The escalation continues between Moscow and Jerusalem. In response to the apologies demanded by Israeli Foreign Affairs, after the head of Russian diplomacy claimed that Adolf Hitler had ” jewish blood » and spoke of « jewish antisemitism “, Russia accuses the Israeli authorities of supporting the regime ” neo nazi in place in Kyiv.
Summoning Russia to apologize, or at least some of its political leaders, is a challenge. And the Israeli government made the sad experience of it after demanding an apology from Sergei Lavrov for remarks that Jerusalem described as anti-Semitic. In an interview with an Italian media, the head of Russian diplomacy had indeed hinted that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood and that there was a jewish antisemitism “.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs therefore counter-attacked on Tuesday, May 3, reports our correspondent in Moscow, Jean-Didier Revoin. He suggested that if the Israeli authorities asked the head of Russian diplomacy to retract, it meant that they supported the Ukrainian authorities, whom Moscow describes as ” neo-nazis “, thus making redouble the anger of the leaders of the Hebrew State. ” We have paid attention to the anti-historic statements of Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, which largely explain the decision of the current government to support the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv. Unfortunately, history knows tragic examples of cooperation between Jews and Nazis. “Said Russian diplomacy in a statement.
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Moscow also resumed its argument about the Jewish origins of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying that it is “not no guarantee of protection against rampant neo-Nazism in the country and quoting Latvian President Egils Levits, who ” also has Jewish roots ” and that “ also covers (…) the rehabilitation of the Waffen SS in his country “.
Finally, Russia accused Israel of to ignore the epidemic of destruction and desecration of monuments to the world’s true righteous: the Red Army soldiers who stopped the Holocaust and saved the Jewish world “. A game of little phrases, even syllogisms, which seems quite ridiculous in view of the situation in Ukraine.
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