Tag: Sergey Lavrov
The apology that Russia won’t make
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin really apologize to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the atrocious remarks on the Holocaust uttered by his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov?
There is no way of knowing for sure....
Israeli prime minister says Putin apologized for Lavrov’s Holocaust-related remarks
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett claimed on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized for comments by his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, that said “Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood.”
The Prime Minister’s Office released a statement on Twitter:...
Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be “de-Nazifying” Ukraine when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.
Lavrov replied: “I...
Israel’s president calls on Lavrov to apologize for anti-Semitic remarks
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to apologize for claiming that “even Hitler had Jewish blood.”
“Lavrov is spreading anti-Semitic lies. I expect him to apologize,” Herzog told Haaretz on Tuesday.
He said “at first,...
Russia accuses Israel of supporting ‘neo-Nazi regime’ in Ukraine
Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday accused Israel of supporting “the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv,” deepening a controversy he sparked two days earlier by claiming Hitler had “Jewish blood.”
Asked by Italian media on Sunday how...
Bennett, Lapid condemn Lavrov’s remarks about Hitler’s ‘Jewish blood’
Israel’s prime minister and foreign minister on Monday strongly condemned his Russian counterpart’s statement made the day before that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood.”
Speaking to Italian news channel Zona Bianca, Russian Foreign Minister...
Lapid in Moscow: Israel reserves right to act against Iran to prevent nukes
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said during a state visit to Moscow on Thursday that the Jewish state reserves the right to act to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
After meeting with his counterpart, Russian Foreign...
Russian foreign minister: ‘Our goal is the establishment of a Palestinian state’
“Normalization between Israel and the Arab states does not mean a resolution to the Palestinian issue must become a second priority,” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a meeting with his United Arab...