Qatar is home to Ismail Hanyeh, the main leader of the terrorist group Hamas, who watched and applauded the group’s attacks on Israel on television from a luxury hotel in Doha on October 7.
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The Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad AlThani, has met Hanyeh several times. And last Thursday, the 30th, the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during a visit to the country, stated that he had spoken with AlThani about a Brazilian hostage in the Gaza Strip
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According to a source at a Jewish organization who preferred not to reveal his name, Lula showed neither enthusiasm nor indignation when discussing the situation of Brazilian Michael Nisenbaum, who would end up in Hamas captivity.
However, according to Lula’s speech, there was a possibility that the information about the Brazilian’s kidnapping had been passed on by the terrorist leader to the emir, who, according to the source, would have passed it on to the Brazilian president.
Serenity and balance
Upon his departure from Qatar, the country that is mediating the negotiations in this war, Lula made even more decisive statements compared to those he had already made, in the opinion of the member of the entity, which were at odds with Israel’s position.
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The Brazilian president told Al Jazzera, a broadcaster based in the country:
“(Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel) is an extremist, farright person with little sensitivity to the problems of the Palestinian people.” He then reiterated that the Israeli government was committing genocide in Gaza.
“This is not a traditional war, but a genocide that kills thousands of children and women through no fault of their own,” he said, according to the source, based on statements and figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, which is controlled by the terror group.
This attitude once again caused great unease among the leaders of the Jewish community in Brazil.
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Since the Hamas attacks, Jewish organizations have issued at least five denial statements refuting statements made by the president or his allies.
A Israeli Confederation of Brazil (Conib) released a statement again on Saturday the 2nd in which he rejected the recent statements.
“Conib deeply regrets President Lula’s comments comparing Israel’s defense measures to genocide,” the company said. “It is a false accusation that, when it comes from the President of the Republic, takes on even more serious dimensions.”
Finally, Conib asked the authorities “once again” for calm and balance “in this tense and painful moment” due to the increase in antiSemitic demonstrations in Brazil and around the world.