Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that while Jews were like an “abused animal crying in agony” at the hands of the Nazis, the modern state of Israel fights back against its enemies.
Netanyahu listed Iranian nuclear sites alongside Nazi death camps and said there would be no second Holocaust While addressing Israel’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day. “We promised there would be no second Holocaust, and this year, we fulfilled that promise in practice,” Netanyahu said. “Had we not acted, the names Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Parchin might have been remembered eternally in infamy, just like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Sobibor,” he said. “It has much to learn from us,” the premier said, “especially the essential lesson of the clear moral distinction between good and evil, which in moments of truth demands that we go to war for the sake of what’s good, for the sake of life. “Israel, on the other hand, doesn’t forget that eternal responsibility,” Netanyahu said. “Along with the US, and along with other countries with which we are creating alliances that will be spoken about in the future, we are defending ourselves — we are defending the entire world,” he said, adding that “Israel stands with the United States at the forefront of the free world. Meanwhile, President Isaac Herzog said that “empty words” are an insufficient response to the global surge in antisemitism, he urged international leaders to confront hatred “before it is too late.”