Let not Turkey repeat the mistakes of Nazi Germany

My name is Lior Zagury and I am a very proud Israeli Jew who says, "Don't Let History Repeat Itself."

Yes, it is important for me to present myself in this way, especially today when the feeling is there is a festival for anti-Semites.

There are now signs saying "We don’t receive dogs & Israelis."

Such signs are not from the streets of Berlin in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, not from the neighborhoods of Warsaw in 1941 when the Jews lived in the Ghetto, and not even from the shops of Kielce after the Second World War in 1946, just before the pogrom that made Jews understand that there isn’t a safe place for them and they needed to leave Europe.

These signs have been posted at the entrance to big markets and offices in Turkey in the past few days. Similar signs were hung in Jordan.

What we see around us is not about the flotilla and Gaza. It is a very sophisticated plan to demolish the legitimacy of the existence of the Jewish state of Israel.

In his first speech at the German Reichstag on January 30, 1933, Hitler said the cause of all the world problems is world Jewry. Most of the people didn’t take him seriously and felt very safe in their countries, trusting their governments. Twelve years later, we lost 6 million Jews in the Holocaust in the worst way that human kind has ever known.

These days, 65 years later, President Ahmadinejad of Iran and many others say exactly the same. History repeats itself. Most of the people do not take him seriously and feel very safe in their countries, trusting their governments.

This is a wake up call.

If you will ignore that and convince yourselves that this is not the mainstream, this is just a passing storm and that "it will never happen to us," sooner or later, you might find those restrictions in your backyard, in your favorite restaurant or bar or perhaps a major university--just as it was as it was 75 years ago.

Israel has the most moral army in the world, it is the only democracy in the world that in each and every given moment there are hundreds of thousands of missiles and rockets ready to be launched into the center of its cities from enemies that want to erase us, in the only place in the world that a Jew can just be a Jew and feel completely safe about it.

We once promised NEVER AGAIN. Don’t wait to say we didn’t know.