‘The comparison between Israel’s just war
against Hamas and the atrocities of Hitler and the Nazis is a shame.’
Vered Weiss
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has supported the Palestinian cause since the days of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, seen posing here with him in Brasilia when he was also then in power, in 1995. (AP/Agência Estado, Ed Ferreira) |
Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz, whose parents are Holocaust survivors, invited Brazil’s ambassador to Yad Vashem and declared that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a “persona non grata” in Israel.
In front of cameras, Katz explained to Ambassador Federico Mayer at Israel’s Holocaust memorial that his nation’s president is not welcome in Israel.
“We will not forget nor
forgive. It is a serious antisemitic attack,” Katz said.
“In my name and the name of
the citizens of Israel – tell President Lula that he is persona non grata
in Israel until he takes it back,” he continued.
Katz explained, “I brought you
to a place that testifies more than anything else to what the Nazis and Hitler
did to the Jews, including members of my family.”
“The comparison between
Israel’s just war against Hamas, and the atrocities of Hitler and the Nazis, is
a shame,” he concluded.
Afterward, Israel Katz took Federico Mayer on a tour of Yad Vashem and showed him documents recounting the murder of Katz’s family members at the hands of the Nazis.
An official said they believe
that Mayer had “internalized the message” of Katz’s remarks and the visit.
Speaking to journalists at an
African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Sunday Lula claimed that
“what’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide.”
“It is not a war of soldiers
against soldiers. It is a war between a trained military against women and
children,” Lula continued.
He added, “What’s happening in
the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment
in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”
Later on Sunday, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticized Brazil’s president for
comparing the Israel Defense Forces’ operation against Hamas in Gaza to the
Nazis’ mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust, saying Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s
remark “crosses a red line.”
“The words of the president of
Brazil are shameful and alarming. This is about trivializing the Holocaust and
trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself,”
Netanyahu’s office said.
Vered Weiss, World Israel News, 19-2-2024
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