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Newt Gingrich: Iran Eyes 'Second Holocaust'
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Israel is facing the greatest threat to its survival since the Six-Day War in 1967 – and warned that a nuclear-armed Iran would lead to a "second Holocaust.” Addressing a security conference in Herzliya, Israel, via a video hookup, Gingrich declared: "We have enemies who are quite explicit in their desire to destroy us. They say it publicly, on television, on Web sites. We are sleepwalking through this as though it is all a problem of communications, and that somehow diplomacy will enable us to come together and have a wonderful fiesta in which we will all learn to love one another." Gingrich said in remarks reported by the Jerusalem Post that those enemies were "fully as determined as Nazi Germany, more determined than the Soviet Union, and that these enemies will kill us the first chance they get."
Story Continues Below In a reference to Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Gingrich said: "Three nuclear weapons is a second Holocaust. If two or three cities are destroyed because of terrorism, both the U.S. and Israel's democracy will be eroded and both will become greater dictatorial societies.
"What [actions] are you in Israel going to take if tomorrow morning Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv would be destroyed? Similarly, the U.S. needs to consider what policies it would advance if in 24 hours, Atlanta, Boston and San Francisco were destroyed. These threats will become even more imminent in two or five years' time." The democratic world must "proactively invest in a much more serious national strategic policy, a much more aggressive commitment to win and a determination to replace the governments and to defeat the organizations that are threats to our very survival," he said.
Sen. John McCain also addressed the conference via satellite, saying that if the United Nations failed to impose tighter sanctions on Iran, the U.S. should lead a group of like-minded countries in imposing sanctions outside the framework of the U.N. "Military action is not our preference. It remains, as it always must, a last option," McCain said, but he added: "There is only one thing worse than a military solution, and that is a nuclear armed Iran."
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