This editorial by Carlos Fernández-Vega originally appeared in the October 3, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
President Sheinbaum announces that “until now” her government “has not considered” breaking diplomatic relations with Israel, although there are plenty of reasons to proceed in this direction: genocide, permanent violation of human and international rights, more than 66 thousand murders (mostly children and women; the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has denounced that the real number would be 680 thousand), famine induced by the Tel Aviv regime and used as a weapon of extermination, annexationism, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, repression, destruction and much more, that is, more than enough reasons for the National Palace to cancel any deal with the murderous regime of Benjamin Netanyahu.
International condemnation of Netanyahu’s genocidal regime (more so from the world’s citizens than from their governments, which fail to listen to those who voted for them) is evident, but few countries have severed diplomatic relations with Israel. It is true that the Mexican Constitution (Article 89) establishes “normative principles” in foreign policy that, literally, state: self-determination of peoples; non-intervention; peaceful settlement of disputes; prohibition of the threat or use of force in international relations; legal equality of states; international cooperation for development; respect, protection, and promotion of human rights; and the struggle for international peace and security.
Fine, but, respecting those “normative principles,” without violating the Constitution, President Lázaro Cárdenas offered humanitarian, diplomatic, and military aid to the Spanish Republic and broke off diplomatic relations with the murderous coup regime of Francisco Franco. Thus, the current government should cancel any dealings with Tel Aviv, although everything indicates that the “caution,” so to speak, shown “so far” by the National Palace does not depend on Israel’s likely reaction, but on Washington’s possible retaliation.
Severing diplomatic relations with Israel does not violate any of the aforementioned “normative principles,” especially when it comes to responding to the brutality of the Netanyahu regime, which claims to be “guided by God,” since Israel is, he says, “the chosen people” of that entity (very much in line with American “manifest destiny”).
Severing relations with israel has been a constant demand of the Palestinian solidarity movement and trade unions in Mexico. Photo: Jay Watts
It is true that the Mexican government has recognized the State of Palestine and, at the United Nations, has denounced that “the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is intolerable” and has called on the international community “to undertake urgent collective actions to halt and reverse a crisis unprecedented in recent decades; the Security Council cannot remain paralyzed when the lives of tens of thousands of people are at stake; each new meeting at the UN takes place in a context of growing numbers of dead, wounded, and displaced, as well as people subjected to famine conditions; the dehumanization of these numbers is equally disturbing” (Ambassador Héctor Vasconcelos dixit). Fine, but it is not enough, because the massacre of Palestinians, the destruction and theft of their territory (supported by the White House) will not end until a stop is put to these two beasts that fuel this ignominy.
So far, eight Latin American countries have withdrawn their ambassadors from Tel Aviv and/or severed diplomatic relations with Israel. Mexico is not among them.
Netanyahu’s mental dwarfism is inversely proportional to his perversity, and he is a vile copy of Adolf Hitler, who boasted of “Aryan supremacy” and his “right to rule the world” (Joseph Goebbels called non-Aryans “primitive animals, a dark wave of filth”). Well, the Israeli genocidaire is no different: “The Bible says, whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses Israel will be cursed. We want God’s blessings on Israel, and that’s why we are doing so much to wipe out the cursed.”
But despite all these elements, “so far, no.”
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