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Monday 24 april 2017

On Holocaust day, Netanyahu says its lessons guide him

IAN DEITCH province. On Monday morn-
Associated Press Netanyahu said Israel ing, Israel will come
JERUSALEM (AP) — is also not apathetic to a standstill as sirens
Prime Minister Ben- to the suffering in Syr- wail for two minutes in
jamin Netanyahu ia and pointed out the morning. Pedes-
opened Israel’s an- that Israel has helped trians typically stop in
nual memorial day for thousands of wound- their tracks, and cars
the 6 million Jews sys- ed Syrians who reach and buses halt on the
tematically killed by its northern frontier, streets while drivers
Nazi Germany and its providing them with and passengers step
collaborators during medical treatment in out of their vehicles to
World War II by saying hospitals in Israel. stand with their heads
the lessons of the Holo- President Reuven Riv- bowed.
caust guide him daily lin took a different ap- Other ceremonies
and issuing a warning proach in his remarks. on the solemn day
to Israel’s enemies not People visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Sun- He said although the include the public
to test it. day, April 23, 2017. Israel is marking the annual Holocaust Re- Holocaust is “perma- reading of names of
The Nazis and their col- membrance Day beginning at sunset Sunday. nently branded in our Holocaust victims at Is-
laborators wiped out Associated Press flesh” it “is not the lens rael’s parliament and
a third of world Jewry through which we elsewhere around the
and Netanyahu’s re- “every morning and around the world from should examine our country.An annual
marks illustrated how every evening.” Cambodia to Sudan past and our future.” report by Tel Aviv Uni-
decades later the Ho- Netanyahu said Israel and now Syria. The Israeli flag was versity on worldwide
locaust is still a central has transformed itself However, Netanyahu lowered to half-mast anti-Semitism released
part of Israel’s psyche. into a strong nation said, “amid the dark- at the beginning of a few hours ahead of
The state of Israel was with one of the “stron- ness” there are some the ceremony Sunday the ceremony said vi-
established just three gest defensive forc- “points of light.” evening as a military olent attacks on Jews
years after the end of es in the world” and Among them he said honor guard stood dropped for a second
the war and hundreds warned “those that was U.S. President Don- nearby. straight year in 2016,
of thousands of survi- seek to destroy us will ald Trump’s “deter- Psalms and the Jew- but other forms of an-
vors made their way put themselves in dan- mined answer to the ish prayer for the dead ti-Semitism are on the
here. ger of destruction.” slaughter of the Syrian were recited at the rise worldwide, partic-
Speaking at the at World powers knew children by chemical podium. Six survivors lit ularly on U.S. university
the main ceremony of the mass destruc- weapons.” He was re- six symbolic torches to campuses.
at the Yad Vashem tion of Jews already in ferring to the U.S. mis- commemorate the 6 There was a 45 per-
Holocaust memorial, 1942 and if allies would sile strike earlier this million dead. cent rise in anti-Semitic
Netanyahu said Isra- have intervened by month on a Syrian air The annual memorial incidents, mostly insults
el’s arch-enemy Iran, bombing the death base the U.S. believed day is one of the most and harassment of
as well as the Islamic camps millions of peo- to be the launching solemn on Israel’s cal- Jewish students, on U.S.
State group, are “pub- ple could have been pad for a chemical endar. Places of enter- university campuses,
licly striving to destroy saved, Netanyahu weapons attack on tainment and restau- the report said. These
us.” said. civilians that killed doz- rants shut their doors were usually con-
Netanyahu said the He said that although ens. and TV stations either nected to increased
lesson of the Holo- there hasn’t been any- Syrian President Bashar cease broadcasting anti-Israel activities by
caust is that “we must thing on the scale and Assad has strongly or dedicate program- pro-Palestinian groups
be able to defend scope of the Holo- denied he was be- ming almost exclusive- on campus, said Dina
ourselves by ourselves caust since World War hind the attack in the ly to Holocaust docu- Porat, a historian who
against all threats and II, the world has mostly opposition-held town mentaries, interviews leads the team of re-
any enemy.” He said stood by and not inter- of Khan Sheikhoun in with survivors and mel- searchers behind the
this lesson guides him vened in mass killings Syria’s northern Idlib ancholy music. report.q