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The Times of Israel is reporting that Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz will deliver a reprimand to Brazil's ambassador to Israel at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial today. It follows a speech by Brazil's president which Israel has described as shameful".
Speaking in Ethiopia at the weekend, Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had said what is happening in the Gaza Strip and to the Palestinian people hasn't been seen in any other moment in history. Actually, it did when Hitler decided to kill the Jews. What's happening in the Gaza Strip isn't a war, it's a genocide. It's not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It's a war between a highly prepared army and women and children."
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