Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week claimed that “Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood” and that “the worst anti-Semites were Jews”. Now Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Benet has accepted Putin’s apologies for the comments.
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Benet on Thursday for the… comments this week from the Russian foreign ministerSerguei Lavrov, who claimed that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood.
“The prime minister has accepted President Putin’s apology for Lavrov’s comments and thanked him for clarifying the president’s views on the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” Benet’s press service said in a statement.
Lavrov’s statements, which He even claimed that the worst anti-Semites were Jewsprovoked the response of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who described those words as “inexcusable and unacceptable”, demanded an apology from all victims of the Holocaust and summoned the Russian ambassador to Israel.
This exchange of statements has led to the most tense moment in relations between the two countries since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, when the Israeli state has maintained a lukewarm position not to cloud the strategic alliance that both nations have in Syria. for what Moscow allows Israel to bomb Iranian and Hezbollah militia positions
Benet has also suggested several options to his Russian colleague for the evacuation of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in that port city in southern Ukraine, where more than 20,000 civilians are estimated to have died.
That “humanitarian request” comes after Benet spoke with the Ukrainian president on Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyand Putin has promised to allow the evacuation of civilians through a United Nations and Red Cross humanitarian corridor, the Israeli prime minister’s office said.
The Ukrainian president admitted on his Twitter account on Wednesday that he had also addressed Lavrov’s “outrageous and completely unacceptable comments” with Benet.
Fruitful negotiations conducted with the Prime Minister ¿¿ @naftalibennett Congratulated him and the people of Israel ¿¿ on Independence Day! Informed him about countering the aggressor and about the critical situation in Mariupol.
(@ZelenskyyUa) May 4, 2022
According to the Kremlin, Putin has spoken to Benet about “the historical memory, the Holocaust and the situation in Ukraine”, without apologizing.
Putin also sent a message to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to “congratulate” him on Israel’s Independence Day, a gesture of relaxation following controversy over Lavrov’s comments.
“I am confident that Russian-Israeli relations, based on the principles of friendship and mutual respect, will continue to develop in the interest of our peoples and to strengthen peace and security in the Middle East,” Putin said. according to the presidential office.
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Source: EITB
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