BDS movement seeks to empty Israel of Jews, former Spanish PM says

On the cover Spanish daily El Pais on June 30, 1998 was a photograph of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then serving his first term, next to his Spanish counterpart, then-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar. The photo was taken at a joint press conference that the two leaders held a day earlier.

 

Demonstrating the close relations between Netanyahu and Aznar, the two men can be seen in the photo half smiling with their heads close together as if they had just shared a secret.

 

“Aznar supports Netanyahu in Jerusalem,” read the headline of that day’s paper.

 

“Prime Minister Aznar has extended good will to the Israeli prime minister who is currently experiencing a difficult period in the international arena,” the paper wrote.

 

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