The Abuse of History and the Iranian Bomb
Saturated with their often tragic history, Jews tend to pay great reverence to the past. But the past, when not handled with care, can be the enemy of the future and distort perceptions of current challenges, which is certainly the case with Israeli leaders' insistence on comparing the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran to the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust.
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TEL AVIV – Saturated with their often tragic history, Jews tend to pay great reverence to the past. But the past, especially when not handled with care, can be the enemy of the future and distort our reading of the challenges of the present. This is certainly the case with the analogy that Israeli leaders insist on drawing between the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust and the threat posed to the Jewish state by a nuclear-armed Iran.