Cet éditorial suggère qu’Israël doit profiter du coup au Brésil, au motif que le nouveau Président par intérim, Michel Temer, est un « ami d’Israël » : Israel missing opportunity to have ambassador at the Olympics
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In August 2015, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he was appointing the former head of the Yesha Council as Israel’s ambassador to Brazil. The host of the upcoming Olympics objected to the appointment on the basis of the nominee’s ties to West Bank settlements. Israel attempted to solve the problem via quiet talks, but in March 2016, the decision was cancelled, and Dayan was assigned as the consul general in New York, instead.
After internal political scandals resulted in Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s suspension from power, the conditions were ripe to solve the crisis, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the decision to delay naming an ambassador for the time being to avoid the impression that the Brazilians’ refusal to accept Dayan had been successful. This means that Israel wants to “punish” Brazil for its handling of the matter.
Sources in the MFA expressed surprise at the delay, especially as Acting President Michel Temer is considered friendly to Israel. Temer attended former Israeli president Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday party, and Brazil’s new minister of foreign relations, José Serra, is considered very close to the Jewish community and even came in the 80s for a three-week visit to Israel.