{"id":1392366,"date":"2022-03-21T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392366"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:29:41","slug":"israeli-officials-blast-zelensky-for-invoking-holocaust-in-knesset-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-officials-blast-zelensky-for-invoking-holocaust-in-knesset-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Officials Blast Zelensky for Invoking Holocaust in Knesset Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisraeli-officials-blast-zelensky-for-invoking-holocaust-in-knesset-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Israeli officials have criticized Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for invoking the Holocaust during his speech about Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via Zoom before the Israeli Knesset, Zelensky, who is Jewish, reportedly dedicated \u201cthe lion\u2019s share of his speech to the\u00a0Holocaust,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-701850\"><em>Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a>, even going as far to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/20\/invoking-holocaust-in-speech-to-israeli-lawmakers-zelensky-calls-to-prevent-russian-final-solution\/\">say<\/a> that Russia was using \u201cNazi terminology\u201d as it plans to carry out a \u201cFinal Solution\u201d against the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lj tf tg th ti tj\">\u201cThey are using the terminology of the Nazi party. This is a tragedy. When they wanted to destroy Europe and have it surrender, they didn\u2019t want to leave any of you remaining. And now us. They called it the final solution to the Jewish question,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lj tf tg th ti tj\">\u201cWe can ask why we can\u2019t receive weapons from you, why Israel has not imposed powerful sanctions on Russia or is not putting pressure on Russian business. Either way, the choice is yours to make, brothers and sisters, and you must then live with your answer, the people of Israel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20292203\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239368098.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Demonstrators hold flags and placards as they gather to watch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s speech to the Israeli parliament as it broadcasted at Habima Square on March 20, 2022 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Amir Levy\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"lj tf tg th ti tj\">Though Western leaders have typically responded enthusiastically to Zelensky\u2019s speeches, Israeli leaders were more measured. While most sympathized with Zelensky\u2019s plight, most believed his invocation of the Holocaust, in which Nazis murdered six million Jews, went too far.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lj tf tg th ti tj\">\u201cI don\u2019t understand Ukrainian, but if the translation I heard is accurate, Zelensky asked us to treat the Ukrainians like they treated us 80 years ago. I\u2019m sorry, but I think we will have to reject that request. We are, after all, a moral nation,\u201d tweeted\u00a0Religious Zionist MK Simcha Rothman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lj tf tg th ti tj\">\u201cI appreciate the President of Ukraine and support the Ukrainian people in heart and deed, but it is impossible to rewrite the terrible history of the Holocaust,\u201d Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel tweeted. \u201cGenocide was also committed on Ukrainian soil. The war is terrible, but the comparison to the horrors of the Holocaust and the final solution is outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Criticism of Zelensky&#8217;s speech rolling in from some Israeli officials, accusing him of minimizing the Holocaust and whitewashing Ukrainians&#8217; role <\/p>\n<p>Minister Yoaz Hendel: &#8220;The war is terrible, but the comparison to the horror of the Holocaust and the final solution is outrageous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmySpiro\/status\/1505587153836904452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Likud MK\u00a0Yuval Steinitz said that Zelensky\u2019s speech would borderline on \u201cHolocaust denial\u201d if it were given during non-war times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery comparison between a regular war, as difficult as it may be, and the extermination of millions of Jews in gas chambers in the framework of the Final Solution, is a total distortion of history,\u201d said Steinitz. \u201cThe same is true for the claim that Ukrainians helped Jews in the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe historic truth is that the Ukrainian people cannot be proud of its behavior in the Holocaust of the Jews,\u201d he added. \u201cNone of that changes the fact that despite the outrageous use of the Holocaust, we must continue humanitarian aid to the citizens of Ukraine suffering from the war and pray for its end to come soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli officials have criticized Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for invoking the Holocaust during his speech about Russia\u2019s invasion. 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