“Wemust stop murderous hatred in its tracks, stop it right from thebeginning. All countries in the world must learn this lesson,”Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said during a speech atAuschwitz-Birkenau in honor of International Holocaust RemembranceDay on Wednesday afternoon.
The prime minister stated that the Jews had become sensitive to the need for self-defense after they had lost a third of theirpeople in what he termed "blood-soaked Europe."
"We learned that the only guarantee forthe protection of our people is the State of Israel and its army, theIDF,” he declared, warning that never again would the existence ofIsrael and the Jewish people be threatened.