Israel Alone

This is a call to everyone out there to be aware that Arab Nations and Iran are in fact openly calling for another Holocaust.

Will the world once more bear the shame of letting the Jewish People fight for their survival again, alone?

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Reprinted from Arutz Sheva

by Robert D. Onley

The Jewish people have the advantage of hindsight.

On September 1, 1939, exactly seventy years ago this past Tuesday, the world knew little of Hitler's threats against the Jewish people, nor of the evil that would come of his invasion of Poland to start the Second World
Israel holds much legitimate pessimism regarding any "progress" Iranians might package for the West.
War. Indeed, Nazi Germany's aggressive military posturing against Austria and Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s effectively concealed Hitler's dream of a Judenrein Europe and what would eventually become the most ruthless campaign of murder, genocide and violence seen in human history.

It was not until at least 1945 - when the war ended - that the rest of the world understood and saw the absolute venom Hitler unleashed upon Jews in particular. While there were rumours, suspicions and even aerial photographs of the death camps that ended so many lives, it was not until these camps were opened that the world's leaders witnessed the sheer, unadulterated evil that humanity was capable of organizing in the modern age.

Today, numerous threats are facing the Jewish people and their homeland Israel - threats that bear undeniable resemblance to those that similarly preceded the Second World War. However, unlike in 1939, today the malicious, delusional desires of Israel's enemies are being publicly, blatantly and aggressively spread across the world, emanating specifically from the Islamic Republic of Iran, and enacted by its proxy armies Hamas and Hizbullah. Thus, for those who intrinsically hate the Jewish people today, instead of having to hunt for Jews scattered across numerous nations throughout Europe as Hitler did, a large number of Jews can be found "conveniently" in one location.

This "convenience" means that latent and literal threats against Israel are clearer, more definitive and disturbingly deliberate than ever could have been the case during the Third Reich. While Hitler's "Final Solution" was ultimately kept secret until the 1942 Wannsee Conference, the leaders of Iran today have shared a public desire to see Israel "wiped off the map" for several decades. The authenticity of Iran's threat to Israel is embodied by Iran's repeated military parades of enormous Shahab-3 missiles draped with the words "Death to Israel" and "Death to America". These same missiles could quite literally be nuclear-tipped within the coming months.

As such, while US President Barack Obama and the EU actively pursue what are perceived to be "long overdue" negotiations with Iran, it is with an incredibly critical and cynical eye that Israel must view any supposed "progress" set to emerge from these talks. After years of blatant proof of Iran's evil intentions, virulent threats toward Israel, and covert military nuclear development, Israel holds much legitimate pessimism regarding any "progress" Iranians might package for the West inside further layers of deceit.

Imagine Adolf Hitler meeting with Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938 once again, but this time with the meeting hall decorated with enormous banners that read "Death to the Jews" and "JudenreinEurope" - only to have Chamberlain emerge from his talks with Hitler and announce "peace for our time" nonetheless. Warning signs and banners so visible before even entering negotiations would have led many to question the wisdom of negotiating with Hitler in the first place.

With the unfair advantage of hindsight, we know today that Chamberlain was at least a bit naive and that Hitler was a liar. However Chamberlain did not have enormous banners that plainly and grotesquely stated Hitler's goals when he entered into negotiations. In contrast, Western leaders, diplomats and concerned Israeli defence planners have had a panoply of warning signs about Iran's true intentions - signs that should stand the hairs up on the necks of any official possessing serious visions of finding a compromise with Iran this month.

No, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not exactly Hitler and Iran today is certainly not the military machine that 1938 Nazi Germany was, if one directly compares the two. What is true of this comparison, however - and inarguably so - is that the threats toward Israel that have already emerged from Iran are far more menacing than Hitler's ever were, given Iran's ongoing defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons technology and its already far-reaching missile capability.

It has been said that what Hitler took six years to accomplish against the Jews in World War II, Ahmadinejad could make happen in less than six minutes with a single nuclear-tipped missile launched from Iran. Others, including this writer, have argued that a more accurate time-frame might be just six seconds, were Iran able to smuggle a nuclear weapon to Hamas in the Gaza Strip for use directly against Israel.

US defence planners, intelligence officers and the State Department may shrug at the sight of "Death to America" banners hung on Iranian Shahab-3 missiles as generic anti-American bluster, but their Israeli counterparts simply cannot do the same, not when every single Israeli military facility is within striking distance of those same Iranian missiles. This is not to mention the entire physical landmass of Israel, which remains subject to random rocket attacks from Iran's Hamas and Hizbullah proxies.

Iran's anti-Israel rhetoric - be it from President Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khamenei, or various other crazed Iranian leaders - is not viewed by Israel the same way that the United States or the EU might more 'idealistically' interpret it; neither are Iranian President Ahmadinejad's repeated statements that the 'end is coming for Israel', his World Without Zionism conference, his multiple Holocaust denials and his purported desire to "wipe Israel off the map", as the former Ayatollah Khomeini stated.

To top off the absolute legitimacy of Israel's worst fears about Iran, Ahmadinejad's fanatical ravings about the coming "Hidden 12th Imam" at the UN General Assembly in September 2007 provided stark proof that Iran's leaders mean what they say, no matter how insane and provocative. Would any other national leader step on to the world stage to declare that the end of the world is coming, and that they expect it to happen "in the near future"?

Why, then, does President Obama entertain the prospect that Ahmadinejad might suddenly change his apocalyptic preparations for the supposed "return of the Hidden Imam"? Particularly after Iran's election fiasco and its suppression of protests, any dreams of reining in the reckless Iranian Republic should have been dashed for good. Obama's September 15th deadline for Iran to agree to negotiations could bear fruit for concerned Israelis hoping against hope, but Israel should not hold its breath.

Ultimately, it is the ruthless lethality of a single nuclear weapon, and the potential for its random, indiscriminate
Not since 1939 has a threat to the Jewish people been so obvious.
use against Israel, which is precisely why Israel - and Israel alone - must be prepared to act defensively in eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat. For if the United States stalls, and Obama pleads for more time and patience on Iran, the nuclear time-line will pass and Israel will be left with no choice but to unilaterally stop Iran.

Not since 1939 has a threat to the Jewish people been so obvious, so particular and so lethal. In light of the Jewish people's tragic past, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu recently stated that the lesson of the Holocaust is that evil must be "nipped in the bud". But just as the world held out hope for peace after the Munich Agreement in 1938, so too it might this September after negotiations with Iran.

Netanyahu cannot be assuaged by American and Iranian pleasantries. Seventy years after Hitler began his attempt to wipe them out, the Jewish people have the advantage of hindsight and the ghastly lessons of history to make the dreaded decision that will preserve Israel's future today. This future is why Israel will fight, even if it means fighting alone.