Head of Iran’s hate cartoon fest equates Holocaust with Israeli actions in ‘Palestine’

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2. Netanyahu lashes out at Iran for 'mocking' Holocaust in cartoon contest

Source: Associated Press

Netanyahu lashes out at Iran for 'mocking' Holocaust in cartoon contest

Associated Press in Jerusalem
Sunday 15 May 2016 14.12 BST

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during the second world war. The Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one, he said.

A State Department spokesman, traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry in Saudi Arabia, expressed US concern about the contest, saying it should be “condemned by the authorities and civil society leaders rather than encouraged”.

Iran has long backed armed groups committed to Israel’s destruction and its leaders have called for it to be wiped off the map. Israel fears that Iran’s nuclear program is designed to threaten its very existence.

But Netanyahu said Israel opposed not only Iran’s belligerent policies, but its values.

“It denies the Holocaust, it mocks the Holocaust and it is also preparing another Holocaust,” Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet meeting. “I think that every country in the world must stand up and fully condemn this.”

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