Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have ignored the latest efforts of Israeli chancelaria to maintain a representative of Israel in Brazil, a few days after the departure of ambassador Daniel Zonshine.
A CNN It found that representatives of the Israeli Embassy met with the Itamaraty sector responsible for presenting a list of measures that could convince Brazil to unlock the appointment of a new Israeli ambassador in Brasilia.
During the meetings, some possibilities would have been mentioned, in order to understand what kind of gesture would be sufficient or expected by Itamaraty amid diplomatic tension between the two countries. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond.
For a source near the Israeli chancelaria, Itamaraty’s silence generated the understanding that “there is no interest in resolving the impasse.” THE CNN He contacted MRE, who said “it does not speak up on matters covered by confidentiality.”
Ambassador Daniel Zonshine should leave Brazil next week, without a successor approved by the Brazilian government. The name nominated by Israel to replace Zonshine is Gali Dagan, former Israeli-wisdom in Colombia.
Dagan left Colombia in mid -2024 after friction with the Colombian President is an open critic of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip and has already called “genocide” offensive, triggering barbs with then Israeli ambassador to Bogota.
Colombian Chancellor Álvaro Leyva even demanded that Dagan apologize and leave the country after the ambassador accused Petro of making “hostile and anti -Semitic” statements.
The request for Gali Dagan to be appointed as a new ambassador in Brazil was made in January by the Israeli administration, but continues without approval. The consent of a state for a foreign diplomat to be appointed is known as “agrement”, and requests are rarely denied.
For Harvard’s political scientist and researcher Hussein Kalout, former special secretary of strategic matters of the Presidency of the Republic, Itamaraty’s stance on the war that has left more than 60,000 dead in Gaza is clear: “While the war continues, Brazil will be difficult to grant agrement to the indication of a new Israel ambassador in Brazil.”
A CNN It found, on previous occasions, that Brazil would have no interest in expanding relationships with Israel at least until the end of.
It has climbed and reached the apex last month, when Brazil joined the process that accuses Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice, and withdrew from the International Alliance of Memory of the Holocaust.
According to Chancellor Mauro Vieira, Brazil has made a “huge effort” to promote negotiations to end the conflict, but decided to officialize support for South Africa’s action in the “last developments of war.” In response, Israel’s Foreign Ministry called Brazil’s decision “demonstration of deep moral failure.”
Last year, by Israel after relating the Israeli offensive in Gaza to the Holocaust. Lula’s speech also led Israel to summon the then Brazilian ambassador to Tel Aviv, Frederico Meyer, for a reprimand visit to the Holocaust Museum. The gesture was interpreted as an embarrassment by the Government of Brazil, who removed the ambassador of Israel.
