Victim Discrimination

[Aratta-Kingdom]

VICTIM DISCRIMINATION

 

 

Azg Armenian Daily

Dear Editor:

 

In a letter dated September 25, 2007, eight former Secretaries of State, including Madeleine Albright, James Baker III, Warren Christopher, Laurence Eagleburger, Alexander Haig, Jr. Henry Kissinger, Collin Powell and George Schultz have urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to prevent the Armenian Genocide resolution from reaching the House Floor.

 

Never have such distinguished public servants acted with such moral cowardice since the current Secretary of the State presented the same arguments during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on State-Foreign Operations in March 21, 2007.

 

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questions the Holocaust we as Americans stand up for human rights and historical truth, but when the Turkish government denies the Armenian genocide, we timidly maintain that "U.S. policy is to encourage reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia". Why don’t we encourage reconciliation between Iran and Israel over the Holocaust debate? If the German government denied that the Holocaust took place, would the same Secretaries of State send a similar urgent appeal to the Speaker of the House? Of course not, it would be absurd. There was no Israel when the Holocaust happened, and there was no Armenia when the Armenian Genocide was taking place during World War I. Most of the Armenian Genocide survivors and their descendants are right here in the United States.

 

It is alarming to see how much political clout an Islamist Government’s lobbyists can buy in Washington at the cost of our nation’s moral integrity.

 

What we can do about it is to get in touch with our Representatives and ask them not to sell America’s soul to the highest bidder. Bring the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H. Res. 106) to the House floor and vote for it!

 

Sincerely,

 

Kevork Kalayjian, New York