Letters to the Editor,
Jerusalem
Post, July 10, 2019
That’s one small step for Iran
So the question is not whether Israel is going to preempt;
the question is only when.
MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC
Regarding “Iran’s nuclear
enrichment game” (July 9), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said World War II
began in Europe “when Nazi Germany took one small step – to enter the Rhineland
[in 1936]. A small step. No one said anything and no one did anything. The next
step was the Anschluss, the connection with Austria [annexation of Austria in
March 1938], and the next step was entering the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
[October 1938]. And the rest is known.”
Netanyahu knows what is at stake. According to Ari Shavit’s article from 2012, “A few years ago Netanyahu held an in-depth discussion with Middle East expert Bernard Lewis. At the end of the talk, he was convinced that if the ayatollahs obtained nuclear weapons, they would use them. Since that day, Netanyahu seems convinced that we are living out a rerun of the 1930s.”
Netanyahu knows what is at stake. According to Ari Shavit’s article from 2012, “A few years ago Netanyahu held an in-depth discussion with Middle East expert Bernard Lewis. At the end of the talk, he was convinced that if the ayatollahs obtained nuclear weapons, they would use them. Since that day, Netanyahu seems convinced that we are living out a rerun of the 1930s.”
MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC
Beersheba
