Touring Yad Vashem, President Obama has just argued that Israel does not owe its existence to the Holocaust, but that it prevents another Holocaust from occurring: Because after you walk through these halls, after you pass through the darkness, there is light — a glorious view of the Jerusalem Forest, with the sun shining over the historic homeland of the Jewish people; a fulfillment of the prophecy: ‘you shall live again…upon your own soil’,” he said. “Here, on your ancient land, let it be said for all the world to hear: The State of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust. But with the survival of a strong Jewish State of Israel, such a Holocaust will never happen again. This statement is clearly an effort to correct his muddled Cairo speech, which insinuated that the Jewish state exists only because of the Shoah. His new effort to explain Israel’s origins is certainly superior to his first.