A week after in Addis Adeb, Ethiopia, comparing Israel’s brutality in Gaza to Hitler’s brutality against Jews and thereby opening a serious diplomatic crisis, Brazilian President Lula da Silva once again declared: what is Israel? What is being done? There is no war in the Palestinian enclave, it is genocide. Lula launched a new attack this Friday, at the end of a cultural promotion event in Rio de Janeiro that had nothing to do with the issue in the Middle East.
“I will not trade my dignity for a lie. I am for the creation of a free and sovereign Palestinian state. And so that this Palestinian state can live in harmony with Israel. I want to say more: what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinian people is not war, it is genocide, because they are killing women and children. Thousands of children are killed, thousands are missing. Soldiers do not die, women and children die even in hospitals. If this is not genocide, then I don’t know what is,” Lula da Silva said, adding fuel to the diplomatic crisis with Israel and a wave of protests by Jewish organizations in Brazil and around the world.
Showing that the new accusation against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was not just a random comment or an unintentional explosion, but was the official position, part of Lula’s speech with a quote about Israel was published a few hours later on the official networks of the Brazilian government. After the statement made in Ethiopia at the end of the African Union summit, in which he participated as a guest, an intense protest campaign against Lula was launched in Israel, led personally by Netanyahu and his Foreign Minister Israel Katz, including publications on the networks of officials provoking and insulting the President of Brazil at a level not typical of diplomacy.
Israel declared Lula da Silva “persona non grata” and publicly reprimanded Brazil’s ambassador to Tel Aviv, Frederico Meyer, in front of the Holocaust Museum, in another unusual gesture between the countries. In response, Brazil recalled Meyer back to Brasilia, where he arrived on Wednesday, and Lula is under intense pressure to expel Israeli Ambassador Daniel Sonschein from Brazil, especially after the diplomat participated in political events with former President Jair Bolsonaro. .
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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