&gt; It&#x27;s hard to explain politics regarding present-day Israel without this context, for example.<p>Not really. The Holocaust wasn&#x27;t a factor in deciding to build a wall along the West Bank. The suicide bombers that would drive from Ramallah to Tel Aviv and blow themselves up in restaurants were.<p>Europeans and liberals have constructed this narrative that you are espousing. They want to believe that the Holocaust is the key to understanding Israeli policy. This allows them to dismiss Israeli policy decisions in the face of geopolitical events as simply an irrational and tragic response to their cultural trauma.<p>It&#x27;s straight up paternalism and it&#x27;s disgusting.