"The manner in which the Americans relate to the intelligence report on Iran is similar to the way in which they viewed those reports they received during the Holocaust on railways transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death at Auschwitz," Minister Yitzhak Cohen of Shas said during a security cabinet meeting Sunday morning on the Iranian nuclear issue. Full Story
I’m not all too familiar with how America handled initially being told about Auschwitz, but I don’t see how a report supported by in-depth investigation could compare. Unless, of course, officials actually went to Auschwitz, like they did Iran, and still denied witnessing any atrocities. If that was the case, it would behoove Yitzhak to make that correlation between the two instances in his speech. Therefore, I feel he's just pulling out the Holocaust Card; between that and the 911 Card, we’ll be up to our hair follicles in war by 2009.
