Not all Israeli deputies liked President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the Knesset in the part in which he equated the war in Ukraine with the Holocaust. «I admire Zelensky and I support the Ukrainian people – wrote the communications minister Yoaz Hendel on Twitter – with the heart and with the facts but the terrible history of the Shoah cannot be rewritten. “The war is terrible – he added – but the comparisons with the horrors of the Shoah and the final solution is outrageous”. According to the media, other ministers called the comparison “outrageous”.
Also on Twitter, former Israeli energy minister Yuval Stienitz said that “if the speech were given on normal days, it would border on Holocaust denial.” “It is true that thousands of people helped save the Jews but the sad historical truth is that many enthusiastically helped the Nazis in their project to collect and exterminate Jews and plunder their properties. The historical truth is that the Ukrainian people cannot be proud of their conduct in the face of the Jewish Holocaust, ”he added.
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