ハマス奇襲は「ホロコースト想起」 アルゼンチン大統領

【ニルオズ（イスラエル）ＡＦＰ＝時事】アルゼンチンのハビエル・ミレイ大統領は８日、昨年１０月７日にイスラム組織ハマスの越境攻撃を受けたイスラエル南部のキブツ（生活共同体）を訪問し、ハマスの攻撃をホロコースト（ユダヤ人大量虐殺）になぞらえた。（写真はイスラム組織ハマスの越境攻撃を受けたイスラエル南部のキブツ＜生活共同体＞、ニルオズを訪問したイスラエルのイツハク・ヘルツォグ大統領＜左＞とアルゼンチンのハビエル・ミレイ大統領）
　ミレイ氏は、イスラエルのイツハク・ヘルツォグ大統領やハマスに拘束されていた元人質のオフェリア・ロイトマンさんと共に、襲撃を受けたキブツ、ニルオズを訪問した。パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区との境界近くにあるニルオズの住民は、ハマスに殺害されたり、拉致されたりした。
　ロイトマンさんはアルゼンチン国籍の高齢女性で、１９８５年にイスラエルに移住した。住んでいたニルオズに戻ってきたのはハマスに解放されて以来初めてとなった。
　イスラエルは、昨年１１月に就任したミレイ氏にとって大統領として初の公式訪問先。同氏は明らかに感情的になっており、キブツ訪問については「大きく心を動かされた」と語った。
　ミレイ氏は、ハマスを人道に対する罪を犯した「テロ組織」と呼び、イスラエルのハマスに対する反撃への支持を改めて表明した。
　イスラエル大統領府のスペイン語からの翻訳によれば、ミレイ氏は「テロと反ユダヤ主義、２１世紀のナチズムの明白な事例を目にすれば、自由世界はこの件に無関心ではいられない」「今回使われた手法は、ホロコーストの残虐行為を想起させる」と訴えた。
　心に傷を負った多くのイスラエル人も、ハマスの襲撃をホロコーストの恐怖になぞらえている。
　だが、エルサレムにあるホロコースト記念館「ヤド・バシェム」のダニー・ダヤン館長は昨年のＡＦＰのインタビューで、「集団殺害の意図、残虐さ、野蛮さの点で類似性があるとはいえ、ホロコーストとの比較は短絡的過ぎる」「１０月７日に行われた犯罪は、ナチスの犯罪と同レベルではあるが、ホロコーストではない」と指摘している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/02/09-17:39）

Argentina's President Javier Milei on Thursday likened Hamas's attacks on southern Israel to the Holocaust, after touring a kibbutz targeted in the October 7 raids.
Milei joined Israel's President Isaac Herzog on a visit to Nir Oz near the border with Gaza, where residents were killed or taken hostage by the Palestinian militant group.
They were accompanied by former hostage Ofelia Roitman, an elderly Argentinian national who moved to Israel in 1985, making her first visit back to the farming community since she was released.
Milei, who was elected in November and is on his first official state visit as president, has appeared visibly emotional during his time in Israel, and said Thursday's tour was very moving.
He again gave his backing to Israel's fight-back against Hamas, calling the Palestinian Islamists a terrorist group who had committed a crime against humanity.
The free world can't remain indifferent in this case, as we see clear examples of terrorism and anti-Semitism and what I would describe as 21st century Nazism, he said.
When we hear about the methods that were used this time, it reminds us of the atrocities of the Holocaust, he added, according to remarks translated from Spanish by Herzog's office.
Many traumatised Israelis have likened the attacks, which left 1,160 dead according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli statistics, to the horrors of the Holocaust.
A total of 132 of the 250 hostages taken are still in Gaza, but 29 are presumed dead, Israel has said.
But the head of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial centre, has described comparisons as simplistic... even if there are similarities in the genocidal intentions, sadism and barbarism of Hamas.
The crimes that took place on October 7 are on the same level as Nazi crimes, but they are not the Shoah, Dani Dayan told AFP last year, using another term for the Holocaust.
Milei, who was raised in a Catholic family but has studied Jewish scripture, placed a wreath near the eternal flame at the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem on Wednesday.
He arrived in Israel on Tuesday on a four-day visit and immediately announced plans to move the Argentinian embassy to Jerusalem.
Only a handful of countries have their embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, rather than Tel Aviv, and any international recognition of the city's status as a capital is deeply controversial.
Hamas, which runs Gaza, said in response that Jerusalem remains occupied Palestinian land.
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