Israeli Cabinet Holds Historic Meeting in Berlin

AP Photo via Washington Post

The Israeli cabinet held a historic meeting in Berlin to symbolize the strong bond that has developed between Israel and Germany in the sixty years since the Holocaust.

The joint cabinet meeting was held along side Angela Merkel’s German cabinet.  While other issues including economic cooperation and the environment were discussed, Iran was the elephant in the room, so to speak.  Germany has become one of Israel’s strongest allies in the world, after the strong relationship with the United States.  The top item on the shared agenda was Iran’s nuclear program, which Prime Minister Netanyahu and Prime Minister Merkel spoke about at a press conference shortly after their meeting.

“We know from recent history that a regime that tyrannizes its own people will tyrannize the world… If we don’t apply sanctions, crippling sanctions, against this Iranian tyranny, when shall we apply them? If not now, when?”

Those remarks, from Benjamin Netanyahu, echo what I have been saying and what many supporters of Israel and a democratic Middle East have been saying for many, many months.

Bibi said exactly what needed to be said while standing in the city Adolph Hitler used to engineer the murder of millions of Jews only 60 years ago.  If not not, when?