As for the final question about what Jews think about the Holocaust. I don't think there's anyone who ever watches TV or reads pretty much anything who hasn't been told at really great length about it. A lot. With subtitles if your hearing is slow. If you're hard of thinking then they make simplistic movies to make sure.
But if you don't want to be compared to Nazis, don't act like them.
You don't want to be offended ?
Fine. Then don't do things that when people tell you about what you've done, they huirt your feelings.
It is a sad reflection upon the whole human race, not just Jews that the people you'd think would least be into putting people into camps and murdering them do it with such efficiency.
And it reflects badly upon us, that just like in the 1930s we do fuck all about it.
As for it not being true, one has to look at Nazi ideologoy if one is to deny that Israeli policy is not the same.
Like Israel, Germany in the 20s and 30s regarded itself as vulnerable. Germany had lost a terrible war, and any rational person with socilist Russia near it's borders would be at least a bit paranoid.
Lebensraum was also borne of this rather odd inferiority complex. Germany couldn't win wars because it felt trapped, and later WWII showed that they were right. The lack of an overseas empire and the need to fight on at least two fronts fatally compromised it's abllity to win wars.
Germany, like Israel was openly contemptuous of the League of Nations, the even more crap predecessor of the UN.
Germany, like Israel wanted secure borders and to put settlers into territories in places it regarded as rightfully theirs. Historically Germans had lived in many of the places they later occupied, and of course just like Jews they had codified their delusional framework into a book.
Germany didn't want "the world", they wanted to be like Britain, but on land, having an empire from the Atalnatic to the Ukraine. Note that the Ukranians actually fought for the Nazis.
They wanted the security that they felt comes from strength and size. They were wrong of course, a lesson that Israel doesn't yet seem to have learned.
The Nazis, like Israel enjoyed strong support from many people overseas. The Kennedy family in particular orchestrated American support, but many people saw that Germany (unlike Britain or America) actually managed to feed people, and economically compared to most European countries was in good shape. Entertainingly they had adopted Keynesian boosting of the economy, a doctrine that for 40 years after WWII was invariably to be adopted by those labelling themselves as socialists. Nazis, like most socialists were patholigically innumerate, and didn't realise that it couldn't work in the long term, which is why Britain's economy nearly collpased in the 70s, and Germany lost WWII for it's inabiltiy to produce modern effective weapons.
Nazi Germany had a pensions and healthcare system far in advance of anyone else. Recall that it was Natgiona *Socialism", a fact the BBC tends to forget.
Thus it parallels the often repeated (and false) claim that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. (The PA and Iran are both democracies) They just vote for bad people, is all.
The persecution of Jews before WWII was bad, but not very different from the way Arabs are treated in present day Israel. Their propery was confiscated and they were beaten up by state forces. Like many Arabs in Israel, citizenship was denied to German Jews in the country of their birth. Arabs are denied the abiltiy to serve in the army, though we do know that for some reason some Jews did join the German army. It may sound odd that the right to get shot at for low pay is something to fret over, but if you look at the ise of many subject races like blacks in America or S.Africa, the dominant race really didn't want them armed. Britain actually had Jewish military units, one of which a relative of mine served in.
Germany had an ID card system which recorded race.
So does Israel, with much the same effect, or making official harassment easier. A good % of people working against the fuckwit Blair and his ID card are Jewish. This is not a coincidence.
Also for many years, the Germans never really wanted to eliminate Jews. They just wanted them to go away. They allowed many to escape, and countries like the USA and America shamefully turned many away. Even when they finally decided to create death camps, it was secret. This is an oddly inconsistent decision for the Nazis. They were big on loudly staing their policy, but it seems clear that Germans liked to pretend (and still do) that it was nothing to do with "ordinary" Germans.
Certainly the herding of Jews, gypsies, gays etc into camps was not unlike the way both Britain and the USA dealt with undesirables at the time. Look at Japanese and Indians in the USA, or Afrikaners under the British.
Thus Israel is following a well worn path that is not unique to the Nazis.
It never ends well. not once.
Israel has bombed refugee camps, we have the video. Sharon actively encouraged gangs of armed men in his client factions to enter the camps and murder many unarmed civilians.
Israel is different from Nazi Germany, in that even the Nazis never thought to make torture legal.
Israel, like Nazi Germany has attacked refugees on the roads, fleeing from war.
Of course most other military powers have done the same thing, but that doesdn't make it good.