Source: Ynetnews
Jan 30, 2007
He was supposed to represent Israel - the nation reborn out of the ashes of Auschwitz - when former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami addressed the Spanish Parliament in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance day Sunday.
Instead, the ultra-leftist gave a superb demonstration of Jewish self-hatred, sending waves of anger through the Spanish Jewish community and causing an uproar in Israel.
Ben-Ami, who during his tenure in the Foreign Ministry strongly promoted appeasing Israel's Arab enemies, told the Spanish lawmakers that Israelis were clinging to a victim mentality and thereby preventing Israel's ability to have good relationships with the world.
Sabotaging Israeli leaders' efforts to galvanize the world into confronting the Iranian nuclear threat, Ben-Ami said it was counter-productive to draw comparisons between Hitler, who sought to exterminate all Europe's Jews, and Iranian megalomaniac Mahmoud Ahmdinejad, who is making preparations to detroy Israel.
Making such links, he declared outrageously, "gave legitimacy to some Palestinian comparisons between Israel and the Nazis."