THE exports to Israel They decreased by 452 million between November 2023 and June 2024 compared to the same previous period (November 2022 to June 2023). It was just in October 2023 when the Hamas Terrorist Attacks on Israeli soil. As a result, the rudeness of the Pedro Sánchez government towards Israel has been continuous, to the point that Hamas terrorists have repeatedly flattered the policy of the social-communist Executive, favorable to the recognition of Palestine.
Concretely, according to official data from the Secretary of State for Commerce collected by OKDIARIO, from November 2022 to June 2023Spain’s exports to Israel reached 1,529,154,584 euros, while from November 2023 to June 2024 this figure fell to 1,067,702,118 euros, representing a decrease of 452,452,466 euros (452 million). That is, a decrease of 29.5%.
For its part, Vox questioned the government of Pedro Sánchez in the Congress of Deputies, through a written parliamentary question, about the “commercial cost” of the “deterioration” of relations between Spain and Israel. In this case, the Executive responded – according to the parliamentary response consulted by this newspaper – that “Spain’s exports to Israel were
1,907 million euros in 2023 (last full year), which represents a decline compared to the record reached in 2022 (2,159 million euros).
Similarly, the Sánchez government admits that Imports also decreased from 1,054 million euros in 2023 until
973 million euros in 2022. For this reason, and far from attributing these figures to Sánchez’s rudeness towards Israel – which have given rise to several diplomatic clashes – the Executive limits itself to saying that “of all the above, a slight contraction in Spain’s surplus” balances against Israel in 2023, which has remained positive since 2011 and also reached its historic record in 2022.
For the Sánchez administration, “throughout 2023, the slowdown in Spanish exports has already been observed, largely due to the environment of uncertainty that leads to significant depreciation of the shekelharming European exports,” the Executive claims.
On the other hand, he adds, “the slowdown in GDP growth has also influenced this decline.” “If we analyze the evolution of Spanish exports to Israel until September 30, 2023, seven days before the Hamas attacks, we see how Spanish exports reached 1,570 million euros, compared to 1,626 million euros for the same period in 2022, which was already 3.44% less,” the government tries to justify itself, omitting that this percentage has increased since then.
Furthermore, the Executive states that “after the outbreak of the war, the Israeli economy faced, first, an almost total paralysis and, then, a gradual recovery, although it is still far from complete.”
“The continuity of the war over time and the risk that the conflict will spread into a regional war do not bode well for the Israeli economy in the current year,” the report also said. Moncloa’s response.
In 2023, still according to government data, exports to Israel represented 0.5% of Spain’s total exports (ranking 30th in value) and imports from Israel represented 0.23% of Spain’s total imports (ranking 57th in value).
Conversely, Spain is a market of great importance for Israel, since Spain’s exports to Israel represent 2% of
Israeli imports. In addition, near the 2% of Israeli exports go to Spain.
Already in November 2023, Hamas terrorists had expressed their gratitude to Pedro Sánchez for the government’s position towards Israel in a statement in which they thanked him for condemning “the blind murders” of the “occupying State of Israel.”
“We appreciate the clear position of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, who condemned the indiscriminate massacres committed during the occupation of the Gaza Strip by the occupying state of Israel and raised the possibility of recognizing the Palestinian state,” the Hamas terrorist group said in a statement on social media.
Thus, Hamas’ statements in this regard have occurred in recent months. Last May, the terrorists celebrated the decision of the Spanish Prime Minister to formally recognize Palestine.
“The announcement by Norway, Ireland and Spain to recognize the State of Palestine and we consider it an important step on the path to realizing our right to our land and establishing our independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital,” the terrorist group said in a note published in the Palestinian newspaper. Filastina media outlet close to Hamas.
