Israel’s prime minister said Putin apologized for Russia’s pro-Nazi accusations. Russia has repeatedly tried to use Nazism as a justification for its devastating war in Ukraine. Israel has taken a seemingly neutral stance of the war and has tried to play the mediator role. Sign up for our weekday newsletter, packed with original analysis, news, and trends — delivered right to your inbox. Email address SIGN UP By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Israel’s prime minister said Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to him after Moscow’s top diplomat previously accused Israel of being pro-Nazi over its support of Ukraine. “The Prime Minister accepted President Putin’s apology for [Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov’s remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” Naftali Bennett’s office said in a Thursday statement after a phone call with Putin. Lavrov falsely suggested last weekend that Adolf Hitler was Jewish, the latest attempt from Moscow to try to justify war in Ukraine as a campaign against neo-Nazis. Russia also accused Israel of being pro-Nazi by showing support for Kyiv. Israel’s government called Lavrov’s remarks “unforgivable” and “the lowest form of racism.” The Kremlin made no remarks about an apology after Putin’s Thursday call with Bennett, according to the Times of Israel. But Bennett’s office said that along with the apology, Putin also promised to allow an evacuation from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where a small band of Ukrainian resistance and civilians have been holed up for weeks. Israel’s evacuation request — which would involve a United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) humanitarian corridor — comes a day after Bennett spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
via businessinsider: Israeli prime minister says Putin apologized to him after Russia’s top diplomat accused Israel of being pro-Nazi over Ukraine support
siehe auch: Putin sorry for Lavrov’s claim Hitler was part Jewish – Israel PM. Mr Putin spoke to the Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apologised after his foreign minister said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”, Israel says. Mr Putin made the apology in a call with Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, his office said in a statement. Russia’s account of the conversation did not mention an apology. Sergei Lavrov made the initial comments to try to justify Russia’s portrayal of Ukraine as “Nazi” despite the fact that its president is Jewish. Mr Lavrov spoke to Italian TV on Sunday, days after Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day – one of the most solemn occasions in the Israeli calendar.