JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's comparison of Israel's offensive in Hamas-controlled Gaza to the Nazis was "anti-Semitic in tone," the Israeli leader said on Sunday.
"I heard the things the prime minister of Turkey said, words of the utmost gravity," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a briefing to reporters. "I told (U.S. Secretary of State) John Kerry, (these are) anti-Semitic statements, they have an anti-Semitic tone."
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