Anyone with an interest in the Middle East and the interwoven complexities, I highly recommend "The Great War for Civilisation", by Robert Fisk. Fisk was the Times and later, Independent's Middle East correspondent. He lived in Beirut throughout the war in Lebanon. This is a huge book, and each time I read it, I take something different from it. Fisk weaves a tale, of how interconnected the problems are. For example, The Doc says "
if you say the word `Holocaust' everybody - rightly - knows what it means". However, many people don't know of the first holocaust, where over one million Armenians were slaughtered, pre and during the First World War. Hitler actually studied the Armenian Holocaust, literally getting ideas as to how they could achieve 'efficient' mass murder. The Ottomans ['
Turks'] used methods such as tying a chain of people, wrist to wrist, then forced them in to water. They'd then shoot the end person. As they sank beneath the water, they'd drag the person tied to them under, so they drowned, in turn, pulling the next person under. With one bullet they could kill many people. They also used 'death marches' in to the Syrian Desert. Why do we not hear of this, and why isn't there any reference to it in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York, despite remembrance of many genocides? Because Turkey still denies the atrocities ever happened. When the Memorial Museum was being developed, we had the Gulf War. The Turkish government said that if the museum referenced Armenian holocaust, then US and others would not be allowed to fly from Turkish airbases or allow their allies military access to Turkish airspace. Israeli government & American Jews also successfully lobbied for this period to be airbrushed from history. More than 100 year later, it is still impacting upon global politics.
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