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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on November 08, 2018, 11:08:47 pm
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Bolsonaro's sons show up in Mossad and IDF t-shirts, and the media melt down
By Monica Showalter
Bolsonaro is very pro-Israel, and Israelis are delighted by the support. Bolsonaro has vowed to move Brazil's embassy to Jerusalem in a bid to please his huge Evangelical voter base, traditionally a friendly, if occasionally overbearing, group to Israel. Just as significant, Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu is expected to attend Bolsonaro's inauguration. (Sure hope Trump does, too.)
As Walter Russell Mead notes in this excellent Wall Street Journal op-ed here, it represents a big shift for the region:
Improved relations with Israel are a hallmark of evangelical political influence. Guatemala, another historically Catholic country, is now about 40% Protestant. It opened an embassy in Jerusalem two days after the U.S. did. Although Latin American countries have typically been hostile to Israel since the 1967 war, that's changing rapidly.
Read more at: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/bolsonaros_sons_show_up_in_mossad_and_idf_tshirts_and_the_media_melts_down.html (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/bolsonaros_sons_show_up_in_mossad_and_idf_tshirts_and_the_media_melts_down.html)