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October 23, 2007 at 09:44:26

Israel Lobby May Be Source of Armenian Genocide Resolution

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October 22, 2007 -- Israel Lobby accused of being behind Armenian genocide resolution

Experts on U.S.-Turkish relations in Washington report that the recent deterioration in relations between Washington and Ankara are primarily due to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Turkey's other erstwhile friends, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), pulling support for their former allies in Turkey because of increasingly closer Turkish relations with both Syria and Iran -- two countries that are being targeted by the neocon cells operating in Vice President Dick Cheney's office and among Kadima and Likud circles in Jerusalem.

In fact, Turkey, Syria, and Iran are cooperating in battling PKK forces on their respective territories. Israel's Mossad has re-established close links with the Kurds in the region. It appears that Israel is willing to sacrifice its past close relations with Turkey in its support for the Kurds and creating tension between the non-Arab powers in the region -- Iran, Turkey, and the Kurds. The election of Turkish Islamist-oriented Abdullah Gul as President of a secular-oriented Turkey was a green light for AIPAC, the ADL, and the neocons and other right-wing networks in Washington to turn up the heat on Ankara.

The subsequent threat by Turkey to deploy troops into northern Iraq to go after Kurdish guerrillas, some of whom are reportedly backed by the Mossad and U.S. paramilitary private security forces, was enough to cause the Israel Lobby to break their historic links to the Turks. Adding to the anger of the Israel Lobby was the recent natural gas deal inked between Syria, Iran, and Turkey. Iran will provide Syria with Iranian gas via Turkish pipelines.

Turkish sources are reporting that the Mossad and CIA are providing direct support to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish group outlawed in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

Tensions along the Turkish-Iraq border grew more inflamed on October 21 after PKK guerrillas killed at least 12 Turkish troops in an attack carried out on Turkish soil.

In July, Turkish authorities seized automatic weapons of U.S. origin from captured members of the PKK. After Defense and State Department investigations of weapons smuggling to the PKK, the Justice Department began investigating Kenneth W. Cashwell and William Ellsworth "Max" Grumiaux, two former Blackwater USA employees, for trafficking in the interstate and foreign commerce of stolen firearms.

Eventually, Cashwell and Grumiaux pleaded guilty to possession of the stolen firearms and began cooperating with the government in its investigation of smuggling to the PKK via the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

The Charlotte News and Observer reported that the federal probe involves the possibility that Blackwater smuggled automatic weapons and other military hardware to Iraq that potentially ended up in the hands of the KRG and then the PKK.

The Pentagon is investigating the loss of some 190,000 U.S. small arms in Iraq. Blackwater has denied any role in weapons smuggling in Iraq.

WMR has also learned that some of Blackwater's top officials maintain close links to the Israeli military and security communities as well as to a shadowy network of right-wing Republican weapons manufacturers, law firms, lobbyists, and arms exporters in the Washington, DC area, including individuals linked to white supremacist organizations.

Turkey blames Israel for the passage by the House International Relations Committee of the Armenian genocide resolution. Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan reportedly told Israeli President Shimon Peres earlier this month that since Israel ultimately controls Jewish-American organizations like the ADL, Turkey held Israel partly responsible for the passage of the Armenian genocide resolution largely thanks to the support of the ADL and AIPAC and one of their biggest champions on Capitol Hill, House International Relations Committee Chairman Tom Lantos.

It was only after Turkey's own sizable lobbying machine in Washington forced President George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- and behind the scenes George H. W. Bush National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, the head of the American Turkish Council -- to exert pressure on the House, did leading Democrats succeed in killing the Armenian resolution. However, that put Cheney and his neocon cabal on the defensive. They were more than willing to sacrifice U.S. relations with Turkey to bring about a "final solution" for the Iranians, Syrians, Palestinians, Turks, or anyone else that stood in the way of the ultimate aims of the neocons: a Western-Islamic "Clash of Civilizations" and iron-fisted U.S. control of Middle East energy resources.

It also appears certain that the Israeli attack on a alleged Syrian nuclear facility, said to have been built with the aid of North Korean and Iranian specialists, was designed to scuttle back channel attempts by Turkey to help negotiate a peace agreement between Israel and Syria. The Israeli Likud Party and its allies in Washington, primarily in Cheney's office and at two problematic think tanks in Washington that act as Likud fronts -- the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) -- want no part of an Israeli-Syrian peace agreement of any form of detente.

On October 21, Cheney launched a verbal barrage against Iran and Syria at a meeting of WINEP held at suburban Virginia's exclusive country club venue, the Landsdowne Conference Center. Cheney's remarks were hailed by Clinton Middle East envoy and WINEP director, Dennis Ross, strongly rumored to be a top contender for a major foreign policy slot in a Hillary Clinton administration.

The Israeli spin that Israeli military planes attacked the Syrian facility via Turkish airspace was a not-so-veiled warning to Ankara that Israel looked with disfavor the Turkish-Syrian rapprochement. The Israeli attack on the Syrian "facility" is now being spun by the neocon media, primarily the Jerusalem Post and ABC News, as a commando raid supported by an Israeli "mole" inside the Syrian nuclear establishment. Most of the reports from the neocons about a Syrian "nuclear facility" are no more believable than the reports of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction.

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Timothy LanePhysicist, automation consultant, sheeple prodder.

Totally wrong

Wayne Madsen has got it totally wrong. The Zionists do not want exposure for the Armenian genocide. Quite the reverse. The minor reason for that is nurture and protection of the holy holocaust. Exposure for other acts of massive genocide devalues the holocaust and thus the victimhood windfall it generates.

The major reason, though, has to do with who was really behind the Armenian genocide. There is very strong historical evidence that it was mostly directed by Turkish crypto-Jews to further the Zionist strategy. For the gory details see the following book:
http://jewishracism.com/JewishGenocide.htm

Indeed, the secular branch of the Turkish power structure (the deep state) is, by all indications, still largely Zionist-controlled.

by Timothy Lane (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 10:09:45 AM

I am a Canadian politiphile with a special interest in the American empire.
deliaI am a Canadian politiphile with a special interest in the American empire.

Far be it from me ...

... to support a hawk like Zbigniew Brzezinski, but I have to agree with him when he asks: What the hell is this issue doing on the floor of the Congress, anyway?

by delia (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 112 comments) on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 5:36:12 PM

Scalor
m tScalor

Turkish and Jewish friendship can not be comprimized.

We are in a same sotuation as Israel and we have common goals,

Turkey always been a good friend to Israel and nothing can change that,if Turkey is seeking close relations with Syria and Iran ultimitly will benefit the region,Turkey will never turn his back to Israel,

and all the countries in the region should seek close relations with Israel,area will prosper beyond imagination.

Thank you

by m t (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 5:30:42 PM

Scalor
m tScalor

Armenians shoulld be more open,and stop their propoganda!

There is a legitimate historical controversy concerning the interpretation of the events in question and most of the scholars who have propounded a contra genocide viewpoint are of the highest calibre and repute, including Bernard Lewis, Stanford Shaw, David Fromkin, Justin McCarthy, Guenther Lewy, Norman Stone, Kamuran Gürün, Michael Gunter, Gilles Veinstein, Andrew Mango, Roderic Davidson, J.C. Hurwitz, William Batkay, Edward J. Erickson and Steven Katz.

This is by no means an exhaustive list. A good number of well-respected scholars recognize the deportation decision in 1915, taken under World War I conditions, as a security measure to stop the Armenians from co-operating with the foreign forces invading Anatolia.

On the legal aspect, the elements of the genocide crime are strictly defined and codified by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Genocide, adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 1948. However, Armenians, claiming that "the evidence is so overwhelming", so far have failed to submit even one credible evidence of genocide.

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by m t (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 5:36:46 PM

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Kevork KalayjianGardener

Human Rights and the Armenian Genocide Resolution

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Bush OK’s another Genocide by Opposing Armenian Genocide Resolution

The last time a human rights issue created so much soul searching in America was probably September 22, 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed a presidential decree for the emancipation of the slaves.

The House Foreign Relations Committee vote 27/21 on H. R. 106, acknowledging the Armenian Genocide, is the emancipation of the survivors of the victims of the genocide. This is a giant step forward for more reverence to human dignity here in the United States of America and in the context of our image in the world both for our allies and for our adversaries.

This resolution is the greatest gesture of love and respect to the Turkish people. Those who advocate denial treat the Turkish people as inferior being not able to handle the truth. Our NATO brother-in-arms should know that, just as David Kaczynski brought his brother Theodore John Kaczynski (The Unabomber) to justice, America will not stand idle for deniers of Genocide.

By opposing this resolution, President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, have become the moral axis of evil, because they have given the green light to the Turkish government to go ahead and commit genocide against other minorities in Turkey.

The necessary ingredients are there; there is the PKK, which has been declared a terrorist organization; the Kurdish minority living in Turkey could easily be accused of supporting the PKK, George Bush, just like Hitler, has given his blessings to the Turkish generals, by virtually saying: who after all remembers the Armenians?

Opponents of this human rights issue are bigots and racists, who do not think that the Turkish people have the common sense and the decency to be treated as civilized human beings. Instead, these deniers are treating the Turks as if they are the ‘Barbarian of the Middle East’ who cannot be expected to behave in similar standards as people living in Western democracies.

Hence, while we do not deny the Holocaust, because we have bases and enlisted personnel in Germany, these people make us believe that we should treat the Turks as sub-human barbarians and let their governments deny a crime so that we can use their bases. What’s next? The 9/11 attacks never happened? Or, was it a civil war?

While other countries are criticized, sanctioned, and attacked when they conquer a neighboring country, according to the US State Department it is OK for the Turkish governments to attack and conquer half of Cyprus. Why? Because, we have to appease our ‘Barbarian Friends’ so that we can keep our bases in their country.

It is a shame that the present administration still opposes this important human rights initiative. It is a disgrace that there are still people amongst us, who see no harm in denying a crime for profit.

This administration and its supporters marched into the White House as the defenders of the faith and the family values, they turned up to be a pack of wolves ready to sell America’s honor.

I am proud that my representative, Congressman Eliot Engel, voted for this resolution.

I urge you to make sure that H. R. 106 comes to the House floor and that your representative votes for it!

Kevork Kalayjian

by Kevork Kalayjian (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1 comments) on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 5:50:10 PM