{"id":61005,"date":"2024-02-21T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=61005"},"modified":"2024-02-21T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:48:50","slug":"brazil-foreign-minister-says-israeli-counterpart-lying-in-gaza-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/brazil-foreign-minister-says-israeli-counterpart-lying-in-gaza-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil foreign minister says Israeli counterpart \u2018lying\u2019 in Gaza spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil\u2019s foreign minister on Tuesday accused his Israeli counterpart of \u201clying\u201d as a diplomatic spat escalated over President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s comparison of Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust.<br \/>\nMauro Vieira, whose country is hosting a G20 foreign ministers meeting this week, said statements by Israel Katz were \u201cunacceptable in their nature and lying in their content\u201d as well as \u201coutrageous.\u201d<br \/>\nIsrael has reacted furiously after Lula said the conflict in the Gaza Strip \u201cisn\u2019t a war, it\u2019s a genocide,\u201d and compared it to \u201cwhen Hitler decided to kill the Jews.\u201d<br \/>\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Lula had \u201ccrossed a red line,\u201d and Katz declared the Brazilian leader \u201cpersona non grata in the state of Israel so long as he doesn\u2019t retract his remarks and apologize.\u201d<br \/>\nKatz summoned Brazil\u2019s ambassador Frederico Meyer for a meeting Monday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem.<br \/>\nIn a tit-for-tat move, the Brazilian foreign ministry then summoned the Israeli ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Zonshinem, and recalled Meyer from Tel Aviv for consultations.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, Katz took to X to describe Lula\u2019s comparison as \u201cdelusional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil\u2019s foreign minister on Tuesday accused his Israeli counterpart of \u201clying\u201d as a diplomatic spat escalated over President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s comparison of Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust. Mauro Vieira, whose country is hosting a G20 foreign ministers meeting this week, said statements by Israel Katz were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61011,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61005\/revisions\/61011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}