Milei plans to add Madrid, Rome, and Nice to her visit to Netanyahu in Israel.

Javier Milei plans to resume his foreign policy with a longer trip than originally planned to Jerusalem and Rome this June. His foreign tours have been halted in recent weeks, primarily due to his inseparable sister Karina's dedication to the electoral campaign of Libertad Avanza in this year of consolidation of the presidential duo's domestic power.

Milei and Rabbi Axel Wahnish, ambassador to the State of Israel, made it known throughout the media—especially on social media, retweeting the Hebrew press—that the president will pay another visit to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in early June. The first was in February 2024, shortly after he took office. He was fulfilling a campaign promise.

Now, her team at the Casa Rosada is waiting for confirmations, because Milei wants to fulfill a much larger agenda, which hasn't been confirmed yet, but is already in the pipeline. It's a veritable raid: Madrid, Nice, Rome, Jerusalem, in an order that Clarín couldn't confirm because it hasn't yet been established. The dates are all tentative but should fall between approximately June 6 and 13.

Milei's visit to Netanyahu is undoubtedly the most resonant, and for some sectors that prefer to remain silent , "the most controversial" due to its timing. He is his ally, there's no doubt about it; he has said so several times, even during the election campaign, just as Donald Trump is.

But Milei's trip to Israel comes amid strong international criticism of European liberal democracies over the turn Netanyahu's war against Hamas has taken in Gaza, devastated by bombs and subjected to a blockade where Gazans of all ages, and especially many children, have died. Milei aligned herself with the Israeli position without questioning the prime minister, who faces frequent opposition protests in his country.

Milei and Wahnish have been working for months on a memorandum of understanding that will further enhance the relationship, according to diplomatic sources, "reaffirming the values ​​of freedom, democracy, and the fight against discrimination and anti-Semitism."

This will also aim to elevate the levels of military and security cooperation beyond those already secret between the Israelis and libertarians. He is also seeking investment, according to what Wahnish discussed at a business seminar in Buenos Aires, and it is known that his first objective is to establish a direct flight between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires.

Milei, who moved the ambassador's residence to Jerusalem following Trump and Netanyahu's request, will likely give a speech in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, which is a high distinction from the Hebrew state toward him. He is also expected to address the Argentine hostages held by the fundamentalist group Hamas. Since its bloody attack on October 7, 2023, Hamas has been included on Argentina's list of terrorist organizations, and Milei will likely meet with the families of the kidnapped, both living and deceased, and captives, including Yarden Bibas and the Horns.

Both Jerusalem and Madrid are the trips postponed from last March.

The so-called Friday Club Foundation, a platform that defines itself as "a partisan organization for the dissemination of liberal thought and democracy," already has an announcement on its website that it will present the Salamanca School Award to the Argentine president, with attendance "exclusively reserved for club members" and "limited seating." However, it clarifies: "The date and time of the event will be confirmed soon."

Milei had planned to be there on March 21, but canceled the trip along with her trip to Israel after a violent confrontation between police and a group of hooligans near Congress, who took over the now-regular march of retirees protesting their deteriorating situation.

"The Argentine government, led by President Javier Milei, has suffered an attempted coup d'état by a violent and anti-democratic opposition, which has led to the government's decision to remain in its country and address the adversities it and the Southern Cone country itself are facing in the face of this tremendous effort by some sectors to weaken the government of freedom," wrote the Friday Club foundation, echoing the official Argentine discourse after the march.

The trip to Paris is then linked to Emmanuel Macron's invitation—accepted by Milei—for the Argentine president to participate in the Third Conference on the Ocean, taking place in Nice between June 9 and 13. While the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, has already told French ambassador Romain Nadal that the president wishes to attend the Nice summit, and the brothers also discussed this with Macron during his visit to Argentina last November, the speech at this international event could deter the Libertarian. It is known that it runs counter to Donald Trump's denialism.

The trip to Rome, for its part, depends on Gerardo Werthein's diplomatic achievements. The foreign minister emerged from his recent meeting with Pope Leo XIV, whose inauguration he attended, stating that he will soon receive the Argentine president.

At the Te Deum this Sunday, May 25, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge García Cuerva, had a strong message for the libertarian movement, which, however, went unanswered. Questioning those who "defame, scorn, or destructively criticize a person, an entity, or a work; those who hate and justify their contempt; the terrorism of the networks, as Pope Francis said," he declared: "We have crossed all boundaries. Disqualification, constant aggression, mistreatment, defamation seem to be commonplace."