Taking a look to see what is up with this thread.

There are no innocent parties at this point in the conflict between Israel and her Palestinian and other Arab neighbors. She is a bad neighbor in many ways because she has a big friend - the US - that until now has been letting her get away with bad behavior. This observation has nothing to do with being anti-Semitic - it has to do with Israel's uncanny political ability to booby-trap peace negotiations by lobbing one last well-timed missile or sending in a militant group of villagers to build another "settlement" in a sensitive area every time it looks like peace might break out.

Throwing around the term "Holocaust" simply reminds me once again that the term that used to imply a natural disaster event has been appropriated to mean only the WWII-era Nazi murder of millions of Jewish and minority non-Aryan Europeans. That kind of semantic shift happens. And while at one time "Nazi" meant just one thing, nowadays that word has gained a lower-case "n" use - if someone is too anal about some interest or subject they are sometimes referred to as a Whatever-nazi.

Comparing Israel's actions to that of WWII German Nazi's is unfortunate and inaccurate, but if you remember the saying "children learn what they live," while I don't begin to believe there are death camps or such activities, earlier generations of Israelis learned about ghettos and refugee camps. They and modern generations continue to visit these habitations upon the Palestinians who are second-class citizens in their homeland.

Now that I've made my remarks I'll go away again for another 500 posts.

SRS