IF THE JEWS OF ISRAEL ARE TO BE SAVED, THEY HAVE TO SAVE THEMSELVES

When the Nazis exterminated six million Jews, the world stood by and did nothing. The Iranian religious and political leadership has vowed to wipe Israel off the map. With the likelihood that Iran is close to producing a nuclear bomb and may already have a missile that can deliver it to Tel Aviv, history tells us that the Jewish state cannot depend on others - including its closest ally, the United States - to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons.

ISRAEL FACES ANOTHER HOLOCAUST
By Ben Stein

CBS News
April 8, 2012

It's Passover. This is a major Jewish holiday that marks what the Bible cites as miraculous salvation of the Jewish people from enemies bent on exterminating them.

At many services in people's homes and at synagogues, prayers will be recited which proclaim that in every generation, enemies of the Jews arise to kill the Jews, but God always saves the Jews in the end.

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About 75 years ago, enemies of the Jewish people rose up in the form of the Nazis in Europe and their many eager helpers, from France to Russia. Their hands were not stayed. In the cruelest imaginable ways, they basically wiped out the Jews of Europe - a staggering six million men, women and children. That was roughly half of the Jews on Earth.

Basically, the world did nothing to save them.

So, the Jews of this world know, as only a few other groups know, that the absolute worst that can be imagined CAN happen.

They also know that the mere word of the world means very little in terms of actual action, except for the United States of America, the only nation that has ever stood up for Jews in a meaningful way since World War II, or maybe ever.

Now, Israel is threatened with another Holocaust as Iran races towards building a nuclear bomb and missiles to deliver it to Israel. The mullahs and other men who rule Iran have explicitly promised to wipe Israel off the map. Israel is a tiny country, and one nuclear bomb detonated over Tel Aviv would indeed make another Holocaust.

If you wonder why Israel may be planning to strike Iran pre-emptively, you have only to go back two generations - the wink of an eye.

It is all fine to urge patience on Israel, to assure Israel that sanctions maybe will work.

"Maybe" is not good enough.

The Israeli Jews - the children and grandchildren of the wretched survivors of the Holocaust - cannot accept "maybe." They have learned the hard way that here on Earth, there have not been many Passovers for a long time.

If they are to be saved, they have to save themselves.