OK...those writers are making sketchy choices there, to say the least- although the capitalism one is close to fair, if you go by Indian writer Amartya Sen's assertion that capitalism has killed 100 million people- and yes, the Holocaust will always be an epic blight on European/North American history.
Are you really arguing, though, that the only way to show respect to the magnitude of the Holocaust is to literally argue that nothing else can EVER be compared to it? That massive loss of life experienced by anyone other ethnically/religiously/racially distinct group- say, for example, the 10 million Congolese slaughtered by the Belgian colonial regime in the late 19th century- must always be considered of lesser importance?
I ask, out of sincere respect to the memory of the dead. why this must be hived off from all other instances of genocide...and also, do you agree with the Likudnik argument that this event- an event European/North American Christian regimes are all implicated in, and no one else- somehow means that the entire world, even the vast majority of the planet which had nothing to do with this horrific megatragedy, are obligated to be Zionist- even though there is little reason to think that Hitler would have ever, under any circumstances, been rational enough to allow the Jews of Europe simply to move to a State of Israel, had such a state existed ten years earlier, when the man on record in letters written as early as 1919 as already committed to extermination? Do you take this further into arguing that the entire world not only has an obligation to be Zionist-I'm not ANTI-Zionist, for the record, I support Israel's right to exist in peace and security on the pre-1967 boundaries, provided a Palestinian state is allowed to be created and live in peace and security on territory made up of the West Bank & Gaza- but to take the side of the recent series of reactionary, intractable right-wing Israeli governments against Palestine and Palestinians, to defend publicly everything that government does to ordinary Palestinians?
