In their view. I personally don't think it's relevant 50 years later, but I probably would say the same then, too.
Unfortunately, the Zionists are making their propaganda and agenda only stronger. Just look at last week, they totally took over the "holocaust" for their agenda (and made it global), on a date that is important for their agenda and opposed to Torah, and literally terrorize anyone that doesn't line up with their agenda.
They are doing everything to make things into national symbols, where the nationalism isn't Jewish nationalism (אין אומתנו אומה אלא בתורתה) but rather Zionist (read: כחי ועוצם ידי) nationalism.