Ephraim Sneh Quotes
When someone says that we will wipe out the Jews, we have to deny him the tools.
The Iranian President has said publicly that Iran would wipe Israel off the face of the map. Iranian politicians and the public constantly clamor for death to Israelis and for that matter all Jews. Although not all Iranian politicians agree with the desirability or morality of such a policy, the nation was openly trying to enrich uranium and plutonium which are the key ingredients to atomic weapons. Israel is within missile range of Iran and sees Iran as an existential threat which justifies preemption as they did to stop Syrian and Iraqi nuclear development.
Ephraim Sneh, Israeli General & Deputy Defense Minister, Interview with Jeffery Goldberg, ‘Israel is getting ready to bomb Iran”, The Atlantic, September 2010
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The Nazis and most of the Arabs were allies in WWII. The Jews of Palestine—although they were opposed to many of the British policies regarding Palestine—were active in the Allied cause contributing units to the British Army. Although the Germans were brutal to civilians, murdering millions, they refrained from public pronouncements or exhortations to kill civilians in most cases. The Arabs did not. The Mufti was actually given the rank of General in the Nazi SS and had his own SS unit. In this despicable exhortation he actually uses a concept and wording from the Koran. See {584355}. This quotation is important in that it refutes a common claim by some Palestinians that it was only the Germans who were responsible for the Holocaust and the post war Jewish Refugee problem and that the Palestinians had to bear the price rather than place Israel in Europe. This quotation and the other by the Grand Mufti prove that Palestinians were not only complicit in persecution of Jews but took a leadership and advocacy role.
After the Holocaust and the rest of the Nazi era horrors, German leaders have led the way in trying to eliminate any anti-Semitism that emerges in Germany, and the German culture and attitudes have changed dramatically for the better.
This observation, made to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, is more generally true of hate speech and invective towards others.
He thought that the Israeli policy of dealing with Arab terrorism was too weak. His view was that the same kind of terror practiced by some Arab terrorist groups, without regard to the lives of innocent civilians, should be adopted by Israel. His view was that since Israel was accused of terrorism when it had measured, pinpoint targeting of terrorists, especially when there was unintended collateral damage, Israel might as well adopt real terrorism that would be much more effective by having the entire Arab population in fear of their life rather than just being inconvenienced or even humiliated. He violated Israeli law and was even jailed for making terrorism plans.
There will never be another Holocaust in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again!
Prime Minister Lloyd Geroge actually had used the phrase over half a century earlier. See {603047} The Jewish Defense League used Begin’s phrase as a motto: {605148}
These kinds of inflammatory sermons are delivered with the approval of the king and royal family who crack down on any cleric who preaches what they do not approve of.
Efraim Sneh is an Israeli politician, physician, and a retired Brigadier General in the Israel Defense Forces. He was a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 1992 and 2008 and served in several ministerial posts. He currently heads the Yisrael Hazaka party, which he established in May 2008.
