Isabel Díaz Ayuso is the Madrid regional president for the Partido Popular (People’s Party, PP), a center-right Christian democratic party in Spain. In the following video discussion from Spanish TV, Ms. Ayuso expresses her emphatic support for Israel in its responses to the massacre by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
See also the report at RAIR Foundation.
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | The fact is that they ask Israel not to defend itself, | |
| 00:07 | and not to stand against the terrorism that every day besieges it, | |
| 00:12 | because we witness every day dozens and dozens of daily bombings, | |
| 00:19 | that thanks to the Iron Dome and to the money allocated for the protection, avoid major damage. | |
| 00:24 | Asking them not to do anything, not to defend themselves, not to attack terrorism, | |
| 00:28 | and therefore to let themselves simply be annihilated. | |
| 00:32 | It is something nonsensical, which they would not expect us to do. | |
| 00:36 | We know that if in Spain they kidnapped women, raped them, tortured them, | |
| 00:41 | paraded them through the streets, while doing everything they did with those corpses, | |
| 00:47 | and then they asked us not to do anything, not to say anything, | |
| 00:53 | that would mean to open the door to evil and evil come to grips with you. | |
| 00:56 | It comes to grips with you and tells you “from now on I can do whatever I want with them”. | |
| 01:00 | That is why no one wants war, no one wants anyone to die, but how is someone | |
| 01:05 | going to want something like that? But you can’t ask them to put an end to it | |
| 01:08 | by giving flowers to Hamas, to Hezbollah. | |
| 01:16 | And in addition, I want to remind you eventually, that these attacks of October 7 happened | |
| 01:21 | when Israel was about to sign a peace agreement for the area. | |
| 01:24 | I especially want to remind you that it was with Saudi Arabia. | |
| 01:28 | And these attacks managed to achieve the opposite, to destabilize. | |
| 01:33 | Because one of the biggest pretexts, the reason for all this, | |
| 01:38 | especially on the part of Iran, is make them destroy the State of Israel. | |
| 01:43 | And behind the State of Israel there is the West. We are the same thing. | |
| 01:49 | So it is true that they ask for the impossible. | |
| 01:53 | And what I also believe is that it is perverse and unfair to ask Israel to let them annihilate it. |