Words without action, Milei said, were not enough — the region had already offered too many speeches and too much inaction while terrorism continued unabated.By Ailin Vilches Arguello, The AlgemeinerArgentine President Javier Milei urged Latin American nations to join the Isaac Accords and deepen strategic ties with Israel, arguing the region stands at a historic crossroads as it confronts what he called an “existential” struggle between “good and evil.”“From my first day as president, I made the firm decision to place Argentina on the right side of history,” Milei said Monday during a speech to Latin American legislators affiliated with the Israel Allies Foundation, an international, faith-based diplomacy organization.“What this region decides in the coming years will determine which side of history we end up on,” he continued.Earlier this year, the Argentinian leader and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally signed the Isaac Accords, a new framework aimed at deepening ties between Israel and Latin American governments while jointly addressing antisemitism and terrorism.Modeled after the Abraham Accords—a series of historic, US-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab countries—the new initiative aims to strengthen political, economic, and cultural cooperation between the Jewish state and Latin American governments.Milei described the accords as “a moral, diplomatic, and cultural coalition” against antisemitism, terrorism, and drug trafficking, portraying it as a platform for like-minded governments to confront shared regional and global threats.Words without action, he said, were not enough — the region had already offered too many speeches and too much inaction while terrorism continued unabated.“Latin America can take a clear stand,” the Argentine leader continued. “Neutrality is not an option just as it never has been in existential struggles.”Milei’s remarks come amid a sweeping geopolitical realignment across Latin America, as an emerging bloc of conservative governments moves to deepen ties with both the US and Israel.As Israel capitalizes on this growing regional momentum, the Abraham Accords seek to institutionalize expanding cooperation with Latin American partners through enhanced intelligence-sharing, security coordination, and joint law enforcement efforts targeting Iranian proxy networks and transnational criminal organizations operating across the hemisphere.Latin America has long served as a key operational and financial hub for the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, whose involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, and other illicit activities has helped bankroll its global terrorist operations.Speaking earlier this year at The Algemeiner’s annual J100 gala in New York, Milei underscored what he described as the moral imperative of confronting evil at a pivotal moment for the West and its democratic values.Morality as state policy, he argued, demands courage—the willingness to do what is right even at the cost of friendships and to face an uncertain future without abandoning core values.“Today, our moral sense tells us something with absolute certainty: The West is in danger,” he said. “The values that made this era of prosperity and common freedom possible are being eroded from the ground up.”The Isaac Accords seek to anchor a new era of strategic cooperation between Israel and Latin America, expanding collaboration in technology, security, innovation, commerce, and economic development as governments across the region strengthen partnerships to confront shared security challenges.The initiative will also seek to encourage partner countries to relocate their embassies to Jerusalem, formally designate Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations, and shift longstanding voting patterns on Israel at the United Nations.Since the start of the war in Gaza, and even more so amid the broader confrontation with Iran, Latin American countries have increasingly sought to align their domestic legislation with international sanctions frameworks targeting Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — all of which are designated by the US, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.Once a formal designation is in place, authorities can immediately freeze a wide range of assets belonging to designated entities without the need for a prior criminal conviction.The designation also makes it a criminal offense to provide such entities with material support — such as funding, transportation, housing, or false documentation — while giving authorities additional tools to track and map a group’s logistical and financial networks.In March, Argentina designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization, after previously designating the Palestinian group Hamas in 2024 and Hezbollah in 2019.After Iran accused Buenos Aires of “siding with the aggressors” and violating international law with the move, the Argentine government declared Iranian chargé d’affaires Mohsen Tehrani “persona non grata” and gave him 48 hours to leave the country.The post Milei urges Latin America to embrace Isaac Accords in ‘existential’ fight against ‘evil’ appeared first on World Israel News.