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You would think the entity would give them the best retirement pension possible, given that they use use the Holocaust as a reason for their state existing, and justification for the extermination of Muslims
Nah, the entity's attitude towards victims and survivors of the holocaust has always been one of disdain, for having been caught and for being "weak jews". There's a quote by one of the founders of Israel, I think Ben Gurion, about holocaust survivors or people escaping the holocaust migrating to Palestine. He essentially says "nah they're all weaklings and don't have what it takes to get our ethnostate going, let them die over there", but more callous and cruel, somehow.
The Zionists will not hesitate to wheel them out for sympathy and propaganda tho. That's the only thing they think survivors are good for. They are tools towards the genocide for them, nothing more.
Jew-hating Jews were the very first Zionists (still are, its a white supremacist project after all) and those currents of thought and philosophies on building a Jewish state to purify the Jewish people have shaped Israel in ways that become obvious once you see the recurring themes of like pre-nazi "nazi" rhetoric etc.
Like well before the Nazi holocaust the founders of Zionism were writing racial polemics about "Yids" / Slavic "Ghetto Jews" and speculating on how best to work them to death during the creation of the nation.
source if you're curious. I think I'm understating the case if anything: https://hexbear.net/post/6892956
I didn't understand so many of these sorts of contradictions in how Israel behaves until I read the essay linked and a bit more background just to figure out exactly how seriously I should take the essay.
(edit to clarify. its hard to write concisely and accurately about this stuff without sounding like a very nasty person of one sort or another lol.)