President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva refused to pay respect at the grave of Zionism’s founder Theodor Herzl. But the Brazilian leader payed respect to the founder of the PLO.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva laid a wreath on the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah on Wednesday. Afterwards he insisted the anti-terror fence which Israel built around the West Bank must come down.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Da Silva added that he «dreams» of establishing an independent Palestinian state.
Da Silva also weighed in on the recent row between Washington and Jerusalem over a Jewish housing project in the capital city.
«The U.S. today is in disagreement and conflict with Israel. It was never expected to see these two allies in such a disagreement. We do not know if this is the missing magic that was needed to reach an agreement», Da Silva said.
Israel was critical of Da Silva’s visit to Arafat’s grave, since he had refused to also visit the grave of Zionism’s founder Theodor Herzl. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman boycotted any meetings with Da Silva because of the Herzl snub.
Source: ICEJ.org
My comment:
The Brazilian President should not be re-invited to visit the state of Israel. To refuse to may respect to the founding father of the Jewish nation is of course distasteful. But when Da Silva demonstrate his anti-Jewish attitudes by underlining his pro Islamic agenda, He will be better off in South America than in the Middle East.
In fact Da Silva has found a new friend in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I wonder how many days it will take before also the Brazilian President becomes a Holocaust denier?
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Big deal. It seems that whilst Biden is a a Zionist, Lula is not. A polite but firm decision not to lay a garland of flowers – Lets hope that this does not make him a target of a Mosad hitsquad.
Dear Luke.
Shalom, and welcome to this site.
The CIA was formed for the purpose of protecting American citizens from attacks from hidden enemies. What is wrong in the state of Israel having a similar organization?
Is it only the US that has a moral right to use CIA in a bid to bring men like Osama Bin Laden to justice?
Why can Israel not use Mosad to target men who plot Islamic Suicide bombers?
Dear brethren,
The man you sometimes call “da Silva” should be more properly called Lula, his political nickname by which he is known in Brazil and internationally. If there ever was a devil-possessed, anti-Christian, communist puppet “president” (he does not deserve to be called that) in South America, it is this fellow, also a puppet of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Venezuelan tirant Hugo Chavez (recently deceased from a fulminating cancer a little more than 1 year after cursing Israel). Lula is manically pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, pro-brainwashing of children in public schools. His 2 terms as “president” of Brazil between 2003-2010 saw a big advancement of the international UN-backed ‘new world order’ agenda. He got elected with powerful backing from the catholic false-church, which OWNS Brazil. Lula elected his successor, Dilma Roussef, who is more of the same and is going to be re-elected. On top of this, we now have an Argentinian (Argentina has frontiers with Brazil) as “pope”. We must be guilty. O poor country! Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Antonio