Amb. Gilad Erdan: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world must apply 'Never Again' to Iran (regime, extremist)
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It’s true that it is impossible to predict the future, but that should not prevent the world from internalizing important lessons from the past. On January 27, as we observe Holocaust Remembrance Day -- 76 years after the liberation of the hell that was the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz -- I believe we should be casting our eyes slightly further back to the pre-war years.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called World War II "the Unnecessary War." In his seminal 1946 speech he said: "There never was a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action than the one which has just desolated such great areas of the globe. It could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot."
On this symbolic day, we have an obligation to examine more closely the global events that led to "the Unnecessary War" and the Holocaust, specifically the time it took for the international community to take action against the Nazi regime, which ultimately cost the world millions of lives. Then we should be asking ourselves if someday the same will be said about the international community's complacency in preventing Iran from fulfilling its goal of becoming a nuclear power and putting millions more lives at risk.
At this critical juncture in our collective history, the similarities between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Nazi regime are as striking as the path we are heading down nearly a century later.
Like the Nazis some 80 years ago, Iran is dominated by an irrational, extremist ideology, with a single totalitarian party that executes its opponents and has succeeded in controlling every aspect of life in its country.
The world must wake up before the entire Mideast, and likely more, turns into glass!
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