SpaceWar.com reports: “Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking Wednesday at an annual Holocaust commemoration, said Iran was an existential threat and warned that ‘the fate of all humanity’ was at stake if it acquires nuclear arms.

Netanyahu was speaking at the start of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II, and is observed every year in April or May according to the Jewish calendar. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on January 27.

‘The regime in Iran is a threat to our destiny, to our very existence, and to the fate of all humanity,’ Netanyahu said in a solemn address at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem.

‘This is what will happen if it obtains nuclear weapons. If we lose this battle, the Western nations will be next,’ Netanyahu said, using the memorial day to deliver a political message.

‘Israel will not lose, will not give in, and will not surrender,’ he said…”