Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Welcomes Lithuania's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister - Audronius Azubalis - to Israel

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Thursday May 17, 2012 12:25 by pat c

Friends at any cost: Israel is happy to welcome an Anti-Semite and nazi sympathiser to Israel.Tony Greenstein looks at whats going on here. Full text at link.

That the Lithuanian government should commemorate the memory of its quisling Prime Minister is not surprising. That the same anti-Semites who laud the Lithuanian Waffen SS survivors are also pro-Zionist is also not surprising. But that Israel's Foreign Minister, the arch-racist Avigdor Lieberman, should hosts a ministerial welcome to Lithuania's Foreign Minister, a man who tried to prevent the restoration of stolen property to its Jewish owners, should shock even a few Zionists.

Jews are gathered at an assembly point in the Kaunus Ghetto for deportation, Kaunus Lithuania, October 26, 1943.

Barely a dozen demonstrators, some of whom were themselves holocaust survivors, turned out to demonstrate outside Tel Aviv’s Dan Panorama hotel. What is interesting is the reaction to the article on Ynet. The majority of them actually attack the critics of Lithuanian support for the Waffen SS. Take young Daniel, whose piece is entitled ‘YNET'S BLATANT LEFTIST BIAS’ . The unrelenting persecution of the Palestinians has led to many Israelis actually identifying with the Nazis, who also had a problem with those whose territory they occupied. ...

Where is your conscience? Holocaust survivors protest. Photo: Moti Kimhi.