From Shimon Peres:
As you know, tonight begins the day of commemoration of the Holocaust all over the world and in Israel. I feel deeply hurt and ashamed that on such a day, there is the opening of a racist conference in Geneva, and the main speaker is who? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A man that calls to wipe Israel off of the map. A man who denies the Holocaust.
There must be a limit, even to the neutrality of Switzerland. Today is the day? This is the man to speak? This is the outlook for the future? I don’t want to speak too much about Iran. But in Iran, people are hanged because they are suspected of God knows what — nothing. There is a center of hate, of blood, of terror.
I am very grateful to the United States of America and the other six countries that decided not to attend this shame of Durban, and to keep a human face and human hope for people who would like to see a world without racism, without terror, without hanging, and without incitement. So we don’t have a conference, but we have a Lord in Heaven, and we shall pray to him today.
