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Israel on Tuesday condemned remarks made by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko during an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya English, describing them as “unacceptable and deeply disturbing.”
In a post on X, Israel’s foreign ministry said: “The remarks made by the President of Belarus – a country that knows all too well the horrors of the Holocaust committed on its own soil – in his interview with Al Arabiya are unacceptable and deeply disturbing.”
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“Any comparison between the Holocaust of the Jewish people and Israel’s just war against terrorism must be unequivocally rejected,” the ministry added.
It also criticized what it described as “the revival of vile, outdated antisemitic conspiracies that should have long been consigned to history.”
During the interview, Lukashenko criticized Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, saying the country had acquired a “bad reputation” and describing the war as a “holocaust.”
“Why do we speak about the Holocaust suffered by Israelis when they themselves have killed so many people?” Lukashenko said.
“Women, and above all children, have died in the Gaza Strip,” he added. “They are trying to build a resort on the land where those people were killed.”
Lukashenko also argued that Israel was heavily reliant on US support and would struggle to defend itself against Iranian attacks without American military assistance.
“Israel is not a country with colossal resources, compared, for example, with Russia in the conflict with Ukraine, that would allow it to wage a war with Iran,” he said.
“Israel has to start thinking about its future, because otherwise even nuclear weapons will not help them.”
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