Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations caused a stir at the UN Security Council by wearing a yellow star on his jacket (pictured). Criticism for this immediately came from Israel. The chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, Dani Dayan, criticizes Erdan for wearing the yellow Jewish star. That is “a shame”.
Erdan and his associates pinned yellow Stars of David with the inscription “Never Again” on their lapels on Monday (local time) for the most powerful UN body. These were reminiscent of the stars that the Nazis had forced on the Jews as identification marks in the Third Reich.
He will wear the star, just like his grandparents and the grandparents of millions of Jews, Erdan said in a statement to the UN Security Council. “We will carry the star until you condemn Hamas’s atrocities and demand the immediate release of our hostages,” he said.
“A shame for victims of the Holocaust”
For Yad Vashem Chairman Dayan, wearing the Jewish Star is “a shame for the victims of the Holocaust and for Israel.” “The yellow badge symbolizes the helplessness of the Jewish people and the fact that the Jews are at the mercy of others. Today we have an independent state and a strong army. We are the masters of our fate. Today we will fly a blue and white flag, not a yellow badge,” he said, according to the Times of Israel newspaper.
Erdan compares the ground offensive to D-Day
In his speech, Erdan compared Israel’s ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to the Allied landings in Normandy in 1944 (France, note). If the World Security Council had existed on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, there would likely have been a heated debate about how much electricity and fuel the citizens of Munich would have had left. He mocked the council.
Erdan was responding to global concerns that more bystanders could die in addition to the thousands of civilians already killed in Gaza. He stressed that a comparison of the deaths on both sides after the devastating massacre by the Islamist Hamas on October 7 was as inadmissible as a comparison of German and British casualties in the Second World War. He compared the demand for a ceasefire in the Middle East to the demand for a ceasefire before the Russians retook Stalingrad in 1943.
Source: Krone
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