Edelstein: World Cannot be Silent about Iranian Threat

Public Information and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein said, Monday, that the world cannot be silent and do nothing about the Iranian nuclear threat. Speaking at a seminarat the YadVashem Holocaust memorial institution, markingthe 70th anniversary of the WannseeConference, when themurder of European Jewsby Nazi Germany was consolidated, the Likud lawmaker said, "...today,technologyhas changedso dramaticallythat there is no needto transport Jewsto the gas chambers.Today we candeliver weapons of  mass extermination ofJewsbya single missilewitha nuclear warheadthat couldbemoredestructiveto the Jewish peoplethanAuschwitz."

Referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he continued, "Today there is a crazy man openly threateningto destroy Israel.He must be stopped." Edelstein concluded, "Anti-Semitismstill existsin Europeandaround the world. The Internet hasmade it easierto spread hate and lies. Almost anyone canleada campaign of hatredandpropagandaagainst us.We expect you,the ambassadors,to stand up andfight theglobalphenomenonofanti-Semitism."