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Raphael Machado
March 16, 2024
In recent weeks we have seen Lula's Brazil move from its traditional international neutrality, the result of a historic effort to position the country as an international mediator, to a more explicit anti-Zionism - something which generated over-the-top reactions against the government's position.
In a more concrete sense, President Lula declared that there is a genocide being committed in Gaza against the Palestinians by the State of Israel, comparing the event to the extermination of Jews by the Germans during the Second World War, the “Holocaust”. He echoed the sentiment in several other statements made in recent days.
Various reactions ensued amongst our inaptly named “civil society”. The mass media unanimously declared that Lula was exaggerating. Spokespeople for the Zionist lobby and representatives of the Israeli government categorically accused Lula of anti-Semitism, and there were many online influencers who tried to dub Lula a “Holocaust denier”.
After these events, the Brazilian ambassador to Israel was humiliated at Israel's Holocaust Museum and, as a consequence, Lula withdrew the ambassador from Tel-Aviv. Brazil's president was then declared “persona non grata” in the Zionist entity.
There is no evidence that Israeli-Brazilian relations are about to improve, as Lula continues his accusations of genocide and his criticism of both the conduct of Israeli operations and the Israeli blockade of Palestinian access to water and food.
These disagreements represent the lowest point in Israel-Palestine relations since the 1970s, when Brazil, still a military regime, was governed by Ernesto Geisel.
As in other Ibero-American countries, the Brazilian military regime had been installed in the context of the Cold War due to an arrangement between a part of the Brazilian military and business elites on the one hand and the US State Department and its supporting institutions on the other.
After the coup of 64, Brazil adopted a stance of automatic alignment with US Atlanticist projects, playing the role of one of its main partners in the region. This unconditional “courtship” between Brazil and the USA, however, only lasted a few years and gradually the military began to tire of its absolute submission across all spheres.
But it is only during the the government of Ernesto Geisel, between 1974 and 1979, that we can say that Brazil assumed a sovereignist and non-aligned stance. It is enough to remember that Brazil recognised the People's Republic of China and established normal relations with it, just as it did with the USSR and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. It also recognised and supported the socialist government of Angola and the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
But what really put Brazil on a collision course with the USA and Israel during that period was the government's stance on nuclear issues and the Middle East.
During this period, Brazil embarked on a major anti-Zionist campaign. In 1975 we recognised the Palestinian Authority and undertook normal diplomatic relations, defending the construction of a Palestinian State according to the 1967 borders. In the same year, Brazil joined the UN efforts to condemn Zionism as a form of racism, which took shape in Resolution No. 3379. It should be noted that almost all countries on the Ibero-American continent, most of them pro-Yankee dictatorships established by the CIA, voted against the anti-Zionist resolution.
But even greater concern seems to have been caused by the sudden rapprochement between Brazil and Iraq. Between 1974 and 1978, Iraq became the largest supplier of oil to Brazil, and from 1978 onwards Brazil became the main supplier of weapons and war material in general to the country governed by Saddam Hussein.
With shipments of enriched uranium for the Iraqi nuclear program as an important addition. And with the Iraqis, in turn, apparently intending to make use of some of our nuclear facilities and leaving us some of their scientific knowledge in the nuclear field. All this came in the context of the so-called “Parallel Program”, a project that also included technological transfer from West Germany (without IAEA supervision) after a rupture in the nuclear agreement that Brazil had with the USA (and which did not involve technology transfer).
As we know from the Oded Yinon Plan, for example, at this time Israel considered its main regional enemy to be Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Anti-Zionism in foreign policy and active collaboration with Israel's main enemy naturally placed Brazil on the radar of the Zionist entity's intelligence agencies.
This is where the figure of Lieutenant-Colonel José Alberto Albano do Amarante comes into play. Amarante was a brilliant physicist and engineer who commanded Brazil's secret nuclear program, which developed in the context of the aforementioned partnership with Iraq and West Germany.
In September 1981, however, 3 months after the Israeli attack on the “Osirak” nuclear plant, near Baghdad, Albano do Amarante suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. He died 1 week later.
At the time of his sudden death, at the age of 45, Lieutenant-Colonel Amarante, founder of the Advanced Studies Laboratory, was working on developing a technique for enriching uranium using laser beams, the rudiments of which Iraqi scientists knew and which the Brazilians intended to improve. This technique is of special interest to countries interested in nuclear development beyond the limitations imposed by transnational nuclear authorities, as it appears to be less easily detectable, more efficient and technologically more accessible.
But where does Israel fit into this death? Before his death, Amarante reported that he had been followed for weeks whenever he moved between Brazilian states. Days after the mysterious death of Lieutenant-Colonel Amarante, a man named “Samuel Giliad” escaped from Brazil. Giliad was positively identified by Brazilian security forces as a Mossad agent.
It could just be a coincidence if it weren't for the circumstances surrounding this character. Giliad, who claimed to be a Polish WW II veteran, arrived in Brazil in 1979 to take over management of the Eldorado Hotel, one of the main hotels in São José dos Campos, and frequented by Lieutenant-Colonel Amarante. On several occasions, Giliad tried to become friends with Amarante. He also began to frequent the same places, and he acquired the same dentist to whom he posed questions about the activities of the Brazilian Air Force in the region.
“Curiosity” led to Giliad being monitored by Brazilian intelligence services. At the same time, however, in 1981, the international media reported secret shipments of uranium from Brazil to Iraq. Shortly afterwards, the attack on the Iraqi nuclear complex occurred and, subsequent to this, the death of the head of the Brazilian nuclear program.
Historical evidence indicates, therefore, not only the ease with which Israeli intelligence could infiltrate and undermine Brazil, but also the fact that there are precedents for reprisals against sovereignist and anti-Zionist stances taken by our country.
In this sense, with the current president of Brazil's decision to harden his position against Israel and to favor Palestine, he must take all necessary precautions, not only for his personal safety, but also for the safety of the Brazilian nuclear industry and our projects in this sector.
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