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On 19 April 2026, Argentina’s self-proclaimed “most Zionist president in the world,” Javier Milei, arrived in Jerusalem.
After greeting his “dearest friend” Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and affirming his support for the US-Israeli war on Iran, he signed a series of agreements to strengthen ties between Argentina and Israel despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, where over 75,000 people have been killed since October 2023.
The Isaac Accords, which include a commitment to counter-terrorism and improved cooperation in artificial intelligence, have been in preparation since August 2025 when Milei launched a nonprofit aimed at increasing cooperation in trade, technology and cultural exchange between Israel and various Latin American countries.
Bankrolled by the Genesis Prize, the American Friends of the Isaac Accords (AFOIA) is a registered nonprofit based in New York.
Just two months earlier, Milei became the first non-Jewish recipient of the Genesis prize, dubbed the “Jewish Nobel.”
With an initial focus on Costa Rica, Panama and Uruguay, three countries “primed for enhanced cooperation with Israel,” and proposed interest in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and potentially El Salvador, “the Isaac Accords are a natural continuation of the Abraham Accords,” according to Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, a former US ambassador to Costa Rica and current head of AFOIA, during an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
“Same spirit, new region, broader impact.”
Biblical narratives
AFOIA has the financial backing of numerous Christian Zionist and Zionist organizations including Passages Israel, formerly the Philos Project, the Israel Allies Foundation and the ILAN Israel Innovation Network, all of which have extensive networks of pro-Israel pastors and politicians working to influence policy and public opinion across the Americas.
The Israel Allies Foundation, which works in collaboration with the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) to promote “faith-based diplomacy” between Israel and “bible-believing Christians” around the world, has caucuses in 14 Latin American countries, including Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama and Uruguay.
The Costa Rican chapter is chaired by Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, an evangelical Christian and far-right deputy in the country’s legislative assembly who “certainly knows how to manage his rhetoric,” and “avoids calling himself a Zionist,” according to Mónica Ulloa Gómez, a specialist in political-religious participation in Latin America.
“But when one analyzes his speeches piecemeal, one observes the lines of action he maintains as a political Christian and his direct relationship with Zionism,” she told The Electronic Intifada. In Muñoz’ book, Christians in Politics, she added, “references to Jewish identity, prophetic times and the restoration of the kingdom of God are constant throughout the work.”
On 7 October 2025, he gave a speech to Costa Rica’s parliament on the situation in Gaza in which he decried “those who have tried to distort reality by blaming the victim, justifying the aggressor and sowing hatred against the Jewish people for exercising their legitimate right to defend themselves.”
He proceeded to blame left-wing activists and regurgitate false narratives about the use of Palestinian children in Gaza as human shields.
And it’s not just idle rhetoric.
“Conservative evangelical communities have become vehicles for strategic political channeling,” said Nicholás Panotto, an Argentine theologian based in Chile. The Isaac Accords – aimed at strengthening cooperation between “nations of the Judeo-Christian tradition” – is the product of that new framework.
“The Isaac Accords focus on the ‘defense of Western values’ and ‘democracy,’ understood as signifiers that draw a line against the ‘other,’” Panotto told The Electronic Intifada. “In this sense, the fight against drug trafficking in Latin America – as presented by the document – ultimately not only refers to a real problem traversing the region but is also an excuse to persecute critical, left-wing voices.”
This has been clearly demonstrated in the case of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whom US President Donald Trump has branded a drug manufacturer. It was also evident in the special forces raid that saw Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro snatched from his home in January and flown to the US where he is to be prosecuted as a “narco-terrorist.”
With its narrative of “defense of Western values,” the Isaac Accords promote coordinated strategic action on the basis of shared religious ties. In this case that includes Israelis, Argentines and other “like-minded partners in the Western Hemisphere.”
Even the reference to “Isaac” is bound to a manufactured paradigm in which the so-called “conflict” between Israelis and Palestinians represents a perpetual feud between Isaac and Ishmael, Abraham’s sons.
Genocidal diplomacy
Ivan Zeta, a founding member of JudiesXPalestina – a Jewish anti-Zionist collective founded in 2021 – in Argentina, said the Isaac Accords were largely a braggadocious effort to “imitate Trump” and “a way for Milei to appear as the head of this new far-right, Zionist regrouping in Latin America.”
“I do not see the Isaac Accords as a complete novelty,” he told The Electronic Intifada. “I see them as a way to make relationships between the states stronger and deeper … Argentina was already completely aligned with Israel,” he said, pointing to the presence in Argentina of Israeli companies such as Mekorot, a state-owned Israeli water company responsible for illegally pillaging natural resources in occupied Palestine.
Similarly, Costa Rica, Panama and Uruguay have all maintained economic ties with Israel since October 2023, despite not being the most outwardly Zionist nations in the region. Honduras, Ecuador and Bolivia have all demonstrated much more fervent support in recent months, from official visits to security cooperation and renewing previously severed ties.
All, according to AFOIA, “stand to benefit significantly from Israeli expertise in water technology, agriculture, cyber defense, fintech, healthcare and energy.”
And the foundations are already in place.
At a recent convention in Montevideo, Uruguay, officials from 15 Latin American nations, including Uruguay, Panama and Costa Rica signed a joint statement in which, despite an alleged focus on combating anti-Semitism, they announced their “resolute solidarity” with Israel and advocated for bilateral ties between Latin American countries and Israel “in every relevant realm, including diplomacy, security, trade, technology, economic development, agriculture and tourism.”
Panama also signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with Israel in 2018 which included reduced export tariffs on goods such as pistols, revolvers and muzzle-loading firearms. The agreement came into effect in 2020 and, by 2021, their bond came under scrutiny when photographs emerged of Panamanian policemen shooting at the image of a keffiyeh-wearing figure during an Israeli-run target training session hosted by the Israeli embassy.
On 8 December 2025, Costa Rica became the latest country to sign an FTA with Israel “after more than two and a half years of negotiations,” setting the scene for increased trade in the fields of cybersecurity and agrotech, among others.
The agreement marks an “historic milestone,” said Manuel Tovar Rivera, Costa Rica’s Minister of Foreign Trade, describing the agreement as a further step on “Costa Rica’s path to consolidate itself as an innovation hub” in Latin America.
“Viva Costa Rica! Am Yisrael Chai,” he enthused.
However “various social sectors believe that the FTA will open the door to bilateral relations beyond the economic sphere, which could negatively impact Costa Rica’s image as a peaceful and democratic country,” Mónica Ulloa Gómez told The Electronic Intifada.
Undivided capital
Another core tenet of Milei’s Zionist fervor is his persistent commitment to relocating the Argentine embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem “as soon as conditions allow.”
The move would align Argentina with nearby Paraguay, Guatemala and Honduras, all of which relocated their embassies following the US move in 2018.
But it’s not just Argentina. Costa Rica, which moved its embassy to Tel Aviv in 2006, recently announced that it would open a trade and innovation office with diplomatic status in Jerusalem.
That would constitute a significant retreat from the 2006 decision by former President Óscar Arias “to correct an historic mistake.”
“Opening a diplomatic office in Jerusalem would be an act of symbolic legitimacy for a fundamentalist, genocidal regime that violates human rights and has been undermining Costa Rican diplomatic activity since the 1940s,” Gómez said.
The Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, a fervent Evangelical and son of the disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro, has also pledged to move Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem if he is elected in October. He has also promised to sign up Brazil to the Isaac Accords, describing them as an “historic step forward.”
Panama and Uruguay have made no such promises, at least not yet. But with a new wave of right-wing administrations renewing support for Israel, from Honduras to Bolivia, and elections in Brazil and Colombia looming, regional solidarity with Palestine is under critical threat.
Milei, Netanyahu’s chainsaw-wielding comrade, certainly stands stoutly in Israel’s corner.
