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Brazil fires back at ‘outrageous’ Israeli response to Lula comments (thecradle.co)

submitted 7 months ago by MakunaHatata@lemmy.ml to c/news@beehaw.org

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Israeli officials have accused Brazil’s president of antisemitism following his comparison of Israeli violence to that of the Nazis

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"For a foreign ministry to address a head of state from a friendly country in this way is unusual and revolting. It is a shameful page in the history of Israel's diplomacy," the Brazilian diplomat went on to say, adding that Israel is trying to cover up its crimes in Gaza with a smokescreen

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[–] scorpionix@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, the comparison is quite bad. Unlike the Jewish people, Hamas did shoot first. However, Israels actions firmly cross into Genocide territory. So Genocide yes, Nazi Genocide no.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This ignores the long history of Israeli ethnic cleansing in the region.

[–] scorpionix@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

No, it does not. As I said, I think the current events including the ongoing situation in the westbank and other fits the definition of a genocide. But it is thankfully still not the industrial-sized killing complex that was the Holocaust.