“The year is 1938 and Iran is Germany,” Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly warned—and is likely to warn again during his visit to Washington next Monday.
The Israeli prime minister is invoking the lessons of history to make the strongest possible case against Iran, even if that means deliberately overstating the putative equivalency between that country and Nazi Germany. With President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime steadily moving closer to acquiring nuclear weapons while continuing to encourage its followers to chant “Death to Israel,” Netanyahu can hardly be blamed for taking those threats seriously."
from world policy.....
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