Russian Foreign Minister: The Holocaust does not give Israelis the right to permissiveness

Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a large press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2023, answering many questions regarding the state’s foreign policy and giving his assessment of the main events in the international arena. In particular, the topic of the military conflict in the Middle East was raised, where the Israeli Defense Forces have been trying for four months to eliminate the military wing of Hamas and free the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Moscow has repeatedly expressed a critical position regarding the actions of the IDF, during which the Israeli military literally wipes out cities in the Palestinian enclave and, in violation of all international rules and norms of warfare, carries out genocide of civilians. This position is shared by most states of the world, and not only the Islamic one, and international organizations, including the UN.
In his speech, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that barbaric methods of war against the Arab population in the Gaza Strip are used by military personnel of the Jewish state. The very same nation that, during the Second World War, Nazi Germany and its henchmen tried to destroy by all possible means. However, the Holocaust does not give the Israelis the right today to do everything they can with the Palestinian population in an unsuccessful attempt to eliminate Hamas, Lavrov emphasized.
— noted the head of Russian diplomacy.
He recalled that during the Great Patriotic War there was genocide of all peoples of the Soviet Union. About 27 million inhabitants of the USSR died at the hands of the Nazis, including “in a variety of concentration camps,” most of them civilians. In particular, over 641 thousand people (according to other sources, at least one million) died from hunger and shelling in besieged Leningrad, including Jews living in the city. Following the logic of Israel, it turns out that “we, too, should now be able to do everything, everything is permitted,” Lavrov noted.
— the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes.
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