By Sayid Marcos Tenório and Ahmed Shehada *

He uses the tribune of the House and the media to salute the regime that massacres tdhe innocent Palestinian population.

 

The Deputy and candidate for President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro, declared on the last 08/07 that if elected, would have the Palestine Embassy closed in Brazil. According to him, "Palestine, not being a country, has no right to the Embassy here. You can not do it”. Dilma [The President] negotiated with Palestine and not with the people there. You do not deal with terrorist, then, that embassy on the side of the Presidential Palace, there is no area for that."

 

Bolsonaro's statements on the Palestine question are all unfortunate. To keep his speech to the extreme and to please his Zionist bosses, he omits that Palestine is a state recognized by 139 of the 193 sovereign nations that make up the United Nations; and that Brazil was one of the first to recognize the State of Palestine, whose existence dates back more than seven thousand years of history and civilization, a holy land of prophets and messengers.

 

Brazil has a strong identification with Palestine and your people is joyful, hopeful and resilient, where more than five thousand Brazilians live in perfect harmony. And because we welcome thousands of Palestinian refugees, perfectly integrated into the Brazilian life. Above all, we support the resistance and give our solidarity so that they do not give up the right to their homeland, establishing a sovereign state, the return of the refugees to their lands and houses from which they were expelled.

 

The existence of the Palestine Embassy in Brazil is a result of the principles established by our Federal Constitution and by International Law, as well as Brazil's support for the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people, a sign of good relations between the two countries. It’s the cornerstone of a relationship that dates back to 1975, when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), as a National Liberation Movement, was authorized to appoint a representative in Brazil and later in 1993, through the opening of the Office of Representation in our country. In December 2010, through the recognition, by Brazil, of the State of Palestine, the Embassy can then be installed.

 

The bottom line is not Mr Bolsonaro's misinformation about history and what is happening in Palestine but his political commitments to international Zionism that stole Palestine and transformed it into a usurper, terrorist and war criminal state called Israel.

 

Bolsonaro is the voice of Zionist apartheid in Brazil, who takes shape through the mass media to try to make common sense that the Palestinian people, in making use of the legitimate right to resistance, is a terrorist. The Palestinian people are like all other people who fought against invasions, through the sacrifice of brave men and women, like France, who used the force of resistance against the Nazi occupation; the Vietnam that mobilized the nation and defeated the powerful US Army; and Algeria, which fought against and overcame the French occupation, in a war that cost the lives of millions of martyrs.

 

The Palestinian people fight daily in accordance with international law and the UN resolutions, open-minded, facing tanks with stones, to honor their land and its history. That is why he has been paying a heavy price for making use of the right to resistance, since the Holocaust, apartheid tragedy and the wars that took place in his territories suffer like no other people. The invasions and attacks on Gaza in 2009, 2012 and 2014 were veritable genocides, where thousands of people lost their lives in defense of their homes and their lands.

What is happening in Palestine today is not a war of terrorists against the Jews, as is the case of the Bolsonaros. What happens is an illegal occupation, a usurpation, the point of view of International Law, a massacre, houses where they are destroyed, women and children are killed, schools and hospitals are destroyed with people inside them.

This is the result of a long process of armed conflict, with moments of extreme aggression on the part of the usurping state of Israel, which has already cost the lives of millions of Palestinians, criminal expansion of settlements in Palestinian lands since 1948, the year of the Nakba (tragedy ), and the establishment of the largest diaspora of a people in the 20th century, where about 10 million Palestinians live in dozens of countries, due to the advance of the settlements and the subsequent expulsion of the local population.

 

Bolsonaro is an admirer of the dangerous measures taken by the usurper regime of Israel to continue the occupation of the entire Palestinian territory. It has used the Tribune of the Chamber of Deputies and the media to salute the regime that massacres the innocent Palestinian population, which practices change in the demographic composition as well as the permanent expansion of the colonies and siege to the Gaza Strip, which deprives the Palestinian people of their rights basic.

 

Palestine is a symbol of the quest for freedom, peace, justice and respect for international law, sovereignty and human rights.

 

The rest is empty speech, phrases of effect and demonstration of servitude to Zionist apartheid, exercised by an extreme right wing worm that makes the racist speech, a motto to touch part of the population uninformed and hindered by hatred widely spread by social networks. 

 

* Sayid Marcos Tenório is director of CEBRAPAZ and Ahmed Shehada is president of the Instituto Palestine Palestine - IBRASPAL 

 

 Palestine is a symbol of the quest for freedom, peace, justice and respect for international law, sovereignty and human rights.