THE 80th anniversary of the Holocaust at Auschwitz was observed recently (Jan 27).

The word `holocaust` reminds one of only the one-sided version projected by the Zionist-controlled media that European Jews were subjected to horrible genocide by the Nazis of Germany during World War II.

It will be interesting to note that up to World War I, Jews in Europe, particularly in Germany, Poland and Austria, were very well off financially, and doing good business. But, in 1917, during World War I, the British government promised the Jewish community across Europe a homeland in Palestine in exchange for its support in the war against Germany.

On Nov 2, 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, which pledged support for a Jewish state in Palestine,thus settingthe stageforlater conflicts.

After World War I, Germany, along with the Central Power forces, was defeated, and was forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. It was this humiliation at Versailles that gave rise to the Nazi Party in Germany.

The Germans just could not forgive the `stab in the back` by the European Jews. The rest, as they say, is history.

Abid Mahmud Ansari Islamabad