Did the Holocaust really happen?

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People who want to believe conspiracy theories will believe anything you tell them that fits their ideas. To suggest that it is solely about the weight of evidence implies that many of these people are thinking rationally and with an open mind, which is clearly not the case.

At present, there are so many people who want to think bad things about the US and Israel that they'd believe that the Second World War was a Zionist conspiracy to persuade the Allies to set up the nation of Israel in the aftermath if you told them it was true.

Perhaps controversially, it seems to me that there are so many whinging Islamic types around at the moment who would rather lay their problems at the feet of the Great Satan and Islamophobic Westerners than accept personal responsibility (across the world, not just in the Holy Lands) that peace in the Middle East is looking as far away as ever.

Mind you, let's not use this argument as an excuse to absolve us of our portion of responsibility, nor of Israel's. But there are always two sides to an argument, and solving it requires both to make compromises. It just depends on how reasonable we're willing to be over these things, and it often seems that too many people make unreasonable demands, then cite the other side as the excuse for the breakdown.