Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a tweet responding to Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s poster calling for a “final solution” against Israel, warning Khamenei that Israel would respond in kind to efforts to destroy the country.
Khamenei’s office had released a poster on May 19 that stated “PALESTINE WILL BE FREE” in all capital letters as well as the words “the final solution: Resistance until referendum.”
Netanyahu’s office tweeted on May 20, “Khamenei’s threats to carry out “The Final Solution” against Israel bring to mind the Nazi “Final Solution” plan to annihilate the Jewish People. He should know that any regime that threatens the destruction of the State of Israel faces a similar danger.”
Khamenei's threats to carry out "The Final Solution" against Israel bring to mind the Nazi "Final Solution" plan to annihilate the Jewish People.
He should know that any regime that threatens the destruction of the State of Israel faces a similar danger.— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) May 20, 2020
Other world leaders have condemned the Khamenei poster.
“The leader of the world’s top sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism denies the Holocaust, sends money and weapons to anti-Israel terrorists, and now has invoked the Nazi call for the Final Solution,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted. “I ask all nations: Is this someone who can be trusted with deadly weapons?”
The leader of the world’s top sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism denies the Holocaust, sends money and weapons to anti-Israel terrorists, and now has invoked the Nazi call for the Final Solution. I ask all nations: Is this someone who can be trusted with deadly weapons?
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) May 20, 2020
Josep Borrell Fontelles, the European Union Foreign Affairs High Representative and European Commission vice president, similarly tweeted: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the call by the Iranian Supreme Leader @khamenei_ir to fight #Israel. This is a threat to international peace and security. The security of Israel is of paramount importance and the EU will stand at its side.”
I condemn in the strongest possible terms the call by the Iranian Supreme Leader @khamenei_ir to fight #Israel. This is a threat to international peace and security. The security of Israel is of paramount importance and the EU will stand at its side.
— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) May 21, 2020
German’s Foreign Ministry also said in a statement to The Jerusalem Post, “The federal government sharply condemns all glorification and legitimizing of terror, [as well as] calls for the annihilation of Israel, inciting terrorist acts or spreading anti-Semitic content. Such hostile comments to Israel are in no way acceptable. Israel’s right to exist is not negotiable. The federal republic regularly addresses critical points in all areas in an open way with Iran.”
Khamenei tweeted that his “Final Solution” poster was aimed toward eliminating Israel, not Jews.
“It means abolishing the imposed regime & Muslim, Christian & Jewish Palestinians choose their own govt & expel thugs like Netanyahu,” he tweeted.
