Spewing hate on the Day of Reckoning

Iran’s threats to destroy Israel loom large and loud to two rabbis, one local and one in California, both who have taken to heart the lessons of Hitler’s pre Holocaust threats and his carrying them out.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, recently released a letter quoting Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling Israel “a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off” and Iran’s President Ahmadinejad saying that “Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the annihilation of the Zionist regime.” Hier stressed that Israel doesn’t need to be lectured about the horrors of war, fighting six wars for her survival, and that this is no new threat, but upping the ante, with Iran on the verge of attaining nuclear weapons to threaten Israel and the entire world. But the world urges Israel to wait, Hier stressed, as they waited with Hitler, not listening to Churchill’s warnings in the 1930s that could have avoided World War II and the Holocaust.

Rabbi Hier pointed an accusatory finger at the UN, that Ban Ki Moon and 120 nations attended the non-aligned nations meeting in Iran, just as the world didn’t boycott but attended the 1936 Olympics. “The lessons of the past carry no weight with world leaders,” said Hier, in a phone interview.

“The U.S. can afford to wait,” he stressed, “Iran won’t attack the U.S. Israel can’t wait.” He said that “Israel can’t afford to bet the house on American intelligence,” questioning its effectiveness in Iraq. “Netanyahu is forced to face the issue,” continued Hier. They “can’t reason with the Ayatollah, he’s not going to stop. So far, they are unfazed by sanctions. Netanyahu has to do what’s good for the Jews and Israel.”

He pointed out that America still won’t allow military hardware or jets into Cuba; “would anyone tolerate arming Cuba,” he asked, since it is on the U.S. border. He said that Netanyahu should say, “’I’m going to do what America does and not what America says.’ Israel is entitled to safe borders.” Hier emphasized that constituents should write to members of Congress to help them “understand the precarious situation. What would the U.S. do if drug cartels would fire missiles at the U.S.? Congress should support Israel’s right to do what America does and not what America says. Israel has to protect her citizens.”