Netanyahu: Europe ‘has forgotten so much since the Holocaust’; it’s losing control of its identity and values

Europe today is “afflicted by deep moral weakness,” says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his address at Israel’s official Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, which this year is pre-recorded due to the security situation.

“Europe is losing control of its identity, of its values, of its responsibility to defend civilization against barbarism,” he says.

He says that Israel is defending Europe, “which has forgotten so much since the Holocaust.”

“It has much to learn from us,” he continues, “especially the essential lesson of the clear moral distinction between good and evil, which in moments of truth demands that we go to war for the sake of what’s good, for the sake of life.”

“Israel, on the other hand, doesn’t forget that eternal responsibility,” Netanyahu says.

“Along with the US, and along with other countries with which we are creating alliances that will be spoken about in the future, we are defending ourselves, we are defending the entire world,” he says, adding that “Israel stands with the United States at the forefront of the free world.”

He says that the two countries “have dealt a crushing blow to the evil regime in Iran” in their two joint operations in the past year.

“If we hadn’t acted [against Iran’s nuclear, missile and other military targets],” says Netanyahu, “the names Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Parchin would likely have been remembered with eternal dread, precisely like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Sobibor.”

Netanyahu continues: “But we did act, and how, with the historically unprecedented partnership with President Trump and the United States. On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we will remember that.”

“We are acting so that future generations will not ask with regret, ‘What if?'” he says.