As his country on Thursday became the sixth to move its embassy to Jerusalem, Paraguay President Santiago Peña told Newsmax about the central South American nation’s deep ties with the Jewish state.
“When you start looking into this history and you see so much resemblance to what the people of Israel have been going through, this is the most important bond that we have,” Peña told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” and Middle East correspondent Jodie Cohen. “Our faith, our sense of community, of the well-being for everybody and the aspiration to have a place where you can be known as an Israeli or in the case of Paraguay, be known as a Paraguayan.”
In December 2017 under Donald Trump, the U.S. was the first nation to move its embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the city as Israel’s capital. Other countries with embassies in Jerusalem include Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, and Papua New Guinea. Peña said moving Paraguay’s embassy there “is something that everybody in Paraguay was expecting to happen.”
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