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zum Holocaust Gedenktag:

Netanyahu at Auschwitz: Never again

“From the cursed ground at Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps rise the voices of our brothers and sisters, our people who choked to death and were burned and murdered,” said the prime minister, in English, wishing “decency, truth and hope ... for all mankind” before switching to Hebrew, “the language the Nazis sought to exterminate.”

He began his speech with the Aramaic words that open the Kaddish prayer - "yitgadal veyitkadash Shmeh Raba" - "may the name of G-d be grow great and be sanctified" - and said that the last words of many of the Jews who were murdered at Auschwitz were the call of "Shema Yisrael" - "Hear O Israel."

"I came here from Jerusalem to tell you that we will never forget," he said. "We will always remember what the Nazi Amalek did to us and we will not forget to be alert and ready when a new Amalek appears on the stage of history and threatens to destroy the Jews once again. And we will not make that mistake again, of taking the matter lightly and thinking that the threats are empty, or that the Holocaust denials are empty words. We will not forget and we will always remember to stand guard."

"The lesson of the Holocaust is that murderous evil must be stopped as early as possible when it is still in its early phases and cannot yet realize its intentions," Netanyahu said, in a clear allusion to Iran's nuclear threats. "This lesson must be internalized by all the world's enlightened nations. We, the Jewish people, internalized it well, after losing one third of our nation on the blood-soaked earth of Europe. We learned that we must be prepared to defend ourselves. We have learned that the only guarantee for the survival of our nation is a strong Israel and its army - the Israel Defense Force. We learned that we must alert the nations of the world and be prepared to defend ourselves."

"From this place I vow, as the head of the State of the Jews: never again will we let the machine of evil cut off the life of our nation. Never again."

“Am Yisrael Chai, we have returned to our homeland, to the land of our forefathers, to Jerusalem, our capital. We have converged from all corners of the world, Holocaust survivors, Arab Jews, Jews from former Soviet Union states, Ethiopian Jews,” Netanyahu said, choosing frosty Poland as the location for his rebuke to those who claim the Jewish population of Israel is comprised mostly of emigrants from Europe.

“We bow our heads in memory [of Holocaust victims] and raise our heads as our flag waves with its two blue stripes and the Star of David at its center. We still haven't lost our hope.”

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Sowie:

Israelischer Präsident hält bewegende Rede im Bundestag

Mit einer eindringlichen Rede hat der israelische Präsident Schimon Peres im Bundestag an die Opfer des Holocaust erinnert und die Bestrafung noch lebender NS-Verbrecher gefordert. Zugleich warnte er am Mittwoch in einer Gedenkstunde für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus vor „blutrünstigen Diktatoren“ mit Massenvernichtungswaffen im Iran. Der 86-jährige Friedensnobelpreisträger war nach Ezer Weizman und Mosche Katzav der dritte israelische Präsident, der vor dem Parlament sprach.

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und

Israels "Nie wieder" gilt heute vor allem dem Iran

Bewegender Auftritt im Reichstag: Schimon Peres hat in seiner Rede eine direkte Verbindung vom Holocaust zur Gründung des Staates Israel bis zur heutigen Bedrohung des jüdischen Staates durch das iranische Atomprogramm gezogen. Der Kanzlerin dankte der israelische Präsident für ein deutliches Bekenntnis

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