Elie Wiesel Calls Out President Obama on Iran

Obama embraces Elie Wiesel at US Holocaust Museum, after Wiesel introduced him critically

At Holocaust Museum, Wiesel challenges Obama over Israel policy -Dave Boyer

President Obama toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and called it a reminder that nations too often do not do enough to prevent atrocities, even as his host challenged him to do more about the killing of civilians in Syria and the threat posed by Iran.

Mr. Obama said after tour[ed] the museum with Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.
In introducing the president to a crowd at the museum, Mr. Wiesel took issue with the administration’s handling of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He wondered aloud why world leaders have not “learned anything” from the Holocaust.

"How is it that Assad is still in power?” Mr. Wiesel asked. “How is it that the Holocaust’s No. 1 denier, Ahmadinejad, is still a president? He who threatens to use nuclear weapons — to use nuclear weapons — to destroy the Jewish state. We must know that when evil has power, it is almost too late.”

Then the Nobel laureate addressed Mr. Obama directly.

“Mr. President, we are here in this place of memory,” he said. “Israel cannot not remember. And because it remembers, it must be strong, just to defend its own survival and its own destiny.”
[Washington Times]
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