No one doubts that Hamas' massive terrorist attack on Israel was financed by Iran. Without the regime in Tehran, Hamas would not have been able to carry out an airstrike so powerful that it surpassed Israel's Iron Dome. would not have Khaibar1 missiles It is Fajr They were used in the attack and did not have any ground exercises beyond the sight of the Israel Defense Forces. It is Iran that finances much of the world's terrorism.
The geopolitics of the Middle East has Tehran as its epicenter. Political and jihadist Islam has become the region's greatest force. What does Brazil have to do with it? Unfortunately, quite a lot. And more and more.
Brazil has weak cultural or historical ties with the Middle East. Nevertheless, PT diplomacy in the region is extremely fierce. Since the beginning of the first Lula government, the firm idea of the new diplomacy was to be “active and proud,” as Chancellor Celso Amorim already defined it back then. In other words, you stick your nose where it's not called, advocating all kinds of dictatorships and cruel regimes, killing gays, women and children while repeating “democracy” so often on the doorstep to talk about the old ones Ladies being treated as victims by the media and justice system.
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What does it mean to be “active and proud”? No longer side with the democratic West that imperialist but support the worst regimes on the planet. How does Iran manage to finance so many weapons and military operations while living under very strict UN sanctions? With a little Brazilian help.
From the first to the last year of the Lula government alone, exports to the Persian country increased by 144%. Dictator Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil was carefully planned to avoid media criticism of his rapprochement with Iran, as thenChancellor Celso Amorim confessed in his memoirs. On September 11 last year (it seems that basic symbolism is too unclear for politicians) Geraldo Alckmin, the vice president, said, signed a technical cooperation agreement between Brazil and the Palestine Liberation Organization not Hamas, but always movements that want to reduce the influence of the democratic West in the region. Some with serious Jewish problems. And of course the Brazilian pressure on Tehran to implement its nuclear program.
Ask Lula | What would Brazil gain if it supported the dictatorship of Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei?
In one of his memoirs with the ominous title “Tehran, Ramalá and Doha: Memories of an Active and Proud Foreign Policy,” Chancellor Celso Amorim reveals the monomania of the new PT diplomacy: it ensured that Brazil was no longer seen as a neutral agent, but rather became more involved and even more frequently in the Middle East and in difficulties to which, thank God, Allah and Yahweh, he had not been invited.
The first step for Brazil to appear “active and proud” would be a little help to ensure that Tehran can enrich uranium with impunity. Why did the Ayatollahs and dictator Ahmadinejad want so much enriched uranium instead of getting as much or more cheaply without international sanctions? The doubt is not even expressed by Amorim. What mattered was getting “the legitimate right” (sic) to enrich uranium for the same country that denies the Holocaust and screams “Death to Israel and America” at every hiccup.
What would Brazil gain if it supported the dictatorship of Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei? We don't get this answer from Celso Amorim. However, we are aware of concerns about “the belief in Iran that the punishment will be imposed.” [as sanções econômicas] “The discrimination he faced was mainly due to the circumstances of being an Islamic country (and an opponent of Israel) or antiWestern, which increased the feeling of discrimination.”
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Oh, the poor things! Just because they want enriched uranium and would rather live under sanctions than look for other energy sources! You can't understand it, can you? Only Lula's SuperBrazil could solve the Iranian nuclear “problem” (hence the quotation marks) in a strange rapprochement between Lula and Obama, who eventually handed over his longawaited nuclear program to Tehran with Brazilian support. Change the name “Iran” to “Nazi Germany,” a regime so beloved of Ahmadinejad, and watch the magic happen.
Celso Amorim spends a lot of time criticizing the Iranian regime, which is known for flogging women (who could barely show their eyes in bikinis before the 1979 revolution), stoning “adulterous” women (e.g. when they… after the death of her husband) and shooting gays in buildings? At best it would be a silly word, like saying “I may have had reservations about the sectarian nature of the Ayatollah regime.” Surgically mild term even Argentina is a “sectarian” state. Very diplomatic. Have you ever seen a feminist or someone from the PT and Psol complain about the “machismo” of the PTbacked country? Me neither.
The case is even more tense when it comes to Israel and Hamas. All because the very existence of the State of Israel in the region disturbs the PT's new best friends: from Iran to the terrorist group Hezbollah, that Lula wants to be treated as someone capable of “negotiating peace” (sic). After all, Jews are not welcome neither by Ahmadinejad nor by his military proxies Hamas and Hezbollah (and the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Jihad and so many others). And how are Jewish colonies viewed by “anticolonialist” politicians like Lula, Obama and Biden?
Israel is a country founded in 1948 in a region that was under British territorial rule. After the genocide by Nazi Germany in World War II, there was a consensus that Jews who never founded a European state and were colonized and persecuted in Palestine since the Roman Empire, a few years after the New Testament should have a recognized country. Its very modern existence is therefore based on settlements, on territorial occupation which brings with it the “colonial” problem for other residents of having to live in the neighborhood with Jews. The PT and the Left, who like to call anyone who disagrees with them a “Nazi,” He doesn't seem entirely reassured when he explains why he argues that Hamas is not terrorists and has a “just reason” for not wanting to see Jews in the neighborhood.
We have become accustomed to MPs who can barely distinguish between Arabia and Kuwait on the map having such manic opinions on various issues, such as Hamas or Israel's right to exist a strange right that is never questioned at Campos de Goytacazes, Scandinavia or South Korea. North. Only when Jews are involved does even the existence of the state itself seem to be called into question. What should happen to the Jews living there is an interesting question for Gleisi Hoffmann or Orlando Silva.
Anticolonial ideology, theocratic submission
The understanding of PT members and the left in general was and is the key to colonialism. Brazil, the Third World, would be a toy in the hands of the great powers. What PT members describe as “active and proud” and no longer allowing themselves to be “colonized” is an almost automatic if not compulsive alignment with the worst regimes on the planet. Thus, Brazil would no longer seek rapprochement with the US and England which was so criticized during the FHC administration but would begin to treat “emerging countries”, often of questionable taste, as allies in the “fight against imperialism”.
Anticolonialism is a reading according to which all governments that fight against the great powers are fighting a fair fight for it. In anticolonial circles, it is not common to raise your hand and ask what these countries would be like without “colonies.” In 1920, the King of Syria, Ali alHashimi, was so enthusiastic about the progress that the Jews were bringing from Europe that he declared: “We Arabs… viewed the Zionist movement with great sympathy.” After all, Israel is capable of sea water to desalinate. We have the best universities in the world. Be a cyber powerhouse. Create incredible military defenses. And in addition to irrigation and modern urban planning, it also brought the region… well, the democracy that the Left supposedly defends. For these groups there is only one problem: Israel is full of Jews.
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It is the anticolonial ideology that always has an apology on the tip of its tongue, be it for the terrorist attacks of Hamas, for the absolute theocracy of Iran or for Cuba, Libya (Lula even called Gaddafi “my friend, my brother”), my leader “), Zimbabwe or any other terrible dictatorship that calls itself “antiimperialist” and anticolonial and gives soup.
The history of Itamaraty has always been marked by peaceful negotiations. It is no small thing and a very important role. Brazil is a strong economy with a vast, culturally renowned territory. Neutral countries are necessary in geopolitical conflicts of enormous magnitude: Jordan is usually the territory to achieve peace in the Middle East. Iceland brokered the end of the Cold War. Switzerland has almost become a synonym for peace. And Brazil led the very meeting that created the State of Israel. Being “active and proud” should benefit us better than living with Ahmadinejad and Hamas in the news.
Since the PT, dictators of all kinds have appeared in the media so frequently that they are like relatives from the countryside who have decided to spend a few months in our news without an invitation and never leave. The problem is not just a media problem: the Middle East is in trouble with Brazilian “third world” support (and that of several other countries that fund terrorism and antiWestern dictatorships).
Islamic mess with Brazilian Ginga
A few years ago, the complex “balance” in the region consisted of the balance between theocracies like Iran and Syria, secular states like Israel and to some extent Egypt and Lebanon, and countries in the process of “westernization,” such as Arabia and Turkey. If there was previously diplomatic restraint, the imbalance is now entirely on the side of jihad.
Lula's Brazil has as partners in the Middle East, which are frequently in the news, Iran, Libya, Syria and Palestine and a turbulent relationship with Israel, the only democracy in the region, to say the least. Being “active and haughty” is easy when you speak sharply against America and Europe, which at best tolerate Brazilian exoticism. However, in the end we became quite passive and submitted to Iran's geopolitical plan, which, instead of opening up to its new Western friend (as Arabia and Turkey did with America), only strengthens its theocracy and its oppression of the population.
Before the Hamas attacks, Israel and Saudi Arabia tried to restore diplomatic relations. Saudi Arabia is a monarchy that has moved closer to the West and even allowed women to drive the day after Donald Trump's visit. Egypt, Jordan and Turkey followed the same path. The Russians and Chinese were of course somewhat dissatisfied. The Hamas attack, with weapons from both countries (as well as Syria, a Russian puppet, and North Korea, a Chinese puppet), brought an immediate end to the negotiations. Without Trump and Bolsonaro, Netanyahu remained, almost involuntarily, in a frosty relationship with Biden. And now we are facing an Iran full of weapons and at the same time crying to Brazil for imposing sanctions.
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North American intelligence estimates that Iran provides Hamas with around $100 million in military aid annually. Celso Amorim tries to reassure us in his memoirs by explaining that a large part of the trade deal with Iran (which was always remembered as insignificant: the main thing was to be able to trade in favor of uranium) did not involve weapons, but weapons . but “innocent chickens”. It remains to be seen how innocent our disgraced friends have become. Iran is seeking to be a nuclear power to counter Israel and is becoming the largest Islamic force in the Middle East even though it is not Arab but Shiite and speaks Farsi. Just as the Assad regime in Syria can only survive with the Russians behind it, the Iranians need their nuclear program. Brazil was one of the main participants. Companion perhaps.
The area west of Jordan is understood by Muslims as waqf, land forcibly “given” to infidels. Without the power to defeat Israel headon, the model of confrontation since the 1960s has been attacks on civilians, heavily financed by Iran. Terror to defeat the state through fear of existence. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, stated in May 2000 that such tactics would show that Israeli technology was as fragile as “a spider's web.”
Recently, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein AmirAbdollahian. Both spoke about Hamas's “preventive measure” (sic) for the “resistance front,” as Iran calls its alliance. Hamas, leading Lula to go so far as to call him a “terrorist.”called on the Arab and Islamic world to slaughter the Jews once and for all. Terrorist attacks have become routine again in recent days.
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Celso Amorim even comments, in a macabre tone, on how former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni declared that “dialogue with Hamas is not possible.” Reading these lines again today shows that the minister's concern was more than just bitterness or a farright conspiracy theory.
