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 ::::: Incidentally, the above poster is correct about Dadrian - every peer review I have read of him concludes he simply makes things up, leaves the reader with a false impression with inaccurate paraphrasing and carefully placed ellipsing, creating 'statements' that the actual text leaves no allowance for - Lewy provided countless specific examples of this that prove empirically that it was not a case of Dadrian being lazy or mistaken, but a case of him simply trying to mislead. Yapp elaborates on this by complaining that Dadrian approaches the issue like a prosecution lawyer rather than a historian. Others have accused him of using ""selective sources"" and ""misleading quotations"". 

 ::::: But you would rather believe him that Bernard Lewis, who was the victim of a private prosecution in France in which the court, in acknowledging they were not nearly qualified to disagree with his historical views, instead fined him to the tune of 1 franc for having hurt Armenians feelings by not having presented all the evidence in making his remarks. It was a newspaper interview, how much evidence was he expected to present in answering a question? This is more to the shame of France than to Bernard Lewis. As any internet search will show, the single most peer respected Middle Eastern historian today is Bernard Lewis. This you cannot change - you can set your pressure groups onto Google and Altavista and Yahoo to try to suppress this if you wish, but you cannot change it. 

 ::::: If the French verdict was taken seriously, would Dick Cheney had said of a 'genocide denier' - ""You simply cannot find a greater authority on Middle Eastern history, classical Islamic civilization, the Ottoman Empire"". 

 ::::: To the US's credit, they listen to the views of their historians when addressing matters of history - let us not forget that France employed Gilles Veinstein then completely ignored his historical advice when it was not politically expediant to adhere to it. 

 ::::: In denying the influence and respect that Bernard Lewis enjoys among his field, it becomes apparent you really are not interested in the history of this any more than Dadrian - just in believing what you want to believe."