Elie Wiesel challenges Obama over Iran and Syria

Published April 23, 2012 3:58pm ET



Author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel challenged President Obama over the ongoing existence of the Iranian and Syrian dictatorships, as he warned that Israel must have the ability to defend itself from a second Holocaust.


Wiesel, while introducing Obama at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, suggested that world leaders have not “learned anything” from the failure to prevent the Holocaust in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

“How is it that Assad is still in power?” the Nobel Laureate asked. “How is is that the Holocaust’s number one denier, Ahmadinejad, is still a president? He who threatens to use nuclear weapons — to use nuclear weapons — to destroy the Jewish state. Have we not learned? We must. We must know that when evil has power, it is almost too late.”

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