Text size  The United Nations has declared the day the Auschwitz
death camp was liberated as International Holocaust Memorial
Day. It was only appropriate that Israel's Prime Minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, was invited to address the ceremonies
commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation by the Red
Army of that place of horrors. In the minds of some, the
establishment of the State of Israel is linked to the Holocaust,
or even seen as a direct result of the Holocaust. U.S. President
Barack Obama, probably unaware of the history of the Zionist
movement, implied as much in his speech in Cairo last year.  But
the truth is almost the exact opposite. The extermination by the
Germans of six million Jews during World War II came close to
putting an end to the dream of establishing a Jewish state in
Palestine. The reservoir of Jewish immigrants to Palestine was
decimated. Vladimir Jabotinsky, in his testimony before the Peel
Commission in London on February 11, 1937, spoke of the aim of
Zionism as the establish