Uri Avnery, at his best, says that Shimon Peres trivialized the Holocaust by saying Iran is the equivalent of Nazi Germany and that the Netanyahu government doesn't believe that Iran is an existential threat.
President Barack Obama is now saying to Israel: Put an end to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is a precondition for the
elimination of the threat to Israel. When the Palestinians, and the
entire Arab world, make peace with Israel – Iran will not be able to
exploit the conflict for the furthering of its interests….
The refusal of Netanyahu-Lieberman-Barak to accept this demand shows
the insincerity of their arguments about Iran. If they really believed
that Iran posed an existential menace, they would hurry to dismantle
the settlements, demolish the outposts and make peace. That would,
after all, be a small price to pay for the elimination of an
existential danger. Their refusal proves that the entire existential
story is a bluff.
