In his column this week for CrusoePaulo Roberto de Almeida speaks about the “unconditional” tone with which the left generally treats Hamas’ terrorist attacks. For him, such an attitude from a PT government is not unprecedented; Maybe it really expresses what the PT as a party thinks about terrorist attacks against civilian targets…
The PT, the PT members, the left in general have a strange attitude towards terrorism. There are these reprehensible acts that come from the extreme right, by governments with opposite tendencies, and there are terrorist attacks that are at least tolerable as long as they are directed against “imperialist” goals and can therefore be justified as a reaction of oppressed populations against “imperial powers”.
This type of moral deformation became clearly visible in connection with the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas forces against Israeli civilians near the Palestinian territory in the Gaza Strip. Although the president himself condemned the “terrorist attacks” in an online post, The Brazilian government’s official note which is important from the point of view of the government’s formal statement in the face of an event of global importance has taken a turn, already widely noted, in the context of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the massacre carried out by those commanded by Putin armed forces commit on a daily basis.
The press release issued by Itamaraty on the day of the attacks, October 7, simply condemned “the series of bombings and ground attacks carried out today in Israel from the Gaza Strip,” expressed condolences to the victims, and reiterated that “there are no… “There is justification for the use of violence, particularly against civilians”; However, it repeats the typical impartial attitude observed in the context of the Ukraine case: “calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint in order to avoid escalation of the situation”, as if the “parties” had equal responsibility for the have violence. The following comments relate much more to the repatriation of Brazilians from Israel and Gaza than to the event itself.
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