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Israel faces nuclear Holocaust warns Gingrich
Newt Gingrich: Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem facing mortal Iranian threat,
says former US Speaker of the House; emphasizes 'three nuclear weapons
are a second Holocaust'
Yaakov Lappin Published: 01.23.07, 19:51
The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust, former
US Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned the
Herzliya Conference held by the Institute for Policy and Strategy at
IDC Herzliya on Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, he said, the United
States could lose a few million people or a number of cities to a
terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction.
Gingrich, who addressed the conference via satellite from the United
States, said he thought Israel's existence was under threat again for
the first time in 40 years.
"Israel is in the greatest danger it has been in since 1967. Prior to
'67, many wondered if Israel would survive. After '67, Israel seemed
military dominant, despite the '73 war. I would say we are (now) back
to question of survival," Gingrich said.
He added that the United States could "lose two or three cities to
nuclear weapons, or more than a million to biological weapons."
Gingrich added that in such a scenario, "freedom as we know it will
disappear, and we will become a much grimmer, much more militarized,
dictatorial society."
"Three nuclear weapons are a second Holocaust," Gingrich declared,
adding: "People are greatly underestimating how dangerous the world is
becoming. I'll repeat it, three nuclear weapons are a second Holocaust.
Our enemies are quite explicit in their desire to destroy us. They say
it publicly? We are sleepwalking through this process as though it's
only a problem of communication," Gingrich said.
The former House speaker expressed concern that the Israeli and
American political establishments were not fully equipped to take stock
of the current threat level.
"Our enemies are fully as determined as Nazi Germany, and more
determined that the Soviets. Our enemies will kill us the first chance
they get. There is no rational ability to deny that fact. It's very
clear that the problems are larger and more immediate than the
political systems in Israel or the US are currently capable of dealing
with," said Gingrich.
'Time to come to grips with threat'
"We don't have right language, goals, structure, or operating speed, to
defeat our enemies. My hope is that being this candid and direct, I
could open a dialogue that will force people to come to grips with how
serious this is, how real it is, how much we are threatened. If that
fails, at least we will be intellectually prepared for the correct
results once we have lost one or more cities," Gingrich added.
He also said "citizens who do not wake up every morning and think about
the possible catastrophic civilian casualties are deluding themselves."
"If we knew that tomorrow morning we would lose Haifa, Tel Aviv, and
Jerusalem, what we would to stop it? If we knew we would tomorrow lose
Boston, San Francisco, or Atlanta, what would we do? Today, those
threats are probably one, two, five years away? Although you can't be
certain when our enemies will break out," he warned.
Earlier, Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, said that
Islamic jihadism was "the nightmare of this century."
"The war in Lebanon demonstrated that Israel is facing a jihadist
threat that runs through Tehran, to Damascus, to Gaza. Hizbullah are
not fighting for the coming into being of a Palestinian state, but for
the going out of being of the Israeli state," he said.
Romney emphasized that Iran could not be compared to the former Soviet
threat, because the Islamic Republic was following a suicidal path.
"For all of the Soviets' deep flaws, they were never suicidal. Soviet
commitment to national survival was never in question. That assumption
cannot be made to an irrational regime (Iran) that celebrates
martyrdom," he said.
The former governor called for the utilization of the widespread
opposition held by the Iranian people to their own regime, in order to
facilitate regime change, while also adding that "the military option
remains on the table."
"Iran must be stopped. Iran can be stopped," Romney declared, receiving
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