“Bolsonaro tie the ribbon at the Wailing wall”
“the president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro made a controversial visit to the so-called Wailing wall, along with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“The palestinian authority has taken home its ambassador from Brazil for consultations.”
“Jair Bolsonaro visit Israel to further strengthen ties to the country and its prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after Netanyahu recently visited Brazil.”
“The two leaders made a symbolic visit at the Western wall, which is also known as the Wailing wall. The location is one of judaism’s most holy and sensitive, then it is located in east Jerusalem that was occupied and later annexed by Israel in the 1960s, which is not recognised by the international community.”
“The two leaders were photographed as they approached the wall and placed his hands on it. A spokesperson for Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs argues that it is the first time a foreign head of state visiting the place together with an israeli prime minister.”
“In connection with the Bolsonaros visit inaugurated a new brazilian handelskontor in Jerusalem. Ahead of the brazilian election in the fall, he promised to move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem, but it is a decision he has not yet been made.”
” I’ll tell you a secret: I hope that this is the first step towards the opening, when it becomes time, of a brazilian embassy in Jerusalem, said Netanyahu to his brazilian colleague at a press conference.”
“the Ambassador waiting.”
“The palestinian authority has called back its ambassador to Brazil for consultations. Palestine considers the eastern part of Jerusalem as the capital of a future palestinian state.”
“” this decision violates the basis of international law in east Jerusalem, says the palestinian minister of foreign affairs Ammar Hijazi.”
“the Ambassador in Brasilia, Ibrahim Alzeban, says he waits to see how the rest of the Bolsonaros journey seems.”
“– We wish that the subject of Jerusalem had not been taken up, ” he says.”
“Jerusalem’s old city houses several places of great religious significance for jews, muslims and christians, al-aqsa mosque, the dome of the rock, Wailing wall and church of the Holy sepulchre.”
“According to the UN plan for Jerusalem, after the second world war would the city and its environs remain under international administration, but a concerted arab attack on the new state of Israel ended with west Jerusalem came under israeli rule, and east Jerusalem during the arab.”
“During the six day war in 1967 occupied Israel in the eastern part of Jerusalem.”
“Israel designates the city as its”
“Israel also has built in neighborhoods for jews in east Jerusalem. It is seen by other countries as a violation of international law – the geneva conventions – which prohibits an occupying power from moving its own population in the area.”