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Advisor to the President of Brazil on international affairs, Celso Amorim, described this Monday as “absurd” Israel’s decision to declare President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “persona non
Advisor to the President of Brazil on international affairs, Celso Amorim, described this Monday as “absurd” Israel’s decision to declare President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “persona non grata”after he compared the Gaza offensive to the Holocaust.
“This is absurd”, “this”only increases Israel’s isolation“Well, “Lula is wanted all over the world, and at the moment Israel is persona non grata,” Amorim said.
The official, who was foreign minister in Lula’s first two terms (2003-2011), explained to reporters that he had not yet spoken to the president on the matter and that he was speaking in his personal capacity about Israel’s decision.
Pictured is Celso Amorim. Photo: Planalto, President of the Republic of Brazil
The reaction of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was announced this Monday after Lula, at a press conference held last Friday in Ethiopia, equated the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip to the Holocaust.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip is not war, it is genocide”Lula said after the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, where he believed confrontation “between a very trained army, women and children” had not happened before in history, except “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”
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The statement was condemned in the strongest possible terms by Israel. and Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz summoned the Brazilian Ambassador to Israel, Frederico Meyer, this Monday to express his protest.
Lula da Silva at the 37th Assembly of the African Union. Photo: Reuters
“We will not forgive and we will not forget: on my own behalf and on behalf of the citizens of Israel, I informed the President Lula that he is an unwelcome person in Israel until he apologizes and retracts his words,” Katz said after meeting with Meyer.
The meeting with the ambassador took place not, as usual, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but at the Holocaust Museum, which has great symbolic meaning for Jews.
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According to Katz, it is “the place that most bears witness to what the Nazis and Hitler did to the Jews, including” members of his family.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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