Rusting Car Bumper

No. In fact this sort fo statement being forwarded as fact is no different than holocaust denial.

It was actually a British Officer who proposed doing so before there was an American Government and the evidence that it was carried out is circumstancial and uncertain.

DC

Rusting Car Bumper

Its quite different. Its the only time by law a single group of its own people had been targeted for eradication.

DC

Rusting Car Bumper

Pat Buchanan has since backed off of his statements and I think now understands their error.

Irving is a denier. No doubt about it.

As far as defining the term "Holocaust Denier" its quite easy.
A denier usually denier one of three things: (1) 6 million killed, (2) gas chambers, and/or an intention or plan to kill the Jews.

Most (but not all) memorials and museums of the Holocaust int he U.S. are set up with private funds.

Your claim that there are no other memorials set up for other victims is patently false. THe Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum in facts deals with other mass killings and continuously displays and provides information onne's that happen up to today. See for example: http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/

You don't want to talk about it because, simply out, history isn't on your side. There are multiple lines of independent evidence which indicate to any neutral and unbiased person that the Nazis engaged in a plan to murder and eradicate Jews from Europe.

DC

Gurdur

Yes, but not because of: Your claim is not accurate.
Queen Elizabeth the First issued a decree that native Irish should be wiped out of one particular area (and by that time the native Irish in that region were part of Britain's "own people"); also, a decreed by state that all male Gypsies in mainland Britain (ditto), IIRC, should be killed was issued around the same time.

The early Middle-Ages state-decreed Spanish treatment of Spanish Jews who refused to convert, or who secretly practised Judaism after official conversion to Christianity, also amounts to eradication.

Moreover, the Middle Ages legally-sanctioned war of the northern French against the southern French, dressed up as an official Crusade agaist Albigenisians/Cathars, amounts in practice in many areas to eradication ---- state/Pope -ordained.

Rusting Car Bumper

Well, there are long and arduous arguments as to why these are not equivalent.

The best I can do is suggest the following long and arduous book:The Holocaust in Historical Context

DC

Celsus

Aside from your obvious and thoroughly distasteful ad hominem to avoid any real discussion, and the fact that I already rebutted this attempted evasion earlier, I might add that Finkelstein, Silberman, and Mazar who have already been mentioned earlier are Jewish. A large number of giants among the scholars (e.g. Ben-Tor, Vermes, etc.) are also Jewish, as are the vast majority of those involved in the fieldwork at the world famous Hebrew University. Bill Dever (also mentioned previously) also had a brief conversion to Judaism. Our resident expert here, Apikorus, is also Jewish, and he could tell you himself that the Biblical Canaanite invasion was a myth. Your assertions are really getting worse and more desperate by the minute.

Joel

Dr Rick

There's been some really great posts and discussions on this thread; let's all keep it civil because I would hate to have to close it.

Tristan Scott

I would think that many Jews would realize that there are may parts of the Tanakh which are meant to be metaphorical. You may be confusing them with Xians, who take the words of scripture as literal truth.