On his third visit to Israel since becoming president of Argentina, Javier Milei reaffirmed this Monday his alignment with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and his unconditional support for the war that the US and the Israeli state are waging against Iran. “With certain cultures, we will not be able to coexist, because if we respect the right to life, we cannot coexist with those who want to kill us,” said the far-right leader, while a tense truce reigns in the Middle East, in search of a peace agreement.
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Self-defined as “the most Zionist president in the world,” Milei arrived in Israel this Sunday, invited by Netanyahu to participate in the ceremony for the country’s 78th independence anniversary. Shortly after landing in Tel Aviv, the Argentine president visited the Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holy sites, in Jerusalem. He prayed for a few minutes and appeared emotional.
On the same Sunday, Milei and Netanyahu held a bilateral meeting and signed the so-called Isaac Accords, a strategic framework to strengthen cooperation and alliances between both nations.
During the same day, the Argentine president participated in a rehearsal for the Israeli State’s independence ceremony. Milei went on stage and, together with two singers, performed a song he himself chose: Libre, by Nino Bravo, already a classic in the shows he usually stars in. According to Israeli authorities, Milei will be the first foreign leader who, in this Tuesday’s national celebrations, will light one of the 12 torches representing the original tribes of Israel.
This Monday, Milei was honored with Israel’s presidential medal of honor, which he received from the host president, Isaac Herzog, as a symbol of gratitude for the Argentine’s “moral clarity,” as well as for the “humanity, values, and shared vision for a better future.”
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Milei was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University. There, before an audience of special guests and students, the Argentine president reiterated ideas he has been expressing in his recent speeches: “morality as state policy,” “how to build state policies based on ethical and moral values,” “embracing Judeo-Christian values leads to prosperity,” and other related concepts.
From these issues, he derived his allusion to the war with Iran. “When something is just, it will inexorably be efficient,” he postulated, advocating for “setting aside moral relativism.” “There are things that are right and things that are wrong, and there is no room for discussion there. That is to say, with certain cultures we will not be able to coexist because, if we respect the right to life, we cannot coexist with those who want to kill us,” he affirmed. He then read a text titled Capitalism, the Divine Machinery of Paradise, which, he said, will be the epilogue of his next book.
In his presentation, Milei also attacked two of his usual victims, the press and the left. “Evidently,” he said, “a large part of journalism plays for the forces of evil. The other day, in the conversation I had with my dearest friend Bibi [Netanyahu], we talked about how we have to live with and endure the lies, slanders, and insults of journalism in a violent way.” And later: “Greed, the desire to appropriate what belongs to another, is exactly the moral fuel of collectivism and Marxism,” he asserted.
The Argentine president had already visited Israeli territory in February 2024, just two months after taking office in the Casa Rosada, and in June 2025. His unwavering geopolitical alignment with the governments of the United States and Israel has been expressed on multiple occasions. Milei has repeatedly stated that the Iranian regime is “an enemy of Argentina” and, recently, declared Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, in addition to expelling the highest Iranian diplomatic representative in Buenos Aires.
