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Sassounian: Israeli Scholar Assails Denial of Armenian Genocide
An important international symposium on “Armenia-Turkey: How to Normalize Relations” was held in Paris on April 14. It was organized by the French Bureau of the Armenian Cause and the Armenian National Committee of France.
The participants were Dr. Yair Auron, professor of history at Open University, Israel; Dr. Israel Charny, executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem; Ali Ertem, Turkish historian and president of the Association to Combat Genocide, Germ
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im a jew from chile, sorry for my english.
it’s shameful that the goverment of Israel does not recognize the genocide, being us the jewish victims of one. particulary i think that the jews and the common israelis recognize that the first genocide of the 20 century was the armenian genocide. 1500 000 armenians murdered, all west armenians of the otoman empire. and greeks and asyrians also… a crime against the first christian nation that cant be ignored.
but being turkey the first muslim state to recognize israel, and being one on the few muslim states to do so makes israel difficult to recognize the genocide… something that i can assure the jewish people dont share… the same happens with the United Kingdom they dont recognize the genocide because turkey is a mayor ally of them, ecomonic partner etc etc— all is about money and conveniences… shame on Israel, UK, Sweden and all those countries that believes that money, trade agreements and military cooperation is more important that the memory of those 1 500 000 armenians murdered. shalom for all armenian brothers.
Shalom Daniel. I hope this all changes soon.
Thanks Daniel for your letter.
Your English is excellent as it arise from your honest heart.
English is almost my forth language.
In every race good people exists.
No body can crush them down.
Their clear minded- heart speaks
They never deny committed crimes.
Humans are one
But their greediness vary;
One wants to live wealthy
Others’ wealth is their principles…jets.
No one can change
Any one on earth
Every one should remember
Populace comes and go–
The earth stays flat.
Volcanic ashes destroyed billion dollars
Some comparing
With 11th September burned lives.
What a comparison to be!!!
For those “Life is equal to money!”
I pray for every Mighty to hear
To give the people sense to feel
Can I achieve easily?
Once again, I repeat
The Earth will remain flat
Some others will walk on Thy and Us.
But Daniel, Your phrases will remain
Echoing from honest-nests of real humans.
April 22, 2010
Dear Daniel: Thank you for your letter and for your humanly remarks. It is appreciated by me and I am sure by my brothers and sisters.
As an American Jew of Iranian decent, I too wish that Israel would recognize the Armenian Genocide. I just visited Armenia in May 2010 and went to the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan and was very moved by it.
I don’t think Jews or Israelis are opposed to recognizing the suffering of another people and their genocide, namely, the Armenian Genocide. As stated above by other, Israel (as well as many other countries) is afraid of jeopordizing its relationship with Turkey if it were to recognize the Armenian Genocide. This is still not justified.
If the terrorist government of Iran and its thug president Ahmadinejad who have consistently denied the existence of the Holocaust can recognize the Armenian Genocide and not be worried about their relationship with Turkey, then Israel can surely take that chance too!