NEW DELHI: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the “the biggest terrorist” of the world.
In an interview with news agency PTI, Mehbooba Mufti compared Netanyahu to German dictator Adolf Hitler saying that while Hitler “built gas chambers to kill jews” the Israeli PM has turned Palestine and Lebanon into gas chambers, killing thousands.
“I think after Hitler, Hitler had built chambers to kill people, in which he used to kill jews, but he has turned Palestine into a gas chamber. He has turned Lebanon into a gas chamber where people are killed in thousands,” the PDP chief said.
Mufti expressed her disapproval of India’s relationship with Israel saying that India since the time of Mahatma Gandhi has stood with Palestine.
“I think our country’s relationship with such a person, who stood with Palestine from the very beginning, giving them weapons or taking weapons from them, supplying them drones so that they can use them against Palestine, is wrong,” she said.
On criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over her support for Palestine claiming that the saffron party stood by the “rapists of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua”.
“Those convicts are today serving their sentences. I had to remove two of their ministers for supporting the rapists,” she said.
She also said that the BJP does not know about the “long struggle of Nasrallah for the people of Palestine” and said the party should look at the support for the “martyr” in Lucknow and other parts of the country and “realise how wrong their thinking is”.
Mufti had earlier cancelled her election campaign on Sunday had cancelled her election campaign after the announcement of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah’s death, saying that she stands, “the people of Palestine and Lebanon in this hour of immense grief”.
On Saturday, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) announced that Hassan Nasrallah and Ali Karaki, Hezbollah’s Southern Front commander, were killed along with other commanders. Nasrallah was targeted at Hezbollah’s main headquarters in Beirut’s Dahiyeh, an underground stronghold beneath residential buildings. “Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world,” the IDF said in a statement.