President Shimon Peres, who, unlike Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is skeptical of the utility of an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations, spoke of the “threat of extermination” facing Israel. Even Defense Minister Ehud Barak, usually a coolly rational thinker, chose Yad Mordechai, a Kibbutz named after Mordechai Anilewitz, the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, to alert world opinion against “Holocaust deniers, first and foremost the Iranian president, who calls for the destruction of the Jewish people.”
西蒙·佩雷斯总统的态度有别于本雅明·内塔尼亚胡总理，他对攻击伊朗核设施所起的作用持怀疑态度，甚至谈到以色列面临“被消灭的威胁”。 就连一向以冷静理性著称的国防部长埃胡德·巴拉克也选择以华沙犹太区起义领袖莫迪凯·阿涅莱维奇名字命名的莫迪凯农场来告诫世界舆论，“以伊朗总统为首的大屠杀的否认者鼓吹消灭犹太人。”