"Armenian genocide becomes political football in Gaza crisis
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 01:04.
With appalling blatancy, Israel's 'amen chorus' on Capitol Hill is proposing use of the Armenian genocide—specifically, the threat of US recognition of it as genocide—as political ammo against Turkey in the wake of the deadly Israeli naval attack on a Turkish-organized 'Free Gaza' aid flotilla. From the Jerusalem Post, June 17:
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) said he recently warned the Turkish ambassador that 'With regard to Congress of the United States, there will be a cost if Turkey stays on its current path of growing closed to Iran and more antagonistic to the State of Israel.'
Among other issues, he said, he was now likely to switch his vote to support a resolution recognizing the mass killing of Armenians during the Ottoman empire as a genocide, a move he had voted against in the past because he thought relations with Turkey were more important."
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