President Javier Milei reaffirmed Argentina’s international alignment with Israel and the United States on Monday, using a keynote speech at a conference to call for a\u00a0regional alliance against terrorism and anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
Milei, speaking at the\u00a0Latin American Conference of the Israel Allies Foundation in Buenos Aires, said\u00a0there is \u00abno possible neutrality\u00bb in the face of such threats and called on Latin America to offer greater backing to Israel.<\/p>\n
Milei said anti-Semitism poses a threat to all of Western civilisation as he\u00a0defended his government’s foreign policy decisions and urged Latin American countries to join the\u00a0\u00abIsaac Accords,\u00bb an Israeli initiative aimed at strengthening cooperation with nations in the region.<\/p>\n
The President opened his remarks by recalling the bombings of the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 respectively, attacks that left 114 people dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defending Israel\u00a0was a central theme of the address. He described the nation as \u00abthe last line of defence\u00bb against terrorist organisations and regimes such as Iran’s.<\/p>\n
\u00abIf Israel falls, all of the West is next,\u00bb he warned, framing its defence as both a \u00abmoral\u00bb imperative and a matter of \u00abself-preservation\u00bb for Western democracies.<\/p>\n
He added that Western values originate in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and that attacks on Israel amount to attacks on those principles too.<\/p>\n
Milei dedicated part of his address to denouncing anti-Semitism, which he called \u00abthe canary in the coalmine of the West’s moral decline,\u00bb invoking the biblical story of Amalek in the book of Shemot as a metaphor for contemporary terrorism.<\/p>\n
The La Libertad Avanza leader\u00a0argued that anti-Semitism did not vanish after the Holocaust but simply took on new forms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He pointed to Hamas’\u00a0October 7, 2023 attack on Israel as the most recent example of that threat, part of what he called a continuum stretching from the Iranian regime to Hezbollah and other groups.<\/p>\n
Milei then linked the rise of anti-Semitism in Latin America to what he described as the influence of \u00ab21st-century socialism,\u00bb arguing that left-wing governments across the region had for decades maintained ties with Israel’s enemies, allowed Iranian influence to expand and downplayed attacks on Jewish communities.<\/p>\n
He claimed there is an \u00abimplicit alliance\u00bb between the radical left and Islamist terrorism, rooted, he said, in a shared rejection of Western values.<\/p>\n
Addressing lawmakers and political figures from across the region, Milei called for laws to strengthen the fight against terrorism and the financing of extremist organisations.\u00a0\u00abWords without action are just words,\u00bb he said, adding that the region had already had \u00abtoo many speeches and too much inaction.\u00bb<\/p>\n
In his closing remarks, Milei argued Latin America is undergoing a political shift and welcomed what he called the retreat of the left across the region.<\/p>\n
\u00abFirst they lost in Chile, last week they lost in Colombia, we already know they lost in Peru too, and I hope they lose in Brazil in October,\u00bb he said. He also claimed Cuba’s government had been forced to \u00abacknowledge the failure of its ideology\u00bb and credited \u00abthe bold intervention of the United States\u00bb with ending Nicol\u00e1s Maduro’s rule in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
He closed by framing the international landscape as a contest between two opposing models, telling the region’s leaders the choices made \u00abin the coming years will determine which side of history we end up on.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abThere is no possible neutrality,\u00bb he concluded.<\/p>\n
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