Until HH returns to clarify, I’m not willing to hazard a bet that 9/11 wasn’t being used in exactly the same way as the Soviet Union and the War on Drugs (and the etymology of the word “Holocaust”) and will later turn out to be some sort of “ah-hah, of course I didn’t mean that!” sort of bait.
It’s also worth noting that we’ve been trying to debate the impact of the Holocaust with someone whose argument not only contained such rhetorical gambits, but who’s on record as stating:
I’d wager that, should this tangent continue. HH will have to define what he meant by (emphasis mine):
Without knowing what he claims “really happened”, or what the exact nature of his JAQ’ing and “semi” Holocaust denial is, trying to debate who validly can be listed as a survivor of the Holocaust seems to be pointless.