Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Deputy PM Sivan Shalom at Auschwitz: Israel will continue to exist

(AP).Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on Tuesday vowed from that Israel would continue to exist, speaking at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was later to take part in the annual March of the Living, held on at the site on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Shalom made the comments in reference to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the Durban II racism conference, which he called shameful.

He also said, "Iran is trying to do everything they can in order to wipe Israel off the map and at the same time to undermine the moderate Arab Muslim regimes in the Middle East."