Netanyahu Warns of Impending Iranian Holocaust

In his Holocaust Memorial Day remarks, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned of Iran’s plans for “another Holocaust: the destruction of the state of Israel.” Speaking before the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, he vowed not to underestimate the threat posed by Iran. Netanyahu said the first and foremost mission of the Jewish state was to prevent Iran from going nuclear. The Israeli premier also warned of the risk of Syria’s chemical weapons falling into the hands of Hizbullah terrorists based in Lebanon as the Damascus regime continues to be battered by opposition forces in a two-year old civil war that has left more than 60,000 Syrians dead. Netanyahu’s remarks were not without political overtones in the immediate aftermath of the national election that saw his Likud party fare much more poorly than predicted. Now in the process of cobbling together a coalition broad enough to withstand the traditional threats by coalition partners to leave and “bring down” the government when decisions do not go their way, Netanyahu is stressing the external threats to the country as impetus for parties to the left of his own to enter the government.