Abbas to Lay Cornerstone for Palestinian Embassy in Brazil

inn ^ | 12/29/10 | Elad Benari

[Nachum]

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas will lay the cornerstone for an embassy in Brazil this week, PA representative Ibrahim al-Zeben told AFP on Tuesday.

According to al-Zeben, Abbas will head the stone-laying ceremony on Friday. On Saturday he is expected to attend the inauguration ceremony for Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff.

Brazil’s recognition earlier this month of a Palestinian state was met with criticism by both Israel and the United States. The Israeli government expressed its “regret and disappointment” with the decision and pointed out that “recognition of a Palestinian state is a violation of the Interim Agreement signed between Israel and the PA in 1995,” a reference to the amended Oslo Accords.

[americanophile]

Yes, our latin ‘friends’ can't get enough of the Arabs, Persians and jihadis these days. Chavez, Lula da Silva, and Morales are thick as theives with Ahmadinejad and also the Arabs; cooking up God only knows what. It's hard to decide which of these uneducated leftists is the most anti-American, but they're all trouble, and nothing good can come from their dealings with the Islamic world.

[headstamp 2]

We’d better start paying attention to what is going on here in our own backyard again.

[exPBRrat]

Holy cow...why would Brazil want to import these bag of serpents? Haven’t they be keeping up with current events. NOTHING good every comes from those people.