Brazil summons Israeli ambassador and calls its ambassador to Tel Aviv for consultations

The government of Brazil called his ambassador in Tel Aviv and summoned the Israeli ambassador, Daniel Zonshine, after Israel declared this Monday to the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvapersona “non grata” for having equated the Israeli offensive against Link with him Holocaust.

The Brazilian chancellor, Mauro Vieirasummoned the Israeli ambassador to appear this Monday at the palace Itamaraty in Rio de Janeirowhere he will be at the G20 foreign ministers meeting next Wednesday and Thursday, according to the South American country’s Itamaraty.

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Likewise, he called the Brazilian ambassador in Tel Aviv, Frederico Meyerwho will return to his country on Tuesday, after being summoned this Monday by the Israeli Government to convey the harsh response of the Prime Minister’s Government Benjamin Netanyahu to Lula’s words.

Meyer was summoned by that country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katzin a place full of symbolism like the Holocaust Museum in Jerusaleminstead of the Chancellery headquarters, as is usual in these cases, which generated a “huge discomfort”in Brazilian diplomacy, official sources told EFE.

The Israeli government declared Lula a person”not grateful” and assured that he will maintain this condition until he apologizes for having compared the Israeli offensive in Gaza with the crimes of Adolf Hitler against the Jewish people.

“We will neither forgive nor forget: in my name and in the name of the citizens of Israel“I informed President Lula that he is a ‘non grata’ personality in Israel until he apologizes and retracts his words,” declared Katz.

The controversy broke out the day before, when in statements to the press, during a trip to EthiopiaLula compared the Israeli military campaign in Gaza to what happened in Holocaust.

Lula said that the confrontation “between a very prepared army and women and children” had not happened before in history, except “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews” In World War II.

The International Affairs Advisor to the Brazilian Presidency, Celso Amorimconsidered it “absurd” for Israel to declare the Brazilian president “persona non grata”.

For his part, the Minister of Communication of the Presidency, Paulo Pimentarecalled that, since the beginning of the conflict, Brazil “condemned the terrorist attacks of Hamas in all forums.”

However, he highlighted 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 they did.”

Source: Elcomercio

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