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From The Independent today:

“An Israeli government minister warned yesterday that increasing rocket fire from Gaza would bring Palestinians a Shoah – the Hebrew word normally used to denote the Nazi Holocaust inflicted on Jews during the Second World War.

Government spokesmen launched an immediate damage limitation exercise saying that Mr Vilnai was merely using the word to mean ‘disaster’ and not in any way intending to convey the idea of genocide. But Shoah is rarely used in modern Hebrew parlance for events other than the Holocaust.”

(Glad to see that the Israelis are taking the moral high ground -Ed.)