ISRAEL MAY RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO SPITE TURKEY

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.01.2009 12:19 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Israel formally described this language (Erdogan’s
statement on Gaza) as "unacceptable" and certain Israeli media outlets
have raised the stakes. The Jerusalem Post editorialized that given
Turkey’s record of killing tens of thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq,
"we’re not convinced that Turkey has earned the right to lecture
Israelis about human rights."

Israel’s deputy foreign minister was even more pointed, "Erdogan
says that genocide is taking place in Gaza. We [Israel] will then
recognize the Armenian-related events as genocide."

Turkish columnist Barcin Yinanc, shrewdly wrote, "When April comes,
I can imagine the [Turkish] government instructing its Ambassador
to Israel to mobilize the Israeli government to stop the Armenian
initiatives in the U.S. Congress. I can hear some Israelis telling
the Turkish Ambassador to go talk to Hamas to lobby the Congress."

"Then-candidate Barack Obama twice pledged that he would recognize
the Armenian Genocide. But so had candidate George W. Bush eight
years earlier, until he was elected and faced the Turkish/Jewish
lobby. Armenian Americans and their backers are already pressing
Mr. Obama to fulfill his pledge. With the Turkish-Israeli alliance
deeply strained, the position of the leading Jewish organizations is
very much in question this time. Whatever the outcome, be sure that
politics, not genocide, will be the decisive factor," Yinanc wrote.