Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
“Is what this Netanyahu is doing any less than what Hitler did? It is not,” the Turkish figure said, according to Reuters.
Erdogan has previously called Israel “a terror state,” according to the outlet. “We will never shy away from voicing the truth that Hamas members protecting their lands, honour, and lives in the face of occupation policies are resistance fighters, just because some people are uncomfortable with it.”
Israel launched a war effort earlier this year in response to heinous attacks in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped people.
“Erdogan, who is committing genocide against the Kurds and who holds the world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his regime, is the last person who can preach morality to us,” Netanyahu declared in a social media post. “The IDF, which is the most moral army in the world, is fighting to eliminate the most abhorrent and brutal terrorist organization in the world, Hamas-ISIS, which has committed crimes against humanity, and which Erdogan has praised and whose leaders he hosts.”
Turkey is a NATO member.
Netanyahu has said that the Israeli military strives to avoid civilian casualties, but that Hamas uses civilians as human shields.
“Hamas places its terrorist infrastructure inside and underneath homes, hospitals, mosques, schools and other civilian sites, deliberately putting the Palestinian population at risk,” Netanyahu noted in a recent Wall Street Journal piece. “Israel does its best to minimize civilian casualties by dropping leaflets, sending text messages and using other means to warn Gazans to get out of harm’s way. Hamas by contrast does its utmost to keep Palestinians in harm’s way—often at gunpoint.”
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, has decried Netanyahu as a “Genocidal maniac,” “murderer,” and “war criminal.”
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