Russia is soft on Israel?

That has been an underlying belief for years now.  In the past, it may have had legs to run on, as many Russians are joint citizenship holders.  I am glad to announce that the time is over.

We heard just a few days ago that 40 Israeli visitors to Russia were hived off into rooms upon arrival, where they were interrogated in terms of their stance on Iran.  They were held for five hours according to the press.  Israel went livid as they do and as usual called Ambassadors and this was widely reported in the Israeli press.  Russia simply went ahead and did what they had to do.

Maria Zakharova just recently excoriated Netanyahu because of his comments that ‘the regime in Iran planned another Holocaust. It planned to destroy us with nuclear bombs and thousands of ballistic missiles.’ Earlier, he also said that “if we hadn’t taken our fate into our own hands,… the names of Isfahan, Natanz, Fordow and Bushehr would sound just like Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor.”

Maria Zakharova

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu said: “In every generation, they rise up against us to destroy us – and in the current generation too. The regime in Iran planned another Holocaust. It planned to destroy us with nuclear bombs and thousands of ballistic missiles.” Earlier, he also said that “if we hadn’t taken our fate into our own hands,… the names of Isfahan, Natanz, Fordow and Bushehr would sound just like Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor.”

And did Iran actually commit the first Holocaust, as a result of which Jews, Roma, and countless other people were exterminated? Let me remind you, in 1943, Iran under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi declared war on Nazi Germany. The gratitude of the descendants was not long in coming.

Who actually committed the first Holocaust, as a result of which Jews, Roma, and countless other people were exterminated? Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and smaller satellites, including the Vichy French, Baltic and Ukrainian collaborators. Since 2014, Israel has not said a bad word to the Kiev regime, which has made national heroes of the executioners of the Jewish people, Simon Petliura, Yaroslav Stetsko (who swore on behalf of the “independent Ukraine” to Hitler in Lviv, drenched in Jewish blood), and other Banderivtsi and SS-Galizians.

Who was behind the sponsorship of Hitler’s Nazi party? The Bank of England (not to be confused with the Bank of Iran), in particular. And in general, it’s the same people who are now behind the Kiev regime, which has adopted Nazi ideology and is killing people on the basis of national and linguistic identity (even those it considers its own citizens).

Mentioning Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor in the context of the threat to Israel of a “nuclear Holocaust” from Iran is a manifestation of disrespect for all victims of the Second World War, victims of the genocide of the Soviet people, victims of the Holocaust, and also the soldiers of the Red Army who liberated the death camps.

Because it’s inappropriate, because it substitutes concepts and distorts historical facts.

Who, if not Israel, knows that Bushehr is a project solely about peaceful nuclear energy, which has been repeatedly confirmed by the IAEA.

I would suggest listening to the words of Minister Lavrov, who at today’s press conference with his colleague from Libya said that “experience teaches us to rely on facts… The main question that President Trump is now raising is that Iran should not have nuclear weapons. This is exactly the question that the comprehensive agreement on Iran in 2015 addressed. In addition to fixing the absence of any military developments in the nuclear field in Iran, it established the most stringent control in the world over the Iranian peaceful nuclear program, much stricter than the measures adopted by the IAEA for countries that have signed a protocol on guarantees with the international Agency. Well, as they say, history should also teach us. If, as a result of the current efforts of the negotiators, whom we support, and the Iranian and American negotiators, it is possible to steer towards something close to that very 2015 agreement, I think it will be a great success.”

Yes, one more small nuance – Israel does not have the mentioned protocol with the IAEA.