President Javier Milei led a new gesture of international alignment with Israel and Western values on Monday by speaking at the Latin America Conference of the Israel Allies Foundation, held at the Alvear Icon Hotel in Puerto Madero. The meeting brings together legislators, diplomats, religious leaders, and regional leaders with the aim of promoting the expansion of the Abraham Accords in Latin America.
The summit seeks to deepen political, economic, technological, and security cooperation between Israel and Latin American countries, with an agenda marked by the fight against antisemitism, terrorism, and extremism. Milei's participation once again positions Argentina as one of Israel's main regional allies and as a promoter of a strategic alliance inspired by the Abraham Accords.
Milei warned that antisemitism has not disappeared but has evolved over time under new slogans and vocabularies. “The specter of hatred remains as alive as ever. Decades pass, slogans change, symbols change, vocabulary changes. But the cause remains intact. It is an ideology that loves death, despises life, and seeks to destroy the very foundations of freedom, recalling the terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which 21 Argentines were also taken hostage.
In that vein, Javier stated that “fighting antisemitism is defending the morality behind our civilization” and pointed directly at the convergence between sectors of the radical left and Islamist terrorism. “There is an explicit alliance between the radical left and Islamist terrorism. A malignant brotherhood based on hatred of Western civilization,” he declared, linking this logic to the advance of 21st-century socialism and its political expressions in the region.
He explicitly defended Argentina's support for Israel and maintained that it is not just a diplomatic definition, but a moral cause and a matter of survival for the West. “We must defend Israel because it is a just cause. If anyone does not understand it as such, let them understand it as a cause of preservation: if they take down Israel, they take down all of the West,” he asserted before those present.
Then, the President linked this defense to the cultural roots of Western civilization and emphasized that the attack against Israel cannot be separated from a broader offensive against its foundational values. “Western civilization is, in its essence, the product of Judeo-Christian values,” Milei stated, in a phrase that encapsulated the ideological core of his speech at the regional summit of Israel Allies.
The president emphasized that his government has not limited itself to expressing political support for Israel but has taken concrete measures since the beginning of his administration. “From the first day of my administration, we made concrete decisions. We declared Hamas and the forces that accompany it as terrorist organizations,” the President stated, referring to the diplomatic and security shift adopted by Argentina in the face of international terrorism.
In this context, Milei also claimed Argentina's role in promoting the Abraham Accords. “We were the initial drivers of the Abraham Accords,” he said, explaining that the central goal of this initiative is “to defend the basic values of life, freedom, and democracy,” in addition to “forming an alliance to combat terrorism, antisemitism, and its sources of financing in drug trafficking and dictatorships.”
The leader spoke directly to the legislators and parliamentary leaders present, urging them to move from rhetorical support to concrete action. “Many of you are legislators and parliamentary leaders; you have real power to change things in your chambers, your countries, and your regions,” the President asserted, emphasizing that the fight against terrorism needs strong legal frameworks and not mere political declarations.
“That puts you in a position of responsibility that you cannot evade. The Abraham Accords are a regional expansion of the Abraham Accords,” Milei stated. In this regard, he warned that “the agreements do not sustain themselves” and that “a coalition of values requires states to act, and they act when parliaments enable them to act.” He thus chained a definition against regional passivity: “Words without actions are just words. This region has already had too many speeches and too many inactions.”
Before concluding, Milei celebrated the political awakening in the region against the left. “First they lost in Chile, last week in Colombia, we know they will lose in Peru, and I hope they lose in Brazil in October,” he stated, in a direct nod to Flávio Bolsonaro, the Brazilian candidate who promises to end Lula's dictatorship.
