When Lame Ducks Speak - Brazil’s Outgoing President Recognizes Palestine
BRASILIA (AFP) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recognized a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders Friday in a public letter addressed to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
In a mini-page earlier today, I addressed the fiction of “the 1967 borders”. What many people may also not realize is that today’s action was in the form of a letter from Brazil’s lame duck president, who formally steps down from his position in four weeks, to the PA’s lame duck president, whose term in office expired in 2009. Thus, today’s recognition by Brazil of a State of Palestine was simply two lame ducks quacking.