Radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva actually withdrew Brazil’s adviser to Israel, Frederico Meyer, on Wednesday, marking a innovative section in already strained relations between the states.
In response to Hamas ‘ extraordinary October 7 criminal assault and the start of Israel’s self-defense operations against the jihadist terrorists, Lula has made numerous claims against Israel over the past eight months, accusing Israel and its state of “genocide” through its functions.
Lula compared Israel’s self-defense activities to those carried out by Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust in one of his remarks made in February on the outside of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
There is no reverse between what is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinians in various historical contexts. In fact, it did arise when Hitler decided to kill the Jews”, Lula said at the moment.
Israel declared Lula persona non grata after his remarks, which were praised by Hamas, and forbade the Portuguese senator from visiting Israel until he expresses his regret and retracts his remarks. Celsor Amorim, one of Lula’s major foreign policy advisers, has argued that Israel really “apologize before humanity” before stating that Lula will not make any kind of apology.
Lula reacted to his restrictions by calling back Meyer, the now-ex-ambassador. Meyer was appointed the Portuguese envoy to the Conference on Peace in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday after being appointed the official removal from his position at the Portuguese embassy in Tel Aviv. Meyer had been residing in Brazil since February, and he officially returned to Tel Aviv last week to plan for his move to Geneva.
According to sources from the Brazilian government, the country’s foreign ministry wo n’t designate a new ambassador to Israel until a new ambassador is chosen, leading to Tel Aviv diplomat Fábio Moreira Farias, a charge d’affaires, which will ultimately lower the level of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
The Israeli government summoned Meyer to a conference at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial facility in Jerusalem in February, according to the Portuguese resources, and Meyer was later found to be “humiliated” after Lula made his racist notes. The cause claimed that Meyer was “publicly reprimanded” in Hebrew without a speaker present– which, according to the cause, contributed to his everlasting remember.
Radio France Internationale ( RFI ) reported on Thursday morning that Israel summoned charge d’affaires Farias to a meeting in Jerusalem, the nation’s capital, where he explained the situation. Apparently, Israeli officials stated that they do not intend to release an official speech or speech on the subject.
The Brazilian diplomat sought to understand his administration’s choice, according to a cause from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
The embassy was given a new position in Switzerland, according to a diplomatic note that the Chargé d’affairess presented. So he was n’t really called back]to Brazil], but transferred”, the source said.
According to an unknown source from the Portuguese Foreign Ministry, Lula’s decision to not name a new ambassador to Israel “would no” think that he intends to cut ties with Israel, something different communist governments in the region have done, like as Colombia and Bolivia.
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