Armenian Genocide – Holocaust’s Cousin
Posted By shirley on March 6, 2010
JTA’s Capital J blog has an interesting article, Armenia and Reality, by Ron Kampeas. The author, explains how lobbying works, why he doesn’t think it was the Jewish lobby that is putting the pressure on, and what many Jews think about the Armenian Genocide:
But there’s no question what recent Jewish theory teaches out about the Armenian genocide: That it was, indeed, a genocide. In 1986, I took Yad Vashem’s 3-week intensive study course on the Shoah, and I’ll never forget what Yehuda Bauer — the preeminent Shoah scholar — taught us: The Armenian genocide was the Holocaust’s “cousin if not its brother.” What persuaded him, he said, was evidence that the Ottomans looked to physicians to facilitate the massacres — a precursor of the science the Germans used to speed up their genocide just decades later.
Personally, for me, this explains a lot. I too fell victim to this automatic assumption that it is the Israel lobbying that puts the Resolution on the shelf. More accurately, it is the Pentagon and Turkey’s NATO ties.
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