[Ha'aretz] Avner Shalev - Recently, yet another Hamas spokesperson compared the situation in Gaza to events during the Holocaust. There is no factual or coherent parallel that can be drawn between contemporary events in Gaza and the historic events of the Holocaust. The Nazis' goal was to murder every single Jewish person in Europe, and ultimately in the world. They created death factories in the heart of Europe. When events share no real common denominator - as anyone with a modicum of historical knowledge and intellectual honesty will attest - equating generally constitutes purposeful manipulation. If we label every event a "genocide," or equate every event with the Holocaust, then we detract from the real meaning of those words.
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