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"80 Years Ago a Radical Militant Movement Denigrated the Jewish People as a Cancer to Be Cut Out"
(Times of Israel) Amb. Michael Oren - Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren spoke at the U.S. Capitol Thursday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day: "Human history is rife with atrocities, massacres, and wars, but nothing can be equated with the enormity of the Holocaust. It is profoundly, unbearably, unique....Imagine if one-third of the Jewish people had not been annihilated. Imagine the doctors, the researchers, and the artists. Imagine the grandchildren and great-grandchildren flourishing throughout the world today. That is what we mean when we pledge 'Never Again.'" "Eighty years ago, the world was scarcely in the mood for confrontation. People were weary from the devastating losses of a recent war. Economies were in crisis. Unemployment was high, foreclosures commonplace." "Meanwhile, a radical militant movement dreamt of regional and global domination. Headed by a Supreme Leader, the movement burnt books and crushed its democratic opponents. It amassed vast arsenals of advanced weaponry and invaded neighboring countries....The movement denigrated the Jewish people as a cancer that had to be cut out. Today, too, there is such a radical regime - in Iran." "We must never equate the Holocaust with any other event but we also must never let it recur."