Hear\'s how I see what Unicron meant:
-Holocaust bad
-jews did not deserve it
-today however it gives jews almost carte blanche to commit crimes themselves, because no one dares publicly frown upon it because of the holocaust.
Now I\'ll explain how my views ARE indeed Ontopic in this discussion, because Israel NEEDS the Holocaust to be considered unique and unparallelled, because it is the reason why they are given this sort of carte blanche.
I\'m gonna have to quote stannard on this, because he can explain it more elegantly: "The answer is what the essayist Phillip Lopate calls "extermination pride . . a sort of privileged nation status in the moral honor roll." The Holocaust historian Zygmunt Bauman has noted that Israel uses the Holocaust "as the certificate of its political legitimacy, a safe-conduct pass for its past and future policies, and, above all, as the advance payment for the injustices it might itself commit." Doing so creates the need to play down other genocides. As one proponent of the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Edward Alexander, has put it, to describe as genocidal the ghastly agonies suffered by others-the Armenians, for instance-is "to plunder the moral capital" of the Jewish people. It is to "steal the Holocaust. "
In a classic case of quid pro quo, the Turkish government has demonstrated its gratitude for Israel\'s support in denying the Armenian genocide by declaring its agreement with Israel\'s claim of the uniqueness of the Holocaust. And in the middle of this cynical and dehumanizing reciprocation stand the pro-uniqueness writers, who have provided Turkey and Israel with their contrived intellectual support."
