Israel condemns Lavrov’s comments on Hitler’s ‘final solution’

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Jan. 18 () –

Israel has condemned this Wednesday the words of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who has affirmed that Washington has formed a Western “coalition” to “resolve the Russian question” in a similar way to Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” to exterminate Russia. the Jews.

“The Holocaust was the darkest moment in human history and a unique event,” a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in response to Lavrov, as reported by the newspaper ‘Haaretz’.

Thus, he has pointed out that “any comparison” of current events with the extermination of the Jewish people “distorts the historical truth, desecrates the memory of those who perished, as well as the survivors, and must be strongly rejected.” “Such comparisons are unacceptable”, she has settled her.

The German ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, has also spoken out, saying on his official Twitter profile that “there are no parallels between the unique crimes of Nazi Germany and Western aid to Ukraine.”

The Canadian Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joly, has been another of those who has been against Lavrov’s statements, assuring that his comments “are totally disrespectful towards the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.”

Lavrov said on Wednesday that “just as Napoleon mobilized almost all of Europe against the Russian Empire and just as Hitler mobilized and captured, taking up arms most of the European countries against the Soviet Union, the United States has organized a coalition with almost all European countries, not just NATO members, for a war” against Moscow.

Thus, he has stressed that “the objective is the same: the final solution of the Russian question to ensure that Russia suffers a strategic defeat”, before denouncing that in kyiv there is “a Nazi police state with the blessing of the West”, as reported the TASS news agency.