Is Israel a Holocaust denier?

THE EDITOR, Madam:

When one looks at what has been happening in Gaza, and what is still happening, one will remember how the Hamas invasion started the war. Clearly a dastardly act of killing and capturing that can find no justification.

However, when one realises that the retribution for that invasion that killed 1,200 Israelis is now over 60,000 Gaza residents killed, when one realises that women and children have been, and are still being shot, bombed, and starved to death, and when one cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that there is an unrestrained effort by Israel to eliminate all the residents of Gaza, then it would appear that the perpetrators of these assaults cannot have had anything in their history that would compare with the brutality and maliciousness they are now carrying out.

Is it that Israel has forgotten the Holocaust, or is denying that it occurred? For how could any group that has, as part of its history, experienced such a horror, choose to impose such a similar horror by the attempted extermination of another group of persons.

Or is this simply an attempt to replicate the horror that was experienced by their predecessors, nearly a 100 years after it happened.

DAVID ABRIKIAN