Netanyahu: World is gradually accepting Iran's extermination calls
PM speaks at state ceremony marking Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Day at Yad Vashem memorial.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Holocaust Shimon Peres Israel newsPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on the world "to confront Iran's exterminatory intentions and act resolutely to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."
Netanyahu spoke at the state ceremony on the eve of the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
"The historic failure of free societies to confront the Nazi beast was that they did not face it in time," Netanyahu said. "And today we are witness to the old hatred of Jews once again, fueled by extremist Islamic authorities, led by Iran and its satellites."
"Iran's leadership is racing to develop nuclear weapons and declares its intention to destroy Israel. The world is gradually accepting Iran's exterminatory declarations regarding Israel and still we do not see the international determination required to stop the arming of Iran. But if we learned something from the Holocaust, it is that we cannot remain quiet or flinch in the face of evil."
Earlier in the ceremony, President Shimon Peres said the world must not repeat its indifference at the face of new cries for the destruction of the Jewish people.
Peres went on to say that "Israel will never forget the two decrees which the Holocaust enforced."
"The firm demand to sustain an independent Jewish state, one that holds its security in its own hands while at the same time tirelessly seeking peace as well as the demand to treat threats of annihilation, Holocaust denials, and terror mongering with the utmost severity."
Referring to comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has threatened to "wipe the Zionist regime off the map," Peres said that it was Israel's right "and duty to demand the nations of the worlds never to repeat their indifference, one which cost millions of lives, including their own."
"The ears of the United Nations must be attuned to the threats of annihilation made by one member of the UN against another. Otherwise, the foundation which holds the UN charter will collapse," Peres said.
Referring to efforts to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, the president said that "in order to reach clean skies in the Middle East we must first dismantle the threats of annihilation."
"Weapons of mass destruction in hands capable of destroying masses accompanied by voices calling for such destruction are the combination most perilous to world peace. They turn the world into an uncontrollable place," Peres said.
The President added that he believed that some "parts of the Iranian people are themselves ashamed of the tyranny which has taken hold of it," adding that he thought the Arab states were "aware that Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel incitement is meant to disguise his real aim, which is establishing Iran as a regional power."
"The [Second] World War broke with the Nazis' devilish incitement, claiming that they were a supreme race and Deutschland Uber Alles. We must never return to the beastly conception according to which there is such a thing as a supreme man, or supreme regime, or supreme race which can do whatever it sees fit," Peres said.
Earlier in his speech, President Peres said that with night falling on all of Israel, evening had also fallen "not long ago on Antopol, Zhoromin, Rodnik and Mikhalova, towns that three quarters of their population was was wiped out. Not a single Jew is left."
"Night has fallen on the village of Tostanovitza, where 2,803 Jews were murdered, on Libau in Latvia, where 7,101 Jews were murdered, on Khelm by Lublin from which 15,000 Jews were sent to their death," Peres said, adding that "darkness has also started covering the shadows of Dachau, Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as Vishnive, where I was born and visited again as an Israeli minister, with not even one wooden beam left from the Jewish homes and the synagogue."
Recalling the trip to his childhood town, Peres said he "visited the well that stood in our backyard. The water did not burn. I drew the bucket to taste the wasters of my childhood, and the water burned in my mouth, the taste of the fire which destroyed the town's people, my family, who remained there."
"This night spread like a mourner's hut on the thousands of communities whose existence became a petrified tombstone, whose people and culture burned to ashes."
A sundown covering the devastated synagogues and shuls, theaters and cultural institutions, the books that were set alight, the schools that turned to ashes. All erased, the lives, the houses, the culture, a world's smoky embers."
"That fire will continue to burn within us, as an impossible farewell to our six million brothers, men, women, and elderly people, to a million and a half of our children, an immense potential of life and talent that was annihilated, an unreturnable loss."
"He who passes today through the town of Zivorov in the Ukraine cannot know that in that place, one summer day in the beginning of 1941, a thousand Jews were shot to death and buried in two pits in the town."
"He who passes today cannot hear the cry of April 9, 1943, when 2,300 Jews were forced to dig their own graves near the Sokolinaya gymnasium. They were murdered and thrown into the pits they dug with their own hands."
"'What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?'" asks the Book of Lamentations, and asked the survivors of the ramps in Treblinka, Auschwitz and Birkenau, and asked those who arrived in Israel and immediately enlisted to the defense of the people in their fight for independence."
Also referring to the defense of the Jewish people in light of the lessons learned by the Holocaust, Israel Defense Forces chief Gabi Ashkenazi said earlier Sunday that never again would the Jewish people lack the means to defend themselves.
Speaking at the Yad Vashem memorial, Ashkenazi said the Jewish people "will never again be dependent on the benevolence of others," Ashkenazi said. "Never again will Jewish children be fearful or begging for mercy. Never again will an advocate of evil be able to dictate the future of the Jewish people."
"In the name of my father and his family who fought for a sovereign and independent state and in the name of the millions who were unable to witness the realization of their dream, I stand here today as the commander of the Hebrew defense force, the Israel Defense Forces."
Ashkenazi talked about the experiences of his father, a Holocaust survivor from the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.
"On the night of March 9th, 1943, my father's family opened their door to find Bulgarian police ordering them to prepare to be deported from Bulgaria within a few hours," Ashkenazi said. "Along with 6,000 other Jews, my father assembled in the yard of the school and recited the prayer 'Shema Yisrael.' In the end, my father and the Jews of Plovdiv were not sent to the death camps. The cancellation of their deportation order arrived when they were already at the train station, a short time before they were supposed to depart.
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Milking what...the memory of 6 million dead people? You wouldn't know anything about it unless you are a Jew.That would mean that your great grandmother wasn't murdered...thus allowing you the privilege of being alive in this generation.Children of Holocaust victims carry the scars. They taught us to Never let it Happen Again! More people should be saying never again..killing fields of Cambodia, Genocide of Armenian Christians. Who said never again for them. We Jews are aware of genocide. I'm an American Jew & I see it here in this country too.& only 6 children survived the Holocaust out of our entire family.60 yrs is yesterday
Colon Wright, change Achmadinajad to Hitler & Zionists to Juden in your 2nd paragraph & we're back to the 30s when nobody really believed the madman really meant to do the things he was ranting on about. Menachem Begin said that when someone says he's going to kill you, you'd be wise to believe he means it.
The Roman Empire (Eastern) was there until 1453. After that came the islamic then Turkish Empire. Where did you study history, "doctor"? If Israel depends on all the Jews to defend itself what are you doing in San Diego? you should enlist in Tsahal, and practice what you preach.
Peres talks about wiped out villages while totally ignoring the Palestinian cities, towns, and homes that Israel razed to the ground during it's founding. Not even the names of these places has been left. All buildings including mosques, civic buildings and even medical treatment facilities of the Palestinians that had often existed for hundreds of years and which reflected the life of these vibrant communities were totally destroyed so that not even a vestige of their existence remains. The reality is that while Peres spoke about Jewish communities destroyed in Europe by the Europesns, he purposely ignored how Tel Aviv was built on the ashes of many Palestinian towns/villages whose residents and their descendants are not permitted to return and whose right to return is denied while the Jews from those European communities and their descendants have never been denied their right to return. Keep drinking from that bitter water Peres because that only shows the hypocrisy of Nakba denial.
The jews of the holocaust never built settlements, were never charged with any sort of Goldstone report, Never built walls on other peoples land, never stereotyped and entire group of people as terrorists. Never Demolished anyone's house and never hurt a single person. Please leave their memory alone and don't use them for some political Agenda.
The Bible says that Israel will survive. Ezekiel 37 says that the Jewish people would come out from the nations, back into their land. Ezekiel 38 and 39 says that the nations will attack Israel and that God will destroy them. Zechariah 12 also says that the "Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem" and that Israel will mourn the pierced One. Romans 11:26 says "all Israel will be saved."
The world better not look the other way Im Catholic and support Israel's right to freedom 100 percent
Sir, with all due respect to what the elite in Israel says regarding the situation of Europeans of mosaic belief in the times of Nazi-Germany occupation, we have to distinguish between those and Israelis since 1948. Furthermore, what Iran is saying is, that they don't want to sit at one table with Zionists and that are those who are against peace with the Pals, Syrians and Lebanese for forty years now. May I remind you of Mr. A. Lieberman's phrase shortly after he was appointed Foreign Minister of Medinat Israel: "(please) stop talking of occupied territories"; PM Netanyahu and Pres. S. Peres did not object to that.
I'm not Jewish, but I was raised with Jewish Kids and have many good friends in the community here in Belfast. One thing that my late Father who was a devout Catholic (when not being a practicing marxist!)instilled in me was that the lights came perilously close to going out for good in Europe, and that the state of Israel was the only sure way to ensure that this never happened again. I've held this view ever since and been called a Zionist by people who think its an insult. Bottom line children is that Israel is the political reality that the neighbours have to deal with and until that dawns on them, the IDF is the military reality that will deal with them. Go with God. Danny
"Referring to comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has threatened to "wipe the Zionist regime off the map," Ahmadinejad never said that and the folks who keep repeating that phony line damn well know it.
...to General Ashkenazi - so beautifully as you did! I hope he (and others) will read this wonderful letter ...Best Regards, S
For over sixty years there has been conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. And everyone in the region is responsible for that. Who will be the heroes that will bring this conflict to an end?- Where are those, on both sides, who are willing to take major steps necessary for peace? Who is willing to sacrifice their selfish goals and objectives so that peaceful coexistence might prevail? Not only did Hitler kill 6 million Jews, but he also killed 6 million non Jews- all of whom are to be remembered on Holocaust Day. And those who helped to save Jews during Nazi times, will Always be remembered and admired for their heroism. As for the Hitlerian Anti-Semites, they couldn't help but fan the flames of hatred and prejudice toward Zionists/Jews. Yet even they should be remembered. So too should the raving Anti- Semites, and haters of Palestinans on this forum. We should all be remembered and realize that we are all responsible.
big deal
'...Americans support strong action against Iran but do not support mistreatment of a conquered population. These are not the same matters. Why is this so hard to understand?' Personally, I don't think it is hard, but then, I'm not neither Israeli nor Jew. What I can offer you as explanation is to understand the Jewish people - and their recent history - as the Jewish people understand themselves. The Palestinians, I think, are seem as but part of a enemy people: the Arabs, who have made no small effort, since 1948, to exterminate Israel. And the Arabs and Iranians are seen today as a common threat to Israel's survival. Anyone who really understands the Jews, and Israel, cannot but be struck by their determination never to repeat the Nazi Holocaust. And the enemies of Israel - again, of which the Palestinians are seen as a part - must therefore be held at bay, at all costs. What you and I see as 'mistreatment', then, is seen in Israel as 'defence'.
Never before have the israeli been more dependent on the... Can you be more precise ? In which way Israel is more dependent ? I just came back from Israel and I found a wealthy , advanced , vibrant , happy , unbelievably beautiful country with a good army . Maybe your wishful dreams are at work here , but the reality is very different .
1) Iran is not far from having the capability to detonate a nuclear device in the center of Israel. 2) Mossad knows exactly (within weeks) when that milestone is reached. 3) The dolphins, drones (big ones), F 15s, and pre-deployed tactical nukes are primed and ready. 4) Global nuclear conflagaration - probability of 1
of the potentially existentially threatening intentions of Iran with Palestinian opposition to Israeli policies in occupied territories is disingenuous. Many responders here go thundering on about the Holocaust and Iran when much of the time it is Israeli behavior that is at issue. We all agree on the cruel nature of Nazis and Ahmadinejad. President Obama and the vast majority of Americans support strong action against Iran but do not support mistreatment of a conquered population. These are not the same matters. Why is this so hard to understand?
I am writing again: everybody, including of course Bibi himself, knows that Iran will never use its nuke, Iran knows that using it automatically brings a nuclear holocaust upon the Iranian people by US and Israel. The problem is that Bibi seems to want to nuke Iran NOW!! Bibi knows very well that Israel is the farthest country on earth, from an existential threat. Despite this, he plays the victim, in his absurd cause to rationalize Israel's arrogant and violent attitude. In his tone you feel "we jews will never ever trust on non-jews", then why do you always say that the fate of Israel and US is forever parallel ? If Israel can only trust jews but no one else, then how come Israel trusts US ?
The Roman empire didn't last much past 70 and 135 AD, did it, potobac? Jews still here 2000 years later, still speaking Hebrew, still worshiping Adonai, Jewish state larger and stronger than in 70 AD - and who converses in Latin today, or worships the Roman gods? And our later enemies: Spanish empire and its Inquisition - gone. Tsars and their pogroms - gone. Hitler's 1000-year Reich - ashes. Nasser's United Arab Republic that launched and lost the 6-Day War - Gone. USSR suppressing Judaism, arming of Arabs - gone. Saddam and his SCUDs - gone. A certain Church that whipped up anti-Jewish frenzies in Europe for the last 900 years - wallowing discredited in hideous pedophilia scandals. We depend on our G*D to deal with our enemies, not to exclude us doing what we can to defend ourselves, too. Who wants to be next? Iran, apparently.
He'll finish by blaming Iran for the hundreds of thousands of Israelis living below the poverty line. I can't stand anti-socialist ideologists who pretend to feel sorry about their people. For years already I don't feel safe, my future is uncertain and most of my plans of old I gave up. But I'm working hard in order not become such a hypocritically self-pitying figure as Netanyahu and his shooting & crying supporters.
One would think 'kill the Jews' was ringing out every week. I'd like to hear a sample of the remarks we've 'accepted' over the past six months. Then too, it's unclear to me that we are morally obligated to muzzle Ahmadinejad. After all, Netanyahu keeps asserting that Israel has the right to build in East Jerusalem. That he's allowed to say it hardly demonstrates that many accept his contention. Ahmadinejad's remarks in general are extremely hostile, conjure up a picture of Zionist influence that is wildly exaggerated, and make it clear that he, for one, will heartily applaud if Israel collapses. However, the demands are not particularly 'exterminatory,' nor are they continual, nor has anyone 'accepted' them in any sense. More generally, they are a somewhat logically inconsistent mixture of claims of excessive influence and predictions of imminent demise that are largely disregarded.
Jews are a boring bunch!!!!!!!!! YAWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN...
Believe me we Jews remember what happened to the gypsies at the hands of the nazis. Last year at a restaurant we were invited to dance with a group of Roma and we shared our collective grief. We drank a few toasts in memory and in pride of our survivals in the face of what can be a blind uncaring world. Armenians, Roma and Jews have long memories : Forever...
and the enlightenment has to reach some dark minds. the fake support of fake supporters of palestinians is flowing from the dark caves of ignorance. to support the palestinians is to expose the hard violence of the leaders. to inventory the lynches of innocent people. Gene Sharp the non-violence scholar said it clearly. Ziad Asali ended the acceptance of the support for extremists. light must shine into the caves in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Djakarta to end the irrational hatred of some otherwise decent observers of the Middle East.
factories designed for murdering human beings, documented procedures for murder, 1.5 million children murdered.... can u imagine emptying kindergarden after kindergarden of children and murdering them, shooting children of 3 and 4, smashing their heads open, gassing them....
then its israel to blame that ll be it ww3 armegiddeo etc ..... whew
doctorine of using nukes,affects Israel directly.Israel's main deterrent are the Nukes but as goes Israel,so falls Europe and the MidEast.I hope this is taken as a threat and that is what the prayer "Shmai Israel" is reffering to.
I know many don't believe in The God of Scripture but believe or not He is alive and real, the only reason America is what she is today is because God has blessed us and He has blessed us because of our support of Israel. The day and hour we stop, we will stop the very blessing of God. Don't believe now and that is your decision but one day you will. I promise.
infantry defending this God.
when was holocaust used??? i dont remember can u tell me?
To remember and celebrate . Blessed Be The GoD of Israel who gave the Jewish State of Israel the capabilities to assert accordingly the remembrance and celebrations of seasons and days .
I respect ur nabqa day! i respect suffering of palestinians. but why cant u respect and dont compare two events separated from eachother? war and Planned mass murder re different! Jews had nothing to do with WWW2 but they were collected and murdered according to a plan Palestinians backed fatah before and after the occupation.they elected hamas after goodwill gesture of israels disengagement from gaza. they have a chance to decide their destinies by elections and backing hamas or others. thats why its a war and people die thats really bad.i understand ur grief and respect u i never right political things in a nabqa page or compare it to other massacres. i dont mock peoples griefing. i expect same from people.
Someone is keeping an eye on all this.He said it, I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.This was the All Mighty saying it. Beware.
no one complains about passover or holocaust we remember them!thats ur kind of people who doesnt know respecting other peoples beliefs that complains just because we remember. so does jesus or mohammed or buddah may be myths. it doesnt make them less real! in fact they re symbols religions re full of them re u not aware?? symbols symbolize real stuff(thats what symbols for). maybe the story is not true that doesnt make suffering of people unreal. and modern historians can be wrong too. i'm an atheist by the way but passover symbolizes suffering of our people and we will never stop remembering. and u will never stop complaining maybe u dont have any thing to remember thats why... better not have it and complain. hope u never know that kind of suffering. we remember because we dont wanna live it in the future. and as u know history repeats itself if u dont remember and fight against it. so i suggest u to stop complaining and get lessons from history!
What Welshman is saying is right, if you ask your grandmother about using that history where people have killed for who they are, she will probably answer since she understands the essence of being threatened and killed, that you should never be like that. Perhaps, you want to ask how Palestinian mothers feel about it? Sitting in dark at their houses, with no water, and an unsafe sky filled with fire fighters and a ground planted with highly-equipped soldiers, unable to defend herself, what would be your feelings, what would your grandmother's feelings be? I guess she would have a better answer than you not to underestimate your sense of humanity but both have been experiencing similar situations.
Israel relied on the Creator to intervene in the years 70 and 135. It's not a given that He will every time.
Hey Prufrock. are you caught between the rock and a hard place? Educate me about the GOP and Israel. Then you can educate me about how Ollie North,Reagan,Bush and others,etc., were willing to blame Israel for Iran-Contra. Would you like to learn more about different administrations, both Dems and the GOP, failed to thank Israels' Intelligence reports on enemies of the US. Your wrong about the face of the geopolitical landscape and Israel knows it all to well. It has seen more of its share of political double talk, youngman from bothsides of the aisles.
..between 600 thousand and 2 million gypsies were murdered by the nazi's..why are they not mentioned in history??
modern historians question not only an egyptian captivity but an exodus and a man named moses...looks like historic fact meets jewish myth and you lose..damn something less to k'vetch about..life is hell
Never again will we be unable to defend ourselves or will we be people without a State ! A lesson that took us centuries to learn. Never again; is the jewish motto, for friends & foes till the end of time . No Jew will ever be on his knees again ! Let our friends & enemies think again !
if u dont want u can stop it right now tell ur gov to stof remembering holocaust victims. but we will never ever stop teaching our children what europe did to us during and before the holocaust. even what brits did after the holocaust in Land of Israel! u dont have to remember. we will. 60 years is not much.. my grandma was in italy during WW2 she is still alive and lives with the horror and will die with that horror. how dare u question our remembering? and u know jews dont forget things happened to them we still remember passover it was more than 3000 years ago...
Bibi's only alternate plan is a Republican majority Congress. You know that. I know that. Scattered facts from yesteryear don't change the current geopolitical reality one iota.
What part of the Covenant between Abraham, and all of his descendants, did you not understand, while living in the USA. This current generation in America, has been blind-sided by humanistic progressives,who believe its alright for women to abort babies from the womb, afterall, we teach human life evolved through apes, single cell theories of origin etc.,etc. Hey, Prufrock who was the American president that delivered the Hebrews out of Egypt. I am not as old as you, so educate me about the US role back then. It wasn't the guy who claimed he invented the internet,was it? Israel can ask for allies in its cause to survive, but when push comes to shove, the Creator will settle all claims. It's tough to believe in something you can't see,Eh!
Be aware yes and be alaert yes but using it as a pretence for all actions taken to date ...possibly. It was a very very dark chapter in world history But seriously how much more are you going to milk an event that occurred over 60 years ago against a mostly defenceless populus spread over a continent being invaded by a fanatic? Israel is now a military superpower in the ME and abusing this history to justify illegal actions simply degrades the importance of remembering and respecting the dead.
The "Promised Right of Return" for all Jews currently living in Israel or outside its borders, who believe in the Covenant from the One True God of Abraham, can rest assured that when all of its enemies surround the State of Israel, Samsonites like Gabi Ashkenazi, will stand firmly in the midst of its enemies and nonbelievers of Israels' Deliverer. See you in Jerusalem, Gabi.
Israel existed during the Holocaust, albeit it was not called Israel but "Eretz Israel". The Jewish Population, known as the Yishuv, had all the necessary infrastructure for a viable state: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Haifa Technion, the Weizman Institute, and the Hadassah HOspital had all already been established and functioning for decades. So have dozens of kibbutzim. Tel Aviv, with its port and major industries, all developed and owned by the Jews, was a vibrant city. The National Anthem Hatikva was sung. The British barred the fleeing European Jews from entering Eretz Israel, thus condemning them to extermination. Do, please, learn some history, otherwise you look like a fool
Israel has survived both with and without U.S. support. During its first 13 years of existence, Israel was subject to a total U.S. arms embargo as it was illegal for any American company to sell Israel so much as a pea-shooter. That changed somewhat when President Kennedy began selling Israel defensive Hawk missiles but offensive weapons remained a no-no. Despite that Israel won major victories on the battlefield in both 1956 and 1967. In '67 the mainstays of its air force were French-built planes. Should Obama turn more and more against Israel, I'm sure its leaders have alternate plans.
Since God's motives are so "mysterious" (a euphymism for "unreliable" Israel can only rely on its own brains and brawn. And we can also rely on those hateful, unhappy, antisemites who use trite stereotypes like "well connected inner circle" to stereotype Jews as a selfish clique. That kind of smear has been around for 2000 years and is a good reason for Israel to be vigilant
Israel is not the Haven for Jews they claim it to be. Quite a dissappointment to the world. It is a place for a few closely connected inner circle, and they could care less about everyone else. .
The masses were never a reason to consider what is right or wrong A strong Israel that does not depend on other nations is what was needed then and what is needed now more than ever. The lesson is not to try to appease the masses who do not follow logic or needs of Israel but to follow the needs of the nation to exist in peace in a country of its own as for Britain, just watched "exodus" where 66 jews took on the british empire and insisted on going to Israel ( then palestine) we overcame and will overcome as for g-d, well the ways of g-d are far more mysterious than mankind, but as i see it g-d had nothing to do with evil sadism, the power to heal does!
More important than Israel being self-reliant that Jews need not depend on the benevelence of others, is the comprehension that we can not depend on the benevolence of God, whose hand did not rise to our defence as and his name, as in the Shma, was invoked in vain. How ironic that writers praise, thank God, when someone escaped the Holocaust, but never blame God for the reality of 6 million (and more) murders. Neither praise nor blame is due. Isreal can only rely on its self.
It is all very well for an Israeli leader to consider Israel's security most important, but to the head of any other state Israel's safety is much less important than the interests of hIs/her state (as it should be).
All the sentimental speechifying is nice, but not exactly reality based. Israel doesn't exist without the US.
Exactly, Israel didn't exist during the holocaust, that's Ashknazi's whole point. He's saying that now that the Jews have a homeland they do not have to rely on the goodwill of the government of another country to let the Jewish people there, and that there should never again be a situation like the holocaust where Jews are vulnerable and have their fate decided for by others. Now that we have Israel we can decide our own fate (whether for better or worse). Hope this helps you understand what "he is on about."
No harm in using the tried and true to justify what you're doing today. Except it's wearing just a tad thin.
Bulgaria treated its Jews (mostly Spanish, Ladino speakers) much better than its northern neighbor Romania. Romania deported my Grandfather, Grandmother,an Uncle and two Aunts from Czernowitz to Transnistria, in October 1941. Only my Aunt Sidi, returned alive. I live because not all Jewish dentists were deported; Some were needed to serve the gentile population. My father was one of the lucky ones. sf
The words of the IDF chief are heart warming to me. As a holocaust survivor U.S Army veteran and a retired police officer nothing else matters more to me than this policy which I hope will remain eternal.
"hussein o. mind your business and DO NOT interfere in israel security. in other words, just shut up!" hossein must stop sending billions of Dollars to nonegrateful israel.
benevolence of others, than they are today, to deny that is to deny reality.
'We will never again be dependent on the benevolence of others ...' As one who witnessed the trickle of European Jewish refugees into London in the late 1930s, I hope you are right, sir. I was very young when I saw them; but to this day, I remember their haunted and frightened faces. It was only through the great efforts of a few sympathetic souls in His Majesty's Government that they were not turned away. But today, there is a fine line for Israel to walk, between independence from the benevolence of other nations, and the need for Israel to form alliances and friendships with them. I cannot, in my 77 years, remember another time in which Israel seemed so politically isolated - even from its usual allies and friends. I would respectfully caution you that no nation can prosper under such conditions. Somehow, Israel must redouble its efforts to reach out to its friends - and even to some of its enemies - so that 'never again' never becomes an empty slogan. MV
ashkenazi's words are right on target. his words are not directed to the marked man in teheran, he is history! it is an adress to the wannabe world saviour on israel's account. tranlation for the feeble minded: hussein o. mind your business and DO NOT interfere in israel security. in other words, just shut up!
However, Israel didn't exist when the Holocaust occured so what is he on about?
When precisely are you going to stop persecuting and exterminating the defenceless population? Thanks for your answer in advance, Ashkenazi.
Yes, it is a miracle that you stand there as a witness in the memorial of Yad vaShem. Thanks be to G-d that your father and the other 6000 Jews, did not perish, hasveshalom, in the camps. That he went on, I imagine, to meet your Iraqi mother in Israel, as you mentioned when you came to our synagogue that you had Iraqi roots. But Jewish children are still begging for mercy and having to depend on others. This situation, which you might think is an anomaly in this day and age, when Israel is going to be 62, is still a reality. At least there is hope for some.