Turkey expects Israel and the organization to ensure that the US Congress does not pass the resolution characterizing as genocide the massacre of Armenians during World War I.

The Ambassador said:

“Israel should not let the [US] Jewish community change its position. This is our expectation and this is highly important, highly important…. If you want to touch and hurt the hearts of the people in Turkey, this is the issue… This is the No. 1 issue. You cannot easily explain to them any change in this.”

He also told the Post that “in the eyes of the Turkish people, Tan said, his country’s strategic relationship with Israel was not with Israel alone, but with the whole Jewish world. ‘They [the Turkish people] cannot make that differentiation,’”

This is simply mind boggling. Let me enumerate what leaves me speechless here:
1. Turkey resolute fight against acknowledging the genocide. Doesn’t Turkey realize that the world is upset less by the genocide [it’s used to those things] than by Turkey’s denial. [It’s weird but true.]

2. Turkey’s assumption that Israel can determine whether the resolution passes or not.

3. How in Turkey’s mind Israel says jump and American Jews will jump. It just does not work that way. [I hate to disappoint the antisemites who see as all organized in one giant conspiracy but it just ain’t so]

4. While Turkey threatened to cut off French investments in Turkey when it passed a law outlawing Armenian genocide denial, it did not raise the stakes the way it is doing now.

They intend to support these people. It’s no accident.

Abbe Foxman should be aware: The only thing Grandpa told his children was: “I forgive, but I no forget.”

I won’t forget this either, Mr. Foxman. But perhaps I am not the man he is, because I “no” forgive this either.

Ask Sibel Edmonds about the Turkish/Israeli/Neocon conniving and complicity of 9/11/01. Oops, we can’t, she’s been silenced in the “Land of The Free.”

Luckily, most of us realize it isn’t a reflection of how most Jewish people act, think or feel. This is more about Foxman’s CYA of his half million dollar a year job.

He’s Turkey’s whore, albeit a well compensated one.

Thank you to all the Jewish folk showing up to protest this creature.

He further notes, ‘If Jews only constituted 20% of the surviving camp population and, as the Holocaust industry implies, 600,000 Jewish inmates survived the war, then fully 3 million inmates in total must have survived. By the Holocaust industry’s reckoning, concentration camp conditions couldn’t have been that harsh at all; in fact, one must suppose a remarkably high fertility and remarkably low mortality rate.. If, as the Holocaust industry suggests, many hundreds of thousands of Jews survived, the Final Solution couldn’t have been so efficient after all ­ exactly what Holocaust deniers argue.’ (pp127-8).

I would argue that turkey, still to this day, lacks a meaningful political culture that provides the courage to face their terrible past in a truly self critical way, engage in fundamental reforms, and move forward in a constructive way.

This is the route that all legitimate democracies had to take.

There are many Turkish historians who wold like to explore the genocides (agains t Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks) but who are cowed by our government. We have had our leading writer arrested. we have had journalists murdered for mentioning it. We have had many academics have their careers ruined.

What about us? When will the ADL speak up for freedom of speech in Turkey? Don’t they realize it is not “Turks” they are “supporting” but our worst hard core nationalists and government sycophants in academia teaching our children false history?

world has been changing fast after the fall of soviet union all the countries interests and relationships are going through radical changes. the US/UK/Israel/turkey axis is increasingly coming under strain. they are frantically trying to preserve the status quo all the making costly mistakes.

The media/propaganda system is fast loosing credibility in this country. it is taking more and more dollors to propagandize fewer and fewer people with each passing year. it is increasingly becoming an empty shell that people from all walks of life in this country are starting to see through.

All one needs to do is look at what has happened to the long decline america’s reputation throughout the world. NO ONE is looking up to her any longer. People of the world are NOT stupid and no matter how much propaganda they try shoving down their throats they see through a lot. this extreme lack of trust will carry very negative consequences in the future.