Steven Erlanger: the Methods of Holocaust Denial

I really recommend that you read this long article by Steven Erlanger. In it, he employs the methods and style of holocaust deniers. Holocaust deniers get into tedious details and they quibble about the gas that was used to kill victims and they employ pseudo-scientific language and vomit technical terms all in order to offer an apologia for Nazi killers and to insult the victims. That is exactly the style of Steven Erlanger in this article. Who but a callous, cruel and terrorist apologist would audactiously vomit this sentence: "Israel estimates that only a quarter of the dead are civilians." This sentence has appeared in the New York Times by another byline mind you.