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Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum (photo by Emil Salman, Haaretz.com)
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Netanyahu at Yad Vashem: World must stop calls to destroy Israel
25.01.2010, Israel and the World The world must stop new attempts to destroy the State of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Monday.
"There is evil in the world, and it doesn't stop, it's spreads," the premier said at the opening of an exhibition which includes the original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp.
Netanyahu said that "there is a new call to destroy the Jewish state, it's our problem, but not only our problem."
"This is a crime against the Jews, and a crimes against humanity, and it is a test of humanity," the Israeli PM said adding, that "we shall see in the following weeks whether the international community deals with this evil before it spreads.
The Yad Vasehm collection, "Architecture of Murder," includes 29 plans given to Netanyahu during a visit to Germany last August.
Netanyahu later brandished some of the documents at the United Nations to denounce Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for calling the Holocaust a lie.
The exhibition in Jerusalem includes four of the colored sketches showing detailed aerial views of the camp and blueprints of its bunks and one of its crematoriums. Tens of thousands of other prisoners, including Polish, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war, also died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi's concentration camp complexes.
After attending the exhibition's official opening today, Netanyahu will travel to Poland to take part in a ceremony marking 65 years since the camps' liberation by the Red Army.
Haaretz.com
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