Thread: Mexico slams Israel, USA is fair game

Mexico Slams Israel, and U.S. Is Fair Game
Allan Wall
Monday, Aug. 7, 2006




Most of the world ignored it, but Mexico and Israel recently had a diplomatic tiff.

It all began when a group of Mexican intellectuals and magnates published a statement in a newspaper, criticizing Israel for the conduct of its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Israeli ambassador to Mexico David Donnan struck back, arguing that, by placing all the blame on Israel, the document encouraged terrorism. This was too much for the SRE (the Mexican foreign ministry), which reprimanded the Israeli ambassador for overstepping his bounds as a diplomat.

Their exchange raises some interesting questions about U.S.-Mexican diplomatic relations.

SRE spokesman Joel Hernandez declared that "The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations establishes the limits for the conduct of diplomatic representatives . . . every diplomatic agent must conduct himself with respect to the laws and regulations of the [b]host nation . . ."[/b

]Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations states that "it is the duty of all persons enjoying such privileges and immunities (diplomats) to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State. They also have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State."

According the Mexico, the Israeli ambassador violated that article by criticizing the critics who signed that statement in the media. The Mexican government is zealous to protect its sovereignty over any perceived slight. But when it comes to the behavior of Mexican diplomats in the United States, it's a whole different story! They don't mind interfering in the internal affairs of the United States especially regarding immigration and related issues.



Mexico's vast network of consulates, consular offices and mobile consulates in the United States are centers of Mexican political activism. They promote illegal immigration, the subversion of U.S. law and even U.S. national identity. Mexico's own foreign minister, Ernesto Derbez explained that, "Through our network of 45 consulates, we reinforce attention to the needs of our fellow Mexicans in the United States, regardless of their legal or migratory status . . ."

In California, Mexican consuls have actually met with California Latino legislators to discuss immigration-related legislation. Foreign Minister Derbez has met with a California legislator to discuss granting (California) driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

When state and local governments try to curtail illegal immigration, they are attacked by meddling Mexican diplomats, who sometimes behave more like colonial governors than diplomatic representatives of a foreign state.

"We have problems with some school districts," complained a Mexican consul in California, when some local schools had the nerve to reject bilingual education.


In 2004, Arizona passed Proposition 200, designed to prevent illegal aliens from voting and collecting state welfare benefits. Mexican leaders were not pleased.



It also turned out that 40 percent of Arizonans of Mexican ancestry voted for the measure. Foreign Minister Derbez lamented this fact, and said that "we have to work to educate even our own Mexican-Americans about why it is important that these proposals are not accepted." The Mexican Foreign Minister was thus claiming Mexican jurisdiction over Americans of Mexican ancestry.
This policy is promoted by Mexican President Vicente Fox himself.

Speaking in Chicago on one of his frequent forays north of the border, Fox boasted that "We are Mexicans that live in our territories and we are Mexicans that live in other territories . . . we are 120 million people that live together and are working to construct a nation." This past spring, America's streets were ruled by demonstrators marching for the "rights" of illegal aliens. Fox dealt with the marches in a "sly" manner.

On April 17, Fox's spokesman announced that Mexican consulates had been instructed not to get involved in the demonstrations. But Mexico has a department of the foreign ministry, called the IME (Institute of Mexicans Abroad), which is designed to organize Mexican-Americans to further the interests of Mexico.

The IME did promote the protests held on April 10th. The IME section of the SRE Web site contained a statement that actively supported the marches:

"On April 10th, 2006, immigrants and their allies are continuing historic mobilizations in Washington, D.C. and multiple cities to oppose the harsh and unworkable HR 4437 and demand real immigration reform that is comprehensive, respects civil rights, reunites families, protects workers, and offers a path to citizenship for the current undocumented and future immigrants to the U.S. Below is a list of April 10 events happening across the nation . . ."


This statement was followed by a long list of protests being held throughout the U.S., with contact information.

This was blatant interference in U.S. internal politics, much more serious than anything that the Israeli ambassador in Mexico did.

Yet no matter how outrageous the behavior of Mexican diplomats, none has ever been publicly reprimanded by our federal government.

Such Mexican meddling would simply not be possible, if not for the collaboration of our own government, from President Bush on down.

The Mexican government is taking advantage of American largesse in order to keep the northern "safety valve" open, thus destroying any real incentive to reform Mexico's economy. But Mexican officials only get away with meddling because we allow it. If Americans don't like this situation, we need to put pressure on our own leaders and lawmakers to stop it. And if that doesn't work, we need to elect new ones.

Allan Wall (allan39@prodigy.net.mx) recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq and currently resides (legally) in Mexico.
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"Through our network of 45 consulates, we reinforce attention to the needs of our fellow Mexicans in the United States, regardless of their legal or migratory status . . ."

ie "leechatory" status. They're all big shots when it comes to pushing their agenda here in the US.

The Mexican government is zealous to protect its sovereignty over any perceived slight. But when it comes to the behavior of Mexican diplomats in the United States, it's a whole different story! They don't mind interfering in the internal affairs of the United States especially regarding immigration and related issues.

'Reconquista' in action!! IMO.

Can you imagine what the world's people see? America is letting a corrupt Mexico, shove us around!

The world's people may see a two-faced president and a money-grubbing senate who would sell their soul if they had one. The president's one face lies and the second face swears it's the truth.