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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the world to remember the Nazis' brutal genocide of millions of European Jews, comparing the event with Iran's nuclear programme.
"Iran is openly declaring every day that it wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth - and, by the way, Israel today has a population of more than six million Jews," Netanyahu said, speaking to the US-based Christian broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network in an interview expected to air later Tuesday.
The Israeli prime minister recalled that during the Holocaust, "a third of the Jewish people went up in flames; there was nothing we could do. Now, after the Holocaust, the State of Israel has been established - and the attempts to destroy the Jewish people are not disappearing."
According to Netanyahu, "the lessons of Auschwitz are: First, stop bad things when they're small - and Iran is a very bad thing. It's not that small, but it could get a lot bigger with nuclear weapons, and I think the first thing is to stop that. And second is to understand that the Jews will never, ever again be defenceless in the face of those who want to destroy them."
Comment: As always Netanyahu tells the truth - but the truth about Israel, not Iran. Small things should be stopped when they're small, like Israel, the "sh***y little country" that has only grown more evil as it has progressively stolen Palestinian land. And it only got "bigger" with its own illegal nuclear weapons. Netanyahu, your sh***y little country needs to be stopped, before it destroys the Middle East.
Comment: The US, without irony, condemned the statement. It seemingly can't connect its murder of an important government figure with an expression of outrage about it. Who is the real terrorist here?