Colombian President Petro Wants To Form a 'World Salvation Army' To 'Free Palestine'

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he will propose the creation of a "world salvation army" to "free Palestine" as Israel's offensive on the enclave continues.

Speaking at a protest in New York City along with Musician Roger Waters, Petro said he would introduce the proposal before the UN General Assembly, and should two thirds of member states approve it, they would then begin forming the force.

The Colombian president went on to say that he would begin an inscription process for volunteers with military experience in the country. "If the Colombian President, like Bolivar before, like Argentina's Ernesto Guevara, has to go to the battlefield in a foreign country to defend humanity, I'm willing to go," he said.

Petro's involvement in the protest led to the revoking of his visa by the Trump administration after he publicly called on soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump.

"From here, from New York, I ask all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," Petro said in another passage of the protest. "Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity," he added.

The U.S. State Department quickly reacted, saying Petro's visa would be revoked "due to his reckless and incendiary actions."

Petro, in turn, said the decision "breaks all the norms of immunity on which the functioning of the United Nations and its General Assembly is based."

"The fact that the Palestinian Authority was not allowed entry and that my visa was revoked for asking the U.S. and Israeli armies not to support a genocide, which is a crime against all humanity, demonstrates that the US government no longer complies with international law," Petro said in a social media publication. "The UN headquarters can't continue to be in New York."

In another publication he said he didn't care about the decision because he doesn't need a visa and can use the ESTA because he's also a European citizen. "I actually consider myself a free person in the world. Humanity must be free across the world. We have the human right to live in the planet. I am free and all humans must be free on Earth."