Is this blog entry some kind of joke of yours?

You take the concept of the 'Galut Jew' to new levels.

I missed the /Satire entry.

 I read the rest of your entry and I agree.

"Taking the concept of 'Galut Jew' to new levels" is another winner in our tagline contest. That'll go at the top of the page underneath the Jewcy logo some time today.

Anonymous, please elaborate. What about this post do you find unreasonable?

UPDATE in light of your second comment: gotchya. That's still a winning tagline. 

I've never won anything in my entire life, not even a lotto ticket.  I have now finally won something and my life is complete.

I accept being the tagline contest winner as a great honor. 

Thank you Joey.

Many thanks to Joey Kurtzman for pinpointing the irony of the Israeli MFA's actions and for posting Ms. Arzoumanian's speech. I would like to note that even if morally bankrupt, the non-committal stance of the Israeli government vis a vis the Armenian genocide is somewhat understandable, given Israel's strategic alliance with Turkey. What boggles the mind is the national ADL's disturbingly hypocritical position of actively opposing efforts to fight genocide denial. I mean, which human rights organization can abet genocide denial and still take itself seriously?  Up to now, efforts to try to bring the ADL to the right side of the issue have been confined to New England - I can assure your readers, however, that hell will break loose if the organization does not change its stance at its national convention come November. I personally will leave my igloo in Toronto, cross the border and picket ADL's national headquarters. Garen Megerditchian, Toronto, Canada

I have to agree with you.  As a Jew, I am embarrassed about  Foxman's position position on this. I'm not sure how the ADL stands on this though.

The thing is the rationale which Foxman is using to justify his stance is a big What the F*ck!?

 He actually believes he's saving Jews in Turkey and Israel by supporting Turkey.

 The fact is he's damaging Jewish interests here in the United States.

The other day I read an article dated 10/15/07 in the Jerusalem Post by Eve Price that quoted that Fat Fool Foxman stating to the Forward that

"No Armenian lives are under threat today or in danger," Foxman maintained. "Israel is under threat and in danger, and a relationship between Israel and Turkey is
vital and critical, so yeah, I have to weigh [that]."

Really? I mean how dumb does Fatf-ck think we are and how dumb is he?

Azerbaijan hates Armenia, destroys Armenian artifacts and cemeteries containing Jews and Christians (Armenians and others) and continues to rattle its swords at Armenia. All the while receiving financial, strategic and material aid from Turkey and Israel. They have twice the population as Armenia.

Then, of course, we have Turkey - read Armenia's best friends. They just want us to come over for dinner so they can eat us. They have almost 20X the population of Armenia. Funny, I didn't hear about Turkish Jews being detained after HR106 passed muster in the HFAC last week.

 Look, in 2003, when Al Qaeda allegedly bombed Jewish shuls in Turkey, did they have our backs in the War on Terror? No. We were not allowed to use our airbases there to invade Iraq.

Do you think they'll let us use them if the neocons push us into war with Iran. Rather unlikely as they will be open on the other side of the country and from above.

And, if the US cowers to Turkish threats, do you really think that is going to help us eradicate the 'terrorists'. No, the terrorists will probably seek to strike again in Turkey. Then, what, the US is up the river with no paddle as Turkey shuns us for their own national security. As Pakistan does. Its enough already.  

Our allies do not threaten us. Our friends do not threaten us. And, they don't lie to us either. With allies like Turkey, who needs enemies?

Joey, you sure are a funny mensch. The tribe needs more members with your sechel. The satire was poignant. Don't ever stop. For noone or nothing.

It's worth  considering the possibility that congressional democrats are cynically using the Armenian genocide to antagonize Turkey so that it makes its airspace unavailable to the US.  This would be a backdoor way to making the US military presence in Iraq harder to sustain.  Consider the timing of this resolution.  We've had over 90 years to condemn what happened there.  

Does anyone know if the resolution is condemning the genocide itself or Turkey's supression of acknowledgement and scholarship of it?

While I agree that the events of 1915 constitute genocide, I am wondering why Kurzmann feels that Foxman is a greater danger to the Jewish people than Ahmadinejad. There were protests from Jewcy on Foxman, but not on Ahmadinejad. While Iran pursues nukes and Jerusalem is being divided by the sex offender Haim Ramon and the corrupt real estate agent Olmert, and while Qassams based on the Temple Mount will put all of Jerusalem under bombardment, Kurzmann uses all of his energy on Foxman. Perhaps Kurzmann and Ahmadinjad have the same goals-the end of Jewish peoplehood. Both have written about this

you need to read and think before you write.

As to Mahler, who needs Turkey when you have Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Aren't they also U.S. allies on the war on terror. The US will never win the war on terror if it cowers to its Muslim 'allies' by fear or threat. If our muslim 'allies' can extort us in this manner, what message do you think that sends to the 'terrorists'.

As to Xavier, how many Jews live in Iran, Armenia or the U.S.? How many non-jews live in those countries? Where is Foxman? Foxman is not worried about Iranian Jews when he attempts to flame Iranian leaders. Iranian jews that remain there do so because the running punch line amongst them is "why go to Israel, to make no money?"

After Foxman blasted Ahmadenijad for debating the Holocaust through a scholarly examination and equaling him to Hitler, Foxman gave new life to Hitler's quip about remembering the Armenians and engaging in the same covert genocide denial that the ADL warns against - i.e. leaving genocide to dispassionate scholarly examination - and opining that resolutions recognizing the Armenian genocide are counterproductive, genocide is not a matter for political recognition and that the parties should be left to themselves to reconcile.

It seems like you also have some other bones to pick that are completely off-topic.

 Joey rocks, you guys suck!!!

This keeps getting better and better...

Israel submits resolution (Yes, another one)... Bush meets with Dalai Lama in the White House prior to the presentation of the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal to his Holiness. And when the Chinese reacted negatively to this recognition, Bush basically told the Chinese to go F themselves.The following is an excerpt from an article:

China has demanded that the United States
cancel this week's celebrations. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi
in Beijing said the events "seriously wounded the feelings of the
Chinese people and interfered with China's internal affairs.""China
is strongly resentful of and resolutely opposes this and has made
solemn representation to the U.S. side," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu
Jianchao said in a comment carried Wednesday by the official.

Bush is not only a hypocrite, but also a coward . He tells the Chinese to go take a hike but his knees buckle when it comes to the Armenian Genocide resolution.

These bozos are all the same. Bill Clinton and Bush senior were no better either. They used similar tactics to double-kill the genocide victims by denying them a simple non-binding resolution, which by the way has the support of house majority... When will this duplicity end?

...enjoy reading your language.  Armenians are non-factors on a geopolitical level and without Isreal's support or key Jewish organizations lining behind the resolution, kiss it bye bye.  We share common history, but we're isolated and have zippo leverage except forwarding the truth; however, that and 2 bucks gets you a venti at starsucks. Turkey's extortation tactics are beyond you.  We could be one of the Ten Lost Tribes and then what.  Shout out to all Jewish orgs that smoke turkish pipe, you will regret trusting them, but we will never deny the Holocaust at any cost!!

God Bless Isreal ... God help the Armenians...

Mahler, here is the full text of the resolution.

I don't see anything condemning the modern Turkish government.

THE G-8 LETS DARFUR SLIDE AS THE WORLD AVERTS ITS EYES
Nicholas D. Kristoff

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 11, 2008 Friday
Pennsylvania

IGNORING GENOCIDE

As President Bush and the Group of 8 leaders who met in Japan again
shunned their responsibilities in Darfur, there is a serious argument
to be made that genocide is overrated as an international concern. The
G-8 leaders implicitly accepted that argument, which goes like this:

Genocide is regrettable, but don't lose perspective. It is simply
one of many tragedies in the world today -- and a fairly modest one
in terms of lives lost.

All the genocides of the last 100 years have cost only 10 million to
12 million lives. In contrast, every year we lose almost 10 million
children under the age of five from diseases and malnutrition
attributable to poverty. Make that the priority, not Darfur.

Civil conflict in Congo has claimed more than 5 million lives over
the last decade. That's at least 10 times the toll in Darfur, but
because Congo doesn't count as genocide -- just as murderous chaos --
no one has paid much attention to it.

Does a mother whose child dies from banditry, malaria or AIDS grieve
any less than a mother whose child was killed by the janjaweed?

The world has been trying to pressure Sudan to stop slaughtering
Darfuris for nearly five years, yet the situation in some ways is
worse than ever. In contrast, we know how to combat malaria, child
mortality and maternal mortality. The same resources would save far
more lives if they were used for vaccinations and bed nets.

So instead of pushing President Bush to worry about Darfur, where
it's not clear he can make a difference, get him to focus on bed
nets or deworming or iodizing salt in poor countries or stopping
mother-to-child transmission of the virus that causes AIDS or so many
other areas where his attention could have a humanitarian impact.

Genocide is horrific, but that doesn't make it a priority.

This is a coherent and legitimate argument, and there are moments
when I catch myself sympathetic to it.

Yet in truth, genocide has always evoked a transcendent horror,
and it has little to do with the numbers of victims. The Holocaust
resonates not because 6 million Jews were killed but because a
government picked people on the basis of their religious heritage
and tried to exterminate them. What is horrifying about Anne Frank's
diary is not so much the death of a girl as the crime of a state.

There are also practical arguments, for genocide can create cycles
of revenge and displacement that make it far more destabilizing than
any famine or epidemic. The Darfur genocide may well lead all Sudan
to fragment into civil war, interrupting Sudanese oil exports and
raising oil prices.

The Armenian genocide still festers after nearly a century; and former
President Bill Clinton has said that his greatest foreign-policy
mistake was his failure to respond in Rwanda. In the same way, the
G-8's collective shrug this week about the Darfur genocide -- because
the victims are black, impoverished and hidden from television cameras
-- will be a lingering stain.

After five years of genocide, President Bush still hasn't taken as
simple a step as imposing a no-fly zone or even giving a prime-time
speech about it. He gave Beijing a gift, his pledge to attend the
opening ceremony of the Olympics, without pushing hard for China to
suspend military spare-parts and arms deliveries to Sudan.

The Islamic world has been even more myopic, particularly since the
victims in Darfur are all Muslims. Do dead Muslims count only when
Israel is the culprit? Can't the Islamic world muster one-hundredth as
much indignation for the genocidal slaughter of hundreds of thousands
of Muslims as it can for a few Danish cartoons?

This coming Monday, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
is expected to seek an arrest warrant in connection with Darfur, and
his past statements suggest that it may be for the Sudanese president,
Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for genocide. That would be a historic step
requiring follow-through.

A personal note: I have seen children dying of AIDS and hunger; I
have had malaria and been chased through the jungle by militias. I
want the G-8 to address all the aspects of global poverty, yet nothing
affects me as much as what I have seen in Darfur.

I tilt obsessively at the windmills of Darfur because, quite simply,
its people haunt me: the young woman who deliberately made a diversion
of herself so the janjaweed would gang-rape her and miss her little
sister running in the opposite direction; the man whose eyes were
gouged out with a bayonet; the group of women beaten with their own
babies until the children were dead.

Yes, genocide truly is "that bad."

What is it that Foxman, Israel and other major Jewish organizations don't seem to get?  That their support of the Turkish denial campaign is damaging to their own credibility on every level.  Just as Jews would question anyone who questions the Holocaust, Armenians question those who deny or minimize their pain, their loss and their right to an honest history. Anyone who denies that 25% of the population of Anatolia, the Armenians, was deliberately eliminated by the Young Turks, is really in danger of being seen as an accomplice to genocide, especially as Elie Weisel noted that denial is the last stage of genocide.

On another note, as far as I know, Ahmadijejad/Iran has not invaded another country or deliberately killed tens or hundreds of thousands of people outside its borders, so before anyone throws stones at him, take a look at the US, Israel and Turkey....all firm partners in crime and ethnic cleansing. It's disgusting people....truly disgusting. There is no excuse for it and no excuse for ignoring it, either. Cut the double standards crap, because the whole world sees thru it very clearly - and it ain't endearing anyone to you.