An Iran with nuclear weapons is today's Auschwitz, threatening to wipe the Jewish people from the earth, said conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp where Jews were gassed to death and burned in ovens.
The resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe will eventually force all Jews to leave, Krauthammer said on Fox News Channel's
"Special Report," but he said the intolerance there today is generally limited to calls for boycotts of Jewish businesses and not the genocide seen in World War II.
The threat today is from Israel's enemies in the Middle East, he said.
"Israel is now for the first time since Jesus not just the only Jewish state on the planet, it's the largest community of Jews on the planet anywhere," Krauthammer said. "It is now threatened by a regime in Iran that openly says it wants to eradicate it."
What it took Adolf Hitler seven years to do can now be done in seven hours with nuclear weapons, Krauthammer said.
"And we are talking as if we're ready to live with an Iranian state that has that."
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