Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an address to Foreign Diplomats on
the international Memorial Day for the victims of the Holocaust, stressed
that even though the Holocaust was behind us, there was a resurgence of the
hatred and intolerance that drove it.
“The Holocaust, thank God, is behind us, but the hatred and
intolerance that drove it is not. Anti-Semitism, which is the world’s oldest
hatred, is experiencing a revival in the enlightened West, you can see this
in European capitals, just unbelievable. The rise of anti-Semitism, the
resurgence of anti-Semitism that is happening, and few would have imagined
that this would be possible a few years ago. It’s true that governments have
shown responsibility, and on the whole have taken this up, in eastern Europe
and in western Europe alike. But it is also true that this hatred is
bubbling, coming out of these cracks, coming out in the open again.”
During his address at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, Prime Minister
Netanyahu accused the international community of keeping silent in the face
of openly declared intentions to once again eliminate the Jewish people and
their only national state Israel, a silence that has bolstered and
emboldened the regime of the Islamic Republic to act on various front to
that end, including their aspiration to develop nuclear weapons
capabilities, which the international community has only delayed thought
what the Israeli leader defined as an historic mistake. as well as Tehran’s
increasing involvement in subsidizing terror organizations across the Middle
East and equipping them with advanced weaponry.
“the greatest danger that we face, of the hatred for the Jewish
people and the Jewish state, comes from the East. It comes from Iran. It
comes from the ayatollah regime that is fanning these flames and calling
outright for the destruction of the Jewish state. I want you to think about
a regime that openly declared its intention to eliminate every black person,
every gay person, every European. I think the entire world would be
outraged, and rightly so. But when a regime merely calls to wipe out every
Israeli which is what they say day in day out, their most prominent leaders,
they say it – what do we encounter? A deafening silence.”
The Israeli leader vowed in front of the representatives of the countries who
attended that he would not be silent in the face of the Iranian threat, and
will “take all the measures necessary to prevent Iran from getting the means
of mass murder.”
“As Prime Minister of Israel, I will not be silent, I haven’t been
silent, and we don’t intend to be inactive either. We don’t merely intend to
speak out but we will take all the measures we need to defend ourselves, and
we will take all the measures necessary to prevent Iran from getting the
means of mass murder to carry out their horrible plans.”
While warning Europe that this Iranian threat would spread to its continent if they don’t join force to
stop the dangerous aspirations of the Islamic Republic, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump, who he said
comprehended the danger of the nuclear agreement with Iran. Netanyahu
expressed hope that Trump would put an end to the world’s deafening silence
in the face of Iran’s aggression and its hope to wipe Israel off the map.