Unfortunately for our ever-smiling Prime Minister, pulling Spain out of its former alliances was not compensated by its entry into any other alliance, either new or old. The Europe to which he so fervently wished to return soon left him in the lurch. For this reason, and because of his childish left-wing tendencies, Zapatero’s policy led Spain to seek alliances with any anti-American leader who crossed his path.

There’s certain kind of friends and other kind of friends. And the friendships that José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero has cultivated as Prime Minister during these two long years on the world’s stage can only be rated as “dangerous liaisons”.

This is not the first time ETA has declared a cease-fire. Each previous time, they eventually returned to their bombs and bullets. As it is, this current guarantee, this “permanent cease-fire,” is only a conditional one. ETA is exchanging peace for independence. The length of this cease-fire will depend on how eager the current socialist government in Madrid is to have it be permanent. Descargar PDF

Until some days ago the conventional wisdom pointed at the everlasting aspirant to become PM, Gordon Brown, actual Chancellor of the Ex-chequer. Nevertheless, things have changed, not only with the designation of David Cameron as the new leader of the Conservative Party.

Do you know that people -- urging others to engage in attacks like the Madrid bombings and extolling hatred and violence against us -- have a TV channel that broadcasts thanks to a Spanish satellite? Well, it is true. The TV channel is Al-Manar (The beacon in Arab) and the satellite belongs to the Spanish company Hispasat.

The unity of democratic parties is an essential value in the war on terrorism. On one side, that unity makes terrorists lose any hope that a change of government can mean an advantage for their criminal interests. On the other side, the government in power can keep its ground against terror without fearing that the opposition might use the effect of possible attacks as an electoral weapon. That desirable unity of political forces has nevertheless three limits that no government can overstep without risking the breakup of necessary democratic consensus. Those limits are the rule of law, the democratic legitimacy, and the dignity of the victims.

In spite of the image that the Socialist Government wants to project, Spain has not gotten rid of the Islamic terrorist threat after having withdrawn from Iraq. Though an attempted bombing of the track of the high-speed AVE train Madrid-Seville right after the Madrid bombings could have been interpreted as a part of the same sequence, we cannot say the same about the plans, thwarted by the Police, to blow up the Audiencia Nacional (a special court with competence for trying terrorist offenses) in Madrid; or about the never-ending trail of ter-rorist detentions related to Al-Qaeda in our country. In Spain, like in the rest of Europe, the Islamic terrorist threat has only increased.

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