Reply #38: Yeah, it is dangerous shit...

[Violet_Crumble]

I don't see any purpose served in the way of resistance by denying the Holocaust. It just ends up making people look stupid or much worse. I'd be guessing that most of the Israeli Arabs polled who claim it didn't happen know full well it did happen and are saying it didn't coz of that stupid ailment that afflicts some Palestinians and Israelis where they try to claim the high ground when it comes to suffering and for them to acknowledge that the other side has suffered at all is a sign of weakness. In the case of Palestinians, they would see the Holocaust as being the reason that Israel was created and if they pretend it didn't happen, in their eyes Israel loses its legitimacy. In the case of Israelis denying the Nakba (and I'm not trying to equate the two as I know the Holocaust was genocide and was on a whole different scale than anything else), it's because to acknowledge what was done to the Palestinians would involve admitting that the Palestinians have suffered and also involve rejecting the Israeli version of events that are tied so closely to their nation-building myths (most countries have them - one of ours was Gallipoli). So rather than face what are in both cases historical facts, they find it easier to bury their heads in the sand and think that if they deny the suffering of the *other* while claiming the mantle of suffering exclusively for themselves, the *other* will vanish in a puff of smoke and life will be peachy...