What gall: Bush admin opposes acknowledgment of Armenian genocide to place political relations ABOVE human rights
What the hell is going on in Washington?
No surprise, Zionist scums like ADL's Abraham Foxman insist the horror of the mass-scale massacre of Armenian victims is NOT ethnic cleansing (as in genocide).
First they denied American Holocaust in mass extermination of indigenous and diverse natives that populated the Americas before the arrival of Columbus, now Armenian genocide.
Bush administration and Zionist hardliners are official Holocaust deniers. Except they care about the one event that only matter: Nazi Holocaust of Jewish victims during WWII. Forget the Poles, gays, dissidents, Gypsies, disabled and other categories considered "undesirable" by the Nazis -- only Jews matter and none others.
This is the mentality of racial superiority as propagandized by the Zionists who rejoice in the opportunity to instill the guilt and push for the creation of the State of Israel on the pile of innumerable Holocaust victims.
They place international relations and ethnocentric superiority above the proven historical accounts of the horrific genocides. This is so reprehensible no wonder the world perceive America as the practitioner of duplicity and utter hypocrisy.
Additional story in NYT: Bush Urges Panel to Reject Armenian Genocide Measure
Bush opposes Armenian genocide measure
By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer
President Bush urged Congress to reject legislation Wednesday that would say it was a genocide when thousands of Armenians were killed around the time of World War I.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee prepared to vote on a measure that Turkey says could damage ties with the United States. Turkey is a NATO ally and a major staging area for U.S. military operations in Iraq and the Middle East.
Passing the resolution, Bush said, "would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the global war on terror."
What the f*ck is opposing the resolution have to do with War on Terror?
The committee chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos, cited the potential fallout if the proposal passed. Lantos, a Hungarian-born survivor of the Holocaust, supported a similar resolution two years ago.
"We have to weigh the desire to express our solidarity with the Armenian people ... against the risk that it could cause young men and women in the uniform of the United States armed services to pay an even heavier price than they are currently paying," said Lantos, D-Calif.
Turkey raised the possibility of impeding logistical and other U.S. military traffic now using Turkish airspace.
Earlier, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates conveyed their concerns.
Passing the measure "at this time would be very problematic for everything we are trying to do in the Middle East," Rice said told reporters at the White House.
Gates said that 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey, as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military in Iraq.
"Access to airfields and to the roads and so on in Turkey would very much be put at risk if this resolution passes and Turkey reacts as strongly as we believe they will," Gates said. He also said that 95 percent of new vehicles designed to better protect against mine attacks are being flown through Turkey to get to Iraq.
Lawmakers from both parties who supported the proposal said the moral implications outweighed security concerns and friendship with Turkey.
"The sad truth is that the modern government of Turkey refuses to come to terms with this genocide," said Rep. Chris Smith, R.-N.J. "For Armenians everywhere, the Turkish government's denial is a slap in the face."
The vote comes at a tense time in the region. Turkey's government is seeking parliamentary approval for a military operation to chase separatist Kurdish rebels who operate from bases in northern Iraq. The move, opposed by the U.S., could open a new front in the most stable part of Iraq.
"I have been trying to warn the (U.S.) lawmakers not to make a historic mistake," said Egemen Bagis, a close foreign policy adviser to Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Yet with the House's first order of business Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear that Turkey's position was a hard sell. She introduced the Supreme Patriarch of all Armenians, Karekin II, to deliver the morning prayer — a daily ritual intended to be apolitical.
"With the solemn burden of history, we remember the victims of the genocide of the Armenians," Karekin said in the House. "Give peace and justice on their descendants."
Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said the timing of Karekin's visit was a coincidence. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, a Republican, had requested the leader deliver a morning prayer earlier this year. The House chaplain arranged the visit based on Karekin's schedule and was not aware of the committee's plans, Elshami said.
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara warned U.S. citizens in Turkey about "demonstrations and other manifestations of anti-Americanism" if the bill moved ahead. Protests were reported Wednesday outside the embassy and the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul.
At issue is the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I. Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, says the toll has been inflated and insists that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
Pelosi and the second-ranking Democrat in the House, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, met Wednesday with Turkish Ambassador Nabi Sensoy but emerged from the meeting unswayed. Hoyer told reporters he expects a floor vote on the measure before the House adjourns for the year.
Hoyer said he hoped that Turkey would realize it is not a condemnation of its current government but rather of "another government, at another time."
Graphic photographs ahead
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Information on Armenian genocide
Judicial Inc's assertion that Armenian genocide was sanctioned and carried out by the Zionists
Jew Watch scholar's controversial view on Zionist role in Armenian genocide (11 min)
A congressional panel in the US has passed a resolution!!! recognising the mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman-era Turkey as genocide. The resolution, which was passed 27 votes to 21 on Wednesday by the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee, had been opposed by Turkey and Bush
Yeah, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed it 27-21. It now goes to the House floor, where it could be voted on in mid-November.
There’s a companion bill in the Senate. Both measures are strictly symbolic, and don’t require Bush’s signature. Bush is investigating to see if he can veto them anyway.
When it goes to the House floor, zionist Jews like Tom Lantos will increase their opposition. They know that when the Armenian genocide is officially designated a genocide, the “holocaust” will not longer be the only genocide in all of human history. Then we can speak of the Palestinian genocide.
Ironically, Turks think that zionist Jews are behind this push to call the genocide a genocide. Jews tell the Turks, “No, we oppose it.” But the Turks are so obsessed that they do not hear.
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By the way, some weeks ago I claimed that Armenia is the only Central European country in which there are little or no Jews. I said this because a man from Armenia recently told me this.
A Jewish website confirms it. It says that as of 2001 there were less than 800 Jews left in Armenia, and they are divided.
See http://www.1worldcommunication.org/armeniasjewishschism.htm
and http://www.haruth.com/JewsArmenia.html
Armenians are fully aware of the Jewish role in the “young turks.”
You're right. There aren't too many Jews in Armenia, if you compare it with the rest of the post-communist countries.
The first Armenian president's wife(after Armenia gained its independence from SU) is Jewish!
I was young back then, so I don't exactly remember why people were saying this, but they claimed that Levon Ter-Petrossian was the "enemy" for not only having a Jewish wife (meaning that he could have easily worked for them/west!), but for also wanting to give back some of the historic territories Armenia won back during the Nagorn-Karabakh war with Azerbaijan (ethnic Turks!)in 1994! The Armenian people saw him as a traitor for considering to simply return Armenian lands to Azeris AFTER it had already won the lands back through so much human loss! He simply wanted to hand back the surrounding areas of Nagorno-Karabakh region to Azeris...without realizing that if NK region lost its buffer zone for protection agains the Azeri army, then you can just conclude that Armenia lost NK region all together.
The guy was just a moron. He brought down the country to its knees. Not that Armenia didn't have any problems with the break up of SU, the major earthquake and the war, but Petrossian managed to really bring down the country where there was no economy at all. Makes you wonder if his wife's Jewish roots didn't have anything to do with what he did to the Armenian people and to the country in early 1990s.
I was a kid back then, but I clearly remember the living conditions and how much Armenians suffered under his administration of thugs. But get this...He's running for a president AGAIN and his Jewish wife is next to him every second.
I'm sorry that I kind of went off the topic here, so I'll shift my attention to what I was saying at first.
I can't really say why there haven't been that many Jews in Armenia during the Soviet times, but I think that it could be the fact that Armenians wouldn't let any Jew be at the top of their society so to speak. In other words, I'm trying to say that the Armenian society is not a society of ignorant blind fools who can be ruled by every way possible because they're either stupid to know what's going on around them or that they don't care about what's going on with them.
I hope that made sense, even though the explaination wasn't the best one.
Highly doubt that any Jew could have succeeded among the Armenians. All of them are treated very well in Armenia then and now, but not to the point where they're involved in Armenian state affairs from within. That will never happen because most Armenians are very familiar with the way the Jews function.
So this is the reason why I think that Armenia never attracted Jews in the first place. Some of them managed to emigrate to Israel when SU allowed them to leave.
My father had a Jewish friend who always stated that he loved Armenia, but we heard that he bad mouthed Armenia and Armenians once he set foot in Israel. Armenians have never ever discriminated the Jews. In fact, there was a survey done long time ago about Jewish discrimination all over the former SU and Armenia ranked at the lowest on the list....meaning that Jew did not face discrimination in Armenia. I guess bad mouthing your host country is in Jewish genes, whether you treat them right or wrong...at the end is doesn't matter.