JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he has been given assurances by the son of Brazil’s president that Brazil will follow the United States and move its embassy to Jerusalem next year.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signaled before he intends to move his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, but senior officials later backtracked for fear of damaging trade ties with Arab countries.
Brazil did, however, open a trade mission to Israel in Jerusalem this year.
Bolsonaro’s son, lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, told the new trade mission that, prior to traveling, his father, “told me that for sure, as a commitment, he’s going to move the embassy to Jerusalem.”
He did not give a date.
Netanyahu later issued a statement saying he met with Eduardo Bolsonaro, who told him they had “committed to move Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem in 2020.”
U.S. President Donald Trump broke global consensus by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in late 2017 and moving the U.S. embassy there the following May.
Most world powers say the city’s status should only be decided as part of a peace process with the Palestinians.
Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Christina Fincher
One hell of a lot of transvestites in Brazil, yes it makes sense now.
One more country made to heel and follow the dictates of global communism. And right in sync with the flow of Brazilians pouring in across our southern borders. Homogenize. So slick. Will every country soon be rendered unrecognizable in terms of its century’s old culture? Move something here, move somethings there. Disappear tradition, erase history, force sameness.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
— G.H. Chesterton
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