It's not, when people say that, they are taking words out of Context. It was a quote by Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai saying that Hamas is bringing a bigger Shoah upon themselves. Shoah is the Hebrew word for disaster, that is also used to describe the Holocaust in Germany. Vilnai said disaster, not Holocaust.
At the time of the Holocaust, the nation of Israel did not yet exist.
Israel is not a Jewish holocaust. No one in Israel has been systemically rounded up and put in to gas chambers.
One of the museum's in Israel is 'The Holocaust' which is about WWII.
yes, in a sense. The modern state of Israel did not exist at the time of the Holocaust, Israel then only had one meaning: the Jewish people. Ie. all Jews were part of Israel.
My Grandmother and Grandfather moved there after the Holocaust. They were Holocaust survivors.Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel, the US pressured Britain to allow 100,000 Jews held up in Cyprus to Palestine. The overwhelming majority were Holocaust Survivors. Additionally, according to Israeli Statistics, between 1948-1952, Israel absorbed 373,852 Holocaust Survivors.
It was Israel in 1948
At this time there was no state called 'Israel', but it refered to the people. The Holocaust changed the world view in that there was more sympathy for there to be a state for the people of Israel.
Israel's stability was not contingent on the Holocaust. Israel's stability came about as a result of the Armistice of 1949 with the Arab States in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9.
It is known as Israel.
Israel - but the idea that it was created 'in response to the holocaust' needs very careful scrutiny.
Israel?
NO, Israel was the name for the Jewish people. According to Judaism, when the Messiah comes, he will create a state which will be called Israel, it will be roughly where mortal gentiles thought that they had the right to call their state 'Israel', but this happened after the Holocaust.