The Lost Holocaust

Over at Britain’s crack newspaper The Independent, I log on to read the great Middle East journalist Robert Fisk, nearly every day (though he only posts three to four times a week, if that). For insightful and often brave coverage of that quagmire, Fisk is the nonpareil.

Here he writes of the Armenian Genocide, the 20th Century’s first Holocaust, and an inspiration, Fisk argues, for Germany’s “Final Solution” (he argues this in his book, The Great War for Civilisation: Conquest of the Middle East). Interestingly enough, Fisk points out that the preeminent Armenian Genocide scholar is Dr. Taner Akcam, who just happens to be a visiting professor of history at the U.