A top Israeli official delivered a harsh speech to Lithuania’s parliament, noting Lithuanian participation in the Holocaust. The speaker of Israel’s Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, who also addressed Latvia’s parliament last week, said Lithuania must come to terms with its past. “Many Lithuanians participated in the genocide of my people 60 years ago,” Rivlin said at an otherwise festive opening session of Parliament in Vilnius.
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