Crisis proves that it is necessary to have the ability even to deal with noise – 02/21/2024 – Bruno Boghossian

Lula carries out his diplomacy like the politician he is. In the same interview, he was cautious when complaining about what he called the Vladimir Putin government’s pre-judgment for the death of opponent Alexei Navalni, avoided a question about Nicolás Maduro’s siege of the UN in Venezuela and cited the Holocaust when criticizing the killings in Gaza.

Presidents have latitude that is prohibited to diplomats. They tend to be ideologically selective in their comments about partners and opponents, lacking coherence in public positions, surfing the waves of their political bases and exaggerating the noise to gain attention in international debates.

Lula’s words about the Israeli campaign in Gaza and its repercussions prove that it is necessary to have skill even when making noise.

War crimes are not contests of savagery. Lula uses his movements on the global board to emphatically denounce the violations of Binyamin Netanyahu’s government in Palestinian territory, but he did not advance a single space with the inappropriate reference to Adolf Hitler’s brutality in the extermination of Jews during World War II.

The argument that the PT member had the courage to express indignation and increase demands for a ceasefire says a lot about the way allies and supporters see the president and nothing about the effort that is still needed to free the global machine that supports it from inertia. the war.

Israel’s dishonest reaction shows that Netanyahu is exploiting the crisis as propaganda. After the government accused Lula of denying the Holocaust, something the PT member did not do, Chancellor Mauro Vieira (a diplomat, not a politician) said that the country was launching “a smokescreen” to cover up the massacre in Gaza.

The Brazilian opposition, led by the best Bolsonaro leaders, is looking for a fuss of its own with a traditional “impeachment loss”: without legal cause, without votes in plenary and without any reason beyond the uproar.

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