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Arpa, So now you are going to check every Armenian male you meet to see if they are circumcised? I can assure you that the police will jail you on morals charges.

I suggest that you contact the law firm of the late Aram Kevorkian in Paris. He was assisting me in a matter similar to your uncle's when he died suddenly. Kevorkian was a Harvard-trained attorney of international standing. There is an unspoken process which does not encourage any distribution of estates to individuals residing outside of France.

Zurderer, Yes he has a wife and three children. It is the fact that Christian churches have no rights to their church properties and the fact that all our family's resources were confiscated that makes diaspora Armenians wonder. Arpa, yes we are all angry, but will you please stop with your assinine racial comments. Have a little respect for Hrant's memory.

Just so horrible. Kemal Kerincsiz might have just as well pulled the trigger. Article 301 was Hrant's death sentence. The Turkish legislature had better abolish that law ASAP.

Thank you for keeping the dialogue going. Without rabble-rousers like myself this Forum gets bogged down in silly subjects like "women wearing high heels" 1) Do you think that I do not know that there are very astute and successful business people who have come out of Fresno, Kerkorian for example. It is just the mentality in Fresno (see Mark Arax's article). 2) As for the ROA, there should be more leadership from the West in high positions. 3) Yes, we are wise in some respects but are only now understanding how world diplomacy works.

Galileo and Edison were also considered in need of "medicine."

The Fresno Armenians were once known locally by the term "lower class Jews."

Just read Mark Arax's article on Fresno and you will understand.

ArmoArmen, Ignorance and emotion will not bring about positive results. Stop thinking that justice is what happens in this world. It is all about interests. Please don't be naive! Nobody will care about all the dead Armenians unless there is a benefit for them. Seize the hour! Times are a changin'!

Do you know anything about Barack Obama's life history? Did you know that his mother was a white woman from Wichita, Kansas who died at the age of 53 of ovarian cancer? Did you know that his father was a Kenyan Harvard-trained Ph.d. in economics well-before there were any affirmative action programs?. Did you know that his father left the scene when the US Senator was 2 years old and that he was raised soley by white persons, his mother and grandparents?

Gevorg P, You are one of the leaders of our next generation. Onward and Upward! As for myself, I have decided to take the mantle from my grandfather, great-grandfather and great-uncles all of whom held high positions among the Armenians. My father was a small child when the Genocide occured and was scarred by it for life. I am tired of the "Fresno idiots" ruling our people (just read Marx Arax's article on the mentality of Fresnans). It is time for the Bolsahays to grab what is rightfully theirs, the leadership of the world Armenian community!

SELF-INTEREST, pure and simple. The heads of worldwide Jewry sense that the tectonic plates are shifting in Turkey. They are on to Turkey's game and Mein Kampf is a best-seller in Turkey. Also the Turkish propaganda campaign is falling upon deaf ears. While information about the Soviet Union was restricted in the West, Jews did not know that Jewish refugees would gravitate to Armenia under Soviet rule, since it was one of the areas most accepting and tolerant of Jews. For decades Turks agitated Jews against Armenians and Armenians against Jews for the better interests of the Turkish state. An independent Kurdistan and a greater Armenia are now in their best interests. It all has to do with the breakup of the Soviet Union.

I believe that political beliefs are like a shower-curtain ring and not linear. 40-some years ago when I was an avid supporter of the John & Robert Kennedy (I was in a visible position in in RFK's campaign at a tender age) and was heavily involved in Democratic Party politics, these neo-cons sat far to the left of me. Now they are far to the right of me. They have gone from one extreme to the other. But as I have stated before, their Golden Boy is losing almost all of his polish and soon will be either powerless (in office) or powerless out of office, depending upon whether the Democrats want a disgraced President in office, or a unsoiled new Republican as President who they will view as a stronger opponent for President in 2008. When Bush leaves so will Wolfowitz and most of the neo-cons who have dragged us into this quagmire in Iraq. .

Stormig, You don't have it quite correct. It is Bush-Cheney who are sinking fast. Yesterday it was revealed that they are "circling their wagons" by forcing out top federal prosecutors who have been TOO successful in convicting the Administration's close friends. There is a siege mentality at the White House and rightfully so. They KNOW what is coming their way, because they know that what they have done is contrary to the US Constitution. Soon investigations will begin which will either make Bush TOTALLY ineffectual or will force him from office.

Edward, I assume that you are referring to Saroyan's words that even though the Armenians were annihilated that wherever in the world that two Armenians meet, they create a new Armenia. Lest you forget, Edward, Saroyan married only twice, both times to the SAME Jew.

Again, hot-headed Armenians ruled by their emotions and not their intellect. I guess there are very few of those of us who miraculously got the genes of the Armenian intelligentsia passed down to us, as the majority of the Armenia intelligentsia and their families were exterminated. Are you guy and gals THAT stupid? Can't you read what is really happening vis-a-vis the Jews whose homeland is involved economically with Turkey? They are passing the torch to the Turks themselves. They are washing their hands of the whole affair and telling the Turks that the potato is too hot to handle this time. Even Tom Lantos, their strongest supporter in the past, is no longer on the front lines for them.

Turkey has shown itself to be an unreliable ally. The US is looking for new allies in the region. Kurdistan and a greater Armenia will serve the interests of the US better than the Turks. Future scenario - US bases in Western Armenia. Why do you think they built that massive embassy in Yerevan for a tiny little nation? The Turks are sinking fast. As the Iraq war goes down the tubes, America will increasingly remember that the Turks were not reliable friends.

Latest news on "Rocky Balboa." The Independent London Stallone to talk Turkey with political 'hot potato' By Oliver Duff Published: 18 January 2007 * Sylvester Stallone is in town this week to promote his latest slice of testosterone-fuelled hokum, Rocky Balboa, which sees the ageing boxing champ return to the ring for one more fight. His next rumoured project will require more cerebral direction - if no less fake blood. Stallone is touting the idea that he might direct an adaptation of the controversial novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, which describes the Turkish massacre of its Armenian community in 1915. A movie based on the Austrian author Franz Werfel's 1934 fictionalised account would, Sly says, be "an epic about the complete destruction of a civilisation". The topic is, to understate it somewhat, a thorny issue over in Turkey, where the claimed "genocide" has never been wholly accepted as historical fact. A group calling themselves the Association on Struggle Against Armenian Genocide Acknowledgement is targeting Stallone with an angry letters campaign urging him not to make the film. "The book is full of lies, since the author got his information from nationalist and radical Armenians," says the association's chairman, Savas Egilmez. "We have already sent necessary documents about the mentioned days to the producer of the film. Our allies will urge the producer not to produce this film." Stallone concedes: "Talk about a political hot potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years." The uproar about Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ could seem tame.

Kerry was a disaster last time around. We need new blood. The Swiftboaters will be back to ruin him again if he runs in 2008.

Obama is the ONLY person running for President who has also stated this in BAKU. I would be scared to death to call for recognition of the Genocide in Baku, but this guy was fearless in the face of the Azeris.

Yes, there is no such thing as "Balkan Turks." These were persons indigenous to the Balkan lands who converted to Islam to raise themselves higher on the social scale, and to act as overlords of their Christian neighbors.

Good analysis Baron En--ian!

It is not who seperates Armenians into groups but the fellow Armenians themselves! Hopefully they will see the benefits of unity of purpose. The alliance you speak of is beginning to show cracks. Are you familiar with the fable of the young Dutch boy with his finger in the dike? Do you remember what occurs next? Are you so very blind to the shift in the equation? Or is your thinking stuck? A typical occurence for most Armenians!

GevorgP, You are a very astute analyst. I suspect that you are highly educated in political analysis because you understand the unfolding geo-political situation PERFECTLY. The bozos (translates as clowns) in Ankara will be frozen in disbelief like a deer in an auto's headlights. '

FYI Egocentric Since 1982 (that is 24 years ago) I have only had intimate relations (sexual type that is) with my 1) looney-tunes Libana-Hye ex-wife, 2) a cherry-blond California surfer girl now living in Georgia, USA and 3) a young 20-something woman here...and I was NEVER involved in the activity you are chuckling about. You silly-assed Russa-Hyes and Araba-Hyes know very little about world diplomacy and getting along with other peoples of the world except for the Russians who are now killing us in the streets there and the Persians who are now being ruled by an absolute madman. Those of us who have good relations with the Herias have built bridges with members of their societies and have made solid friends among them. There are many positive examples of this such as Andrew Goldberg who made a prize-winning film about the Genocide. Furthermore Saroyan's son is 1/2 Jewish as is Arlene Francis' son, Peter Gabel and Garry Kasparov, etc etc.