HR106 NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!!
CALL Your Representative to VOTE YES on H.Res.106. Visit Armenian National Committee of America to learn how you can get involved. House Resolution Co-Sponsors ListLog on to www.ANCA.org now and contact your Congressman. Ask your representative to urge their friends in Congress to support House Resolution 106. Republicans are wussing out to threat from Turkey “Turkish President Abdullah Gul said that if the full House votes on this issue, there will be major repercussions involving our access to their country.” And that begs the question: Since when does the Bush administration kowtow to saber rattling? READ MORE 'Who Speaks Today?' Imagine half the population of Connecticut murdered over seven years, and hundreds of thousands more raped, beaten and driven from their homes. How long would you fight for justice for your family, friends and neighbors? READ MORE Silence goes with genocide Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once called the Holocaust a fairytale, denying that it ever took place. Members of the Syrian government and the Palestinian political group Hamas have published similar statements in their ongoing battle with the modern Jewish state. Representatives from both groups have alleged that the Nazi genocide of Jewish people during World War II is a fabrication. READ MORE 'There are no Christians to the east of us' Serzh Sargsyan, the prime minister of Armenia (and a former defense minister and interior minister before that), came by the editorial board Oct. 19 to discuss the Armenian genocide resolution, democratization in Armenia, and military tensions in the Caucasus region. READ MORE A Nod to Dark Days, a Moment in the Sun BEFORE services, after passing through the golden doors of the Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs in Bayside, Queens, parishioners often pause briefly in front of a glass case. The case contains fragments of bones of Armenians who died at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War I. READ MORE Why Turkey’s army will stay home Turkey is well aware that an all-out attack inside Iraq is exactly what Turkey’s Kurdish separatists want. What better way to damage Turkey than to pull its military into conflict with Iraq, the US, and the EU? READ MORE 
There's a word for it: genocide From almost the very beginning, the United States has been clear about what happened to the Armenians living in Turkey during the First World War. But when Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, cabled the State Department in 1915 that "a campaign of race extermination" was being inflicted on the Armenian minority, there was no epitomizing word to describe the atrocity that was to take 1.5 million lives. READ MORE Armenian Genocide Resolution in the U.S. Congress — Righting a Historical Wrong? It's not often that Armenia makes international headlines across the globe, but when it does it's usually because of one issue that remains fiercely debated until this day — the massacre and deportation of as many as 1.5 million Armenians from Ottoman Turkey in 1915-17. 22 countries recognize the events that occurred towards the end of World War I as genocide, a charge that the modern-day Republic of Turkey refuses to accept even though the term was devised by Raphael Lemkin in 1943 with the Armenian and Jewish experience in mind. READ MORE Genocide by Any Other Name Smells Just as Badly While one may question the timeliness of the House measure, one may also ask what harm is there in a symbolic gesture commemorative of a real event that has left deep scars on the Armenian people. Memorializing an incident that has been universally acknowledged - and conveniently forgotten - does the soul immense good. By rejecting the resolution, the Bush administration has yet again demonstrated that it is less interested in morality than in its strategic self-interest. READ MORE 
Politicians, Stay Out of Our History The U.S. Congress has no moral authority to pass judgment on any other country’s history, particularly with its Iraqi invasion record in public view – nor does any other parliament or political body, for that matter. History cannot be legislated and politicians ought to stay away from trying to do so. It is not their duty. READ MORE No good time to condone genocide In the end, there's only one reason we wouldn't declare the mass murder of Armenians to be genocide: because modern-day Turkey doesn't want us to. In retaliation, they might kick us out of Incirlik Air Base or shut down the supply routes to U.S. forces in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice even warns that offending Turkey might "harm American troops in the field." Did anyone ask her how? It's hard to imagine how our taking a stand against mass murder could possibly harm our troops in the field. As for possible Turkish retaliation, the truth is that Turkey wouldn't dare sabotage our conduct of the war in Iraq for one simple reason: If everything blows up, neighboring Turkey would be the first country to suffer. READ MORE The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy Ninety-two years ago, the "Young Turk" regime ordered the executions of Armenian civic leaders and intellectuals, and Turkish soldiers and militia forced the Armenian population to march into the desert, where more than a million died by bayonet or starvation. That horror helped galvanize Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, to invent the word genocide, which was defined not as the extermination of an entire group but rather as a systematic effort to destroy a group. Lemkin wanted the term - and the international legal convention that grew out of it - to encompass ethnic cleansing and the murdering of a substantial part of a group. Otherwise, he feared, the world would wait until an entire group had been wiped out before taking any action. READ MORE An Ex-Leader in Congress Is Now Turkey’s Man in the Lobbies of Capitol Hill  Since leaving Capitol Hill in 1999, former Representative Robert L. Livingston has been the main lobbyist for Turkey in blocking Congressional efforts to pass an Armenian genocide resolution.
After succeeding twice before - and collecting more than $12 million in fees for his firm, the Livingston Group - he is pushing once again for his client. READ MORE Moral courage in the Capitol So the president is willing to anger China, a world power, and members of Congress jostle each other to get a photo-op with the Dalai Lama, but they don't want to risk making Turkey mad over historically established events that cost the lives of 1.5 million Armenians.READ MORE Turkish PM calls for reconciliation with Armenia ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister called for dialogue and reconciliation with Armenia on Friday as the U.S. Congress weighs whether to approve a resolution calling the 1915 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide. READ MORE So Much For Morality! What happened to the Armenians had been characterized as the 20TH century’s first genocide. Wouldn’t it enhance the reputation of Turkey if its officials admitted that this nation was responsible for these atrocities? It’s hard to understand why the Turks keep ducking responsibility for this tragic event. Perhaps it’s considered macho to keep denying it in the face of overwhelming historic evidence to the contrary. But what’s even harder to grasp is how the members of Congress are behaving like wimps. At a time when we are waging a war against terror that the White House says is intended to bring freedom and democracy to the peoples of the Middle East, Congress seems to be backing off. READ MORE Comment by Congressman Joe Knollenberg (R-MI)  It's time for Speaker Pelosi to buckle down and help lock in the 218 votes needed to pass the Armenian Genocide Resolution. The atrocities that occurred during World War I must be given their proper historical due. If we fail to remember the past, we are destined to repeat it. As America fights radical Islam in Iraq, we need to remember the lessons of the first genocide.
Speaker Pelosi has been a strong supporter of passing this important legislation for years. The Armenian people, and people committed to human rights everywhere, need her to stand strong and deliver on this one. Madame Speaker, it's time to step up. Genocide? What Genocide? Critics are right that Congress has no business weighing in on historical controversies. But there is no controversy here. READ MORE Genocide, schmenocide? Last week, a rift threatened to open between the United States and Turkey when the House of Representatives passed a resolution labeling certain events that unfolded in Turkey against the Armenian population from 1915-1917 as "genocide."Several things baffle me about this incident. READ MORE After genocide dispute, France smoothes relations with Turkey If the U.S. Congress has doubts about Turkey's threats to punish any country that calls the mass murder of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire genocide, they need look no further than France. Support flagging for 'genocide' resolution  WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Congressional support flagged Wednesday for a resolution calling the World War I massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks "genocide" amid concern over Turkey's threat to cut off support for the Iraq war. In apparent retreat from their initial stance, a group of Democrats in the House of Representatives, including the influential John Murtha, said they would "very vigorously" oppose the measure cleared last week by a committee.
"If voted today it would not pass on the floor," Murtha said. LETTER: Bush ignores truth of genocide Bush ignores truth of genocide. With disgust, last night I had to explain to my teenage children that President Bush considers U.S. access to Turkish military sites more important than speaking the truth. READ MORE Genocide: An inconvenient truth The Armenian genocide bill has been attacked by both the right and the left -- and it may make matters worse. But it's necessary. READ MORE Mayor Villaraigosa On House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Vote To Formally Recognize Armenian Genocide LOS ANGELES – Mayor Villaraigosa issued the following statement in response to today’s vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide: "Today, President Bush wrongly urged Congress to reject a resolution to recognize the atrocities committed against the Armenian people from 1915-1923 as nothing less than genocide. I commend the House Foreign Affairs Committee for rejecting the President’s position and casting a vote of conscience. I urge all Angelenos to call on their Congressional leaders to formally acknowledge the indisputable historical fact of the Armenian Genocide. We must never – for any reason – seek to clothe the horror of ethnic cleansing in bureaucratic euphemisms." |
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 GLENN BECK PROGRAM Armenian Vote (10/12/07) Contact Glenn Beck (me@glennbeck.com) WRITING POINTS: This bipartisan, genocide-prevention legislation is cosponsored by more than half the house of representatives. 40 U.S. states have recognized the Armenian Genocide. Genocide must be condemned whenever and wherever it occurs. We should not be controlled by foreign governments and allow them to bully us into genocide denial. |
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THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW We're Winning; Democrats Losing (10/17/07) Left Marks Turkish Genocide in Effort to Harm Ally in the Iraq War (10/12/07) Contact Rush Limbaugh (Rush@eibnet.com) WRITING POINTS: This bipartisan, genocide-prevention legislation is cosponsored by more than half the house of representatives. 40 U.S. states have recognized the Armenian Genocide. Genocide must be condemned whenever and wherever it occurs. We should not be controlled by foreign governments and allow them to bully us into genocide denial. |
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