There was Lula, the coach, the goalkeeper and there is the president, who they love to beat – 02/21/2024 – Juca Kfouri

I need an excuse to defend Lula here in the sports section.

I turn to two great Lulas, the Santos coach at his peak, and the lesser-known Corinthians goalkeeper at the end of 1960, who replaced three-time champion Félix twice in the national team.

Ready! Football is also talked about here.

That said, let’s move on to the most famous of them, the tri-president.

He has been finding something that will be useful in this Sheetfrom the editorial to the columnists.

Someone needs to disagree, even at the risk of being seen as sycophantic.

How nice it is to beat the former metalworker who, in order to have a university degree, needed to be a Doctor Honoris Causa —today there are almost 40 titles—, from the Federal University of Pernambuco, where he was born, to the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, or Salamanca , in Spain, or even at Sciences Po, in Paris.

When Lula said that “the concept of democracy is relative” when referring to Venezuela, he was beaten like a thief.

Although he could call on the genius Albert Einstein to his aid, who went as far as to say that “nothing is absolute, EVERYTHING is relative”, the president received a deserved beating, because defending Nicolás Maduro is hard.

Now, then, by linking Hitler to the Jews without taking care to contextualize it with the delicacy that the topic requires, it took a beating until it could no longer be possible here — and let it be said that, throughout the world, with the exception of the terrorist government in Israel, the repercussion came close to zero.

There was a Holocaust, period.

Lula did not make explicit reference to him, but he doesn’t even need to be malicious to treat the speech as if he had mentioned him.

Yes, there have been several genocides in the history of humanity, and it is undeniable that in a government like the Israeli one, which has ministers capable of saying “We are fighting animals and acting accordingly”, as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, there is little doubt about their desires regarding Gaza.

There is a difference between quantity and quality.

Six million people murdered in concentration camps is something that will never be forgotten and can never be mentioned in passing.

Bibi Netanyahu’s method in the open-air concentration camp he established in Gaza differs little from Nazi methods. Without gas.

Had the humanist Lula said that “Netanyahu is for the Palestinians what Hitler was for the Jews” and the protests would have been limited to Bolsonaro supporters seeking to cover up their leader’s testimony to the PF this Thursday (22).

Whenever there is talk of stopping the killing in Gaza, the return of the hostages to the terrorist hands of Hamas will have to be demanded.

And it seems like a lie that this unfortunate sentence causes more outrage than the paragraph in Dorrit Harazin’s masterful column, with testimony from American pediatrician Seema Jilani:

“He had his right arm and leg torn off by a bomb. His diaper was bloody and remained in place, despite there being no leg left. I treated him first on the floor, as there were no stretchers available (…). At his side there was a man taking his last breaths. He had been actively dying for 24 hours, with flies all over him (…) The 1-year-old baby was bleeding profusely from the chest… There was no respirator, no morphine, no pressure gauge in the middle chaos. (…) An orthopedic surgeon wrapped the child’s stumps with gauze and announced that he would not take her immediately to the operating room because there were more urgent cases”.

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