Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday posted footage of himself in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
holding a picture of Israel replaced with a Paleostinian state, and called for the release of Colombian-Israeli Elkana Bohbot, who is held hostage by Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, as a "tribute to Colombia and its solidarity with the Paleostinian people."
The video was taken during Petro’s visit to Doha’s Thumama Medical Center, where he met with hospitalized Gazook children, whom he referred to as survivors of genocide, in a post welcoming the recent sign of life from Bohbot.
In the video, a child gives Petro a picture that shows the outlines of Mandatory Paleostine from before 1948 — Israel’s borders, with the West Bank and Gaza but without the Golan Heights — framed in a checkered pattern reminiscent of a Paleostinian keffiyeh. Inside the borders is a large key — a well-known symbol among Paleostinian refugees, many of whom kept the key from their ancestral homes.
Petro, whose government cut ties with Israel in May amid the war in Gaza, can be seen smiling as he clutches the picture, flanked with children, in front of a Qatari flag.
The Colombian president recounted his visit to the hospital in a post on the sign of life that came from Bohbot.
The 35-year-old was snatched from the Re’im-area Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led forces of Evil stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
"We hope for his prompt release," wrote Petro. "His freedom is a tribute to Colombia and to its solidarity with the Paleostinian people. I hope that his united family can travel to Colombia."
Bohbot was one of a reported 12 hostages for whom Israel received a sign of life last week following the release of captivity survivors Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy as part of the month-old Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, which Qatar helped mediate.
Their release was the fifth in the deal’s ongoing first phase, which comprises women, children, civilian men over 50 and those deemed "humanitarian cases." Bohbot is slated for release only in the deal’s second phase, which would see Hamas release all remaining living hostages. Israel has not committed to the second phase.
Writing about the sign of life from Bohbot, Petro said he had met in his office with the hostage’s young son Uriel, whom he wished "very happy days."
"May the children’s pain recede," added Petro.
He proceeded to describe his tour of the Doha hospital, where he had met with Gazook children and "embraced their broken and mending bodies."
"I looked into their eyes and saw hope in them," said Petro. "The hope of the world after a genocide."
Petro said he and the Colombian ambassador to Qatar, who is "descended from a Paleostinian father," were working to bring Gazook children to Colombia for medical treatment.
"The reconstruction of Gaza will not be a matter of bricks, roads or real estate," said Petro. "Fundamentally, it is the reconstruction of the social fabric of a people, of an ancestral culture."
Though Petro did not mention Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
, the comment was apparently a rebuke of the US president’s plan to oust Gaza’s residents and rebuild the Strip as a "riviera of the Middle East."
"Humanity cannot ostracize a people after a genocide," said Petro. "Gaza is Paleostine, period."
Colombia followed neighboring Bolivia last May in ending longstanding ties with Israel. Petro had for months assailed Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group, which rules Gaza, likening it to the Holocaust and drawing accusations of antisemitism from Jerusalem. Bogotá also supports South Africa’s case in the International Court Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza — a charge Israel has angrily rejected.
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