Since Lula compared the genocide that Israel carries out againstPalestine to the Nazi holocaust, the subject has taken over the media ina controversial way. The polarization of the public debate means thatthe question is whether to defend or attack the president's speech.However, this smokescreen obscures the main question that must be asked:What actions has the Brazilian government taken in support of thePalestinians who are suffering this massacre? ---- The symbolic and thematerial ---- It is in the interest of governments that the symbolicprevails over the material in public debate. After all, the symbolic canbe manipulated in various ways, while the material reveals the realinterests involved in the struggle for power. The rise of the plateauramp in this 3rd term of Lula represents this image game.Representations of the oppressed climb the ramp, but economic policy isplayed with the same colonial and capitalist whip as always.Commercial links between bravadoOn February 19, one day after Lula's speech, the Brazilian ambassador toIsrael was summoned by him to return to the country. This comes afterBenjamin Netanyahu said that he would reprimand the ambassador for thepresident's speech. There is already talk of a diplomatic crisis, abreak in diplomatic relations, but important points must be raised.Brazil is the 5th largest importer of military equipment from Israel .So the Israeli war industry and Brazilian militarization that killsblack people in communities feed each other. The trade flow betweenIsrael and Brazil in 2022 was approximately 4 billion dollars .Something that is even encouraged by the Mercosur-Israel Free TradeAgreement where 90% of the products that Mercosur exports to Israel havereduced import duties.Lula and Netanyahu can exchange bravado, but it is the duty of theworking class to press for Brazil to truly take a stand in favor of thePalestinian people. Such as, for example, reviewing the LulaGovernment's position denying humanitarian residence to Palestinianrefugees .There is no justificationThere are no economic justifications for maintaining relations withIsrael when it comes to Brazil: a continental country with full capacityto build sovereignty in the manufactured products it imports from there.There are no moral justifications for conniving at a massacre thatcontinues by piling up corpses, approximately half of which are children.Collusion is only justified through the interests of strengtheningZionist policy, which finds its imperialist allies within the West. Tothe point where, despite being insufficient, Brazil's ceasefire proposalwas vetoed by the United States at the UN. This inefficiency of the UNhas reached such a point that even the entity's Director of Human Rightsresigned from his position because he recognized that it was incapableof responding to the ongoing genocide.Internationalist challenges for the working classBrazil's economic, military and diplomatic break with Israel will notcome through President Lula's sold conscience. It will be the result ofthe mobilization of the people who, with their conscience, must tear upZionist propaganda and understand that literally the bullet that kills abrother is literally from the same rifle that kills a Palestinian child.However, it is with great pain that this challenge must be seen in itsentirety. The large mass organizations in Brazil, unfortunately, do nothave the necessary class independence to push the government in theright direction. The objective of most of them remains to first supportthe government and only then, if appropriate, carry out some criticism.As the saying goes, you have to change the wheel while the car ismoving. It is in this process of politicization of the people throughthe actions of truly autonomous organizations that a force can be builtthat can respond to this genocide.In this sense, FOB reaffirms its solidarity with the Palestinian peopleand undertakes to be united to defend a combative position against theState of Israel without conceptions of Zionism disguised as nationalinterests.Long live the resistance of the Palestinian people!Break relations with the State of Israel!FOB National Announcementhttps://lutafob.org/para-alem-da-polemica-pressionar-para-que-o-brasil-rompa-relacoes-diplomaticas-militares-e-economicas-com-o-estado-de-israel/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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