The Gosth of Traian Romanescu: Morena supporters against Netanyahu
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
The shadow of suspicion that hangs over Benjamin Netanyahu today is not, in essence, a new phenomenon in the Mexican political imagination. What we observe in contemporary intellectual circles, which casually compare the Israeli leader to the architects of 20th-century totalitarianism, is the transfer of an old pathology: the antisemitism of Catholic nationalism that figures like Sáenz Arriaga, Salvador Borrego, and Cuesta Gallardo instilled in the national psyche, now disguised in the anti-Zionist populism of the self-proclaimed Fourth Transformation.
This rhetoric, which attempts to portray the alliance between Netanyahu and Donald Trump as a new "conspiracy for chaos," merely recycles the myth of the synagogue of Satan under a veneer of geopolitical progressivism. It is imperative to distinguish between legitimate criticism of government management and the structural Judeophobia that dehumanizes the State of Israel.
To attribute to Netanyahu a racist messianism that acts against humanity is to ignore the historical tragedy of a people who, after being abandoned by the international community, understood that their survival depends not on the benevolence of others, but on their own strength and determination. Israel's manifest destiny is not an affront, but a reminder of dignity in the face of extermination.
As the theology of history aptly pointed out, drawing on ideas present in authors such as Jacques Maritain or Romano Guardini himself—who emphasized that the salvation of the world is inextricably linked to the mystery of Israel—the Jewish people are the axis through which God addresses creation.
To deny this role is to deny the very root of Western civilization. Justifying Netanyahu in the face of Catholic nationalism requires dismantling the idea of the "abandoned soldier" who seeks enemies in the shadows to explain his own decline. Faced with Morena's populism, the response must be realistic: Israel is not a gratuitous aggressor, but a democracy besieged by regimes that have sworn to its annihilation.
While detractors speak of an imaginary Judeophilia, what exists is objective recognition of a state that, with order and discipline, freedom, anti-corruption, and democracy, has built an oasis of development in a desert of authoritarianism. Accusing Israel of assassination while remaining silent about the terrorism that plagues it is an unacceptable moral asymmetry.
The Jewish people will continue to respond with the strength that history has compelled them to forge. Israel is there so that the world may learn that faith and destiny are not abstractions, but realities that are defended with life and civic duty. Despite the dissatisfaction of Judeophobes, both past and present, the greatness of Israel remains a mirror in which humanity must see its own capacity to rise from the ashes.
Israel's destiny was not to be a power to dominate and crush others, but to be a Light to the nations. Israel survives not because it seeks world domination, but because it refuses to be erased from it. Its discipline and destiny are tools of preservation, not tyrannical expansion.
If the world falls into the hands of a power that denies the freedom of the soul, dignity, and liberty, it matters not whether that power is orderly or prosperous; the world will be a graveyard. Is Chinese, drug-trafficking, Muslim, fascist, Hindu, etc., domination better than the prospects of liberal capitalist democracies?
