In the grand scheme of things, its a few weeks before Kristallnacht. There are grave threats to the Jews, but their hour has not yet struck. It could have been prevented in the 1930’s, and it can be prevented now – if Obama will listen:
President Barack Obama’s visit to Capitol Hill for the Holocaust Day of Remembrance ceremony turned into more than just a solemn memorial event Thursday morning. As the president sat waiting for his turn at the podium, a series of speakers admonished him, in terms both veiled and direct, to confront Iran’s government as a threat to Jews and to Israel.
“Honoring the dead must not be the sole purpose of remembrance. It must help us shape a better future,” said Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor. “When a regime is again … terrorizing its neighbors, threatening to destroy the Jewish people, how will we meet this challenge before it’s too late?”
Meridor kept his message implicit, but the subtext was clear: The world must stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Joel Geiderman, the vice chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was more blunt, drawing a comparison between the Nazis in Germany and the present-day government in Tehran.
“At least one whole nation has been targeted for destruction with the threat to wipe it off the map,” Geiderman said, alluding to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s belligerent remarks toward Israel. “History should have taught us that democracies that let such pledges stand do so at their own peril.”
Will Obama listen? Does he even realize what is at stake? Israel’s fate may turn on whether or not Obama understands the Iranian threat. More than half a century ago, as we opened up the Nazi death camps, we said “never again” – we pledged ourselves to never, ever allow a people to be targeted for destruction. Our promise made is now to be redeemed – or to be dishonorably ignored.
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