Submitted by Gil Borman, Jul 9, 2007 13:58

The author is only half right: the US Memorial centers are making the exact same mistake of the Jewish community of the 40s, complacency and silence in the face openly expressed calls for genocide. They are afraid to rock the boat.

Why has the US not threatened Europe's banks with forfeiture and seizure of assets if they fail to cut off funds to Iran?

Why is Congress and the administration cravenly silent about Iran killing our troops in Iraq? America has done nothing about this regime for 37 years and never paid them back for the American blood they spilled. They threaten free speech with the Rushdie fatwa and we pretend its an encyclical on day to day Islamic life instead of Hitler-like mortal threat to our liberties.

The current President Iran has stated he felt a green glow about him when he spoke in the well at the UN,; he seems to be the only one who saw it, the cameras missed it, meanwhile he is close to getting the bomb and the whole world has its head in the sand. Positions of global leadership and weakened ability to perceive reality combine poorly with nuclear weapons.

Europe thinks they can appease away a regime that sent 1 million people to deaths in a war; they never talk about the consequences of what will happen if they are wrong. They are as indifferent, as Europe has always been about the Jews; as they were in 1938. They like their billion dollar contracts with the Ayatollahs more than the trouble it takes to keep promises made to the Jewish people after their last failure.

All of this is the product of craven US Jewish leadership, politicians and Holocaust Memorial groups refusing to see Iran and Ahmedinejad and call them for what they are. They need to be screaming loud and clear: it looks like a Hitler, it walks like a Hitler, it talks like a Hitler, if they act like a Hitler the Jewish people may well cease to exist. In nuclear matters there are no second chances.

Every day we are silent and refuse to act, the price goes up.

The Darfur threat is possible because of the indifference of the world to Iran not the other way around but the failure to act on Darfur is a sure warning to the Jewish people that we are on our own- this time, like last time, we cannot count on anyone acting.

I would love to see George Bush stand up and issue an ultimatum to Iran but he seems a defeated man of late, another victim of life in the Oval Office.

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