I'm into the drawing style, which feels old-fashioned in some weird way.

you should see the rest of his style... homeboy looks like he just walked out of an r. crumb strip.

 i keed! i keed!

fantastic

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/08/antidefamation_1.html

Monday, August 27, 2007
Anti-Defamation League rehires New England director

By Keith O'Brien, Globe Staff

The national Anti-Defamation League rehired its New England regional director today, barely a week after firing him for publicly breaking with the national leadership and acknowledging the Armenian genocide that began in 1915.

The move to rehire Andrew H. Tarsy as regional director marked the second time in a week that the human rights organization has reversed course under pressure from the Jewish and Armenian-American communities. But Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director, said he did not rehire Tarsy simply to appease critics....

>>But Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director, said he did not rehire Tarsy simply to appease critics....<<

 

There's a funny recap of this whole sorry mess at www.counterpunch.org in which the author, John Walsh, notes that "Foxman now has accomplished what has eluded diplomats for nearly a century, bringing Armenians and Turks together ­ in this case in opposition to national ADL. And he has even brought down a Turkish charge against his own proper respect for the Holocaust!"

Foxman's ongoing lobbying on behalf of Turkey to derail the Genocide Resolution (HR 106) is 'tantamount' to Holocaust denial. Nobody's buying his explanation of moral hierarchies for ADL's mission. His insistence on justifying his actions is spreading more embarrassment.

See his latest justification here:

http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/this_weeks_issue/news/?content_id=3556

While Foxman still doesn't get it, the one who REALLY TRULY doesn't get though is the government of Turkey!

The more he talks about this and tries to explain (redefine) the ADL's mission, the worse it gets.   He should just spit it out and say that the ADL cares about Jews and only Jews, and they are willing to trample on any other group if they think that in so doing they are protecting Jews.  Actually, that's not quite accurate, what he really cares about are his donors, who happen to be Jews with an agenda that involves protecting Jews.

 If Turkey is such a wonderful ally to Israel, why does the ADL think that Turkey's Jews are in need of protection?  Could it possibly be that they fear that a country that committed genocide against their Armenians could also do the same to their Jews?  Hmmm . . .

I'm reading a book "Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict." by Ronald Florence.
http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Aaronsohn-Aaron-Arab-Israeli-Conflict/dp/0670063517
The Zionist settlers in 1915 were very much aware of what was happening to Armenians and were terrified that it would soon happen to them. With good reason. The Turkish commander in Palestine, Djemal Pasha, had launched an ill-considered and disasterous attack on the British in Egypt, like Enver in the Caucuses. And like Enver, he picked a scapegoat for his fiasco -- the Jews of Palestine. There's an account by Aaronsohn's brother available online at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10338

Arzoo,

Have you read any of Yair Auron's books on this subject?  I just finished "The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide" and plan to read "The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide" next. 

I will put your book on my list!  Thanks.

Linda

What is now best for the ADL and Jewish Americans - is to request Abe Foxman to resign from being the head honcho of the ADL. He has done a great job at the helm of this outstanding organization. It is now time for Abe to retire and let the next generation take the helm of the ADL.

Along with a change of guards there needs to come the formal recognition by the American Jewish communities, their lobbies, and the Israel government, of the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Only with a true acknowledgement can credibility and the moral high ground be re-established.

Recent Foxman quotes:

__________________________________

"In light of the heated controversy that has surrounded the issue in
recent weeks, and because of our concern for the unity of the Jewish
community at a time of increased threats against the Jewish people,
we decided to revisit the tragedy that befell the Armenians."

__________________________________

"In meetings with high-level Turkish officials, we have pressed them
to come to grips with the past and speak to what happened."
(fat lie -- in those meetings Foxman agreed to lobby against Armenian Genocide recognition!)

___________________________________

"While we continue to firmly believe that a Congressional resolution on such matters is a counterproductive diversion and will not foster reconciliation
between Turks and Armenians, we will not hesitate to apply the term genocide in the future."
(So it's now suddenly OK for the ADL to apply the term 'genocide' but not so for the US of A!??)

___________________________________

"As long as ADL is an organization committed first to the safety and
security of the Jewish people, we cannot in good conscience ignore
the well-being of 20,000 Jews in Turkey."
(Are Turkish Jews at risk or genocide, or are they being used to promote sinister policy? What does this say about Turkey as an ally)

___________________________________

Facts about Turkey:

-- According to the Pew Research, Turkey is the most anti-American country in the world today (June 2007). It is also one of the most anti-Semitic.

-- As recently as last year, "Mein Kampf" was the top bestseller in Turkey.

-- During WWII, Turkey provided vital raw materials to Germany. Turkey also built Jewish labor camps in Anatolia.

-- If Jews were so welcome in Turkey, how come there are only 20,000 of them left there? Even Germany and Spain have a greater Jewish population.

So much for an 'important' ally...

____________________________________

So what's wrong with this picture? What is Abe hiding? What's the pink elephant in the room? What covert policies are being promoted through denying Armenians their history and suffering, and why?

that guy is an embarassment to the jewish community- if
they excommunicated spinoza- why can't they do the same
to this guy?

It is a well known fact that during WWII Turkey was neutral However it is a little known fact that Turkey and Germany had signed an agreement that as soon as Stalingrad (St. Petersburg) fell to the Germans, Turkey was to invade the Soviet Union via Armenia. 100,000+ Turkish troops were massed on the Turkish-Armenian border of the Soviet Union - ready to invade as soon as the Russians lost their city (opportunists jumping on the winning side of the war). Sounds familiar doesn't it - 1917 revisited again when the Russian's pulled out of the Anatolia (western Armenia) and the Caucasia (eastern Armenia) because of the Bolshevik revolution during WWI - letting the Turkish army full sway over Armenia proper.

So Turkey was ready to formally declare itself sided with the Axis (HITLER & Company) powers. Too bad for Turkey that Russia never lost Stalingrad - which was one of the greatest defenses of a city in modern history.

Of coarse, highly probable speculation here, if the city had fallen the next round of the genocide of the Armenians would have occurred and also Turkish and Caucasian Jews would have been shiped out to the same place they would have shipped the Armenians - the grave. Why don't you ask Jews from Turkey what happened to their families during WWII - how about a Japanese American style of internment!

Of coarse the Jewish community of Turkey is very scared for thier lives and livleyhod. Just look what happened to Hrant Dink - executed by the neo-Nazi fascists of the Turkish "deep state". Always will be a Dhimmis in the eyes of a Turk - always!

You are correct. During WW ll Turks did get involved militarily with the Axis on the Fifth Column side. They created secret armed groups to be dropped behind Russian lines and instigate local Turkic people of Crimea, Azerbaijan, etc. to foment trouble . These groups were lead by Turkish Army officers....Very few people know these facts.

Anon. writes: "as soon as Stalingrad (St. Petersburg) fell to the Germans, Turkey was to invade the Soviet Union via Armenia."

But Stalingrad today is not St. Petersburg. It is Volgograd. Leningrad is St. Petersburg. Both were under siege. Loss of Leningrad would have had greater impact on the general balance of military forces, although the contest over Stalingrad ("the meat grinder") bore immense symbolic status to both sides, and moreover was far nearer Turkey. Which of these in German hands would have impelled Turkey, or both?

MY apologies for getting the two names mixed up. It was Lenningrad (today's St. Petersberg) - not Stalingrad that was under seige by the Germans during WWII. The secret pact between the Turks and the Germans was that Turkey would jump into the war on the Axis side as soon as Lenningrad fell to the Germans. Fortunately for the Armenians the Russians and the rest of the Soviets were able to defend the city and repulse the attack.

Also and more importantly was how the Turks were treating their Jewish population during the war. Why are we not commenting on this aspect? Is there a cover up here or just plain ignorance?

Turkish Jews like Turkish Armenians live in fear for their life every day of their lives. Being a Jew or Armenian in Turkey is still like being a Dhimmi - a thrid class citizens - below that of non-Turkish Moslems (i.e. Kurd's, Circassian's, Lazi's, Hamshem Armenians, etc...).

Why do the Turks keeps reminding us of how they accepted Jews with open arms several hundred years ago? The point of when people are accepted into a country should be moot. The United States does not contantly remind ethnic and religious minorities of when they were accepted into this country. One can only intrepret this as a threat to the Jews - that the Turks accepted you and the Turks can unaccept you at any time.

I know first hand how much Turkish Jews are in denial and seem to suffer a case of mass Stockholm Syndrome.

Why don't they just get out of there ? We have Israel now.

Abe Foxman is a man with very poor judgment. And criticism of his misguided approach to dealing with the Armenia question is well founded. But that does not justify this horribly anti-semitic cartoon. What purpose does it serve to portray Foxman as a money-grubbing Jew, to dismiss Hertzl as a delusional prophet, and to draw images of Foxman that would make the Nazis proud (beads of sweat, glaring teeth, glutonous food consumption)? Unfortunately, this cartoon shows that anti-semitism is alive and well, and that the work of the ADL is necessary and noble work. The fact that Foxman repeatedly and consistently exercises bad judgment in pursuing the mission of the ADL does not mean that he is a selfish money-grubbing Jew. Conflation of Foxman's failures with the most depraved anti-semitic stereotypes does nobody any good.

Yep, the idea was to secretly push anti-semitic cartoons to reintroduce them to common media. It has nothing to do with Foxman's penchant for selling out others for political and economic favors - like he has done seemingly countless times.

If you notice, there are two other Jews (and, presumably, a semitic-looking Armenian) depicted in that cartoon, neither of whom exhibits any particular anti-semitic stereotypes. Don't come around here crying "Anti-semitism!" just because Abe Foxman has trouble get his priorities straight and we called him on it.

And if you're really upset because Eli Valley used extremely loose, disassociated caricatures of anti-semitism in his comic, then I hope you're prepared to picket the new Disney's Frog Prince movie, featuring a New Orleans-based, African-American princess! I shudder to think of what they may depict people of color doing ... Serving food to one another? Eating green vegetables? Maybe we'll even see one who's a farmer! I hope to God, not though.

To Mr. Sensitive Anonymous:

Sorry guys. Most of the features representing the anti-semitic nature of the cartoon went over my head - did not even notice them. Since you caught them - you may be overly sensitive to these stereotypes.

I did notice the play on money as the most obvious stereotype (Jews and money) - but that could be a stereotype of anybody from any ethnicity from today where selling yourself for a dollar is the unmoral norm.

As for the beads of sweat, glaring teeth, glutonous food consumption - how are those anti-semitic? I think it more representative of the morals and dilemma of the man behind the cartoon than his ethnicity.

Now if they put a "very big nose" on him, or a "religious" cap on him, or he was eating "Matza Ball" soup - well that certainly would be a flagrant in your face mockery.

However - the emphasis was on money - for the $500,000,000 raised to the $125 steak to the helping of the fugitive gangster for money to the debt he owed the Sultans of Turkey. The whole cartoon was about his morals revolving around money - and - even in the end after taking the money he regneged on the deal.

My advice to you Mr. 10:29am Anonymous - get off this self guilt of being Semitic and looking around every corner for anti-semitic people and statements. You are on your way to being just like those overly sensitive Muslims who lost control of themselves when the Europeans spoofed Mohammed in cartoons.

Yours truly,

An Armenian probably with a bigger nose than yours and most certainly curlier hair than yours.

p.s. Woody Allen used to make fun of Armenians in his movies - no one ever accused him of Anti-Armenianism. In fact I particularly enjoyed those Armenian jokes.

I didn't think of those aspects of the cartoon as being characteristic of Jews either until Anonymous pointed out that they were anti-semitic elements of the cartoon. In other words, it didn't strike me that sharp teeth or gluttony were supposed to be directed at Foxman's Jewishness. I think by pointing these things out over and over again, you drill it into people's heads that Jews are supposed to have sharp teeth and be gluttonous. Not until Anonymous' post did I ever imagine that Jews are supposed to be gluttonous, and I grew up with many Jews.

I think anti-semitism is definitely a real and existing monster, but when it is treated with paranoia, I think it has the unintended effect of creating more anti-semites. At the least, it reminds people of the harmful Jewish stereotypes that many of us have either never known or have forgotten.

Although i choose not to leave my name, I am a different person from the "anonymous" above. But I definetly agree with him/her! Foxman is bad, but the truth in that does not deny the truth in this cartoon perpetuating anti-semetic setreotypes. This cartoon depicts Foxman looking like the jews in the old nazi propaganda, in addition to all the good points mentioned above. I support criticism of moraly or ethically wrong actions taken by other Jews (especially those who are supposed to be our representatives), but that does not mean you should do so in this way. The cartoon actually implies that he denies Arminian genocide because all the Jews with money (these "donors") want him to! It was these same Jews protests (including myself) that made him chnage his stance.

If it looks like a duck, and talks like a duck.. It must be Abe Foxman with a big nose. Seriously, he just plain old looks kind of like a stereotype. Google image him.

As if the whole issue isn't complex enough, how many people realize that the Armenian tragedy was not authorized by the Ottoman Sultan or by his government? In fact, it was the ultra-secretive Committee of Union and Progress, or CUP, that organized the whole thing behind closed doors and with a secret army. Moreover, it was this group that hijacked the entire Ottoman empire at its weakest and most devastated point. Financially, the Ottoman Empire was bankrupt. Where was the wealth that could save the empire and house the millions of incoming refugees? It was in the hands of the minorities. In 1914, Armenians comprised fully 25% of the population of Anatolia, and while politically impotent, after more than 3000 years there, controlled a vast amount of wealth. More than anything else, the genocide was rooted in theft and greed: eliminate the native, indigenous people and steal their land, their businesses, bank accounts, properties, etc. and even worse, all of these were then handed over to former CUP members after the fall of the empire as a nice little 'thank you'....and they then became the new economic ruling class of Turkey. Let's face facts - these people were the original neo-cons....

It is completely uncalled for to call Theodor Herzl delusional. You know... he actually got up and did something for Jews, which is more than i can say for ummm most people (jews and goyim alike).

When my dad was a teen in Poland he was very into the idea of a Jewish state, and was a great admirer of Theodor Herzl. Then World War II happened.  The afterwards my parents and my brother and sister moved to Israel.  The promise was implied that "all your problems are solved" by moving there.  Nope, that did not happen.  After spending a few years living there, they got sick and tired of the constant state of war Israel was—and still is—in and moved the family to America.

You know what a true sign of delusion is? The fact that if you ask most Jews/Israelis if Israel is at war, most will answer "Well, it's not exactly a war..."

 Give me a break. They are in a constant state of preparedness for the next person to invade and destroy them.  Yet most will never admit it's a war-like existence even during good times.

 The theory of Israel is a dream.  The reality is a delusion.

B'SD

There is a website of a militant Jewish (www.jewishdefense.org)
group the Jewish Defense Organization and they
have alot of dirt on Foxman.They list how he took
250,000 dollars from Marc Rich to get him a pardon for his
fraud and rip off charges.But Foxman would not not lift a finger for
Jonathan Pollard.They mention how Foxman did not lift a finger
during the Crown Heights Pogrom riot against Jews. They also
mention how when Islamic terrorist shot Jews in Seattle last
summer Foxman did nothing."Dishonest Abe" as JDO calls him
said that PLO head Arafat earned the Nobel Peace Prize that he got !After reading this JDO website's section it's obvious that Foxman will say whatever
gets him the biggest donations, or awards ! He is for sale ! He does not care
2 bits about his own Jewish community !

Just saw this on the JDO website re Foxman
www.jewishdefense.org

B'SD

Abe Foxman's version of the
BEATLES SONG, "Yesterday"

Yesterday,
All my scandals seemed so far away
Now, I realize that they are here to stay
Oh how I long
For yesterday.

Yesterday,
With arrogance I'd get my way
Now I hope that I can hide away
In Florida Like Yesterday

Suddenly,
I'm just half the man I used to be
The Marc Rich scandal still hangs over me
The expose'
Came suddenly

Why
The donors
Had to go
I should know
They wouldn't stay
I did
All those wrongs
Now I, long
For yesterday...

Yestersay,
The Pollard scandal seemed so far away
Now I realize it's here to stay
I wish he'd die
Just go away

Yesterday,
Holocaust survivors I betrayed
Now my image has begun to fade
O I remember
Yesterday

Suddenly
I'm just half the man I used to be
My temper tantrums are exhausting me
Don't question my
Stability

Yesterday,
Funds were such an easy thing to raise
And the Board against itself I'd play
But now our bills
Are hard to pay

Yesterday,
Armenian Genocide I brushed away
Now I'm frightened by the news it made
They called me smug
Just yesterday

Yesterday,
Firing staffers was a game I'd play
Now my own job might end that way
O how I long
For Yesterday

B'SD

Although the ADL's mission is to supposed to be to speak up for
Jews under Foxman's tenure it does not even do that.He took
money ($250,000) from two bit con man Marc rich rather than
help Jonathan Pollard. Foxman on tv condemned the JDO for
getting KKK members fired from jobs. Foxman also defended
neo-nazi Pig Matt Hale's "right to be an attorney" after this
neo-nazi misfit was turned down by the Illinois Sate Bar.
Foxman was invisible durong the vicious Jew-Hating riot
pogrom in Crown Heights Brooklyn led by vicious Jew-Hater Al
Sharpton and didn't lift a finger for those Jews who were getting
beaten,stabbed,burned out and killed.So do not be shocked that
Foxman this fake,pony and fraud (for honor and donations)
denied the real Genocide that happened to the Armenians.

Foxman recently on "60 Minutes" show even went so far as to blast Holocaust
survivors for demanding the money bvack that was stolen from them
by various Swiss and German banks before the Holocaust.Foxman said it made
the Holocaust survivors "look greedy". At the time the Jewish Defense Organization blasted Foxman, as "Dishonest Abe" and you can see even more on the JDO website. WWW.JEWISHDEFENSE.ORG

We consider Foxman a sell out to the Jews fo years and have held
several demonstrations against him.The truth is that Foxman is
literally "off his rocker" and should have been fired years ago.

SHOWER FOR PUNISHMENT FOR BAAAD FOXMAN

by Edward Papelian

February 16, 2008 12:00 PM EST

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With all
due respect to the numerous Jewish-born humanists, historians, writers,
individual personalities, Chief Rabbi, Yona Metzger and many other that
have had the courage to take a stand for the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide and justice for this crime, it is none the
less obvious that the official representatives of Judaism and above all
Jewish/Israeli politicians still have a lot to catch up on.

Turkish
Prime Minster, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called upon Turkish migrant
workers in a very controversial and emotional speech, on Feb 10 in
Germany city of Cologne, to resist assimilation and remain Turkish.
Erdogan confused in his above mentioned speech "integration" with
"assimilation". According to Turkish Prime Minister: “Assimilation is a crime against humanity”!
Erdogan´s nationalistic views on needed intergration of Turks in German
society cuased an outcry in Germany. One should just bring to the
attention of Turkish authorities that the Australian government
apologized Wednesday (Feb 13) for years of "mistreatment" and decades
of racist policies that inflicted "profound grief, suffering and loss"
on the country's Aboriginal people. When is Turkey - an “allay and
friend” of Israel and Us - going to end its racist policies and
apologize for the systematic destruction of Armenians as other
Christian folks and forced turcifications in Turkey? According to Turkish palace historians all Non Turks living in Ottoman Turkey were “foreign spies and infidels…"

Even
though the internationally recognized and respected Jewish jurist and
human rights activist Rafael Lemkin already concerned himself with and
recognized the systematic destruction of the Armenians as a "murder of
race" at the start of the 1930s, the fact remains that justice for the
Armenian Genocide is still being aggressively denied by influential
organizations of the Jewish Diaspora as well as by the State of Israel
itself.

Genocide - extermination of a race - is a political crime.
Genocides are not committed by private individuals, but by the state
itself. The reference to historians and historical science in regard to
the Armenian Genocide is a tactical and spurious argument to relieve
the world governments from the responsibility to act while
simultaneously giving the perpetrators carte blanche. The proper
reaction to political crimes is therefore only possible through
political response - from the parliamentary houses, the politicians and
the governments.

Now more than ever the denial of genocide
must be responded to, for denial is intrinsic to the methodology of
genocide. Genocide is denied even as it is practiced.

From the
beginning, the perpetrator seeks pretexts and justifications to conceal
the real intentions. Thus, the extermination is referred to as "transporting," as "deportation" or "resettlement" - "moving to secure places" or even as the "final solution."
A verbal code is used to camouflage and thus deny the annihilation,
even as it is being committed. No wonder after the “deportation (i.e.
Annihilation) of Armenians in Turkey everything become „Turkish”.

Genocide without simultaneous denial is unthinkable - yes, even impossible.
The first thing that must be done is to consider what the perpetrators
want to attain through denial. Denial is not just the simple negation
of an act; it is much more the consequent continuation of the very act
itself. Genocide should not only physically destroy a
community; it should likewise dictate the prerogative of interpretation
in regard to history, culture, territory and memory. As the victims-
Armenians - "never exists".

The Turkish have not only
murdered humans , destroyed an ancient culture/civilization and
rewritten history, but they continue to legitimize the act as well as
the racist ideology that led to the act. This includes the
legitimization of any and all stereotyping of the Armenian people as a
dangerous enemy, as a deadly bogeyman in the closet.

Denial is
the final step in the completion of a mass extermination - and the
first step towards the next genocide. If genocide is committed in
Ruanda or Sudan, it is done with the knowledge that the rest of the
world will only watch and then forget.

They look to Turkey and think themselves safe in the assumption that their actions will likewise remain unpunished!
Whether in Sudan or Ruanda or any other potential hotspot of mass
murder the accountable powers-that-be rhetorically ask - as Hitler
supposedly did just before invading Poland - "Who, after all, speaks
today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

The
Republic of Turkey has denied the Armenian Genocide for the past 84
years, and politicians in Israel and a vast majority of officials of
Jewish Diaspora are aboard their boat now. In the USA, for
example, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) not only denied the
Armenian Genocide in the past but also actively fought against the
Congressional Resolution for the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
At the end of August 2007, the ADL finally recognized the Armenian
Genocide through gritted teeth. The acknowledgment given, however, was
qualified to such an extent that one could have done without it. A
similar statement of recognition was also simultaneously supplied by
the American Jewish Committee.

Presently, the AIPAC totally
denies to have ever fought against the official recognition of the
Armenian Genocide by the US government and now presents itself as being
neutral in regard to the subject. (And apparently "neutral" is just
what they are.)

Pierre Besnainou, the acting president of the
European Jewish Congress (EJC) until early 2007, stated in 2006 that
the Armenian people should stop making fools of themselves: there has
been only one genocide in modern times and as everyone knows it was
that of the Jews - an Armenian Genocide never happened. (We have yet to
see what the attitude of Moshe Kantor, the current president of the
EJC, is in this regard.)

In 2001, while he was the Israeli
Foreign Minister, Nobel Prize winner and current President of Israel
Shimon Peres described the Armenians as "meaningless" ("Armenian
allegations") Moreover, this year President Shimon Peres and the
current Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni did a heroic act that in
no way pales to the statements regarding the Holocaust expressed by the
President Ahmadinejad: Peres affirmed Israel's attitude to the
"Armenian Question" and promised the Turkish Prime Minster Erdogan to
lobby against the Armenians, while Minster Livni prevented the Knesset
from officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

The
statement given: "Genocide never happened. There was a "tragedy" with
victims on both sides. Please reconcile yourselves now and start a
dialog." Once again, a replay of the Turkish argument of shameless
denial by a Israeli official: "There were mutual killings and No mass
Killings."

Just recently Israeli President Shimon Peres let
himself be vocally celebrated by hundreds of Genocide deniers in the
Turkish Parliament, including numerous Turkish fascists, racists,
ultra-nationalists and fundamentalists In Ankara, President Shimon
Peres reiterated his support for the denial of the Armenian Genocide
and conveyed his full acceptance of the Turkish politics of lies and
denial. But it cannot escape the notice of an experienced politician
like President Shimon Peres that the Genocide deniers in Ankara are no
longer simply satisfied with the repudiation of the Armenian Genocide.

Turkish
Prime Minster Erdogan and the other Turkish nationalists have long
since joined forces to create Pan Turanic - "Pan Turkish"- institutions
with the specific aim of try(ing) to prove the 'illegality' of the
existence of the Armenian people to the world.

When the French
Ambassador to Great Britain, Daniel Bernard, referred to Israel as
"this shitty little country" in 2001, there was a storm of protest and
he was quickly labeled an Anti-Semite. But what should an Armenian call
someone that denies the Armenian Genocide and refers to Armenians as
"meaningless"? If that were even just all that is being done: Above and
beyond this, Turkey has demanded that Israel instruct the "Jewish
Lobby" to agitate against the Armenians. Of course the reference to the
"Jewish Lobby" is an allusion to the Jewish Diaspora and - as is the
case when talking of Diasporas - carries a whiff of world conspiracy
and global domination.

Thus, the "Jewish Conspiracy" should
follow Ankara's tune and eliminate, obliterate, purge (whatever you
choose to call it) the "Armenian Conspiracy." Under normal
circumstances the concept would be laughable, but laughter is not
advisable as it could result in asphyxiation.

Why Do
Jewish Organizations and their Functionaries Deny the Armenian Genocide
as Turkey Does Deny recognition and Justice for this Crime?
How can this act of denial be harmonious with the Jewish moral concepts
and identity in light of the xenophobia, racism, Anti-Semitism,
hostility and intolerance that the sorely tested Jewish People are
themselves confronted with on a daily basis? Genocide is racism: it is
the most paramount and aggressive form of racial discrimination, and is
aimed at the obliteration of the existence and life of a people only
because they belong to a specific community or collective - a community
that is defined by the aggressors as "the others," as "the alien."

Two
reasons are commonly given for the "placating" activities of the
international Jewish community in regard to Turkey's denial policies:
Israel needs Turkey, and the Holocaust is unique. On occasion a third
reason is also offered: to do otherwise would result in repercussions
against the Jewish community in Istanbul. (Although if this were true,
the US Congress and Senate could never pass any resolutions against
Iran: as is well known, numerous Jewish people also live in Tehran,
Yazd, and Isfahan for centuries!) Statements such as those are, in the
end, nothing but hollow attempts to justify denial.
The
attitude of Jewish Organizations and their functionaries in regard to
the Armenian Genocide not only results in their involvement in the
guilt of the perpetrators but also produces a culpability of their own
as well.

An attitude such as theirs supports and perpetuates
the bogeyman image of the Armenians that has long been cherished by the
Turkish while simultaneously strengthening the Turkish nationalistic
self-image. Above and beyond this, when Jewish functionaries describe
the Ottoman Turkey as a paradise of earth, they both distort history
and negate the inhumanities experienced by the Armenian as other Non
Turkish People; instead, an unmerited image of a heroic and pro-Judaic
Turkey is propagated throughout Jewish communities and private homes.

Thus,
in turn, within the sphere of the Jewish Diaspora and even Israel
itself, a new generation grows that is spoon-fed the misconceptions of
the valiant Turk and perfidious Armenian. In regard to this current
situation, is oddly ironic that the modern usage of the word "Holocaust"
- used so often by international communities to describe the Shoah -
was first introduced to describe the Turkish bloodbath suffered by the
Armenians in Adana in 1909. (Ferriman, Z.D.: The Young Turks and the Truth about the Holocaust at Adana in Asia Minor during April 1909; London, 1913.)

The Enemy of My Friend is also My Enemy. Is
the demonization of the Armenian Community within the Jewish Diaspora
done with this concept in mind? Some examples among others: In July
2007 an article was published in the "Juedische Zeitung" ("Jewish
Newspaper") in Germany which totally supported and serviced the
policies of genocide denial and victim-perpetrator-reversal as
practiced alla Turca.

The "Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs"
published in November this year in its webpage an article written by
Ms. Aydan Kodaloglu, an advisor to the former Turkish President Turgut
Özal; in her article, Kodaoglu attempted to make the denial of the
Armenian Genocide (even more) palatable for the Jewish and Israeli
population. (Ironically enough, according to Nüzhet Kandemir, the
former Turkish ambassador to the USA, President Turgut Ozal was himself
on the brink of recognizing the Armenian Genocide.)

In turn,
in the Jerusalem Post Joel J. Sprayregen (the former National
Vice-Chair of the ADL and a member of the Executive Committee of the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)) took the
Armenian resistance during the Genocide to justify denial alla Turca - "There was no genocide" - he was referring to history fakers -
despite the fact that he must be fully aware that one could easily
reinterpret reality and deny the Jewish Holocaust through the
misrepresentation of the Warsaw Uprising, the Theresienstadt-
deportation camp, the "sale" and departure of the Jews to Switzerland
during the Holocaust , existence of Jewish units in the British Army
(traditional foe of Germany during WW) ,struggle of Jewish for a
"Jewish State", and survival of millions of Jews people ...

And in the US, one could easily come to assume that Washington Times
- which often reads as a copy of the Turkish press - aims at leading a
war against the Armenian Genocide Resolution (HR 106) in the US
Congress.

Holocaust-denier, David Irving, is serving more and more as example as a paradigm for the denial of Armenian Genocide.
Mr. Lenny Ben-David, former undersecretary at the Israeli Embassy in
the US and A adviser for five years to the Turkish embassy in
Washington, until earlier this summer, In his article published in the
Oct. 5 issue of the Jerusalem Post, titled "Turkey
and Armenia: What Jews should do," Not only denied the Armenian
Genocide and creates hysteria and Armenophobe but in his article he
gives a lot of credit to the fabrication of Turkish and Azeri
nationalists and fascists. This is again not a hidden fact even for
this politician that the aim of Turkish fabrications against Armenians
in the next step includes: suggesting removing Armenia from the maps,
as a people and country which doesn't exist...

If you assume A
Armenian student from Jerusalem will be allow in an official ceremony
in Israel to refer to the Armenian Genocide, you are mistaken. This
shouldn't come to you as a surprise either; in Istanbul the remaining
Armenian children from "Western Armenia" (After Genocide renamed to
"Eastern Anatolia") are forced to write essays how their ancestors
committed "genocide against Turks" (This is just distressful,
nauseating, sadistic and perverse.)

Denial is known as a second
killing (a "bloodless-killing"). There is an aggressive denial of
Armenian Genocide on going by Turkey. Unfortunately, a big part of
officials of Jewish Diaspora and Israel are involved in the denial of
Armenian Genocide and this act - their involvement in denial - doesn't
differ much from the involvement of German military officer in Armenian
Genocide in 1915 (This reference should make clearer - to help to reach
a better understanding- what really the denial of Armenian Genocide by
Jewish politicians means for Armenian people and other Christian people
who were subject of genocide by Turkish!)

If politically allies do it, it's not genocide but "Tragedy".
“Only the Turkish Nation has the right to put an ethnically and racial
claim on this land (e.g. "Anatolia" including ears where Armenians were
deported and killed en mass by Turkish).” Ismet Inonu 1939, President
and successor of Ataturk. Presdient Isemt Inonu was one of the chief
architects of Turkish denial and justification of Armenian Genocide.
Today, there are Turkish "palace historians" that aim to erase all
references to "Armenia" and "Armenian people" in the libraries of the
world. This is a fact that is easily documented. Professor Dr. Yusuf
Halacoglu, the racially motivated President of the Turkish Historical
Society with the assistance of Turkish fascists, extends great effort
on proving the non-existence of the Armenian People and, in turn, the
state of "Armenia." The statements of many Jewish Diaspora and Israeli
officials that "there was no Armenian Genocide" play directly into the
hands of the official policy Turkey and the Turkish Nationalists and
fascists. Justification of Armenian Genocide and a narrow-minded ethnic
foreign politics of Turkey in the region leads us to the conclusion
that Turkey has no problems with the fact of Armenian Genocide. Turkish
problem seems to be the existence of Armenian State and the struggle of
Armenian Diaspora for justice. Denial of Armenian Genocide by Turkey,
Turkish hostile attitudes regarding Armenian State and the statement of
Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2004 that “Even if the Kurds establish a
Kurdish State in Argentina Turkey would fight this”, are the policies
of a failed State rather than the policy of a civilized and democratic
country!

A nation that has been the victim of genocide should
not be forced to prove the fact of genocide. For a nation to support
the perpetrators of genocide by placating the world with official
statements supporting the Turkish government's shameless policies of
denial is disgraceful and appalling; for a nation that itself has
likewise suffered an attempted obliteration to do so is
incomprehensible. The "placating" efforts by Jewish officials and
functionaries are doomed to backfire: the denial of the Armenian
Genocide in no way helps to make Israel stronger or to increase the
security of the Jewish People.

Turkey and Turkish
nationalists have always used other people for the implementation of
their inhuman policies against "non-Turks" in order to achieve their
own final goals, if not their own "final solution"

Words
such as dialogue, reconciliation, and rapprochement are terms that
awaken fundamentally positive associations, but they are being used
without any reflection upon or reference to historical fact or
fairness, let alone justice. It is beyond understanding that the
newspapers of the Jewish Diaspora present the Armenians as the
"irreconcilable" or "troublemaker", as the "true" disruptor in
international relations, when it is the Turkish that continually
attempt to illegalize or negate the discussion. (What dialogue would
the Jewish Nation have with Germany had Germany demanded and been
permitted to forbid the acknowledgment of the holocaust and justice?)

Is
the Jewish community the "troublemaker" when the Iranian President
Ahmadinejad denies the Shoah? A crime that happened 60 years ago and
that he himself did not participate in?

The statement
that the genocide happened 90 years ago or the insinuation that the
Armenian Diaspora - the "Armenian Conspiracy" - are endangering world
peace because they are motivated by self-swerving interests serve again
nothing else than to protect the perpetrator. But is it not the purpose
and duty of international criminal law to protect the victim? Should
criminal law protect the rapist or killer because the victim supposedly
"asked for it"? Is international law only a "law for the stronger" and thus only there to protect the state and not the individual?

Are
terms such as "crimes against humanity," "genocide," "war crimes" and
"war of aggression" only there to protect the aggressors and not the
victims? The Armenian Diaspora - the masses of people forced to
disperse throughout the world - is a result of the genocide executed by
the Turkish; the Diaspora Armenians are not pursuing an
arbitrary and unfounded interest, they have a justified demand for
justice and recognition. At the same time, this demand is also
a concern of the international community of states which created and
approved the legislation known as "public international law" or
"international criminal law."

It is not just a matter of
morality to condemn genocide; it is a premise for peaceful coexistence.
It is a cornerstone of international peace, and the looming threat of
this very crime is a principal reason behind military intervention and
self-defense.

A question that might arise when reading this text
is why do I only write about the Jewish Community and Israeli
politicians? Well, this is due to the following fact: aside from the
Turkish themselves, Israeli politicians and the Jewish Diaspora are the
only ones that go beyond the "simple" denial of the Armenian Genocide
(and denial of Turkish genocides against other Christian people, e.g.
The Assyrian Genocide) to both aggressively practice a virulent policy
of denial and likewise try to inspire others to do the same. For
example, the unprecedented dedication with which Shimon Peres supported
the "fight" against the Armenian Resolution in the US Congress while
Bill Clinton was still president.

The relationship
between the Jewish People and the Turkish is based on lies and the
denial of the Armenian Genocide - the denial of the 1.5 million
Armenians that died by the hands of the Ottoman Turkey from 1915-1923.
It is a relationship that is based on criminal complicity in hushing up
a horrific transgression against humanity and that totally disregards
all concepts of moral and justice.

Namik Tan, the
Turkish Ambassador to Israel, described this relationship in September
2007: "The Turkish People make no differentiation between Israel and
the Jews of the world. To us, you are all one. We have no pact with
Israel, but rather with the whole Jewish world. If the Jewish lobby
disappears, Israel loses its importance to us. Therefore, Israel takes
the responsibility when a Jewish organization speaks of Genocide."
(Jerusalem Post, 2007)

The truth shall set Turkish and Jewish officials free.
Implementation of international agreed reforms for "Western Armenia/
Turkish Armenian" and eliminating - "getting rid" - of a nation/people
by Turkey are not the same. Only the fact of genocide can keep
alive disinformation policy, the genocide denial industry and the
nationally authorized and aggressive Turkish politics of denial.
Israeli/Jewish officials should advice their "friends/allies" in Ankara
to stop making fools of themselves. Armenian Genocide was proved as
Armenian Genocide was happening.

The whole world was witness
of this genocide. Besides this: Armenian Genocide is well documented
above all by Turkish war time ally Germany (even though a part of this
documents being destroyed in1919 and 1940s.) According to Taner Akcam,
a nonconformist Turkish historian, "The denial of the Armenian Genocide is the basis of Turkey's existence."
At the latest, Amb. Namik Tan's statements above and the aggressive
denial of Armenian Genocide by President Shimon Peres also reveal and
proves that the relationship between Israel and Turkey is also based
the denial of the Armenian Genocide (raison d'État instead of right to
truth and justice.)

One cannot help but wonder how
long a relationship built on boundless dishonesty, immorality, denial
and lies is capable or destined to last... Indeed, it is truly incomprehensible that the Jewish Diaspora denies the Armenian Genocide for the "good" of Israel. What lasting "good" has ever come from the denial of genocide, from the denial of truth, from the denial of the justice?

Author's
Note: I am aware of the fact that my essay on Jewish/Israeli Denial of
Armenian Genocide may upset some so please feel free to write comments
on it . And, in the meantime, the author likes to let you know: who
ever denies one genocide he/she denies all genocides. Jewish denial of
Armenian Genocide kills not only the Armenian Genocide but in the end
this denial kills The Jewish Holocaust too...

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Abe Foxman is a true scumbag, full of double standards, lies and two faced statements. If any of his crap was thrown at the Holocaust in similar fashion to what he's said and done regarding the Armenian genocide, the outrage in the Jewish community would be close to insanity. But, he finds it ok to sit back and denigrate anything Armenian, but also anything Arab or Palestinian, and that includes people like a Nobel Peace prize winner, Jimmy Carter, even as Israel commits ethnic cleansing that is nothing less than what the Nazis did to the Warsaw Ghetto. Foxman's ability to stand w/ vehement genocide denialists is not a protector for either Israel or Jews, in fact, it is just the opposite. It also hints at the unsavory relationship between the perpetrators and those who deny. It is shameless and despicable.