02.12.2011                      06.Kislev. 5772

Brasilien:

Jewish communities in Latin America revise Mideast strategy

Success of Palestinian statehood bid in region has leaders at AJC conference in Miami reconsidering approach.

When Claudio Lottenberg, the president of Conib – the umbrella group representing Brazilian Jewry – published a letter in the local press criticizing the government’s ties with Iran, he encountered an unexpected result.
“I could not understand how then-Brazilian president Inacio Lula da Silva would be a friend of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who denied the Holocaust, and I paid a heavy price,” he said. “When President Shimon Peres was invited to have lunch with Lula at his home, I was not invited.”…