The move came amid a row over the Brazilian president’s remarks about Gaza.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday asked his ambassador to Tel Aviv to return to Brasilia for consultations. The move came after Israel declared Lula “persona non grata” over his comments about Gaza.
The president was quoted by Brazilian media over the weekend as likening Israel’s actions in Gaza to a time “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” referring to the Holocaust during the Second World War.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded by summoning the Brazilian Ambassador Frederico Meyer for a protest – not to the ministry, but to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. There, Katz called Lula’s words “a serious antisemitic attack” and showed Meyer the names of his own relatives killed by the Nazis.
“We will not forget nor forgive,” Katz told Meyer, according to his post on X (formerly Twitter). “In my name and the name of the citizens of Israel – tell President Lula that he is persona non grata in Israel until he takes it back.”
Lula has stood by his words, however, and ordered Meyer back to Brazil. The Brazilian embassy in Tel Aviv will be run by a charge d’affaires, which is a downgrade in diplomatic relations.
Lula’s wife, Rosangela ‘Janja’ da Silva, defended her husband on Monday, saying his words “referred to the genocidal government and not to the Jewish people.”
“I am proud of my husband who, since the beginning of this conflict in the Gaza Strip, has defended peace and especially the right to life of women and children, who are the majority of victims,” Janja wrote on X. “I am sure that if President Lula had experienced the Second World War, he would have defended the Jews’ right to life in the same way.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Lula’s comments as “crossing a red line.” Netanyahu declared war on Hamas after deadly raids by the Palestinian group on October 7 last year, in which an estimated 1,200 Israelis died. Since then, more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children. Much of the enclave has been reduced to rubble, while several members of Netanyahu’s government have openly advocated expelling its two million inhabitants to Egypt.
The International Court of Justice asked Israel last month to refrain from actions that could be considered genocidal, following a complaint by South Africa under the Genocide Convention.
He is right. A criminals even worst than nazis.
Bravo Lula
Brazil is on the money. If those who are committing genocide in Gaza don’t like it, all the better.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/20/israels-occupation-of-palestine-live-day-2-of-icj-arguments-continues
“The president [Lula da Silva] was quoted by Brazilian media over the weekend as likening Israel’s actions in Gaza to a time “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” referring to the Holocaust during the Second World War.”
Mr Lula de Silva needs to freshen up on history beyond what the main stream historians’ brainwash history dictates: https://www.ihr.org/
Hitler at least aided abetted the emigration of 100 000s of jews before they were used as slave labourers during the war.
Thank you Brazilian President Lula, for calling out the Zionist J*** for the monsters that they really are!
Brazil can afford to make these truthful observations and comments, as Brazil isn’t infiltrated with the blackmailing, extorting Mossad Ops J3w$ like the U.S. and most of Europe are! (see the make-up of the Biden Cabinet; 80% J***!!!)
And, while the Palestinians are exterminated, the diversionary ICJ and ICC calling for the ‘prevention of genocide’ is ignored by Israel, as the Talmud instructs that J*** DO NOT have to abide by any laws, rules, or courts that are set by the Gentiles and Goyim!
THAT is why the criminal and mass-murdering J*** are still committing genocide and ignoring International Law and the Articles of War.
Most of the wars from the 1860’s were exploited by J***** Banksters. They ran BOTH side of all wars, and invested heavily in the Military Industrial Complexes from 1914 to present day.
They will and do exterminate their own when pressed to do so, ie the privately run SS-owned Konzentration Kamps.
BTW- Netanyahu’s brother was killed in the Entebbe Raid, and Netanyahu’s father was a Zionist terrorist in his own right.
Netanyahu was seeing a shrink some years ago who was appalled at the findings of his patient, and not only quit seeing Netanyahu,but also fled to the U.S. in fear of his life from what he uncovered from a severely deranged and mentally-ill man.
The Israelis bear the same guilt as they have not frocibly removed Netanyahu from power…kinda like the Yanks refusing to remove Biden and his Zionist criminal cartel from …’power’…!
Good analysis.
Here is more: https://greaterisrahell.substack.com/p/who-started-it