Ishmael, you are correct in indicating that some Muslim countries protected Jews, for example in Spain and Turkey. However, this has been overlooked because of the intifada.

Let's not slander an entire people. Most of the Jews in Poland who were saved were helped by their Polish neighbors. Some Poles attacked them. One can't make such a generalization. Also, we should not ignore the three million Polish Christians who died in the war, including the massacre at Katyn by the Soviets. The Holocaust makes people quite emotional, naturally, and unobjective. We need calm historically accurate research to be done on this subject.

Dear Mr. Sever Plocker: I read your opinion article, “The deniers and the forgetters” http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3243500,00.html. With all due respect and understandable pain and anguish, I found your tone quite accusative. It appears that you sat down with a wall size picture of hatred in your head against Muslims in general and Palestinians in specific to prepare you for the vengeful oratory, from the very outset. For your information, the truth is far from your imaginative description where you portrayed the Zionist state nothing but a perpetual victim. Contrary to your vociferous but bogus claim that, “Most Muslims are convinced that the murder of six million Jews during World War II did not happen at all, or that its dimensions have been blown out of proportion in a Jewish-Western conspiracy (as Hamas claims, for example), with the goal of using it as a justification for Zionism.”, no one in Muslim world denies the unfortunate events under Hitler’s maniacal scheme of world domination that took the life and honor of six million Jewish people. Please do not equate the struggle of Palestinian people for the past 60 years to hatred or denial. And yes, it IS a disgrace and WRONG in the Muslim world to deny the Holocaust. By the way, I also don’t think you know the ‘Muslim’ world - beyond the Gaza, Nablus or West Bank - that well! Please don’t try to call the resistance to your government’s mighty oppression day in and day out, by those who have been made refugee in their own land by design and not by choice of their own, a denial. The naked truth about the Zionist state is this: that the powerful propaganda machinery which even surpasses the cold war era ‘pogrom’, has seen to it that nobody, repeat, nobody ever questions the wrongdoings by the State of Israel – not even a respected ex-President of the United State!!

There is no sense in trying to deny the history of the Holocaust or the history of wars or the history of slavery in the United States and other countries or the history of discrimination against women. However, it seems to me, we, as the human race, are never going to get past repeating these channels of hatred and struggles for power, resources, land, domination, etc. , if we cannot get past labeling one another. We label one another based on gender, color of skin, ancestry, nationality, religion, wealth, intelligence, etc. ; and as long as this labeling goes on, we cannot see that undereneath we are all human beings with very basic and simple needs that we all share in common. Somewhere between the need for recognition and the need for superiority lies a wall called the economics of scarcity. No one is ever going to scale the wall of the economics of scarcity, whether socialist, capitalist, communist, or ascetic. The forces that rule the universe that we know are far beyond our control. So possibly the human race is destined to continue labeling, dividing, conquering, hating, revolting, overthrowing as we are carried hopelessly down the river of astrophysics. Or is their a window of compassion, logic, sharing, willingness to live for one another in our puny little brains. Certainly, the marvels of technology suggest that for a brief span at least, mankind might live in a never before realized golden age. I believe men can overcome the differences of gender, color, race, national identity, etc., but before all obstacles are overcome, I believe men will have to give up religious beliefs, which are based on human imaginations and unprovable.