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The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide

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This book is a very insightful and well written.The Israeli government and certain Zionist interests have played an active role in helping Turkey in it's propaganda effort against the Armenian Genocide .It would seem strange that Israel who comdemns those who deny the Jewish Holocaust such as the KKK ,David Irving and others would be so guilty of the hypocracy of facilitating the denial of the Armenian genocide.This Israeli hypocracy is exposed well in this book .Mr Auron and many other Jewish scholars have supported the Armenians in gaining recognition for the first major genocide of the 20th century.Many forget that the Armenian genocide was the prelude to the Holocaust and Hitler is well known to have made the comment that no one remembers the Armenians .

Yair Auron is neither a historian nor an expert on Ottoman history! This person is a political analyst who has never studied history or received a degree in history and he's behaving like as if he is an expert on this complex subject. He's using misquotations and forgeries to substantiate his book of logical fallacies. A real Ottoman/Islamic historian, Dr. Bernard Lewis compares Nazi Denialism and historians who denounce the Armenian Genocide Allegations:

"The deniers of Holocaust have a purpose: to prolong Nazism and to return to Nazi legislation. Nobody wants the 'Young Turks' back, and nobody wants to have back the Ottoman Law. What do the Armenians want? The Armenians want to benefit from both worlds. On the one hand, they speak with pride of their struggle against the Ottoman despotism, while on the other hand, they compare their tragedy to the Jewish Holocaust. I do not accept this. I do not say that the Armenians did not suffer terribly. But I find enough cause for me to contain their attempts to use the Armenian massacres to diminish the worth of the Jewish Holocaust and to relate to it instead as an ethnic dispute."

The Benality of Denial is nothing more than an attempt to silence opposing points of views by condemning dissenters as "denialists".