognize it,” Petro wrote in Spanish on social media. “The world must block Netanyahu.”

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Since Oct. 7, ‘Israel has consistently violated international law,’ Belize charged.

By JNS

Israel condemned on Thursday Belize’s decision to suspend diplomatic relations, saying it amounted to “surrendering to Hamas’s terrorism and aligning with the axis of evil led by Iran.”

“The government of Belize is blatantly ignoring the Oct. 7 massacre in which more than 1,200 people, including babies, women, and the elderly, were brutally murdered, many in their own homes, by the Hamas terrorist organization,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

“The government of Belize is also ignoring the 240 people kidnapped by a terrorist organization worse than ISIS,” it added.

The government of the Central American nation accused Israel of “unceasing indiscriminate bombing” in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, saying it would expel Israeli Ambassador Einat Kranz-Neiger and withdraw the request for accreditation for its honorary consul in the Jewish state.

Since Oct. 7, “Israel has consistently violated international law,” Belize charged.

The Israeli ministry statement emphasized that Israel “acts and will continue to act in accordance with international law, while Hamas commits war crimes and crimes against humanity, cynically using hospitals and the civilian population of Gaza as human shields.”

Earlier this month, Bolivia announced the severing of diplomatic relations with Israel over the war against Hamas, while Colombia and Chile said they were recalling their ambassadors.

Days earlier, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized what he called “the insanity of the prime minister of Israel [in] wanting to destroy the Gaza Strip but forgetting that there aren’t just Hamas soldiers there but also women and children who are the big victims of this war.”

Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil have in recent years all elected far-left leaders.

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