The Holocaust Test

Whenever I hear about a tragedy befalling large numbers of people, like the tsunami earthquake disaster in south east Asia, I compare it with the Holocaust. Until now 60,000 are reported dead in ten countries, a terrible toll. But, in comparison to the Holocaust it is as nothing. Towards the end of WWII that number of Jews was being killed every day in eastern Europe! And the worst part of it was that unlike the tsunamis that were a natural phenomenon, the Holocaust was man-made.
Apart from the terrible toll that the years of starvation and disease was enacting on the Jews, the Germans and their E. European allies (Poles, Ukrainians, Hungarians, etc.) at this time were working extra hard to solve the "Jewish problem" as efficiently as they could. This included driving over 500,000 Hungarian Jews by foot for hundreds of miles from Budapest to Auschwitz and killing those who survived the march in the gas ovens there.
So maybe I have become somewhat hardened and cynical. Would these people now suffering have helped us if we were in dire need? What if Israel were being attacked by terrorists, would they show any sympathy - but wait a minute, we have been attacked by terrorists, and about 1,200 Israelis have been murdered in 4 years, and did any of these countries, India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, say or do anything to help us. A few of them issued nice sounding statements against terrorism in general, and criticized violence on both sides.
Yet, within a day of the tragedy being announced Israel was actively sending aid:
l The Israeli organization Latet ('To Give') filled a jumbo jet with 18 tons of supplies.
l A medical team headed by four doctors from Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday night (Dec. 27), carrying medicine and baby food. The doctors specialize in rescue operations, trauma and pediatrics.
l An IDF rescue team is now on its way to Sri Lanka with 80 tons of aid material, including 10,000 blankets, tents, nylon sheeting and water containers, all contributed by the IDF.
l A ZAKA rescue-and-recovery team arrived in the disaster areas Monday night, armed with its specialized equipment for identifying bodies.
l A Health Ministry contingent left for Thailand on Monday night to aid in rescue efforts. The group includes doctors, nurses and four members of the IDF.
l Israel has also offered its assistance to India, a search-and-rescue team from the Home Front Command, as well as consignments of food and medicine.
What is most infuriating about this humanitarian response, far out of proportion to Israel's size, is that not a single major media outlet mentioned it. And even worse than that, L'Ossevatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, published an article criticizing Israel for not responding to this humanitarian catastrophe, and accused us of restricting all our efforts to military actions against the Palestinians. If that is not a case of outright anti-Jewish prejudice, what is? Not only singling out Israel from among all the countries of the world for criticism, but actually ignoring the facts. But, then should we be surprised by Catholic anti-Jewish prejudice.
So we should still give to those who are suffering, but if history is any guide, we should not expect reciprocity.