Iran’s threat to obliterate Jews should sound familiar

I respond to last Saturday’s Dispatch article “A gripping way to count 6M slain,” about the history teacher at Gahanna Lincoln High School who assigned her students the task of soliciting paper clips from various people in order for her class to gain some perspective on the numerical figure 6 million, i.e. the number of Jews Adolf Hitler exterminated up to and during World War II.

I thought of the oft-repeated phrase “Never again,” which refers to the sentiment hoped for and expressed by so many following the Holocaust.

The same day, I read in The Dispatch that Iran has violated a June 9, 2010, United Nations Security Council resolution that “imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran,” forbidding it to develop ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons (“Iran missile test violated sanctions, envoy says,” Associated Press article).

The United States confirmed that on Oct. 10, Iran tested just such a missile. Not withstanding the fact that the nuclear deal, which our State Department signed, essentially allows Iran to monitor itself, and the fact that Iran has broken every treaty it has ever agreed to, is the inescapable fact that 15 years after the nuclear treaty was signed in July, Iran has absolutely no obligation whatsoever to abide by the terms of the accord.

Radical Muslim thought as it exists today and has existed for centuries demands the extermination of the Jewish people, and by all accounts Iranian leadership surely falls in that category.

No choices that an individual or a nation make are made in a vacuum, and I can’t help but think that the

6 million paper clips collected by the students at Gahanna Lincoln and the possible proliferation of nuclear weapons by Iran and the ability to deliver them share a connection that should concern all citizens who truly believe in the mantra, “Never again.”

JIM VINEY

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