Two options for Congress:
The best option is for Congress to reject Obama’s disastrous deal with Iran leading to a second Holocaust. Less than a week before US joined world powers in surrendering to the skilled bargaining of professional Persian rug merchants in Vienna, the Iranian president led a screaming mob chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” as they marched on a Teheran boulevard carpeted with flags of Israel and US. Why does Obama refuse to believe what the Iranian mullahs say over and over again?
The second option is for Congress to couple approving the
deal with a genocidal regime that really means what it says with allocating
funds to double the size of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the
next six million Jews in Israel incinerated by Iranian nuclear bombs.
Congress unanimously voted in 1980 to establish the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum on land allocated adjacent to the Washington
Monument. In 1988, President Ronald
Reagan helped lay the cornerstone of the building designed by the architect
James Ingo Freed who came to the United States from Germany in 1939 at the age
of nine with his parents fleeing the Nazi regime that murdered six million Jews
of Europe. President Bill Clinton spoke
at the dedication ceremonies at the opening of the museum in 1993 promising
“Never Again!”
In the tradition of Picasso’s Guernica extended into
networked times, I created this Future Holocaust Memorial blog as an artwork that acts as a wake-up
call to prevent a second Holocaust. Congress has the power to act before Iran
executes its plan to wipe Israel off the map with a nuclear bomb as its prelude
to global conquest. Ten years have passed since this blog was created! Never Again?
As an artist whose artworks are in the collections of forty museums
worldwide, I propose collaborating with architect James Ingo Freed in doubling
the size of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum now. It took 13 years between Congressional approval
and the opening of the museum. 13 years
from now, Iran will have no restrictions on building nuclear bombs and
ballistic missiles that can reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
On second thought, perhaps it is futile to double the size of
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Iran’s missiles with nuclear warheads will also be able to reach
Washington and New York. The ayatollah’s
insane poetic mind will create mushroom clouds bursting forth from the Capitol
Rotunda and the Freedom Tower on 9/11/2028.
Published in The Times of Israel. July 26, 2015.
ZOA Agrees With Huckabee -- Iran Deal Could Lead To
Holocaust-Like Massacre of Jews
Holocaust Analogy Acceptable When Jewish State Threatened
With Nuclear Annihilation
NEW YORK, July 27,
2015 --- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has supported former
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee remarking on the disastrous Iranian nuclear
deal with Iran, that it would "take the Israelis and march them to the
door of the oven" (Peter Baker, 'Obama Criticizes Huckabee, Trump, Cruz
and Other Republicans,' New York Times).
The ZOA agrees with Governor Huckabee that this Iran deal
could lead to a Holocaust-like massacre of the Jews. In such circumstances,
when the Jewish state is threatened with nuclear annihilation, a Holocaust
analogy such as Governor Huckabee used is acceptable and not out of place.
Indeed, as Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu observed earlier this year during an address
at Yad Vashem that, "Democracies cannot turn their eyes away from the
dictatorships of the world that seek to spread their influence... ahead of
World War II, the world attempted to appease the Nazis. They wanted quiet at
any price, and the terrible price did come... Just as the Nazis aspired to
crush civilization and to establish a 'master race' as ruler of the world while
annihilating the Jewish people, so too does Iran strive to gain control over
the region and then spread further, with the explicit intent of obliterating
the Jewish state."
As a leading authority on radical Islamic movements, Steve
Emerson, said at last week's New York City rally against this nuclear deal,
"If we don't take out Iran, they will take out us ... if you don't your
children will never forgive you -- never forgive you for not protecting this
country from a holocaust. For not protecting the state of Israel from a
holocaust that will occur assuredly just as it did 70 years ago."
This is also why the cry of 'Never again' and the buttons of
'Never again is now' have featured prominently in rallies opposed to the this
nuclear deal. Clearly, there is broad appreciation of the fact that this Iran
nuclear agreement can facilitate a Holocaust against the Jewish state.
ZOA National
President Morton A. Klein said, "The ZOA has generally criticized
Holocaust analogies, because they usually bear no relation to unique horrors of
the Nazi era -- the era in which European Jews were rendered defenseless and
unaided prior to their slaughter in millions by the Nazis and their cohorts.
"Tragically, empowering with an eventual nuclear
weapons capacity -- as this deal does, and as President Barack Obama himself
has admitted -- an Iranian regime that has repeatedly spoken of wiping out the
Jewish state of Israel does bear some relationship to the Nazi era and Governor
Huckabee, therefore, did not speak out of place.
"Four days after
this deal was signed, the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed a
rally, at which people chanted 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel,' and
said, 'You heard "Death to Israel", "Death to the US" ...
The whole of the nation, you could hear, that was covered by this great
movement. So we ask Almighty God to accept these prayers by the people of
Iran.'
"It was of
course also Khamenei who said just as plainly last year: 'This barbaric,
wolflike & infanticidal regime of Israel which spares no crime has no cure
but to be annihilated.' He also said that Israel is 'doomed to extinction' and
that it is a 'bastard, illegitimate regime.'
"The Iranian president, Hasan Rouhani, has said, 'The
Zionist regime is an enemy nation and I pledge we will find a way to achieve
Ayatollah Khomeini's long-term goal to ensure that Israel ceases to exist.'
"In July, former
Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani said, "The presence of the Israeli
regime is temporary ... [it will be] will be wiped off the map.'
"Only in April,
General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the head of the Basij paramilitary forces, said
said, 'The destruction of Israel is non-negotiable.'
"The Khameni-related
Iranian website Alef has published a Shia Islamic doctrinal statement, written
by Khamenei's strategy specialist, Alireza Forqani, which claims
'jurisprudential justification' to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel. Forqani
has also written in detail about destroying Israel's major population centers
with missiles 'until the final annihilation of the people of Israel.'
"The Iranian Chief of Staff, Major-General Hassan
Firouzabadi, has said that 'the Iranian nation is standing for its cause, which
is the full annihilation of Israel.'
"An Iranian
regime that believes in, works for, prioritizes -- and, indeed, goes further
than the Nazis in trumpeting publicly -- its genocidal intentions will be
tempted to act on them if it acquires nuclear weapons.
"This is, after all, a radical Shia regime which
believes in the return of the Mahdi, the hidden Imam after a cataclysmic war.
The Tehran regime has built highways to welcome the returning Mahdi. Iran holds
massive war drills entitled, 'Towards Jerusalem.' The preamble to the Iranian
Constitution, the constitutive document of his radical Shia regime, declares
the hope that Iran witness the establishment of universal 'holy' government and
the downfall of all others.
"It is only to be expected that President Obama and his
minions will try and put the sunniest construction on the deal they have signed
with the radical, terror-sponsoring Islamic Republic of Iran and try and shoot
the messenger whenever someone points out publicly just how infamously bad this
deal actually is, given how terrible this regime actually is.
"Yet there is no evading the fact that, at best, Iran
will become a nuclear power in a little over a decade. Of course, if it cheats
on this agreement -- as is likely, given the history of its nuclear weapons
program and given also the absence of disincentives, such as fictitious
'snap-back' sanctions -- Iran could become a nuclear power even sooner
"There is a bipartisan Israeli consensus on this. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Labor Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog, former
left-wing Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, left-wing Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid
have all spoken clearly in opposition to this deal, and with good reason: the
deal makes all but certain a radical Islamic Iran, armed with the nuclear
weapons, which has placed the destruction of Israel as one of its top
priorities.
"Governor
Huckabee is therefore speaking the truth, as have others who have described the
danger for Israel as being existential.”
"When Hitler
spoke in January 1939 of 'the end of the Jews' of Europe, few believed that
genocidal intentions lay behind these words. We see similar disbelief now, even
though Iranian leaders are saying this explicitly -- not once, but all the
time.
"As a child of
Holocaust survivors, born in a DP camp in Germany after the War, recent
developments are the most chilling I have witnessed in my lifetime.
"Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the
Shoah. Six million Jews of Israel could be endangered in the near future by
Iranian nuclear-tipped missiles. If Iran drops nuclear bombs on Israel, that
will be another Shoah, G-d forbid.
"There is a sovereign Israel today and Israel can, and
might be compelled to, act. But the danger it will be reacting to is
existential.
"We wish it were true that Governor Huckabee is
exaggerating the risk to Israel and the Jewish people. Unfortunately, he is
not."
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