Netanyahu Asserts 4 Million Lives Could Have Been Saved During WWII Had Allies Acted Sooner


Germany under Hitler and his Nazis can be remember for some awful atrocities, but it’s hard to imagine any worse that the extermination of six million Jews. Those who lived through that horror bear testimony to the hideous persecution the Jews experienced.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the awful point that this atrocity could have been reduced had the Allies acted on information known in advance as to what was happening to the Jews in Nazi Germany.

The prime minister cited newly released documents from the UN that show the Allied forces were aware of the extent of the Holocaust in 1942 – two and half years earlier than previously assumed.

It was a “chilling revelation,” Netanyahu said.

“If the powers in 1942 had acted against the death camps — and all that was needed was repeated bombing of the camps — had they acted then, they could have saved four million Jews and millions of other people,” he said at the official state Yom HaShoah ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

“When terrible crimes were being committed against the Jews, when our brothers and sisters were being sent to the furnaces,” he said, “the powers knew and did not act.”

Mr. Netanyahu believes that complacency continues today, although the level of persecution is nothing like that during World War II.

“True, since World War II there has not been a tragedy similar in scope to the Holocaust,” he said. “But there are many cases where the world stood aside and did not prevent genocide or mass murder: in Biafra, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan and also in Syria.”

He noted one “ray of light” in the “determined response of President [Donald] Trump to the slaughter of Syrian children with chemical weapons.”

Mr. Netanyahu doesn’t believe in relying on others to save the Jewish people.

The lesson of the Holocaust, he said, “is that we must be able to defend ourselves, by ourselves, against any threat, against any enemy.”

Source: Breitbart



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