In an interview on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that ‘Adolf Hitler may have had Jewish blood’. The remarks triggered outrage in Iarael and Bennett summoned the Russian Ambassador asking him to ‘clarify’ Lavrov’s comment.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend the Victory Day military parade to celebrate 74 years since the victory in WWII in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2019. Some in the West think Russian President Vladimir Putin may use the Victory Day on May 9 when Russia celebrates the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II to officially declare that war is underway in Ukraine and announce a mobilization _ the claim rejected by the Kremlin.
Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, on Thursday, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to him for the remarks made by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in which he claimed that ‘Adolf Hitler may have had Jewish blood’. The comments triggered massive outrage in Israel and political leaders in that country condemned the reference by saying that they were ‘lies’ that ‘accused the Jews of the most awful crimes in history’, against themselves.
“The Prime Minister accepted President Putin’s apology for Lavrov’s remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” Bennett’s office said in a statement.
Terrible historical error: Israeli Foreign Minister
In an interview with an Italian media outlet on Sunday, Lavrov reportedly said – “I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood”. The remarks immediately backfired as Benett summoned the Russian Ambassador and asked him to ‘clarify’ the remarks made by the Russian Foreign Minister.
