Bolivia broke off relations with Israel, Chile and Colombia pulled their ambassadors out of Tel Aviv and Brazil has pleaded for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

  • TinyPizza@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    This was clearly those South American countries misguided attempt at condemning Hamas. Nothing else of note to address here.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The criticism coming from South America’s left-wing governments has intensified in recent days as thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling, according to health officials in Gaza.

    On Tuesday, Bolivia’s deputy foreign minister, Freddy Mamani Machaca, said his government was cutting ties with Israel over its “aggressive and disproportionate military offensive” in Gaza, which he called “a threat to international peace and security.”

    Morales, who still yields support in Bolivia, has called Israel a “terrorist state” and urged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be tried for war crimes in an international tribunal.

    Benjamin Gedan, director of the Latin America Program at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., said many of the South American leaders’ critiques of Israel’s response to the Hamas massacre are principled.

    But Israel is losing the battle of narratives across Latin America, says Oliver Stuenkel, an associate professor of international relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a university in São Paulo, Brazil.

    The United States voted against Brazil’s draft, and later put forward a resolution that included support for Israel’s right to defend itself, while calling for the release of hostages and for humanitarian aid for Gaza — which Russia and China vetoed.

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