Avram Burg's warped sense of holiness

In Sunday's Los Angeles Times, former speaker of the Knesset Avram Burg complains about the Holocaust's 'unholy hold' on Israel (Hat Tip: Hot Air). The constant presence of the Shoah is like a buzz in my ear. In Israel, children are always, it seems, preparing for their rite-of-passage "Auschwitz trip" to Poland. Not a day passes without a mention of the Holocaust in the only newspaper I read,