Senior Israeli rabbi sees 'Holocaust' in Syria
Israel's former chief rabbi has compared the atrocities in neighboring Syria to the killing of Jews in World War II.
The comments by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, who survived the Holocaust as a child, adds one of the country's leading voices to a growing chorus of condemnations of the violence in Syria. This week, dozens of civilians were killed in a chemical attack in northern Syria.
Memories of the Holocaust are still fresh in Israel, and Israelis tend to refrain from comparing other conflicts to the Nazi genocide.
But in a radio interview Thursday, Lau broke that taboo and said Syrians are experiencing their own Holocaust.
"It did not start today. It has been six years since a Holocaust landed on them," he said.
