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ZAGREB/JERUSALEM, Nov 3 (Hina)- Following the news broadcast by the
Israeli radio that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman might visit
Israel in December, two Israeli opposition deputies have said that
they submitted a proposal to the parliament that Croatian President
Tudjman should not be allowed to visit Israel due to his alleged
anti-Semitic stands on the Holocaust of the Jews in WW2.
The Reuters and France Presse news agencies reported on Sunday from
Jerusalem that a member of the Labour Party, Yossi Beilin, and a
member of a small left party, Meretz Yossi Sarid, had given the
proposal, and were expecting that it would be discussed at the
parliament on Monday.
The two MPs accused Tudjman groundlessly in their proposal and
alleged that he had denied the existence of the Holocaust
describing it as the "Jewish fabrication."
On the occasion of signing the protocol on the establishment of
diplomatic relations between Croatia and Israel in New York in the
early September, Croatian Ambassador to the UN, Ivan Simonovic,
said that in WW2, the Croatian people's understandable and
completely legitimate desire for establishing their own state was,
by a combination of unfortunate historical circumstances, used and
even abused by the Nazi puppet regime.
Simonovic added that it was "a shame for the Croatian people that
some of its members joined the Holocaust." But, he stressed, Nazism
faced in Croatia the energetic armed resistance, proportionately
the strongest in the occupied Croatia.
The Croatian Ambassador recalled that Tudjman personally fought in
WW2 on the side of the anti-Fascist coalition since the very
beginning of the war.
Israeli and Croatian media have several times announced the visit
of President Tudjman to Israel for the end of this year of the
beginning of 1998, in connection with the statements following the
Budapest talks on the establishment of the full diplomatic ties
between Israel and Croatia in the late August and the New York
signing of the protocol in the early September.
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