Let's just stop here, if you agree that what Israel is doing is dreadful, why are you tying yourself in linguistic and moral knots to justify it?

The scale of an atrocity is important, I agree. I said right there in the reply, that the scale of what Israel has done isn't comparable to the scale of what the Nazis did.

But where your vision fails is in the fact that the same mindset of dehumanisation and self-superiority is behind every one of the horrors that blight the 20th Century.

The Holocaust, The Rwandan genocide (actually all genocides), apartheid in South Africa, segregation in the US, they're all different in their various ways. But what they all have in common is that the people who perpetrated them systematically and continuously dehumanised their victims. They lied and distorted history to tell a story about an entire people that they felt justified their atrocities.

You can hear, in every one of these cases, the victims being called animals and cockroaches, you can see the media and politicians talking about how the "one and only solution" is to eliminate them all. The echoes in history of what Israel is doing are so painfully obvious to anybody who is paying attention.

In some cases, as in slavery for example, the oppressed people even fought back. Sometimes committing horrible atrocities. And this retaliatory action was, of course, used by the oppressors as evidence of the subhuman status of their victims. As an excuse to kill them and control them and brutalise them further. Instead of evidence if the intrinsic, universal truth that if you oppress people, some of them will fight back in horrific ways.