PM to world: Fight threats on Israel

On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urged the international community to fight anti-Semitism by warning that those who hate Jews and want to destroy Israel will eventually move on to the rest of the world, too.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during a tour of a new exhibit at Yad Vashem on Monday.
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"There is an evil that can spread and threaten the security of Jews," he said during a ceremony at Yad Vashem on Monday. "We know that this just begins with Jews, and then continues on to the rest of the world."
"There are today new people who hate Jews, with new reasons for [wanting] the destruction of the Jewish state," he continued. "This is our concern."
Speaking about the rise in anti-Semitism - as evidenced by a Jewish Agency report released on Sunday - Netanyahu said that the world must act quickly to stop the continuing spread of lies and baseless denials of truth.This is a test for humanity," he said, "and we will see in the coming weeks how the international community stops this evil before it spreads."
The premier was at the memorial museum for the opening of an exhibit which includes the original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp."This is a test for humanity," he said, "and we will see in the coming weeks how the international community stops this evil before it spreads."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Emil Salman) Share| Last update - 18:52 25/01/2010 Netanyahu at Yad Vashem: World must stop calls to destroy Israel By Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondent        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." Advertisement "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.

Netanyahu: Israel will keep parts of West Bank forever THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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JERUSALEM -- Israel's leader declared his country's permanent claim to parts of the West Bank on Sunday, angering Palestinians again and complicating efforts by President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy -- though the same claim also was made by previous, more moderate premiers.

Timing and context lent weight to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to two Jewish settlements and his declaration that they would remain in Israel forever. "Our message is clear: We are planting here, we will stay here, we will build here. This place will be an inseparable part of the state of Israel for eternity," Netanyahu proclaimed, just as envoy George Mitchell was trying to restart peace talks after a yearlong stalemate.

In his claim, Netanyahu was referring to what Israel calls its "main settlement blocs," most of them close to Israeli population centers.