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Bolsonaro wants Brazil’s Israel embassy in Jerusalem, says Palestine needs to be a state to have one
Published time: 2 Nov, 2018 00:30 Edited time: 2 Nov, 2018 10:47
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Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro © Reuters / Lucas Landau

Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has reaffirmed his commitment to move his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying no other country has the right to tell Israel where its capital should be.
The controversial right-wing politician, who swept to power in Sunday’s presidential runoff, had vowed to move the embassy during the election campaign, but confirmed in an interview with an Israeli newspaper on Thursday that he would proceed with the move once he's taken office.

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“When I was asked during the campaign if I'd do it when I became president, I said 'yes, the one who decides on the capital of Israel is you, not other nations',” Bolsonaro told the Israeli Hayom newspaper.
Bolsonaro also suggested that he would close the Palestinian Embassy in Brasilia, saying the diplomatic building was built too close to Bolsonaro’s future residence.
“No embassy can be so close to the presidential palace, so we intend to move it.”
He went on to question Palestinians' right to even possess a diplomatic mission, telling the paper: "Palestine first needs to be a state to have the right to an embassy."
Palestine had been previously recognized as a state by Brazil’s government under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. However, Lula’s Workers Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, was beaten by Bolsonaro in Sunday’s poll.
If Brazil goes ahead with the embassy move, it would be only the second major nation to contravene international norms moving their embassy to Jerusalem, after the United States.
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In December 2017, US President Donald Trump said Washington would officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and ordered the State Department to begin planning for the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The US embassy was officially moved on May 14, with Guatemala and Paraguay saying they also would follow suit. However, the latter subsequently said it would move its mission back to Tel Aviv.
While Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its united capital, Palestinians hope that annexed East Jerusalem will be the capital of their future state.
As a result, the remaining members of the international community do not recognize Israel's jurisdiction and ownership of the city, choosing instead to locate their diplomatic missions to Israel in Tel Aviv.

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Image of Bolsanaro’s sons wearing pro-IDF & Mossad shirts goes viral
Published time: 6 Nov, 2018 14:18
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A photograph of Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s sons sporting IDF and Mossad t-shirts has gone viral. RT set out to verify the image and find out the story behind it.
The photograph, showing Eduardo and Carlos Bolsonaro walking in Israel, is getting attention on social media in the wake of right-wing Bolsonaro’s election win. The siblings are pictured donning t-shirts advertising Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, and the Israel Defense Forces.
The image has circulated on social media and message boards. A search on forums like 4Chan and reverse image searches revealed the earliest available version of the image online, which came from Eduardo himself.
Eduardo, who is a member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and a member of his father’s far-right Social Liberal Party, posted the image to Twitter back in May 2016, when he was in Israel with his family. “A first world country that values its armed forces and police,” he wrote at the time.
Eduardo also tagged his brother Carlos, a member of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Chamber and part of the right-wing Social Christian Party, in the tweet. The pair have a third brother, Flavio, who also attended the trip. The three are Bolsonaro’s sons from his first of three marriages.
The Israel trip saw members of the Bolsonaro family tour the country and visit members of the Knesset. Catholic Jair and his sons were even baptized by an evangelical pastor in the River Jordan. Brazil’s evangelical voters make up one quarter of the electorate.
This isn’t Eduardo's first foray into displaying military support on his chest. He caused a stir earlier this year when he wore a t-shirt with the face of Brazilian military intelligence officer Colonel Brilhante Ustra, accused of torture under the country’s military dictatorship of the 1960s-1980s.
In May, Eduardo posted a controversial cartoon which claimed to show the difference between Israelis and Palestinians. It depicted an Israeli soldier protecting a woman and child, while a Palestinian fighter hides behind a woman.

Eduardo a post by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the day of the US embassy opening in Jerusalem, writing, “Next year will be Brazil’s turn."
His father said he would be open to moving Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem, following the US’s relocation decision last year. The president-elect has made his support for Israel clear, claiming in 2017 his heart is “green, yellow, blue and white,” in reference to Brazil and Israel’s flags.  
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Meanwhile, Bolsonaro’s eldest son Flavio is currently planning a trip to Israel to buy some of its military drones and to check out its facial recognition equipment that can be installed on public transport, Renova Media reports.