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El Salvadoran President on Gaza-Israel conflicts:
Here is part of a story from Al Jazeera written in June 2021, about the President of El Salvador who is also Palestinian. He’s a bit of a hard nut by NZ standards, and certainly what we would call “right leaning”. He said he thought Trump was a “cool guy” when he met him, while Trump later called his country a “shithole”. No one can argue Bukele hasn’t won incredible results for his country, and more importantly seems to understand how modern ideas of trade and economics can avoid large scale war and destruction. Here’s the first part, later, are his comments directly after October 7th:
“President Bukele has remained publicly distanced from the Palestinian struggle, making his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian issue hard to gauge. In a 2019 interview with AJ+, he made a rare comment on his views for Palestine, skirting many of the complexities that surround the topic.
“I’m very proud of my Palestinian origins, I would like to see a thriving Palestinian state. If you have a state, that state will thrive. Technology is more important than land, the Palestinians can have a state – yes, it’s smaller than the one in 1948, yes, it’s smaller than the one in the Oslo Agreements. Fine, let’s demonstrate that we can have a thriving state, peaceful and open for business,” he told the online Qatari-owned platform.
The Salvadoran president is generally not seen as a partisan figure – highlighted by his ambiguous religious stance – and is cautious of any collateral damage a firm stance on the issue may have, analysts have argued.
According to Amy Fallas, a Salvadoran academic at UC Santa Barbara who focuses on the Middle East and Latin America, Bukele’s lack of reaction to the latest Gaza-Israel war reflected his inward-looking approach.
“His political priorities in the country are outweighing his allegiance to the Palestinian cause. He can say ‘I’m proud of being Palestinian’ but in terms of the Palestinian cause, of resisting occupation or an equitable solution, he’s looking at Palestine’s way forward through business and technology, not through sovereignty, self determination or an eradication of these historic wrongs,” she said. “He basically said: ‘it doesn’t matter if we go back to 1948, the land doesn’t matter’. That’s exactly the opposite of what Palestinian activists have said, so he’s trying to minimise that or not address it, thinking about other ways of [Palestine] flourishing, which don’t get to the core issues of what Palestinians are asking for,” she told MEE.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-el-salvador-gaza-solidarity-president-diaspora-divide
Now here he is as the hard nut, on X, October 8th:
@nayibbukele
As a Salvadoran with Palestinian ancestry, I’m sure the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear. Those savage beasts do not represent the Palestinians. Anyone who supports the Palestinian cause would make a great mistake siding with those criminals. It would be like if Salvadorans would have sided with MS13 terrorists, just because we share ancestors or nationality. The best thing that happened to us as a nation was to get rid of those rapists and murderers, and let the good people thrive. Palestinians should do the same: get rid of those animals and let the good people thrive. That’s the only way forward.
I guess when pushed, everyone gets snarky, and he certainly grew up in a rough neighbourhood. He does manage to raise an interesting question about how people might over-value traditional world views, and how technology allows states an opportunity to be larger than their land based footprint might normally allow. While I was wondering why I have never seen a Palestinian Peace Rally, he was busy using ideas that europeans states have only recently been using to keep their usual constant wars in check.
Our new PM is not happy with his transport to get to Sydney perhaps Nicotine can find it in her to purchase a Toyota model plane as National don’t do Ferrari’s.