Reply #121: maybe if the native americans

[Djinn]

had annexed and occupied someone elses land for 40 years your comparison would be relevant.

No-one saying the Holocaust shouldn't be remebered/memorialised and learnt from, people are however a bit cynical to hear Sharon bang on about lessons not being learnt.

The insinuation is that jews are all alone because in the 30/40's no-one stopped the Holocaust, no-one stopped it because it wasn't in their strategic or financial best interests, just like very few nations do anything to stop what's happening to the Palestinians and I can't say I remember Israel doing much to stop any of the attempted genocides/arbitrary detention/torture of those in other nations.

Israel didn't stand up and stop what happened in Cambodia, Burma or Rwanda...neither did anyone else and it wasn't because they were anti-cambodian, anti-burmese or anti-Rwandan, it's because there was no BENEFIT to it, no nation ever acts out of altruistic motives.

People also dispute the "see wee need to steal land and demolish houses" because of the "never again" line of reasoning, which is a total non sequiter - pre Israeli Zionists weren't much more helpful to european jews than the US/UK etc were, it was always a POLITICS thing not an ingrained anti-semitism thing.