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(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke on Monday at a special Knesset session in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day.  “The Jewish people will never again be homeless and powerless as it was during the Holocaust,” Olmert said. 

He went on to say that Israel is unusually sensitive to threats of destruction, and would not remain silent in the face of calls for its annihilation.  Olmert implied that Iranian leaders who have called for Israel’s destruction are similar to the Nazi leaders of the Holocaust, and called on the international community to take action against “the ominous, peace-threatening shadow.”