What the Masters failed to understand in the lead up to the Genocide was the political implication of the teachings of Moses. The Genocide was an instance where the world took the exilic character of the Jewish people at face value. They rendered the Jews truly stateless and homeless. In such a state, the Jews will either be cared for by the world's lovers of human rights or they will be exterminated. That was the test. We know how it turned out.
'Never again' focuses on the wrong end of the matter. It is not about making sure the Jews are never again the butt of such a test, the point of taking lessons from the Genocide is for the world to understand how badly it failed the teachings of xenia. The UN is a pale response to so abject a failure. The world's lessons from the Genocide are going to have to be learned by Israel teaching it to them from the perch of a sovereign state.
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