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American Thinker, WA
Feb 1 2009
Turkish Prime Minister redefines 'outrage'
Jack Kemp
Days ago, the Turkish Prime Minister walked off a stage in Davos,
Switzerland when he was engaged in a heated argument with Israeli
President Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Edrogan angrily stated to Peres
that "You are killing people" and "A finger-pointing Peres told
Erdogan at Thursday's panel that he would have done the same if
rockets had been falling on Istanbul."
Since the Turkish Prime Minister is so incensed about civilian
casualties caused largely by Hamas using human shields, forced or
otherwise, perhaps he should consider the glass house whose door he
has just opened.
Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize winning 2002 book, "A Problem From
Hell, America and the Age of Genocide," points out, on page one, that
in 1921 the former Turkish Interior Minister Mehmet Talaat, was shot
on a street in Berlin by an Armenian. This was an organized revenge
killing for the Turkish genocide of one million Armenian civilians in
World War I. Years later, Ms. Power states, on page 23 that, "In 1942,
Hitler restored Talaat's ashes to Turkey, where the Turkish government
enshrined the fallen hero's remains in a mausoleum on the Hill of
Liberty in Istanbul.
Page eight of Ms. Power's book informs us in further detail exactly of
what type of "hero" Interior Minister Talaat was by the indirect open
admission of the liquidation of the Armenian population of Turkey he
made to an American diplomat at that time:
Talaat once asked (then American Ambassador) Morganthau whether the
United States could get the New York Life Insurance Company and
Equitable Life of New York, which for years had done business with the
Armenians, to send a complete list of the Armenians policy holders to
Turkish authorities. "They are practically all dead and have left no
heirs," Talaat said, "The government is the beneficiary now."
So we have the current prime minister of a country that killed one
million unarmed Armenians and honors, to this day, one of the chief
architects of that genocide with a hero's grave at a national cemetery
in his nation's capitol. This prime minister now states that he is
outraged by Israel waging war against an actual rocket-launching enemy
which resulted in some civilian casualties in Gaza, an area allowed
food and water to its' civilian population by the Israelis. There
still are approximately one million civilians living in Gaza.
Well, at least we all can better understand the origins of Prime
Minister Edrogan's mindset by seeing who his government honors. I
would like to know at what point (in terms of body count) and by what
means one becomes a hero rather than a murderer in Mr. Edrogan's
opinion.
Jack Kemp is not the politician of the same name.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02 /turkish_prime_minister_redefin.html
Feb 1 2009
Turkish Prime Minister redefines 'outrage'
Jack Kemp
Days ago, the Turkish Prime Minister walked off a stage in Davos,
Switzerland when he was engaged in a heated argument with Israeli
President Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Edrogan angrily stated to Peres
that "You are killing people" and "A finger-pointing Peres told
Erdogan at Thursday's panel that he would have done the same if
rockets had been falling on Istanbul."
Since the Turkish Prime Minister is so incensed about civilian
casualties caused largely by Hamas using human shields, forced or
otherwise, perhaps he should consider the glass house whose door he
has just opened.
Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize winning 2002 book, "A Problem From
Hell, America and the Age of Genocide," points out, on page one, that
in 1921 the former Turkish Interior Minister Mehmet Talaat, was shot
on a street in Berlin by an Armenian. This was an organized revenge
killing for the Turkish genocide of one million Armenian civilians in
World War I. Years later, Ms. Power states, on page 23 that, "In 1942,
Hitler restored Talaat's ashes to Turkey, where the Turkish government
enshrined the fallen hero's remains in a mausoleum on the Hill of
Liberty in Istanbul.
Page eight of Ms. Power's book informs us in further detail exactly of
what type of "hero" Interior Minister Talaat was by the indirect open
admission of the liquidation of the Armenian population of Turkey he
made to an American diplomat at that time:
Talaat once asked (then American Ambassador) Morganthau whether the
United States could get the New York Life Insurance Company and
Equitable Life of New York, which for years had done business with the
Armenians, to send a complete list of the Armenians policy holders to
Turkish authorities. "They are practically all dead and have left no
heirs," Talaat said, "The government is the beneficiary now."
So we have the current prime minister of a country that killed one
million unarmed Armenians and honors, to this day, one of the chief
architects of that genocide with a hero's grave at a national cemetery
in his nation's capitol. This prime minister now states that he is
outraged by Israel waging war against an actual rocket-launching enemy
which resulted in some civilian casualties in Gaza, an area allowed
food and water to its' civilian population by the Israelis. There
still are approximately one million civilians living in Gaza.
Well, at least we all can better understand the origins of Prime
Minister Edrogan's mindset by seeing who his government honors. I
would like to know at what point (in terms of body count) and by what
means one becomes a hero rather than a murderer in Mr. Edrogan's
opinion.
Jack Kemp is not the politician of the same name.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02 /turkish_prime_minister_redefin.html