WASHINGTON POST CALLS ON TURKEY "NOT TO TAKE SERIOUSLY" ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.03.2007 14:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A recent article in The Washington Post newspaper
has called on Turkey not to take seriously the U.S. Congressional
vote on the non-binding resolution on the Armenian Genocide bill.

Post writer Jackson Diehl in the article titled "The House’s Ottoman
Agenda" asserts that Turkey’s behavior regarding the controversial
bill should be "like one of the Western democracies," and that Turkey
should simply "shrug its shoulders" and move on with regards to the
bill. Diehl also notes in his article that no one much will place
importance on the Armenian bill, pointing to another non-binding
resolution passed by the House of Representatives against the Iraqi
war as an example.

Dielh also uses his article to point to the estimated 70-80 ethnic
Armenian voters who live in U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff’s district,
a fact he asserts helped shaped Schiff’s heavy involvement in the
writing of the bill. Diehl also recalls that many other ethnically
Armenian voters live in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district; Pelosi has
reiterated her support for the bill many times.

At one point in his article, Diehl touches on what he portrays as the
lack of knowledge on the part of most House of Representatives members
to even decide on such a long past subject as the Armenian Genocide.

Says Diehl, "Just think, 435 members of the House of Representatives,
most of whom don’t even know the difference between a Sunni and a
Shiite, will decide on whether or not to approve of Adam Schiff’s
version of events which occurred 92 years ago in the northeast region
of Turkey."