“The Jewish presence in the Land of Israel began nearly 4,000 years ago, and our every activity here in the State of Israel is an act of building and strengthening our land. Prime Minister Bennett went on to highlight that the victory over the Holocaust that included the re-establishment of the state of the Jewish People in their ancestral homeland of Israel. Because the extermination was carried out based on if you were a Jew, regardless of your actions.” No way to surrender, nowhere to be expelled to, no way of escape by conversion or change of behavior. A Jew in the Holocaust had no way of escape. The Nazis sought to hunt all Jews and exterminate every last one of them. The Nazis did not kill Jews to take their jobs or their homes. Never, in any place or during any time, has one people acted to destroy another in such a planned, systematic and indifferent way, from a place of absolute ideology and not out of utilitarianism. ![]() The case of the extermination of the Jews is different. But it is usually a means designed to achieve a goal, some sort of expectation – military, political, economic, religious. Unfortunately, history is full of cruel wars, brutal murders and also genocide. “Even the most difficult wars today are not the Holocaust and are not comparable to the Holocaust,” he stressed, adding that, “No event in history, cruel as it may have been, is comparable to the Holocaust – the extermination of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. ![]() I take the trouble to say this because as the years go by, there is more and more discourse in the world that compares other difficult events to the Holocaust – but no,” said the Israeli leader, at the start of hundreds of similar events nationwide and abroad. “The Holocaust is an unprecedented event in human history. Speaking at the main state ceremony broadcasted live from the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem in the presence of the President of the State of Israel Isaac Herzog, dignitaries including German Bundestag President Bärbel Bas and Holocaust survivors, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rejected recent attempts to compare the atrocities of the Holocaust to contemporary incidents. The Jewish State today observed the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Day, known as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew for the Day of Catastrophe), to commemorate the six million Jewish victims of the deaths of six million Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War. Jerusalem leaders reassert that the Jewish P eople will “Never Again” be helpless in the face of annihilation.
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