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TURKEY BEARS BRUNT OF ISRAEL
By Jamal kanj
Gulf Daily News
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=323840
Feb 16 2012
Bahrain
FRENCH politicians voting on the Armenian Genocide Recognition Law must
be familiar with the biblical quote: "Don't judge lest you be judged."
Last month, the French Senate passed a bill making it illegal to deny
that the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915 Turkey
was genocide.
But instead of looking outwards at Turkey's history, French politicians
should first take an inward look at their colonial past.
The veracity of the Armenian genocide is not at issue, for history
speaks volumes of those poignant events. However, things are not as
they appear with the French vote.
In the historical context, France's incandescent genocidal crimes
in Africa were much worse and more recent than Turkey's slaying of
Armenians almost 100 years ago.
In Algeria, during eight years of France's 130-year colonial rule,
from 1954 to 1962, French troops murdered more than 1.5 million
natives. So what is the impetus behind the French vote? Have French
politicians suddenly transformed into benevolent citizens? Why now?
Turkey's new political detachment from its old military stance is
perturbing Israel. That is why Tel Aviv has mobilised its worldwide
Zionist network to blackmail the Turkish government.
Simply put, the Zionist campaign to smear Turkey's history has little
to do with the Armenian genocide. It is more about de-legitimising the
political leadership of the current Turkish government for standing
against Israeli genocide in Palestine.
In the US, a little over 10 years ago, the "unofficial" body
representing Israeli interests - the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) - lobbied the House of Representatives to halt a
vote on an Armenian genocide resolution.
In June 2010, The Washington Post reported that AIPAC, with help
from the State Department, had pressured President Bill Clinton in
2000 to warn the house speaker that a vote on the Armenian genocide
would damage US interests - for which the speaker pulled the plug,
killing the proposed resolution.
That was then. The Zionists who blocked the vote in 2000 were prodded
by AIPAC to reintroduce the Armenian genocide resolution before the
House of Representatives.
Answering that call, Jewish Congressman Adam Schiff of California,
with his pro-Israel voting record, sponsored US House Resolution
252 - exploiting the Armenian genocide to punish the current
Turkish government. Pro-Zionist members of the US Congress exist in
the Republican and Democrat parties, often embracing diametrically
opposing viewpoints on local, international and social issues, yet
adopting the same record when it comes to supporting Israel.
Israel "firsters" in the Congress use their positions and influence
on the most important congressional committees and subcommittees,
such as the foreign affairs, appropriations and armed services panels.
Apparently indifferent to US interests, they routinely cross party
lines to manipulate, at the embryonic stage, any Middle East-tinged
resolution to Israel's benefit.
It is part of an international crusade, led and financed by Zionists,
buoyed by a globally co-ordinated media, with the intention of creating
a rift between the West and Arab/Muslim countries, to undermine any
political leader opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
For 50 years, Turkey's subservient alliance with Israel offered Turkey
absolute international immunity. However, today, the more democratic
Turkey is censured not for its past crimes, but for daring to stand
up to Israel's present crimes.
l Mr Kanj writes frequently on Arab world issues and is the author
of Children of Catastrophe, Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp
to America.
By Jamal kanj
Gulf Daily News
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=323840
Feb 16 2012
Bahrain
FRENCH politicians voting on the Armenian Genocide Recognition Law must
be familiar with the biblical quote: "Don't judge lest you be judged."
Last month, the French Senate passed a bill making it illegal to deny
that the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915 Turkey
was genocide.
But instead of looking outwards at Turkey's history, French politicians
should first take an inward look at their colonial past.
The veracity of the Armenian genocide is not at issue, for history
speaks volumes of those poignant events. However, things are not as
they appear with the French vote.
In the historical context, France's incandescent genocidal crimes
in Africa were much worse and more recent than Turkey's slaying of
Armenians almost 100 years ago.
In Algeria, during eight years of France's 130-year colonial rule,
from 1954 to 1962, French troops murdered more than 1.5 million
natives. So what is the impetus behind the French vote? Have French
politicians suddenly transformed into benevolent citizens? Why now?
Turkey's new political detachment from its old military stance is
perturbing Israel. That is why Tel Aviv has mobilised its worldwide
Zionist network to blackmail the Turkish government.
Simply put, the Zionist campaign to smear Turkey's history has little
to do with the Armenian genocide. It is more about de-legitimising the
political leadership of the current Turkish government for standing
against Israeli genocide in Palestine.
In the US, a little over 10 years ago, the "unofficial" body
representing Israeli interests - the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) - lobbied the House of Representatives to halt a
vote on an Armenian genocide resolution.
In June 2010, The Washington Post reported that AIPAC, with help
from the State Department, had pressured President Bill Clinton in
2000 to warn the house speaker that a vote on the Armenian genocide
would damage US interests - for which the speaker pulled the plug,
killing the proposed resolution.
That was then. The Zionists who blocked the vote in 2000 were prodded
by AIPAC to reintroduce the Armenian genocide resolution before the
House of Representatives.
Answering that call, Jewish Congressman Adam Schiff of California,
with his pro-Israel voting record, sponsored US House Resolution
252 - exploiting the Armenian genocide to punish the current
Turkish government. Pro-Zionist members of the US Congress exist in
the Republican and Democrat parties, often embracing diametrically
opposing viewpoints on local, international and social issues, yet
adopting the same record when it comes to supporting Israel.
Israel "firsters" in the Congress use their positions and influence
on the most important congressional committees and subcommittees,
such as the foreign affairs, appropriations and armed services panels.
Apparently indifferent to US interests, they routinely cross party
lines to manipulate, at the embryonic stage, any Middle East-tinged
resolution to Israel's benefit.
It is part of an international crusade, led and financed by Zionists,
buoyed by a globally co-ordinated media, with the intention of creating
a rift between the West and Arab/Muslim countries, to undermine any
political leader opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
For 50 years, Turkey's subservient alliance with Israel offered Turkey
absolute international immunity. However, today, the more democratic
Turkey is censured not for its past crimes, but for daring to stand
up to Israel's present crimes.
l Mr Kanj writes frequently on Arab world issues and is the author
of Children of Catastrophe, Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp
to America.