Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused this Sunday Israel of having committed a “genocide” against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and, in his criticism, made a comparison that aroused international rejection: he compared Israeli war actions to Adolf Hitler’s campaign “when he decided to kill Jews”, in reference to the Holocaust.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a war, it is a genocide,” the president of Brazil declared to the press in Addis Ababa. in Ethiopiawhere he attended the annual African Union summit as a guest.
Lula addressed the conflict in the Gaza Strip by arguing that “it is not a war of soldiers against soldiers, it is a war between a very trained army and women and children“.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people It didn’t happen at any other time. of history,” Lula said, but soon after corrected himself and found a controversial parallel. “It actually happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews“He added.
The phrase had an immediate impact. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out Lula’s comments “shameful and serious”stating that they constitute a “trivialization of the Holocaust”and announced that his government summoned the Brazilian ambassador to Israel.
“The comparison between Israel and the Holocaust of the Nazis and Hitler It means crossing a red line.”The president said this in a statement, in which he insisted that Israel “is fighting to defend itself.”
In the same speech, the Brazilian president made a sneaky defense Vladimir Putinwhen you ask yourself “Why rush to accuse?” when asked about the death of Alexei Navalny, the main Russian opponent of the current regime. Lula refused to enter into “hypotheses” about Putin’s responsibility. “If death is suspected, an investigation must first be carried out to find out what he he’s dead,” he said.
Source: Clarin
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