Israel Weighs Recognizing Armenian Genocide By Turks

[JStone]

Dec. 26

Israeli lawmakers debated on Monday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide but were warned by the Foreign Ministry about further damage to frayed relations with Turkey.

The issue has stirred deep emotions in Israel, where some legislators have said the Jewish people, who suffered six million dead in the Nazi Holocaust, have a moral obligation to identify with the Armenian tragedy, even at the risk of a Turkish backlash.

No decision was taken by parliament's Education and Culture Committee, which said it would hold another session at a future date.

Last week, Turkey cancelled all economic, political and military meetings with its NATO partner France after the French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a draft law outlawing genocide denial.

Armenia, backed by many historians and parliaments, says about 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed in what is now eastern Turkey during World War One in a deliberate policy of genocide ordered by the Ottoman government.
Israeli lawmakers weigh recognizing Armenian genocide - chicagotribune.com

US condemns Turkey for Turks' role in genocide of 1 million Armenians and Turkey's denial of the Armenian holocaust
Over Turkish protests, House panel calls killing of Armenians 'genocide'

 

[JStone]

The turkeys throw a temper tantrum and have the temerity to boycott france for its condemnation of the turks' complicity in the genocide of up to 2 million Armenians which the turkeys adamantly refuse to even acknowledge let alone apologize for.

turkey is the remnant of the defeated ottoman empire known as the sick man of europe Sickness can be passed down from one generation to the next


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVRKPOrfEE]France 'can expect Turkish citizen boycott' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Jos]

For many years now, many Knesset members (mostly leftists for some reason) have been trying to hold the heated discussion on the Armenian holocaust and Israel’s recognition of it.


Yet somehow, at the end of the day, a senior security official always ends up explaining with authoritative calm that this isn’t the right time, that it’s none of our business, that we shouldn’t quarrel with the Turks, and that if only we wait a little more everything will be fine.


Yet there should be no question that Israel should recognize the Armenian Shoah. After all, there is no need to explain why we, who experienced a Holocaust unprecedented in the history of the world, cannot lend our hand to the denial of another Shoah (even though there is no need to view both tragedies in the exact same way, as regrettably our Shoah was much greater in scope and much more brutal.)

Recognize Armenian Shoah - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
For Israel to speak of holocausts when they themselves are committing one against the people of Palestine is more than ironic.

 

[JStone]

Hard to imagine the muslimes would be complicit in the death of as many as 2 million Armenians given their own history of peace

Iran Iraq War, 1 million dead
Lebanese Civil War, 250,000 dead
Algerian Civl War: 300,000 dead
Bangladesh Civil War: 500,000 dead
Black Sept., Jordan's King Hussein murders, expells 80,000 Palestinians
Syrian army kills 20,000 Syrians at Hama
Iraq gases hundreds of thousands of Kurds
1400 year conflict between Sunnis and Shiites
Fratricide between Hamas and Fatah
Syria/Hizballah assassinate Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri

Alexis de Toqueville...

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.