By Marney Blom
Today it is Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. From my 14th floor Jerusalem office window, I could hear the air-raid siren, see the cars stopping and the people standing at attention in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Last night Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reminded the nation of it’s obligation to remember the events of the past. He urged the nation to take seriously the Iranian threat, calling the modern state “a generation that once again is faced with calls to annihilate the Jewish State.” He recalled Zev Jabotinsky’s words of warning to the Polish Jews in 1938 – a plea to leave Poland before it was too late.
“It is already three years that I am calling upon you, Polish Jewry, who are the crown of world Jewry. I continue to warn you incessantly that a catastrophe is coming closer. I became grey and old in these years, my heart bleeds that you, dear brother and sisters, do not see the volcano which will soon begin to spit its all-consuming lava … I see that you are not seeing this because you are immersed and sunk in your daily worries … Listen to me in this twelfth hour, in the name of G-d! Let anyone of you save himself, as long as there is still time, and time there is very little.”
Sadly, few Polish Jews heeded Jabotinsky’s warnings. More than three million perished in the Holocaust.
It appears that the prime minister of Israel is determined to do his part in perpetuating the sounding of the alarm. Iran is an existential threat to Israel that cannot be ignored.
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