Is Olmert Listening in L.A.? Or Is Bibi Spitting Into the Wind on Iran?

Netanyahu: It’s ’38, and Iran is Germany

“While Hitler started a war and then tried to develop an atomic bomb, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is building nuclear weapons first and will then start a war, he said.”

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The Iranian missile program calls for developing 25 nuclear weapons per year, ultimately with a range to reach the East Coast of the United States, Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu warned the annual summit meeting of North American Jewish leaders Monday afternoon.

“It’s 1938 – and Iran is Germany,” he repeated again and again as he addressed some 5,000 delegates attending the United Jewish Communities’ General Assembly (UJC-GA) at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

“When someone tells you he is going to exterminate you, believe him and stop him,” Netanyahu urged.

The Knesset opposition leader said he had been trying for a decade to warn world leaders that Iran represented the greatest threat, not just to Israel but also to Europe and America, “but nobody seems to care very strongly.”

While Hitler started a war and then tried to develop an atomic bomb, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is building nuclear weapons first and will then start a war, he said.

Even if Israel were to meet all Palestinian demands, or were to disappear altogether, Ahmadinejad would pursue his plans because he basically believes that the rise of the West has been a historical mistake which must be reversed.

The real threat to world peace is not Iraq or Al Qaeda, but Iran, though unlike 1938 and its aftermath, this time the Jewish people will not be the sacrificial lamb, Netanyahu declared to prolonged applause.

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Commentary;

Is Ehud Olmert listening in L.A., or is he too busy planning the next expulsion of Jews, instead of undertaking the planning of a serious, all-encompassing military effort to eliminate the Iranian threat? Is he oblivious to true nature and ramifications of the threat? And has Bibi truly come to grips with the extent of the threat? These questions need to be pounded home again and again and again. MB