As “Israel” continues its genocide in Gaza for almost 11 months, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has signed a decree earlier this week, officially banning coal exports to the occupation entity.
The decree, dated August 14 was published on the presidential website.
Last May, the Colombian President announced cutting ties with “Israel” for having a “genocidal” president".
Petro later announced in June the suspension of coal exports to the occupation entity.
In a social media post then, he stated that exports would cease “until the genocide is stopped.”
Why is Israel in quotes? I thought it was a translation artifact at first, but no other country in the article is in quotes.
That said, good on Colombia.
Almaydeen is based (in Lebanon) and doesn’t recognize isnotreal as a country.
Isgenociderael
The name of the place is Palestine. “Israel” isn’t a legitimate state.
Personally I prefer the so-called state of Israel or the Zionist Entity, but quotes get the message across I think.
Wow. AFAIK Colombia has been israel’s largest coal supplier, while the next largest suppliers are South Africa (ironically enough) and Russia, so this could be a pretty big deal.
South Africa and Russia have an opportunity to do something extremely funny rn
Why is ‘Israel’ in quotes
My take is that the medium is covering their asses by quoting every controversial part of the article. As in Petro said it’s a “genocide” committed by “Israel”. It’s a bit weird, but you gotta be extra careful if you are not some pro-Zionist media.
How could we know for sure? It might be an impostor doing all the genocide.
Yeah, I gotta say, I’m against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, but I’m still confused about why the
OParticle is clearly using scare quotes for the name of an internationally recognized state.Removed by mod
