many societies feel comfortable altering history if it helps erase a crime they perpetrated or if it lessens the image of their enemies. Societies try and embellish their own humanity while dehumanizing their rivals. It's not that the Nakba and the Holocaust are being compared in terms of tragedy so much as that the crime of altering history to your benefit is something that everyone unfortunately does.
In the case of the Nakba it is used to partially justify denying ROR to Palestinian refugees. So it is a pretty egregious thing to do. This is what my fiancee (Israeli) was taught.
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