[DJ MacWoW]

The 'Holocaust' is not a Jewish term.

This definition agrees with you.

Definitions of Holocaust on the Web:

From the Greek: "holos" (completely) and "kaustos" (burned sacrificial offering).

The word, Holocaust, derives from Greek words, meaning complete destruction, usually by fire.

(Greek, "the destruction of life by fire")

[goldstategop]

The preferred term in Israel is the Hebrew "Shoah." Holocaust evokes the notion of a religious sacrifice through burning and what happened to the Jews was neither. It was an act of comprehensive state-organized mass murder.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[T.L.Sink]

In the Dec. '05 issue of Commentary magazine there was a review of Gunter Levy's book on the 1914-15 Armenian catastrophe in which some three-quarters of a million were slaughtered.

The opening line in the article is THIS: "The term "genocide", coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish emigre lawyer Raphael Lemkin, was meant to describe Hitler's then-on-going campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe."

IS THAT SETTLED? Having said that, the absurdity of those who choose to deny the holocaust is beyond rational comprehension. Those people probably still believe in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!! Beyond help!