“Let’s try to understand, without too much thinking, the facts regarding the “open-air prison” or “concentration camp” that, according to both the Brazilian and the global left, Israel has created to keep “Palestine” subjected to inhumane living conditions. The facts here can be understood even by an illiterate person. The European Community (EC) donated sewage pipes to the residents of the Gaza Strip to help improve local sanitary conditions’’. However, the pipes donated by Europe did not create sewage systems in Gaza. They were turned into homemade rockets by Hamas terrorists who regularly launch them against Israel. The “plumbing missiles” are not a big deal; they often explode on the terrorists themselves, miss the target, and so far, have not gained an inch of territory for “Palestine.” But this is not Israel’s fault. It is Hamas that is turning plumbing equipment into war rockets; they are the ones who can pull the stunt of doing without both sewage and missiles.
This is the world as it really is, without a hint of exaggeration, as the video that illustrates this article shows, which, by the way, was released by Hamas itself. Now, seriously: what do the Lula government, the Workers’ Party (PT), and the “Palestinian cause” activists suggest Israel does to provide the Gaza population with a bit more dignified living conditions? ’It is unreasonable to demand that Israel replaces the pipes donated by the EC to make up for the ones that were turned into rockets. It is also impossible to open its border to the two million residents of Gaza and end the “open-air prison” – not when the official Hamas program demands that these same two million enter Jewish territory and carry out the annihilation of the State of Israel. Furthermore, it is unfeasible to improve the “concentration camp” in any way if the dictatorship that rules it simply prevents the minimum comfort for those imprisoned there. The regime does not allow sewage systems, nor does it allow schools and hospitals to function as actual schools and hospitals – people in there are used as human shields for the Hamas troops. It does not admit, under any circumstances, peaceful coexistence with Israel, nor the benefits that could come from productive neighborly relations with a country where the per capita GDP is US$ 52,000 per year, compared to Gaza’s US$ 3,800. The bottom line is: the wealthy Israel accepts the existence of the poor Palestine, which, on the other hand does not accept the existence of Israel.
Is it worth to spell out any of this to Lula and his first lady, Janja, or the commentators on Globo TV? Facts require thinking. Thinking is hard work. It can also be highly distressing: people are too comfortable with how they see the world to be bothered by the need of thinking – this poses the threat of changing their mind about Palestine (or anything else for that matter), which is one of the worst couple of things that can happen to a living being (sarcasm implied). It is much easier to stick to what they have decided the reality should be, rather than to accept an alternate one. This puts their brain circuits on permanent vacation and their consciousness in silent mode, or deactivated. This is the case with ’the current obsession of Lula, PT, and most of the media: erasing Hamas’ savage massacre against Israel and “save” the Palestinians from the “open-air prison” and the “concentration camp” in which they live – not to mention the fixation with calling “war crimes” the actions taken by the Israeli government in legitimate defense of its territory and the lives of its citizens.”
In the fantasies they’ve created by refusing to admit the existence of materially proven facts, Lula and his government are, once again, in a full-blown state of denial. It’s the same old story. “There was no corruption” in the Lula-Dilma governments – it was the biggest theft in Brazil’s history, but “it didn’t happen.” “Lula was not convicted” of passive corruption and money laundering. “There’s nothing wrong” with sentencing people to up to 17 years in prison for breaking windows – or nothing at all – on the January 8 “coup attempt”. “There was no defeat” in the academic center The proposal Brazil presented at the UN, which seems to have been created by college students and ended up vetoed as expected, “was not a defeat.” The worst crimes since the Nazi Holocaust “were not committed” against the Jews –Lula, who has been the most moderate speaker in his own government, admits that “acts of terrorism” took place but does not name any perpetrator. In his last statement on the matter, with his wife by his side passing him a note written on spot, he indignantly denounced “the “insanity” … Of whom? The president didn’t say but seemed to imply that Israel is, since the massacre of 1,400 civilians committed by Hamas, the Lula government has done nothing but condemn Israel’s rightful response to the crimes and the resulting suffering of civilians in the Gaza Strip. In addition, the president of PT, Gleisi Hoffman, issued a party’s official statement in which she affirms that Israel is committing “genocide” against the Palestinian population.
For someone who intends, according to himself and the journalists serving in his propaganda department, to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Lula’s performance was insufferable. His “contribution” to world peace, up to this point, has been to say that Ukraine is partially responsible for the invasion of its own territory. Now, in the face of tragedy of historical proportions like the terrorist attack against Israel, the Nobel candidate behaves in the worst possible way. At the very moment he should have shown courage, independence, and moral steadfastness, he revealed himself as a weak and wavering man, afraid of offending dictatorships that commit crimes and, above all, incapable of producing a single original, creative, or simply useful idea. According to his own delusion, and according to “experts” in Brazilian and international politics, he may think he is being clever or skillful by pandering to the “Muslim world.” This may just help him avoid the rage of Iran, Hamas, and criminal organizations that dazzle the left for being against “the United States,” democracies, and freedom. However, it is unlikely that this pro-terrorism “moderation” has genuine popular support in the country he leads. In a CNN-commissioned opinion poll based on 10 million messages about the conflict, 78% of Brazilians expressed support for Israel. In another survey by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, 84% of respondents said that Brazil should be on Israel’s side, and almost 90% believe that Hamas should be condemned as a terrorist movement. There is no doubt about which side the Brazilian population is on. It is also clear that what the people stand up for is exactly the opposite of what the Lula government is doing.
It is another demonstration that the “L System” (a reference to the political system associated with Lula and his allies) insists on remaining locked in the extraterrestrial capsule it dwells since before the election – a capsule where there is not a people nor a Brazil, and where the oxygen supply comes by the sole association of the Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court. The latest statement from the Workers’ Party (PT) regarding the Hamas attacks affirms that Israel is currently committing “a series of war crimes.” PT demands a “ceasefire” in response to the massacre Hamas perpetrated. What’s the point, then, of saying that the party condemns acts of violence against civilians “regardless of their source”? In fact, ’this is not much different from the manifesto of a radical left fringe party whose president claims they cannot “accept” calling terrorism what they consider “acts of Palestinian people’s resistance” – in other words, murdering infants, publicly raping women, and kidnapping 200 Israeli civilians for extortion purposes are considered legitimate “acts of “resistance.” After spinning the destruction of “a hospital” in Gaza by Israel as a real fact, most of the media started to say there are “two versions” – and they continue to do so, even after it was proven that the explosion was caused by a rocket launched from Gaza’s own territory. A television program, after stating that Israel was indiscriminately dropping bombs on the civilian population, demanded that the United States explained what “the right to self-defense” means – and so it goes.
Lula and the left, from their first day in government, have taken measures that systematically go against the expressed wishes of the population. They reinstated the mandatory payment of the “union tax,” which Brazilians never wanted to pay during the seven years it was voluntary, as approved by the National Congress. They are in favor of abortion. They support the “decriminalization of marijuana” – and the criminalization of freedom of speech on social media. They support the emptying of prisons based on relative criteria. Now, they stand against Israel when 80% of the population stand for it. They are convinced that they don’t need the Brazilian people.
Lula is a criminal blessed by the Supreme Court.