During the month of Elul, when Jews around the world prepare for the High Holidays, we were treated to a special New Year’s greeting from Iran’s leaders. Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Israel, “a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off.” President Ahmadinejad told the world, “Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the annihilation of the Zionist regime.”
You don’t have to lecture Israel about the horrors of war. Israelis have been forced to send their sons and daughters to fight in 6 wars for only one reason; her neighbors’ unwillingness to see a Jewish flag fly over a miniscule piece of her ancestral homeland.
This is not a new threat. The Iranian regime has consistently been calling for Israel’s destruction. But now, they are on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons, which is a threat to every country, and yet the world still wants to wait – just as they were willing to wait on Hitler. Had the world listened to Churchill’s warnings in the 1930’s, we could have avoided the catastrophe of the 1940’s – World War II and the Holocaust.
Israel cannot wait like America or England. She is not separated by an ocean or sea. She has nowhere to hide. The Ayatollah will not change his mind. It is we who must change ours. The leaders of the Western world should return the greeting and tell Iran, in plain language, “give up your nuclear weapons program or we will join Israel in wiping out your nuclear capacity.” And don’t expect anything from the United Nations. It's saving a prominent place at the podium of the General Assembly this month for none other than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Rabbi Marvin Hier
SWC Dean & Founder
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