Washington Post Columnist Issues Timely Challenge By Aigle Middle East • August 2012 • Views: 1,028 The Washington Post’s Colbert I. King reminds readers of the threat the Iranian government poses to Israel, including the possibility of nuclear destruction, and the shame in turning a blind eye to those who would repeat the horrors that haunt the 20th century. According to King, ‘the leaders of today’s Iran’ echo the Third Reich, yet there is a ‘global ho-hum response to the most virulent form of state-sponsored anti-Semitism since Nazi Germany’ (‘Echoes of the Third Reich,” August 4).