The Israeli Confederation of Brazil convened this Sunday “unfortunate” and “frustrating” the government’s position Lula da Silva in the conflict in the Middle East by not explicitly condemning the Iranian missile and drone attack against Israel.
“The democratic world and several countries in the Middle East have joined Israel in the sentence and the fight against Iran’s attack”, but “the current foreign policy of “Brazil has chosen to side with the Iranian theocracy.”declared the president of the organization Claudio Lottenberg.
The Brazilian executive’s position on the conflict is “once again frustrating” and “deplorable”, underlined the voices of the Brazilian Jewish community.
For his part, the Israeli ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Zonshine, told local media feel disappointed” with the position of Brazil.
Relations between Brazil and Israel have worsened since February 18th Lula compared the Israeli offensive to Gazawhich caused at least 33,700 deaths, most of them women and children, with the Holocaustthe extermination of the Jews promoted by Adolf Hitler.
At the heart of this declaration, the G7 countries ““strongly condemned” the Iranian attack on Israel, for which they showed “full support”, and warned Iran that it will “take new measures now” if it continues with its “destabilizing initiatives” in the Middle East.
Source: Clarin
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