Jews face a “gathering storm” with multiple threats from Iran, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Hamas and international terrorism unmatched since the 1930s, former justice minister Irwin Cotler told a Jerusalem conference on Tuesday.
Cotler expressed concerns about a dangerous Mideast threat environment, combining Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran with the election of Hamas in Palestinian, and emergence of the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon “as a state within a state,” he said in his keynote speech entitled The Gathering Storm.