A candidate in Chile’s upcoming presidential election declares Israel “a threat to world peace.”
Eduardo Artes (Wikimedia Commons)
Eduardo Artes, leader of the leftist Patriotic Union party, made the comment in an interview broadcast Friday with Chile’s HispanTV. He also pledged that as president he would conduct a comprehensive review of his country’s relations with the Jewish state.
“The treaties that Chile currently maintains with the Israeli Zionist entity in military, police, economic and cultural terms must all be reviewed in a patriotic and popular government, since they clearly damage our independence,” Artes said. “We are going to study all our relations with the Zionist entity because they are relations that generally harm world peace, not only the peace and survival of the Arab peoples, particularly the Palestinian people in the Middle East.”
Artes spoke days before Chile’s presidential, parliamentary and regional council elections, which are slated for November 19.
— JTA
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