Just days after the United States' rude and disgraceful treatment of Israel concerning building plans for our Capital City Jerusalem received such absurdly embarrassing responses from the Israeli government, we've been slapped again. This time it was Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who declined the traditional visit to Herzl's Grave, but he's paying homage to Arab terrorist Arafat.
There's a saying that "a mitzvah brings a mitzvah, and sins bring more sins." I'd add to that the corollary that insults just bring more insults.
It's not enough that Foreign Minister Lieberman pointedly ignored the Brazilian President, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Foreign Ministry should have made it very clear that visiting Herzl's grave was non-negotiable.
If we don't demand respect, we won't get any. Step number one is self-respect.
2 comments:
what you say is true, certainly in this area of the world.
but i wonder at what point it gets babyish.
What's babyish? Calmly stating required itinerary isn't babyish. Different government officials each contradicting each other and demanding opposite things is worse than babyish.
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