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What ridiculously self-serving drivel. By that logic there is hardly any place in Europe you should be visiting since most at one time or another were led by fascistic governments. Spain fought a civil war to get rid of that garbage. Your opinion is probably not shared by many Jews who recently obtained Spanish citizenship as descendents of those who fled the country in the past.

Wait till you find out about the American stance to Jewish refugees during World War 2.



Spanish civil war was in the 30's and officialy Spain was fascist until 1975... But is it a normal country now? When PM gives a speech and laments that too bad they don't have nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have nuked Israel... something is rotten in the little kingdom of theirs. Longing for the times of the Inquisition, when they could freely torture jews, I bet.


Glad you're counting decades now. Spain was fascist until 1975 against the will of its people by being propped up by the US/West because of the Cold War. The party that the fascists stamped out in the 30s is the party that is government now. You're arguing in bad faith by trying to connect their current stance on Israel to a dictatorship they didn't elect or choose half a century ago. Greece had a military dictatorship til 1974 and East Germany was ruled by the Soviet Union till 1989.

Israel is not synonymous with Jews no matter how much you wish it to be so.

>PM gives a speech and laments that too bad they don't have nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have nuked Israel

The exact quote is:

"Spain does not have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers or large oil reserves. We alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive. But that doesn't mean we are going to stop trying."

He is claiming that in order to be able stop an ethnofascist state that itself has nukes and is committing war crimes in real time, a country would have to be a global superpower. And since Spain is not a global superpower, Spain "alone cannot stop the Israeli offensive".




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