Jerusalem, Undetermined Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has apologised for reflections made by Moscow’s top diplomat, Sergei Lavrov, who claimed Adolf Hitler may have had”Jewish blood”.The commentary had sparked outrage in the Jewish state.”The Prime Minister accepted President Putin’s reason for Lavrov’s reflections and thanked him for clarifying his station towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,”Bennett’s office said in a statement.
A Kremlin summary of the Bennett-Putin call, which came as Israel marked 74 times since the creation of the Jewish state, made no citation of a Putin reason.It did, still, note that the leaders bandied the” major memory”of the holocaust.In an interview with an Italian media outlet released on Sunday, Lavrov claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky”puts forward an argument of what kind of Nazism can they’ve if he himself is Jewish”.
Lavrov, according to a paraphrase posted on the Russian foreign ministry website, also added”I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood”.Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid labelled the commentary”an insupportable and outrageous statement as well as a terrible literal error.”Bennett denounced the commentary as” falsehoods”that he said effectively” charge the Jews themselves of the most awful crimes in history”, executed against themselves.Russia’s minister to Israel was summoned to” clarify”the reflections.
Israel has sought to traipse a delicate line since Russia raided Ukraine in February, with Bennett stressing Israel’s close ties to both Moscow and Kyiv.Bennett has in particular sought to save Russian cooperation with Israeli strikes in Syria, where Russian forces are on the ground.Israel has so far refused Ukraine’s requests for military support, rather suppling pellet proof vests and helmets for medical workers, as well as an Israeli field sanitarium.Bennett has tried to intervene in the conflict and is among a sprinkle of world leaders to meet with Putin since the irruption, travelling to Moscow in early March
