The government of Brazil He called his ambassador in Tel Aviv for consultations and summoned the Israeli ambassadorDaniel Zonshine, after Israel declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva persona non grata on Monday for equating the Israeli offensive against Gaza with the Holocaust.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira summoned the Israeli ambassador will appear this Monday at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro, where he will be at the meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers next Wednesday and Thursday, according to the Foreign Ministry of the South American country.
Likewise, he called the Brazilian ambassador to Tel Aviv, Frederico Meyer, for consultations. who will return to his country on Tuesdayafter being summoned this Monday by the Israeli government to convey the harsh response of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Lula’s words.
Meyer was summoned by the Foreign Minister of that country, Israel Katz, in a place full of symbolism such as the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, instead of in the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, as is customary in these cases, which generated “enormous discomfort” in Brazilian diplomacyaccording to official sources told EFE.
The Israeli government declared Lula persona non grata” and has assured that he will maintain this condition until he apologizes for comparing the Israeli offensive in Gaza to Adolf Hitler’s crimes against the Jewish people.
“We will not forgive or forget“On behalf of myself and the citizens of Israel, I have informed President Lula that he is a ‘personality non grata’ in Israel until he apologizes and retracts his words,” Katz said.
Israeli female soldiers pose for a photograph at a location on the border of the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. AP photoThe controversy had erupted the day before, when in statements to the press during a trip to Ethiopia, Lula had compared the Israeli military campaign in Gaza to what happened in the Holocaust.
Lula said the comparison “between a highly trained army and women and children” It had never happened before in history, except “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews” in World War II.
The Advisor for International Affairs of the Brazilian Presidency, Celso Amorim, considered “absurd”“that Israel declares the Brazilian president “persona non grata”.
For his part, the Minister of Communication of the Presidency, Paulo Pimenta, recalled that, since the beginning of the conflict, Brazil “condemned the Hamas terrorist attacks in all forums.”
However, he stressed that “the international community cannot remain silent in the face of the massacre of a people who cannot suffer extermination for the crimes of a group that must be punished for what it has done.”
Source: Clarin
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