Netanyahu: Israel must prevent the elimination of the Jewish people
On 70th anniversary of Wannsee Conference, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says that the will to destroy the Jewish people has not changed.
By Barak Ravid Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu Nazis HolocaustThe Israeli government has the "right, duty and capability" to prevent the elimination of the Jewish people and the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting.
During the meeting, the cabinet marked the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference on the Nazi "Final Solution" for the Jewish people.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jan. 22, 2012. |
| Photo by: Moshe Milner / GPO |
Netanyahu said that the Jewish people's ability to defend itself was the main difference between 2012 and 1942.
"There is no lack of bitter enemies today," Netanyahu said. "The will to destroy the Jewish people has not changed. What has changed is our ability to defend ourselves and our determination to do so."
Last week, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
In the Yad Vashem guest book, Dempsey expressed the U.S. commitment to preventing a future Holocaust.
“We are committed to ensuring that such a human tragedy never happens again,” Dempsey wrote.
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What Bibi is doing is fearmongering and i can only hope that the average Israeli and Jew is wise enough to see through him and his fear- and warmongering.
What Bibi is doing is fearmongering and i can only hope that the average Israeli and Jew is wise enough to see through him and his fear- and warmongering.
Netanyahu and his ilk are the real threat to the Jewish people. They will put Jews backs to the wall with no way out.
..as he and his neo-fascist-zionist regime strove to make others; and the world less safe for Jews... QED
their Nobel prizes and all they accomplish. Then every other word that escapes their mouth, is about security. Opressive people never stay in power long. Look around you. You're loosing you're power base all around the world. If you really want security: MAKE PEACE! Warmungering isn't working for you. Anyone you opress is going to fight you untill you are gone. Peace brings security.
There are some very good reasons why Hebrews/Jews have survived for thousands of years: - At any given point in time, while a small number of Jews were being mistreated, the rest of the Jews lived OK lives. That is, there was no global, mass mistreatment of Jews at any point in time. If there had been, no Jews would have survived. - Even the Holocaust killed less than half the Jews on earth at the time. - The Arabs have no desire to kill all the Jews on earth, they just want to take back their land and drive the Jews to live elsewhere. Any Jews not in Israel when the war starts will NOT be hunted down and killed. - Mistreatment of small numbers of Jews at some point in time is no different than the mistreatment of other minorities at other points in time. All minorities get mistreated occasionally, but most minorities survive. The bottom line is when the Arabs defeat Israel, Most of the Jews that had lived in Israel will simply continue their lives elsewhere. there will be no holocaust.
The Diaspora is a 2000 year long death trap. The Holocaust only the most recent outrage, and nearly successful "final solution" to the Jewish Problem. If IBM could provide Hitler the means to track all European Jewry from 1933 to 1945 with primitive punch cards, how much more effective with Big Blue? German Jewry, as do you, thought their homeland "exceptional."
Say what you will about Jews living abroad, Jews being Safer abroad. The fact is, people always complain, stop being such ignorant pessimists and realize that we now have a place to go incase some lunatic decides to kill us all and has the means to do so.
How do we prevent the elimination of the Jewish people? Force and strength of the army is one way. If combined with the greatest weapon a daily relationship with Hashem through the Torah, prayer, Mitzvot, both positive and negative commandments, the one GOD and personal Savior of the Jewish people who call upon him to save them, then you are doing all you can to prevent it. The will to destroy the Jewish people does still exist. If the Jewish people are doing Hashem's work, there is a protective shield around them from Hashem (GOD), where no man, country, weapon can harm them. Also, the non Jew is receiving light, and that eliminates the desire to destroy the chosen people who have a special gift, and with that gift comes responsibility.
Yes, anti-Semites become even more aggressive when they hear about any Jew anywhere doing anything wrong. Are you suggesting we should deal with anti-Semitism by trying to appease anti-Semites?
No Israel stupid policies : way less hate for jews worldwide.
We shouldn't allow Bibi, Yvet & co drag us in their paranoic, nationalist, ghetto/victim delusion
The problem is not and has never been THEM. The problem is and has always been US. We don't know who we are as Jews and we are too afraid to BE the people we are supposed to be. But THAT is the only solution and only way to peace.
And secondly, there millions of people born in European countries who don't get European citizenship (children of illegal immigrants for example). They get permanent resident status but not the citizenship. This basically allows all the rights of the citizen except for the right to vote. If this is fine for Europe, it should be more than fine for Israel.
Bibi trots this one out whenever he cannot think of anything better to say, it portrays Israeli Jews and Jews everywhere as weak children cowering in the shadows afraid to face life. Hard to equate such a portrayal with the brutalisation of the Palestinians isn’t it? One can only conclude from the evidence that the Jewish psyche is afflicted with a deep seated schizophrenia.
Your animal hatred makes it clear you would exterminate us all if you ever got a chance.
Watching Netanyahu and his right-wing associates over the last few years it is clear that although they are the ruling class in Israel they have done more and continuing damage to World Jewry then any recent player other than the usual culprits. And no dummy! Obama is not an anti-Semite but many who Netanyahu and cronies embrace and fondle are definitely haters. The most frequent defense that Bibi and buddies have to the complaints to their thoughtless behavior is that the complainant is a self-hating Jew and that’s BS and normal in the topsy turvey worlds of the Israeli and American right-wing. To Bibi Jews around the world are only good for their financial contributions and the pressure they put on their governments to keep the heat off the shameful Netanyahu spoiled brat theory of Israel's image and behavior among the nations.
@Avrum Pesach You said it all buddy....Sarcozy maybe correct about Bibi being a liar. Guy does not see long term, typical America political science student.
Yes, anti-semitism exists. Always has and always will, along with all other forms of racism including some of the laws originating from the Knesset. Anti-semitism is no more or less evil than any other hatred perpetuated by one racial group towards another. Bibi would have more credibility if he referred equally to the gypsies and other groups who were murdered by the Nazis. He might also want to condemn the extreme right in Israel and the Occupied Territories who spout their own particular version of 'chosen people' extremism
....different in these ideologies?!? I can't see any differences! It is to demand power & supremacy based on a perverted Ideological thinking! What's the difference between Racists who nourish hatred & bigotry towards Blacks & other distinctions against a wishful 'White Supremacy'?!? I can only see one effective difference: The difference is that these ideological Theories are regarded as despicable by the majority of western Countries and its People,-while it is State Policy in Israel! Israel has become as shameful a Country as the extinct Régime of the Afrikana Apartheid South Africa ever was!!
israel are the problem due their actions on occupation, annexation, blockade, wars etc.
you conviniently forgot who started these wars.
You mean like they are trying to start a war against Iran?
lives on...
Not all anti-Zionists are anti-Semites - just most.
the problem of recognising that--lies with you fella.
I would never say that all Israel haters are anti Semites. Many are not. You however have demonstrated you are on many occasions. why are you so obsessed over how the Jews of Rome pray. why do you continually distort the whole "chosen people" nonsense.
To Daniel: "in the beautiful Europe we are mostly ateists and live in peace with both jews & muslims because we dont judge people based on religion!" Are you for real? Europe has an obscene History of cruel and vicious anti-semitism going back over a thousand years that culminated in the Holocaust, during which unprecedented cruelty was visited on fellow human beings: systematic, state-spsonsored torture, humiliation and degradation, starvation, execution and murder of millions of unarmed men and women, of innocent, defenseless babies, children and the elderly, day after day, year after year, for the duration of the war. Their heinous crime? They were Jews. And what did the vast majority of the good citizens of beautiful Europe do? If they were not actively participating in the slaughter, they were doing nothing, indifferent - after all, it was only the Jews. The public narrative of today - the virulent attacks by the media, governments and individuals directed at the only Jew among the nations, Israel, with very little or no regard for facts, rights of self-defense, existential threats, or considered analysis of the grossly different morality of the acts committed by each side - is a very thinly disguised form of anti-semitism. More and more it resembles the narrative and 'dialogue' of 1930s Germany, with its obscene stereopyping of the Jews, and its ugly, vicious propaganda directed against them. As for your Muslims and your minorities, what peaceful co-exixtence are you talking about? Wake up, look around you, read the papers, listen to the news and smell the flowers, man. Daily racially-motivated attacks, murders, torchings and social unrest. Whilst you're at it, read up on Europe's relatively recent history; how Christians and Muslims live in peace: the war in the Balkans, Serbia, Croatia? Any of this sound familiar? What a Chutzpah to preach to others!
If these are your genuine thoughts , then i fear for your mental sanity.. "victim" mentality is so not healthy mentally..
...and Humans as any other People,-or aren't they?!? You see, many People don't hold any grudge against the Jewish People,-but some, who feel that they are Super-Human, the 'Chosen People of God', and all that Propaganda Crap! I believe in God(....as a moderate Muslim,...which also means that I believe in the Bible and the First Testament,-on which the Koran is based!!...{monotheistic Religions & Religions of Abraham}) But as long as some Jewish People think that they are 'Super-Human' and above earthly rights, because they are something more 'Special' than other Humans, with other beliefs on this Earth , there might be a continuation of hatred against these 'Radical Jews' from other fanatical Radicals! I don't presume to say that it is right and not stupid, but only a sad fact of human reality! As the "immortal declaration" quoted by Martin Luther King, and before him expressed by Thomas Jefferson and later by Benjamin Franklin, says:"All men are created equal"!!
This is one of the classical arguments used by Anti-Semites to justify their hatred (along with Jews drinking infant blood, etc.).
The man is either delusional and think evil goyims are lurking behind every corner just waiting to annihilate the jews - or he's just doing his thing to make Average Joe in the US to actually believe his crap and support him..
We must Prevent Netanyahu from isolation Israel _our country .. time to get rid of him + with his Coalition in his ARK - S>O>S the ship is Sinking > HALOO _Hay do you read me ?? ?? OVER
BIBI =is the one to blame A_Z with his Coalition -the Russian Roulette ++ the religious one -_i.e very strange -please look at his PALM on the Table _or from his last picture -the way his pointing his finger -?? he looks like ?? guess ??
This is a lie and he knows that. There is a difference between the Jewish people and the state of Israel. He, and others want to keep this confusion in order to have a reason to go on with their disgusting policy inside the country and international.
You are such an idiot!
Please don't take the word of the orthodox jews to be the overall opinion of the Jewish community. Those radicals are idiots, and the majority of the Jewish community completley regards them as crazy. But I suppose that maybe difficult for people comming from muslim countries which don't have free speach to understand, because in Israel thats the only reason they are tolerated. Here is one Jew, who considers himself equal, could I expect the same from an orthodox Muslim?
Why did certain people of the past hate the Jews so much. Israelis say it was because they were anti-semites. This is not an answer. Others say it was because the Jews killed Christ. This is plain foolishness. Why then. In Israel we see an aggressive, arrogant, self righteous, people bursting with greed and self entitlement. A light begins to dawn.
"Why then. In Israel we see an aggressive, arrogant, self righteous, people bursting with greed and self entitlement. A light begins to dawn. " I think you've flown your colors...
People are only instruments of his will.
that's the shakes and the ,"Heeby Jeebies", and you're so drunk with your own Racist Bigotry you will never see the ugly reflection of reality in the mirror. Do you really think it never occurs to us why you and your crones come here, to a Jewish/Israeli blog? You really think we don't realize how Racially entrenched you are? You think anyone who's not Antisemitic will ever read your crap and say, "Yeah, that's convinced me?" No, it's more like verbal masturbation, you get a kick out of the fact that you're not actually facing anyone and no-one's going to make a citizen's arrest for your incitement.
people expect a wounded animal to crawl off and die. You and others like you are furious that the Jews didn't, but rather dedcided to live and defend themselves
bigots see the sickness in themselves; they never see the object of their bigotry accurately. You remind me of white southerners during the days of segregation in the south who said they didn't hate blacks. They just found their shiftlessness and laziness offensive
The way to survive is to disperse and arm yourself, not regroup in a place where you can be wiped out in one shot.
the greatest danger to the Jewish people is Netanyahu and the Israeli government
This kind of continious negative news will eventually lead to mass emigration of young Israeli families to safer and quieter countries like Australia ,Canada,USA where their children can live a normal life and not have fight continious wars.
Israel must stop thinking that the (Arabs ) want to destroy Israel and eliminate the Jewish people . Believe it or not !? .
Are you saying all those Arabs are lying?
Instead of telling us things that we don't beleive, show it to us, act, do something ! Israel will stop considering that arabs want them dead when it will be obvious to us that it is the case.
Hamas Charter: "Israel will exist until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors." Musliim Brotherhood leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi: “Today the Jews are not the Israelites praised by Allah, but the descendants of the Israelites who defied His word. Allah was angry with them and turned them into monkeys and pigs….There is no doubt that the battle in which the Muslims overcome the Jews [will come]....In that battle the Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them." Hezbollah head Nasrallah: "if they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."
In recent years my family is more at risk of hostility due to Israeli actions against Palestinians than for any other reason.
That's the reason for conflict...
I ddeply understand the fear of israel for annilation . History has shown for about 2000 years a skapegoat behavior against the jews worldwide,(proroms of all kinds) A most abject behaviour of mankind against its fellow humans the jews. Nobody can justify those inhuman acts during all those 2000 years. Israel therefor has an understaneible trauma and fear regarding its existence But time goes on even in vieuw of this fully understanble trauma Israel be wise and try to continu as a actual moral people who will try to be part of humanity.
"The beautiful Europe" meaning Malmo, Sweden, where Jews live so peacefully with their Swedish and Arab neighbors they have to hire security guards to stand outside their homes or move away?
Here you have the answer! Why shouldn't there be a Jewish state among all the Muslim ones? Because it is against the self-perception of Islam? If you live in the ME you have to adjust to the rules there! No freethinking allowed in the Muslim world under death penalty!
Get updated in history!
It was called Palestine.
even under the Romans!
Why didn't you mention this?
Because they didn't. People are getting more educated and realizing that there is another narrative and other facts prove a zionist plan to empty the land from its people. Look at the mirror, you probably look like a son of zionists who look like they belong elsewhere but not in the middle east. Your home is most probably built on a stolen Palestinian land and a demolished Palestinian town after zionists drove away its people. There are documents and there are facts too, not only your words are true. There are more people who disbelieve you than the ones who believe you. Wake up! I am tired of your arguments.