Nobel laureate compares Israeli nuclear arms to gas chambers.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire on Sunday compared Israel’s alleged nuclear arsenal to Hitler’s gas chambers and called on Israel to lift travel restrictions on nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu.

Maguire, awarded the 1976 prize for her Northern Ireland peace campaign, was at the prison gates to welcome Vanunu when he was released in April after serving an 18-year sentence for disclosing Israel’s nuclear secrets.

“When I think about nuclear weapons, I’ve been to Auschwitz concentration camp,” Maguire said during a joint press conference with Vanunu in Jerusalem.

“Nuclear weapons are only gas chambers perfected… and for a people who know what gas chambers are, how can you even think of building perfect gas chambers?”