I spent five years reading about the Holocaust. I would like to recommend to you a monograph, Hitlers willing executioners by Daniel Goldhagen. This book challenges some of the myths around the holocaust and one of the central arguments made by Goldhagen is that ordinary Germans were complicit in the holocaust. He argues also that the holocaust was caused by genocidal antisemitism. The entire argument posits that the holocaust must be viewed as a particular and specific form of genocide, there is nothing comparable to it. Would you, squid agree with this?
What happened on the 7th of October was horrific. It will be remembered for many generations and must also be thought of as something quite specific, quite out of the ordinary, not business as usual, but as an event, a horrific and barbaric event, something truly evil. Would you agree squid?
The two events are not comparable. One is an event, and a horrific spectacle of evil, but the former was the inevitable outcome of years of antisemitism borne from what Goldhagen called eliminationist antisemitism which had its roots in medieval antisemitism. The result was though a highly scientific, systematic, cold, thought through and bureaucratic planned process. The Germans were not fighting for their freedom, for their liberation, for their land, or against an oppressor.
I agree with Goldhagen's thesis that ordinary Germans were carrying out the mass extermination of Jews. Pure logic alone dictates this.
You have said that not all Palestinians are Hamas, but all Hamas are Palestinian. (not strictly speaking true). But none the less many Palestinians have supported Hamas, and Hamas fighting brigades are made up of ordinary Palestinians. Just as the Wehrmacht were made up of ordinary Germans. Just as the IDF is made up of ordinary Israelis.
These very ordinary people can be complicit, and active in carrying out the most evil of crimes. Ideologies of hatred, of seeing another human as less than human, as vermin, as people unlike themselves, as worthy of inhumane acts, and as even necessary collateral damage or as "assets" to be hostage, or to be tortured for the purpose of extracting information.
These ideologies can be borne out of myths such as the medieval myths about Jews, or they can be purposefully threaded into societies through education, through "common sense ideas" (Gramsci) through religious indoctrination and through powerful political actors (Nazis, Fascism, Hamas, Israeli right wing nut jobs).
Evil often begets evil in a self perpetuating chain of consequences, where the acts of others are seen to have few consequences and others feel emboldened to join in. This hatred has no natural end, it must be ended. And for evil to persist, all it takes is for good people to stand idle, or even worse to condone it.
So, whilst the holocaust must not lose its meaning and we need to understand the specifics of it to truly apprehend why this happened at all so that nothing like this can never happen again. We must also seek to understand what has driven ordinary Palestinians to back Hamas as their force for liberation and statehood. What made these ordinary people complicit and some active in the horror of the 7th. But we must also reckon with why ordinary Israelis have felt it ok to stick a pole up a man's bum causing such trauma that he died. And that is without having to confront all of the other horrors that Israel has inflicted on the Palestinians, not for 12 years (the holocaust) but for nearly 80 years since 1948. Some might say this is of necessity, else Israel would not exist, (Hamas after all want to annihilate Israel)but then this suggests that in order for Israel to exist it must negate the rights of the Palestinians to their claims upon the land. These are facts. But as much as your seemingly pragmatic approach seems like a logic of sorts, I cant help but wonder what your excuse is for your complicity in this evil?
A solution to this 80 year old question will only be found when both sides start to acknowledge the humanity of its foe.