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Greek opposition parties have criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, with MeRA25 describing images of the two leaders together as “an image of shame for the country.”
MeRA25, founded by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, accused Mitsotakis of helping rehabilitate Netanyahu’s image and rejected the government’s arguments for closer ties with Israel, according to the source report.
The party said references to “strategic cooperation,” defense systems and energy agreements were being used to conceal a policy supporting Israel’s actions in Gaza.
“No cooperation with the terrorist state of Israel,” MeRA25 said in a statement, calling for the “immediate cessation of all military and diplomatic agreements that support the massacre in Gaza and Lebanon.”
Opposition warns against deeper regional involvement
MeRA25 said Greece’s involvement in Israeli and US plans in the Eastern Mediterranean was making the country “part of the problem” rather than strengthening its security.
The party also criticized Mitsotakis for meeting Netanyahu while the Israeli prime minister is subject to an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
New Left calls for independent foreign policy
Separately, Gabriel Sakellaridis, secretary of the Central Committee of Greece’s New Left party, condemned the meeting in a post on the US social media platform “Facebook”.
“There is no greater shame for Greece than Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ meeting with Netanyahu in New York,” he said.
“The moral decline of foreign policy under Mitsotakis is summed up in this image,” Sakellaridis added, accusing the government of drawing Greece closer to Israel’s military plans in the Eastern Mediterranean.
“Greece must not become Netanyahu’s satellite,” he said, calling for an independent foreign policy, an end to military cooperation with Israel and practical solidarity with Palestinians.
