Induced submission
Hamas's holocaust against Israel has opened the gates of hell to a global war that affects us all. It has eclipsed the Russian killings after the invasion of Ukraine and reignited tension in Taiwan. Always the same aggressors with pacifist cards in their teeth: Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, the guests of Puebla with Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela at the forefront; the exquisite communists of Sumar, HaMásMadrid, PCE, IU, Bildu, ERC, Compromís, BNG, PNV and Junts. And always the same Stalinist tactic: accuse the Jews of genocide before they legitimately respond to extermination.
Israel has enlisted the urgent help of Washington and the EU majors. Council President Ursula von der Leyen and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola had the courage to travel to Tel Aviv to meet Benjamin Netanyahu and show solidarity with the Jewish people. So did German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden.
What has been the role of the rotating European president during these six months, Mr Sánchez Pérez-Castejón? Not much. He has not led a single initiative in these ten days of war in the Middle East, nor was he invited to sign the communiqué of the big five (the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy); he limited himself to condemning the attack and calling on Israel to show restraint. Its coalition partners from Sumar to Podemos via IU, PCE, Bildu and ERC have spearheaded anti-Semitic statements and demonstrations in favour of Hamas, led by Yoli Díaz and Ione Belarra, on the pretext that they support the Palestinian people. And that has been a headache for the government.
The Israeli embassy in Madrid has issued a harsh communiqué against Spain in the face of untenable attitudes on the part of the national government. The foreign minister has justified them by invoking freedom of expression, while La Moncloa accused Israel of spreading "falsehoods". Newspaper and video libraries cannot overrule reality. The Minister of Social Affairs has even asked the PSOE to take the Jewish Prime Minister to the International Criminal Court for genocide (preventive). Why doesn't she take this request to Congress? Not a single reproach to the bloodthirsty Hamas-Isis terrorists.
Now we explain why the Hebrew government, which collaborated with Madrid in the capture of the ETA leadership in Bidart, has dissociated itself from the "Pegasus affair", which will take the former director of the CNI, Paz Esteban, to court as a defendant and without evidence, at the request of the less than honourable President Aragonés, who will appear in the Senate this Thursday to explain the benefits of amnesty - of amnesia - and the repression of the oppressive state. The socialists continue to hide behind the law of silence. Sánchez cannot be trusted. He opens a diplomatic conflict and almost breaks the European consensus.
And that is when the president reacted. He called a meeting by videoconference with the Commission and the Council and appeared in mortal flesh at La Moncloa Palace. This time he was concise. A) Condemnation of Hamas killings. And Israel's right to defend itself. B) Return of the 200 Israeli hostages and a request to Tel Aviv to allow water and electricity supplies to Gaza. C) Recognition of two sovereign states: Israel and Palestine. D) Urgent humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of the Strip and protection of convoys with food, medicines and survival materials. E) Spain will contribute 4 million more until December; in total, 21 million euros that will be audited and F) Palestine-Israel Conference in Barcelona to seek, with hope, a lasting peace. A lot of dialogue in order not to set the Middle East on fire and avoid an escalation of violence. No questions were taken. As almost always.
We heard nothing about whether Spain will increase the level of security, whether Hamas will be recognised as the legitimate government of Gaza, its position on the hostage exchange and the request for the release of 6,000 terrorists. Nor did he mention the assassinations in France and Belgium, nor do we know whether he will now label Spain's Maya Villalobos as 'deceased'.
Spain-Israel relations have deteriorated due to the bad company of this government that is hostage to its parliamentary partners, a few aligned with terrorism and all splashing around in the deserts of crime and balkanisation. In the background, the mystery and secrecy of the amnesty and the referendum.
Felipe González hit the nail on the head: would Sánchez have supported the amnesty if he did not need the seven votes of Junts? The answer is no. To investigate Sánchez with the votes of Bildu and Puigdemont will have consequences. At all levels and in all directions.
Political eschatology
The term eschatology could have pretensions of a scholarly treatise, but there is no such thing; it only expresses in this case a frequent political reality. To paraphrase Dr José Prieto Prieto - a fellow citizen of Salamanca and yet a friend - the scandalous fact of the investiture negotiations before 27-N brings together all the ingredients to reach the final conclusion that "the harvests of conflict are assured, all the fields are fertilised for the proliferation of scandals".
Political instability is systemic. Nobody has governed here for five and a half years. We were lied to with the black pudding of Judge de Prada-Garzón for the corruption of the PP. And we got used to it. By the time the SC rectified it was too late. And Prada is still in place. Sánchez lied to us to call elections immediately, but it took him nine months. And we got used to it. He slept with Iglesias and that he "couldn't sleep". And we got used to it. The Government lied to us once again with the COVID and waited for the 8-M demonstration to pass when it was already too late. And we got used to it.
The Government closed the Parliament. And we got used to it. It ruled by "decrees", it unconstitutionally confined us twice. And we got used to it. It pardoned the coup plotters and we got used to it; it reduced the sentences for embezzlement for corrupt politicians. It annulled sedition. And we got used to it. It released ETA members from prison. And we got used to it. He said that with the "yes is yes" law no one would go out on the streets and there are already almost 1,200 rapists who have benefited from the measure and 125 on the streets. And we got used to it. He promised to hand Puigdemont over to justice in his penultimate electoral bid and there we have Yo-Yoli, drooling with him in Brussels. And we got used to it.
Now, he already admits amnesty for the Procès criminals (some 1,200, including the CDR) and tomorrow he will approve the secessionist referendum. And we will get used to it, unfortunately. The latest of the latest is to "amnesty" the socialist thieves of the ERE (680 million euros defrauded) and exonerate Cháves and Griñán, two former presidents of the Junta and the PSOE, corrupt and confessed. We got used to it then and we will get used to it now.
The Conde Pumpido doctrine is to follow the will of Pedro Sánchez. Sánchez's enabling laws began with the COVID and are advancing with the totalitarian majority of the Constitutional Court, which is a court without guarantees as seen in the "neutralisation" of the CGPJ which has been deprived of its powers to elect judges and the ruling he is preparing to (Mrs Montalbán by means of) annul the Supreme Court's sentences on the EREs convictions.
Conde Pumpido will say yes to everything his master, Mr Sánchez, says; therefore, the Catalan and Basque amnesties and the Andalusian larcenies for 40 years will be constitutional. Now, they are going to assault the Parliament to modify the appointment of the members of the Council so that Sánchez has an absolute majority and becomes a new legal autocrat. By killing off the Senate. And we are getting used to it. Conde and Sánchez are looking for a legal amnesty with examples such as Rajoy's tax amnesties. Will they give amnesty to tax fraudsters? With this leadership, anything is possible.
This has already been announced by the international rapporteur "in péctore", in his capacity as a "Venezuelan citizen", J.L. Rodríguez Zapatero, who is whitewashing the "institution of amnesty" - he says - assuring that it fits in the Constitution. And the referendum! What better intermediary than this plurinational instigator who serves Maduro, Castro, Iran, China and the Cartel of the Suns with such care? And we'll get used to it, you'll see.
This guy is the one who baptised Otegui as a "man of peace" and almost gave him amnesty. Now we know that this favourite son of former president ZP participated, according to his terrorist friends, in nine kidnappings and one murder. He was the author of the "rules" to be followed in the kidnappings: "The guy will be on the bonnet, in a sack, handcuffed and blindfolded...". Leire Iglesias's investigation in EL MUNDO on this guy is a priceless work of the free press. Congratulations, colleague.
Contrast his terrorist biography - he has only been convicted of one kidnapping - with the PSOE's whitewashing of Bildu. The photo of the acting president's infamy with the representatives of this party in Congress confirms the president's lies four years ago: "I will never make an agreement with Bildu; if you want I will repeat it once, five or twenty times: I will never make an agreement with Bildu". He blatantly lied to us and we got used to it.
The portrait with Mertxe Aizpurúa (convicted of apology for ETA) and Gorka Elejabarreta, spokesman in the Senate and close friend of the ETA member who tried to assassinate Eduardo Madina and mutilated him forever, reveals Sánchez's moral and ethical character. He crosses the Bilduetarra border and definitively whitewashes the murderous gang. He is the first to give him support (unconditionally) not only for the investiture, but for the whole legislature. And beyond. The most faithful partner.
The ETA members are practically at home; the Guardia Civil has been expelled from the province of Navarre, the army is banned in the north, the Basque language is subsidised by the general budget, the right to decide will be parallel to the referendum in Catalonia, -the integration of Navarre into Euskadi is constitutional-, the Federation of Municipalities of this province surrendered to Bildu two hours after desecrating and vandalising the tomb of socialist Fernando Buesa and the PSN has already committed itself to hand over the capital of Navarre to Bildu as of December 1st, whether or not there is an investiture. Long live progressivism! And we, accustomed to the silence of the lambs, are so ashamed and indignant towards the victims of terrorism!
The negotiations are so secret that everything is discreet and transparent, according to Patxi López.
The meeting-trap, separately, with ERC and Junts, is pure theatre. They have everything agreed, amnesty, referendum, Cercanías network, 22,000 million per year, cancellation of the FLA (78,000 million) and expansion of Foreign Action (Diplocat) looking the other way with the creation of the secret services. Catalan in the EU will be an added gift. And the most serious thing: cutting off communications (Renfe, Cercanías, ports, airports, coasts... all for free). And on top of that, complaining like in the Republic and the Franco regime. And we get used to everything.
The only opportunity
Moncloa has everything tied up and well tied up because the PSOE and its partners have not needed a plan B. They will wait until the second vote to stage an extreme difficulty and crown themselves as champions of dialogue and coexistence... Connivance, friends, connivance. The coup d'état is directed by La Moncloa from the Pedralbes Pact. Everyone benefits. Since this debate was omitted in the elections of 23-J, why not debate it openly in the Congress of Deputies? A simple proposal: a national referendum because this decision is in the interest of all the sovereign people.
The separatists and terrorists continue with the rattle of "permanent paid persecution", Sánchez remains in power to dissolve the Constitution of 78, break the unity of the Homeland and create plurinationalities that bring us closer to an outcome already tragically experienced: the end of the former Yugoslavia.
There will be an investiture of the second candidate, do not doubt it, because this is the only real opportunity for the actors of the process of national destruction - including the Judiciary and the Monarchy - to go ahead with their republican and seditious plans.
In reality, the amnesty is a clean slate - there are no crimes - and the state assumes that its prosecutors, judges and magistrates have acted illegally. The coup perpetrators are those who acted legitimately. All Kafkaesque. And we are used to it. And anaesthetised.
A week of rain
The summer of San Miguel has gone on too long. We are waiting for the autumn rains as if they were in May. They are needed. Bahía de Itaca has been so full of events that they do not fit in a fortnightly chronicle. Let me turn to a string of headlines.
Respect for the 13 dead and solidarity with the families of the burnt people, mostly South American brothers and sisters. The inaction of the PSOE (2021-2023) and PP (since 15 June) corporations in not complying with their own rules is astounding. They dismissed the officials who failed in their mission to close the premises and the current mayor has proceeded to lament the tragedy. No political responsibility has been found.
EU in Kiev: "Moscow does not intimidate us". After the Hamas attack on Israel - 1,330 murders and 200 hostages in a single day - Ukraine is eclipsed in terms of information, but the Russian killings continue. Let us not forget Zelensky and his heroic people who are defending our freedoms and our fragile democracy.
In Grenada, our acting president was at the summit finally pronouncing the cursed word: amnesty. He put the President of the Commission as his witness. He has not named her again. The family photo in the Alhambra was spectacular. Concrete progress, none: social commitments such as immigration: none either. After Ms Ursula's visit to Lampedusa, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Italian President Giorgia Meloni left empty-handed. It was time to present a common initiative, but Sánchez never had the guts to tackle the problem that is crushing the Canaries and making Rabat uncomfortable. So far this month, more than 5,000 immigrants have arrived in the archipelago. A borderline situation that requires a single command and the implementation of the External Surveillance Service (SIVE), a radar purchased in 2025 by the Rajoy government and which is still stored in Tenerife awaiting installation. The cost was 6 million euros, for the old ones, 1,000 million pesetas. Marlaska, on a visit to President Fernando Clavijo - the one with the key to governability - has congratulated himself because Spain has solidarity "muscle". A cynic.
Those in the know do not invest in the stock market because they do not trust this government, which has accused Feijóo of wasting his time for six weeks. It is already being seen. The most poignant thing about Sánchez's reception of the PP leader after having sent Puente to break up parliamentary life, was the Sanchez leader's call to ask him not to "agitate the streets" with demonstrations against his investiture. You have to have little shame. The first was called by Genova a few days before presenting his government programme and the other had been called by the Catalan Civil Society in Barcelona in remembrance and commemoration of 8-0-2017. 300,000 people vindicating the Transition and the 78 Constitution.
The progressive left took to the streets to protest Rubiales' "rape" of the player Jenni Hermoso, with Yoli and Irene in Callao, as professional agitators. This man can no longer stand that the constitutionalist Spaniards - all faças according to his totalitarian theory - go out in anger to shout: Enough is enough!
This week was the deadline for informing Brussels about the Next Generation funds and the 100 biggest beneficiaries. Neither the Economy nor the Treasury have offered a single piece of information. Transparency is the name of the game. Vice-president Calviño continues to work at the EIB (European Investment Bank); in case the German candidacy is successful, she has asked to be the first governor of the Bank of Spain. This is how she enters history through the front door. And unemployment, and the permanent-discontinuous workers, in limbo.
But the height of ridiculousness in politics was this fortnight's media star Yolanda Fernández's presentation in Barcelona of her "amnesty" for criminals since 2012. It was a rehash of an ERC initiative presented in Congress. The head of Sumar delegated the presentation to Jaume Assens, Colau's protégé. There was as much cream of the crop as in the Planeta Prize, but nobody bought the merchandise. Neither separatists nor the PSC nor the PSOE itself. Faced with the "success" of the critics and the public, the vice-president herself assured: "This is not Sumar's project, it is that of Sumar's experts". An advanced disciple of Klemens von Metternich. She only needs to find the formula for decreeing the adaptation of the climate to jobs. And to work less and earn more.
The National Holiday
On 12 October the Spaniards celebrate westward expansion. The feat of Columbus and his Pinzones changed the world, much more than the arrival of man on the moon. The DNA of a whole continent is called language, religion, human rights, fair trade, universities, laws protecting native peoples... It is exciting to see, hear and understand Peruvians, Bolivians or Mexicans in our Spanish language. It is the best legacy of five centuries, three decades and one year walking together.
In 2023 the lady cadet Leonor, sworn in a few days earlier at the Military Academy of Zaragoza. She was splendid. For the first time, she escorted King Felipe VI to the parade in Neptuno. The Army is in great shape. The sun in Madrid is always a blessing. It illuminates everything at midday. Applause for the Royal Family. Later, he accompanied the head of state to the offering of flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier after honouring the fallen for the homeland. More applause from the public, from the people, from the people. And on the 31st she will be sworn in as heir to the Crown.
The incumbent president was booed as he is every year. We don't understand what he is complaining about. He blames the PP and VOX as if they had been brought in a bus with a sandwich and beer included. Nothing of the sort. The people who came to the Telemadrid cameras - thank you JAS for that alternative broadcast - showed that they are painfully fed up with so much evil, so many lies and so much manipulation; in short, so much Sanchismo.
A great day to reinforce the parliamentary Monarchy, a bridge between the people and the Constitution of 1978. The socialist and former mayor of La Coruña, Paco Vázquez, had already said four days earlier in Barcelona. "We are here to defend the Magna Carta and equality among Spaniards". The success of the march worries the PSOE and separatism. This means that we must continue to fight the ideological battle in the media and on the streets. We will not get used to equality being broken. As an old communist, I declare that "no one is more than anyone else".
Israel neglected its security so much to take down the legislature that it is still wondering how the holocaust of 7 October happened. And why did its secret services fail? Simple: because Netanyahu did not listen to the cry of the street protesting in every town and kibbutz that Montesquieu must not die. When the enemy smelled the government's weakness, it attacked without mercy or pity.
Here we are five minutes away from a secessionist coup d'état, with the encouragement of the Executive, the Legislature and the TC. We want no people-president, like Maduro. We still trust some decent prosecutors and judges.
Amnesty is the shortest way to "de-civilisation". And the unilateral referendum will lead us to collective suicide. Let us open our eyes and our senses. We still have the Law of Laws. This society of ours is sedated, there is hardly any civil society; it is an Islamised, submissive society.
An induced submission that will lead us towards totalitarianism. "Remember it yourself and remind others", we learnt from Ronald Fraser. With President Adolfo Suárez, we share hope and freedom and with him we firmly believe that "concord was possible". Then and now. Always within the Constitution.