Of course, this talk I hear about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict being equal to or worse than the Holocaust, or that the Zionists are the new Nazis, is not supremely surprising considering the organization that the Palestinians elected into power, one that many people view as a group of freedom fighters striving against the Jewish oppressors. Debasing the Holocaust and replacing its tragedy with the tragedy of the Palestinian conflict has been
a strategy used by some of the Islamist groups and individuals of the area for awhile now:
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"It was an unjustified and unhelpful visit that served only the Zionist occupation," said Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas [on the visit of Ziad al-Bandak, advisor to Abbas, to Auschwitz]. Hamas rejects Israel's existence and interim peace accords reached by Abbas' more moderate Fatah group with Israel.
Barhoum further called Bandak's visit to Auschwitz, a camp where the Nazis killed 1.5 million people, most of them Jews but also other Polish citizens, during World War Two, as "a marketing of a false Zionist alleged tragedy."
He said he saw this as coming "at the expense of a real Palestinian tragedy," alluding to Israel's control over territory where Palestinians live and seek to establish a state.
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