Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took Israel’s parliament to task for failing to provide weapons in his country’s fight against Vladimir Putin, who he said was planning a Holocaust-style ‘final solution’ for his people.
‘Everybody knows that your missile defense systems are the best … and that you can definitely help our people, save the lives of Ukrainians, of Ukrainian Jews,’ Zelensky, who is Jewish himself, told the Knesset in a video call.
He was referring to Israel’s pioneering Iron Dome system, which has been developed to shoot Palestinian rockets out of the sky.
‘We can ask why we can’t receive weapons from you, why Israel has not imposed powerful sanctions on Russia or is not putting pressure on Russian business,’ he said in the address, one of several he has made to foreign legislatures.
Zelensky also drew a comparison between the Russian offensive and Nazi Germany’s plan to exterminate European Jewry during World War II.
‘Listen to what is being said now in Moscow, listen to how they are saying those words again: the final solution. But this time in relation to us, to the Ukrainian question,’ he said.
Zelensky cited no evidence in making that allegation, which has drawn condemnation, and did not identify who might have used the term.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chided Israel for not providing missile defenses to his country or sanctioning Russia over its invasion in an address to the Israeli Parliament Sunday
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid was non-committal in his response, saying in a statement that Israel, which has sent a field hospital and other humanitarian aid to Ukraine, would continue to assist its people ‘as much as we can’.
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