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To: sea_urchin who wrote (25934)	10/14/2007 11:38:23 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (2) of 81190

Mondoweiss I Mortimer Zuckerman Denies a Holocaust On this morning's McLaughlin Group, U.S. World & News Report editor Mortimer Zuckerman said that the legislation to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915-19 poses a foreign policy "disaster" for the United States and is the result of a well-heeled "Armenian lobby" that is giving money to politicians to win their support. These statements are a tira misu of hypocrisy. Let us count the layers. The lobby stuff would appear to be a coded crack at Walt and Mearsheimer. How many times has the Israel lobby even been mentioned on McLaughlin? But oh that fearsome Armenian lobby. How many Armenians own important daily newspapers and weeklies? How many Armenians are on talking heads programs on Sunday morning? How many of the Democratic presidential candidates depend on Armenian money? In fact it's the Israel lobby that would seem to have a strong position against recognizing Armenian genocide. Turkey is one of Israel's few allies in the Middle East. Abe Foxman took Zuckerman's stance a few weeks back. Oh, what has happened to Jewish identity! Of course then there's Holocaust hypocrisy, the capital-H Holocaust. Zuckerman would go nuts if anyone denied the Jewish Holocaust in Europe. It is important to remember the 6 million so that it will never happen again... etc. But as many as 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of the Turks 90 years ago and people are merely trying to remember it now, let alone build a museum in Washington or create an industry of reparations. If memory is such a significant issue for European Jewry, why not for the Armenians? Are they not human beings? If memorializing atrocities prevents them from happening again, as the Holocaust Museum maintains, isn't it wise and humane to make this recognition? In France it is a crime to deny the Armenian holocaust. Here it's a badge of honor. Zuckerman's attitude is so cynical that it makes you wonder about some of the energy behind the recognition of the Jewish Holocaust. How much does that recognition serve larger political aims--as Zuckerman would have the Armenian non-recognition do? To what extent does Holocaust recognition serve to ennoble the existence of the Jewish state?

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