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Netanyahu in Berlin: "Those Who Call for the Destruction of the Jewish People Cannot Go Unchallenged"
[Prime Minister's Office] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to Berlin Thursday: "There are two lessons [from the Holocaust]. The first lesson is that we cannot allow them to prepare the mass death of innocents and that the most important thing to do is to nip it at the bud. It was possible to stop it in time. It did not happen because the main civilized powers of the day did not act in time to stop the arming of barbarism, and armed barbarism knows no limits. It has to be disarmed in time for human lives to be saved and for civilization's future to be secured." "This lesson joins another one and that is that it is important for the Jews to have the power to defend themselves; but it is also important for the leaders of other nations to recognize that their own fate is imperiled by those who threaten our fate, and therefore that they have to act in time." "We cannot allow those who wish to perpetrate mass death, those who call for the destruction of the Jewish people or the Jewish state, to go unchallenged. This is the most important lesson that we draw from the Holocaust."