Given the number of scholars and experts in the U.S. who 
    could comment on the Middle East, it's remarkable that an 
    organization like ABC News would turn to a man so willing 
    to engage in moral and intellectual relativism. Whatever 
    one thinks of the Palestinian question, or of Israel's 
    policy toward them, to speak as Gerges speaks is to 
    cheapen the horror of the Holocaust in an effort to deny 
    Israelis any moral foundation for their state. It's also 
    extremely sloppy history, especially for a scholar, and a 
    clear attempt to use the past for contemporary political 
    ends.