[VeritatisSplendor]

Finkelstein does not claim there were few victims as Lebanon's New TV implies. He claims that there were few survivors, only about 100,000, because the Nazis were so efficient. He limits the definition of "survivor" to one who survived the camps, rather than one who hid or fled, or wasn't rounded up in time.

His thesis is that the slaughter of the Jews was not unique, and the survivors were few, so the world doesn't owe them anything - but that's not enough for the anti-Israel propaganda machine - they have to distort that thesis as well.

Mrs VS

[goldstategop]

They have to erase the enormity of the crime from history altogether. Then it becomes easier to justify Israel's destruction because the Jews were thieves who stole the land from the Palestinians rather than the victims of a genocidal initiative against their race. Its hard to justify atrocities against a victim but against a brigand all manner of reprisals can be defended. So there is a vested interest in Holocaust denial. Its a veritage cottage industry among neo-Nazi and Islamofascist websites around the Internet and the bottom line they spout is the Jews lied. Discrediting the victim is the first step in making anti-Semitism fashionable again.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[DJ MacWoW]

He limits the definition of "survivor" to one who survived the camps, rather than one who hid or fled, or wasn't rounded up in time.

Good grief your kidding! I met a couple in NY city that hid in Poland and had 2 small children. He would sneak out at night and steal food. All their family, on both sides, died in the camps. And this yahoo thinks they're not survivors?