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05/03/2008: "Anti Iran rhetoric on holocaust remembrance day"

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi said Thursday that on this Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel takes very seriously the calls for its destruction.

Ashkenazi addressed 12,000 people at the March of the Living ceremony in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, saying "in these days, as we celebrate 60 years of independence, the fact that an independent Jewish state exists is not something to be taken for granted. Even today, we hear the horrible sounds of those who call for the destruction of the state of Israel. Even today we are forced to continue and fight for our right to have a national home in a safe place for the Jewish people in their own land. We have learned our lesson and we take very seriously the threats of state leaders who call for the destruction of Israel."

[ If Israel would stop trying to make war with everyone, I'm sure something could be worked out allowing the mutual existence of both Iran and Israel... ]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/979478.html