Tom Lantos: “three generation ago Adolf Hitler threatened to destroy the Jewish people, and the appeasers and the pseudosophisticates…”

“three generation ago Adolf Hitler threatened to destroy the Jewish people, and the appeasers and the pseudosophisticates said it was merely oratory. A few months ago, the leadership of Syria threatened to destroy the Prime Minister of Lebanon, and the pseudosophisticates and the appeasers thought it was only oratory. Yesterday the President of Iran announced that it is his policy to destroy the State of Israel, and the pseudosophisticates and the appeasers again say this is only oratory. But of course, it is more than that. I call on the United Nations, and all civilized nations, to take appropriate action, in the U.N. and individually, denouncing this outrageous statement. There is no room for the President of a nation to call for the destruction of a member state of the United Nations, the sole democracy in the Middle East and a close ally of the United States. ____________________”