Mexico’s election puts Lopez Obrador’s stance on Israel under microscope
Al Jazeera
As President Lopez Obrador’s tenure ends, advocates reflect on his reticence to speak out against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Mexico City, Mexico – It was a case where the president’s words — and his administration’s actions — did not seem to match.
On Tuesday, the International Court of Justice announced that Mexico had requested to join South Africa’s case accusing the Israeli government of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
But the very next day, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, refused to define Israel’s actions as genocide.
“We don’t want to put ourselves into a definition of this type that, instead of resolving a conflict, aggravates it,” he said in his morning news conference.
It was the latest evidence of Lopez Obrador’s ambiguous, somewhat contradictory stance towards Israel and its war in Gaza, which is nearing its eighth month.
