Lula on Trump’s remark: You don’t build a Riviera over dead bodies
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized Donald Trump’s idea of removing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to turn it into a tourist Riviera for rich people. “Nobody is going to make a beautiful place on top of thousands of dead bodies of women and children,” said Lula, commenting on the US president’s remarks.
President Lula’s statement was made Thursday (Feb. 6) during an interview with radio stations Metrópole and Sociedade, in Bahia state. He reiterated his criticism of the way Trump began his administration, threatening to annex and occupy other countries and territories—including the Gaza Strip.
“[Trump] said he’s going to treat the Palestinian people as if they were nobody, when in fact what needs to be done in Palestine is to create a Palestinian state and to give dignity to those people, who shouldn’t be treated as if they were garbage,” said the Brazilian leader, further advocating more humanistic, fraternal, supportive, and understanding attitudes, so the world can have peace and people can live in tranquility.
What should be done, he went on, is to “take care of those people, who deserve to be taken care of like any other nation in the world,” instead of occupying their territories and “throwing them out somewhere and turning the place into a Riviera.”
