It’s 1938, and Iran is Germany

January 3, 2007

When has a world leader openly called for genocide, Netanyahu asked the audience, adding that such a thing goes against the moral principles the world is based on. “The year is 1938, and Iran is Germany,” said Netanyahu, reiterating his message delivered last November in Los Angeles. Iran wants a nuclear weapon, he said, but this time the Jews have a country and also a responsibility.

My country is threatened, said Netanyahu to the delegates, but so are your countries. Iranian President Ahmadinejad is a problem for Jews, like Hitler was. Iran is pursuing a fanatical fantasy of a…thousand-year Islamic Reich armed with nuclear weapons, which it will use, said Netanyahu. We must deny them this weapon, he said. “You have the power to stop it, and it can be done in 1,000 days.”

Ahmadinejad paid the warnings no heed, vowing that no sanctions would stop the bomb. “A nation whose youth has been able to achieve the nuclear fuel cycle with empty hands––rest assured that it will be able to capture other peaks of [progress].”

The 1,000 days of which Netanyahu spoke are an apparent reference to the statements by Mossad Chief Meir Dagan, according to which an Iranian nuclear weapon is not expected to be completed before 2009.

By Attila Somfalvi,
Ynetnews.com

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