Opposition blasts PM’s Holocaust comparisons

07.03.2012                      13.Adar. 5772                      Fasttag Esther

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Opposition blasts PM's Holocaust comparisons

"Israel is not about to be destroyed, not every enemy is Hitler and not every problem is Auschwitz," Gal-On says.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s political foes chastised him on Tuesday for comparing Israel’s current situation to that of European Jews ahead of World War II, in his address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference.
In his speech, Netanyahu displayed copies of letters exchanged between the World Jewish Congress and the US War Department at the height of the Holocaust in 1944, which implored the US government to bomb Auschwitz….