&#62;It's no worse than the Romans, or Gauls, or Saxons, etc.<p>Or the Nazis?<p>If they had won WW2 I'm sure some people in Germany today would be calling the Holocaust "an unfortunate but necessary part of human progress" and would tell us all about the backwardness of Jewish culture, I'm sure while also being "sympathetic to the plight" of those victims too.<p>That doesn't mean that one group of people have the right to wipe out another culture to benefit their own, no matter what the consequences are.<p>I'm really shocked by some of the comments here.