Yervant1 Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 Would you think that the government of Israel will return the favour? Don't hold your breath!Plattsburgh Press RepublicanMay 8 2017 Swiss-Armenian lobbied for billions owed to Holocaust survivorsBy SADIE CRUZ Special to the Press-RepublicanMay 8, 2017http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/pressrepublican.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/b9/2b947b60-3004-5fb8-a77d-1389bff5a98d/591077062bc88.image.jpg PLATTSBURGH— Millions of dormant accounts owned by Jewish people during the Holocaust still rested in Swiss banks in the late 1990s.That's when a scandal broke, revealing that the monies were never returned, which led to a lawsuit that eventually issued $1.24 billion to Holocaust survivors and their heirs.The mystery of the hidden millions would change the way the world looked at Switzerland's history in relation to World War II. Emmanuel Tchividjian, who describes himself as Judeo-Christian, grew up in Switzerland and later moved to Boston. He embarked on a personal mission to right the wrong that he felt was 50 years overdue.He was at SUNY Plattsburgh recently, as part of the Douglas R. Skopp Speakers Series on the Holocaust, to talk about his role in the historic case and how the public-relations firm Ruder Finn, where he used to work, played an influential part in making the Swiss banks agree to restitution.“I never thought this would lead to a job, but it was a matter of the heart,” Tchividjian said.PRESSING FOR RELEASEHe believes Christians today should have an attitude of repentance and forgiveness for the tragedies that have occurred in that past in the name of Christianity.Tchividjian, who was the director of program and member services for the New England Israel Chamber of Commerce, said asking forgiveness is not good enough unless you feel a genuine need to repent and do something.His father was an Armenian refugee who was relocated to Greece, but asked his parents to send him to boarding school in Switzerland.Switzerland had been good to his family, so he felt he owed a debt to the country.This motivated Tchividjian in his efforts to change the lives of the many Jewish people and their descendants who were robbed of their money.He packed his bags for Switzerland for a three-week trip that extended into a three-month quest.During his trip, he spoke to bankers from UBS and Lloyds bank, politicians, members of parliament, diplomats, leaders of Switzerland's Jewish community, historians, two federal Supreme Court judges, journalists, accountants and a clergyman to advocate for the refunding of the Swiss bank accounts.'WAKE-UP CALL'During his time in Switzerland, Tchividjian saw conflicting responses: Some people were utterly shocked about the true Swiss history in World War II, and others sympathized with the Nazis.Because of the dormant-account scandal, Switzerland had to create the Bergier Commission, led by the Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier, and as a country had to revisit Switzerland's WWII history.“I think the Swiss had a moral wake-up call, and they realized the history was not as rosy as they thought. And, I think, it’s always good for a country to acknowledge the past and change the attitude,” Tchividjian said.He said he encountered some anti-semitism and anti-American feelings while he was conversing with Swiss diplomats. One ambassador told him: “We didn't kill them, and now they mess with us.”ALLYTchividjian was introduced to Corinne Goetschel, who was on the Paul Volcker Commission, which was investigating the dormant accounts.“Until then, my idea of the Swiss government was that it was the enemy,” he said. Goetschel said that she, as a worker for the Swiss government and a Jew, would resign her position if she felt any antisemitic pressure in the Swiss government. She became Tchividjian’s “moral guarantee-er.”HELP FROM U.S. FIRMThe Swiss government went to a number of firms seeking help, which all turned them down, until Ruder Finn, a public-relations company from the United States, took on the challenge.Tchividjian was working for the Swiss government for free while Ruder Finn was being paid, but nevertheless they had the same mission. His meeting with Goetschel was the link to interacting with the Swiss banks themselves and the beginning of his relationship with Ruder Finn.Goetschel had Hans Baer, chairman of Julius Baer Bank, the largest private bank in Switzerland, on the Paul Volcker Commission with her. The commission wanted the banker to go to Boston, so Tchividjian would organize press events for the Swiss government representative to speak in the United States about the dormant accounts.Tchividjian organized radio, TV and newspaper interviews. Goetschel introduced him to David Finn of Ruder Finn, who so appreciated Tchividjian's passion and management of the crisis that he asked Tchividjian first to work for them on the case and later to join the firm as its ethics chair.IMPACTTo Tchividjian, hearing from the people most affected by this scandal was one of the most difficult parts of the experience. He felt he didn't do as much as he could and to this day doesn't know how impactful he was.He would sometimes get calls from people with relatives who had money in the dormant accounts, and he would connect them with the right people.“But you never do what’s right because of the impact. You do what's right because it's right," he said."And you hope that the impact is what it needs to be." http://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/swiss-armenian-lobbied-for-billions-owed-to-holocaust-survivors/article_a3e2f1cb-337e-5291-865c-b215c9d42beb.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted July 28, 2017 Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 Finally someone is seeing the light, what took you so long to understand something so simple! news.am, ArmeniaJuly 27 2017 Israeli opposition: We should recognize Armenian Genocide 14:16, 27.07.2017 Israeli opposition party leader said Israel has to recognize the Armenian Genocide and support Kurdish state amid the policy of Turkey’s president Erdogan.Talking to reporters, Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid said time has come to stop ingratiating themselves to the Turks, who every time come and kick us harder, the Jerusalem Postreported.“We need to say, 'okay, we understand, now we have to run our own policy: from now on we support the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, we need to recognize the Armenian genocide, we need to do all the things that we didn't do when we had good relations with Turkey, because we don't, and we will not have in the future,” he said.He also urged to give up the idea of a gas pipeline to Turkey.Erdogan has recently made some critical remarks in connection with the Temple Mount crisis.https://news.am/eng/news/402447.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MosJan Posted July 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 Israeli minister pays homage to Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan (Armenpress) – Israel’s minister of regional cooperation Tzachi Hanegbi, who arrived in Armenia on an official visit on July 25, visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial with his delegation in Yerevan.The Israeli high-level delegation was accompanied by Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Armen Papikyan, the Honorary Consul of Israel in Armenia Ashot Shahmuradyan, Israel’s Ambassador to Armenia Eliyahu Yerushalmi with his spouse, as well as the deputy director of the Armenian Genocide Institute Museum Suren ManukyanThe officials laid flowers at the Eternal Flame for the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims, and toured the MuseumInstitute. The Israeli minister mentioned that he is impressed with the Memorial, which in his words will touch everybody.“Israel has always sympathized with the Armenian people, because both Armenians and Jews have survived this tragedy in their histories. The issue has been discussed for several times in the Israeli parliament, it has always been mentioned by the president, and we will always keep it in our hearts and spirits”, the Israeli minister told reporter.“Visiting this museum leaves every visitor with two conclusions: Never again to allow such horrific acts to happen, and never forget the tragedy , keep it always alive in the human awareness and memory forever!”, the Israeli minister wrote in the guestbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 If relations between Israel and Turkey turns for the better, probably he'll say what genocide!!!!!!!!!!!! Heard these kinds of useless proclamations way too many times to take this one seriously.MediaMax, ArmeniaJuly 29 2017 “We need to recognize the Armenian genocide”, Israeli politician says http://c0.mediamax.am/datas/znews/middle_1501306295_8776696.jpgYair Lapid Photo: REUTERS Yerevan/Mediamax/. Leader of Yesh Atid Party, former Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said "we need to recognize the Armenian genocide”. “Now we have to run our own policy: From now on we support the establishment of an independent Kurdish state; we need to recognize the Armenian genocide; we need to do all the things that we didn’t do when we had good relations with Turkey – because we don’t – and we will not have in the future,” Jerusalem Post quoted Yair Lapid as saying. “Turkey needs to know they cannot continue to kick Israel, and Israel will come back and ask for more”, Yair Lapid stressed. In 2013, Yesh Atid, founded by Yair Lapid, placed second in the general election, winning 19 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. It then entered into a coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud. In the 2015 election, the party refused to back Netanyahu and joined the opposition after suffering a significant setback in the polls. In September 2016 Israeli Knesset Deputy Speaker Tali Ploskov said in an interview with Mediamax that “today Israel does not have the opportunity to recognize Armenian Genocide on state level”. In August 2011 Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in an interview with Mediamax that “Israel has never denied the Armenian tragedy, but we do not wish to become party to the confrontation between Turkey and Armenian on this important issue”. http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/foreignpolicy/24491/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 Same as before, only Holocaust matters for Israel the rest who cares!!!!!!News.am, ArmeniaAug 17 2017 Israeli minister: Knesset is unlikely to recognize Armenian Genocide16:10, 17.08.2017 Israeli Knesset is unlikely to recognize Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian nation, Israeli minister told Interfax Ukraine.Ze’ev Elkin, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Minister of Environmental Protection, said declarative statement on Holodomor or any other tragic chapter of the history of other nations is not in compliance with Israeli “parliamentary traditions”.He added that Israel has the same position on the Armenian Genocide recognition.“The issue was discussed in the parliament several times, but no statement was adopted, although nearly all western parliaments have adopted declarative decisions on the matter. Israeli parliament believes that similar issues of the past must be discussed by professionals as a part of professional discussion, not politicians,” Elkin added.https://news.am/eng/news/405226.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted October 27, 2017 Report Share Posted October 27, 2017 Armenian Genocide, oh it's a political issue nothing more move on only Holocaust matters. It's really sad this is the thanks we get. Asbarez.com Charles Aznavour Receives the Raoul Wallenberg Award in Israel International 10 hours agohttp://asbarez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Charles-Aznavour-Israel.jpgIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin (L) presents French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour the Raoul Wallenberg medal at the presidential compound in Jerusalem in recognition of his family’s efforts to protect Jews and others persecuted during World War II (Photo: AFP)TEL AVIV (Daily Mail) – French Armenian singing legend Charles Aznavour was honored in Israel on Thursday for his family’s efforts to protect Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis during World War II.The 93-year-old known as France’s Frank Sinatra still performs and is due to give a concert in Tel Aviv on Saturday.He received the honor from Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who spoke of his love of Aznavour’s music, saying “La Boheme” was his favorite song.Rivlin presented him with The Raoul Wallenberg Award, named for the Swedish diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Nazi-controlled Hungary during World War II.Aznavour’s family “hid a number of people who were persecuted by the Nazis, while Charles and his sister Aida were involved in rescue activities,” Rivlin’s office said in a statement.The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, based in New York, presents the award and Aznavour chose to receive it in Israel, it said.Aznavour, who was born in Paris, spoke of his Armenian origins on Thursday, referring to Armenian Genocide of 1915 orchestrated by the Ottoman Empire.His parents fled to France to escape the massacres that more than 20 countries have recognized as a “genocide”, s charge strongly denied by Turkey.“We have so many things in common, the Jews and the Armenians, in misfortune, in happiness, in work, in music, in the arts and in the ease of learning different languages and becoming important people in the countries where they have been received,” he said.“We have so many things in common, the Jews and the Armenians, in misfortune, in happiness, in work, in music, in the arts and in the ease of learning different languages and becoming important people in the countries where they have been received,” he said.Aznavour’s hits have included “She,” “Hier Encore” and “La Mamma.”He is also credited in more than 60 movies, defying detractors who pointed to his unconventional looks to become one of France’s most iconic singers.Aznavour thanked Raoul Wallenberg Foundation for the award and the Israeli President for the reception. The world famous singer also inquired when Israel will recognize the Armenian Genocide, stressing that Jews and Armenians have many similarities.In response, Rivlin said that it’s a political issue and the issue was raised at the parliament of Israel every year when he was a Knesset member and President. He noted that he talked about the Armenian Genocide of 1915 rather clearly at the UN in 2015. http://asbarez.com/168210/charles-aznavour-receives-the-raoul-wallenberg-award-in-israel/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 ARMINFO News Agency, ArmeniaOctober 27, 2017 FridayPresident of Israel confessed that Tel Aviv does not recognize theArmenian Genocide for political reasonsYerevan October 27Tatevik Shahunyan. The world-famous French chansonnier of Armenianorigin Charles Aznavour at the residence of Israeli President ReuvenRivlin in Jerusalem raised the issue of recognizing the ArmenianGenocide in Tel-Aviv in Ottoman Turkey.During the ceremony of awarding medals of the Swedish diplomat RaoulWallenberg for "heroic actions during the Holocaust" to Aznavour andhis sister Aide, the world famous chanson asked the Israeli leaderwhen Israel recognizes the Armenian Genocide."I will not ask you a secret question, and I do not expect an answer.However, it is important to raise this issue. Why do not you recognizethe Armenian Genocide, while they themselves suffered from the fascistregime? "Aznavour said.In response, the President of Israel confessed: "Unfortunately, theIsraeli government, for political reasons, could not recognize thetragic events in the Ottoman Empire of 1915 as genocide, but I myselfraised the issue in the Knesset and the UN." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted November 11, 2017 Report Share Posted November 11, 2017 Asbarez.com “Armenia Expects Israel to Recognize the Armenian Genocide,” Says Nalbandian http://asbarez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/9230_hq.jpgForeign Minister Edward Nalbandian during his interview with Israel’s Public Broadcasting CorporationTouches on Israel’s Arms Sales to Baku,, Armenia Ties to IranYEREVAN—In an interview with Israel’s Public Broadcasting Corporation, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said that Armenia has an expectation from Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide. He also addressed Israel’s continued arms sales to Azerbaijan, saying that “trade of arms is not like trading vegetable,” warning that such practices have their “dark side.”“The two nations have gone through the horrors of genocide. Many scholars, many politicians consider that in case of adequate condemnation of the Armenian Genocide it could have been possible to prevent Shoah and other genocides. That is why of course, we are expecting that Israel will officially recognize the Armenian Genocide,” said Nalbandian.“We believe that more and more people in Israel favor the recognition, including in the Parliament. I had a meeting with the Chairman of the Knesset. He again expressed his very clear position of the importance of the recognition by Knesset of the Armenian Genocide,” Nalbandian added.In discussing the Israel’s arms sales to Azerbaijan, Nalbandian warned of the negative consequences this practice may pose for Israel.“The trade of arms is not a trade of vegetables and such kind of trade always has its black side, which could have some negative consequences. What’s important in Armenia’s relations with Israel is that we have no taboo for discussing all the questions, even sensitive questions we are discussing openly and we are trying to find ways out,” said Nalbandian.Speaking of Armenia’s cooperation with Iran and the latter’s role in the region, Nalbandian said: “We have good relations with neighboring Iran, we cooperate in different fields. Taking into consideration that we have closed borders with other two neighbors, with Turkey and Azerbaijan, you have to understand that Iran and Georgia are the two neighbors with whom we have not just normal relations, but good cooperation. And we are deploying efforts with the aim to develop our bilateral cooperation and partnership.”Nalbandian added that Armenia’s relations with Iran is “not an obstacle to Armenia’s bilateral relations with Israel, just like the Israel’s relations with any neighboring country of Armenia are not an obstacle to our relations.Armenia and Israel have not yet exchanged Ambassadors. “Our position was very clear: as soon as Israel will open an embassy in Armenia, we will reciprocate and open an Embassy in Israel,” Edward Nalbandian said.On Nagorno Karabakh, the Foreign Minister said: “We are never asking our friendly, partner countries to support Armenia against anybody, including Azerbaijan. On Nagorno-Karabakh issue our expectation is to support and to be in line with the position of the international community. The international community gave a mandate to the three co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group- the United States, Russia and France – to mediate the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. This is the unique situation that the United States, Russia and France, on the level of the Presidents of those countries, adopted five statement on how the conflict could be resolved in a very detailed way with concrete principles and concrete elements elaborated as an integrated whole. And Armenia’s position is in line with the position of the Co-Chair countries, so with the position of the international community.”The Armenian Foreign Minister stated that “the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh has to be decided by the free _expression_ of will of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which will have an internationally legally binding force, including for Azerbaijan. This is the position of the international community and we are expressing our support to this position, but Azerbaijan doesn’t.”“Concerning the ceasefire violations, and by the way this is also the position of the three Co-Chair countries, so of the international community, including Armenia, that we have to respect the trilateral ceasefire agreements reached between Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1994-1995 without time limitations, three agreements about the ceasefire and about the consolidation of the ceasefire. Azerbaijan is always trying not to respect ceasefire agreements, and even to put under the question that those agreements are in force,” Edward Nalbandian stated.“This is the difference between our position and the position of Azerbaijan. Even more, the international community through three co-chairs come up with the proposals to create investigation mechanism of violations of the ceasefire agreements. Armenia supports the proposal on the creation of mechanism of investigation of ceasefire violations which could serve as a mechanism of prevention. Azerbaijan is rejecting to creation of this mechanism, so the position of the three Co-Chair countries, of course they are mediators and could not always express their opinion about it openly and publicly. Nevertheless, they are always saying that the side, which is rejecting to create this mechanism of prevention takes the responsibility for all the violations of ceasefire,” the Armenian Foreign Minister added. http://asbarez.com/168630/armenia-expects-israel-to-recognize-the-armenian-genocide-says-nalbandian/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 Every time Israel is embroiled with Turkey, they suddenly remember the Armenian Genocide and use it as a weapon and after that the big amnesia sets in. Please Israel either recognize the factual Armenian Genocide or stop using it as a weapon, you used it enough times already, enough is enough! News.am, ArmeniaDec 11 2017 Israeli opposition slams Erdogan, invokes Armenian Genocide13:29, 11.12.2017 Leader of Israel’s opposition Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid invoked the Armenian Genocide to denounce Turkish president Erdogan, Times of Israel reported.Erdogan made critical remarks over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem.“Those who deny the murder of children in the Armenian genocide should not preach morality at us,” Lapid tweeted on Sunday.Earlier Lapid has publicly called on Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Turkey’s president was a brutal dictator who supports Palestinian terrorist groups in their efforts to “kill innocent people,” as a war of words heated up between Israel and Turkey over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem.“That is not the man who is going to lecture us,” Netanyahu said at a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.https://news.am/eng/news/425716.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted December 14, 2017 Report Share Posted December 14, 2017 Israel talks about Armenian Genocide, after every rift they have with Turkey. This time it's not any different!Public Radio of ArmeniaDec 14 2017 Israeli Party to submit bill recognizing the Armenian Genocide18:32, 14 Dec 2017 http://www.armradio.am/en/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Yesh-Atid-620x300.jpg Photo: Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90Leader of the Israeli Yesh Atid party calls for recognition of Armenian genocide, The Times of Israel reports.Lapid said his party would lodge a bill in the Knesset recognizing the Armenian genocide — a step Israel has traditionally refrained from taking over fears of angering Turkey, with which Israel re-established ties in 2016.The Yesh Atid leader also called for “burying the bad idea” to build a gas pipeline to Turkey and for Israel to “upgrade its support for the creation of an independent Kurdish state” and to “assist the Kurds together with the United States and with countries in the region.”His comments came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called Israel a “terrorist state” that “kills children.”“Erdogan crossed the line,” said Lapid.”“Someone who denies the murder of hundreds of thousands of children in the Armenian genocide won’t lecture us. Someone who cooperated with Iran and Hezbollah in Syria, in a war which has left half a million dead, won’t lecture us,” added Lapid.http://www.armradio.am/en/2017/12/14/israeli-party-to-submit-bill-recognizing-the-armenian-genocide/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 Nothing new! Same rhetoric, same denial. Didn't expect anything different. Please Israeli politicians stop using the Armenian Genocide as a tool as we don't use Holocaust for political purposes. News.am, ArmeniaDec 18 2017 Israeli Defense Minister once again questions fact of Armenian Genocide19:23, 18.12.2017 Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has once again questioned the fact of the Armenian Genocide.In an interview to RTV TV channel, he noted that the proposal to recognize the Armenian Genocide as Turkey's peak is not acceptable: "I do not think that it is acceptable to rake this very issue, which is in many respects purely historical, controversial and theoretical. I do not think that this has a concrete impact on Israel's current position on Turkey."At the clarifying question whether the relationship Azerbaijan is an obstacle to this, Liberman said: "First of all." According to him, relations with Azerbaijan is priority for Israel."The day before the Israeli defense minister Avigdor Liberman urged to review the economic relations of the Jewish state with Turkey, following the statements of the country's President Tayyip Erdogan. Earlier Erdogan announced the intention of the republic to open an embassy in East Jerusalem in response to Washington's decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.Israel and Turkey normalized the relations with each other only in 2016 after the crisis lasting six years. https://news.am/eng/news/427097.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 The stick and carrot diplomacy at work again!Panorama, ArmeniaDec 19 2017 Israel should have recognized Armenian Genocide long ago, opposition leader saysThe Israeli opposition party Yesh Atid plans to submit a bill proposing the official recognition of the Armenian Genocide to the Israeli parliament – Knesset. The party’s leader, Yair Lapid, said Israeli should have recognized that historical fact long ago, Ermenihaber reported.According to the source, Yair Lapid said the draft law is already ready with signature gathering process currently underway in the Israeli parliament to support the legislative initiative.“We believe that soon we will register a breakthrough in this matter. Many Israeli leaders have personally announced their recognition of the Armenian Genocide, which is a historical fact. The Knesset Education Committee recently announced it also recognizes the Genocide. Former Israeli governments have avoided officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide due to the incorrect strategic calculations,” he said. “We should have recognized the Armenian Genocide long ago, since above all it is a morally right thing to do. With the aggressive behavior of President Erdogan, now there are no more forgiveness for anyone, who avoids doing the right thing.”The Israeli political figure highlighted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to create anti-Israeli moods and incite new troubles in the region. According to Lapid, Israeli must show that it is not afraid of Erdogan’s rhetoric and threats.“We will do what is right for us and that also entails acknowledging the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide, increasing our support for the rightful Kurdish independence struggle and cancelling the misguiding idea of a gas pipeline to Turkey,” he added.https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2017/12/19/Israel-Armenian-Genocide/1881284 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 ARMINFO News Agency, ArmeniaDecember 18, 2017 MondayForecast: Israel`s recognition of the Armenian Genocide is real, butit will not happen nowYerevan December 18Angela Stepanyan. Israel's recognition of the historical fact - theArmenian Genocide is real, but it will not happen now - the process isin progress and it takes a certain amount of time. A member of theIsraeli Knesset of the 15th convocation, President of ICES -International Expert Center of Electoral Systems Alexander Tsinker,expressed such an opinion to ArmInfo."Speaking of the process, I mean lobbying for the recognition of theArmenian Genocide by various public trends in our country. OurIsrael-Armenia public forum also addresses this issue, much in thisdirection is taken by the head of the Israel-Armeniainterparliamentary friendship group, our Vice-Speaker Tali Ploskov Thenumber of parliamentarians supporting the recognition of the ArmenianGenocide is consistently growing in all factions of the Knesset.Therecognition of the need to recognize the Armenian Genocide by themajority of Israeli citizens opinion polls," the political scientistsaid.On the whole, having positively commented on the intention of YashiLapid, the leader of the party, he would submit to the Knesset a billon the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Tsinker noted that thechances of influencing the recognition of the Genocide were muchgreater when he was Minister of Finance and his party in the rulingcoalition.As a more realistic way to achieve the recognition of the ArmenianGenocide by Armenians, Tsinker considers the transfer of relevantmaterials already in place and approved by the parliamentarycommission on history, culture and education for consideration andvoting in the Knesset. The political scientist believes that in thecase of a vote "for" the recognition of the Genocide by partiesperiodically asserting the need for recognition of the Genocide, therereally will be a real chance of solving this issue.On April 24, 2015, the Armenians marked a mournful date - the 100thanniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Western Armenia, whose victimswere 1.5 million Armenians. Turkey stubbornly refuses to recognize thefact of the Armenian Genocide recognized by the majority of US states,more than two dozen countries, the Vatican, the European Parliament,the World Council of Churches, and other authoritative internationalorganizations. Holocaust survivors Israel did not recognize theArmenian Genocide either. - vg- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted December 27, 2017 Report Share Posted December 27, 2017 News.am, ArmeniaDec 26 2017 Israeli opposition calls to stop “humiliating itself” and to recognize Armenian Genocide18:15, 26.12.2017 Israeli opposition leader one again urged the government to recognize the Armenian Genocide and support the Kurds.Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid kept some of his harshest criticism for Netanyahu’s handling of Turkey, saying that the agreement with that country reached in 2016 to put an end to the Mavi Marmara affair was a mistake, The Jerusalem Post reported.At a press briefing with diplomatic correspondents, Lapid said that Israel should stop “humiliating itself” before the Turks and has to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Lapid added that “putting gas in Erdogan's hands” is a crazy move.https://news.am/eng/news/428631.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Times of IsraelJan 2 2018 Jewish students umbrella group resolves to boycott far-right Austria party Resolutions passed by organization also reject attempts to deny the Armenian genocide, call for religious pluralism in IsraelBy JTA Today, 9:33 pm International Jewish student leaders will launch an international anti-Semitism awareness campaign on campuses worldwide and vowed to reject any attempts to deny the Armenian genocide.The World Union of Jewish Students at its 44th World Congress, a five-day assembly that ended Monday, also aimed to seek partnership with organizations fighting for religious pluralism in Israel and committed not to work with members or affiliates of Austria’s populist Freedom Party, or FPOe, which is part of the new government coalition. The group said it would boycott FPOe officials.Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign UpSome 157 Jewish college students from 36 countries served as delegates to the congress. The students came from Eastern, Central and Western Europe, North and South America, Australasia, South Africa, India, Turkey and Israel.The group declared March Anti-Semitism Awareness Month and laid the groundwork to coordinate its campaign in partnership with a number of government ministries and campus organizations.At its general assembly, which was part of the congress, the WUJS elected a new president: Avigayil Benstein, 24, is completing her undergraduate degree in international relations and Middle East studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was born and raised in Israel, and served as a foreign press liaison in the European desk of the Israel Defense Forces’ spokesperson’s office.Benstein, the daughter of WUJS alumni from the United States and the United Kingdom, succeeds Yosef Tarshish, 26.The American Union of Jewish Students voted in the election for the first time after being promoted to partial member from observer status.The resolutions on FPOe and the Armenian genocide were among a number of binding policy motions passed at the General Assembly. The one on Austria comes out against the normalization of right-wing extremism in light of the formation of the new government in Austria that includes FPOe.WUJS resolved to remember the Armenian genocide, and to condemn and reject any attempt to deny, distort or ignore its historical reality. Another resolution called to raise consciousness and encourage public discourse on matters of Jewish pluralism in the State of Israel, and to seek partnership with organizations fighting for religious pluralism in Israel.WUJS is the international umbrella organization supporting independent Jewish student associations all over the world. It was established in 1924 by Hersch Lauterpacht, and previous WUJS leaders include Albert Einstein, Chaim Bialik, Sigmund Freud and Chaim Weizmann, as well as David Ben-Gurion, and A.B. Yehoshua.https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-students-umbrella-group-resolves-to-boycott-far-right-austria-party/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted January 4, 2018 Report Share Posted January 4, 2018 Assyrian International News AgencyJan 3 2018 World Union of Jewish Students Recognize the Assyrian, Greek, Armenian Genocide http://www.anc.org.auPosted 2018-01-03 16:51 GMTThe World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) has formally recognised the Armenian Genocide at its 44th World Congress in Israel, after a Jewish-Australian advocate, Ariel Zohar was among the key speakers for the motion, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU).Zohar, who was key behind the recent Victorian Young Labor motion recognising the Armenian Genocide, was joined in his advocacy of this historic motion by Aaron Meyer and Yos Tarshish.ANC-AU Executive Director Haig Kayserian thanked the WUJS on this important statement for human rights."We thank Ariel Zohar and his colleagues at the World Union of Jewish Students Congress for passing a motion that does not only recognise the genocide committed against the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians of the Ottoman Empire, it also 'condemns' and 'rejects' any 'attempt to deny, distort, or ignore the historical reality of this genocide'," Kayserian said."This sends a strong message to the governments of Israel, and others like Australia, that human rights are not there to be bargained for diplomatic gain, no matter the circumstance," he added.The motion reads as follows:This Congress notes...That between 1915 and 1923 millions of Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrians were murdered at the hands of the Ottoman Caliphate. The tragic crime was undisputedly carried out with the genocidal intention of eliminating these Christian communities. This was a premeditated and systematic execution of an estimated 2-3 million civilians; not a legitimate act of war.This Congress believes...That it is incumbent upon us as a Jewish organisation to fight all forms of racism.This Congress resolves...To condemn and reject any attempt to deny, distort, or ignore the historical reality of this genocide. To recognise the importance of remembering and learning from this genocide, and to join the Armenian, Pontian Greek and Assyrian communities in honouring the innocent people who fell victim to this crime.On his Facebook page, Zohar wrote: "Jewish students have a long proud history of perusing on the forefronts of social justice. Today is another important milestone in our activism history." "WUJS will now be formally calling on governments of Israel, Australia and others to join a growing list of 28 countries around the world to formally recognise the sufferings and injustice of the Armenians and other minorities at the hand of the then Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey)."http://www.aina.org/news/20180103115121.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted January 9, 2018 Report Share Posted January 9, 2018 Public Radio of ArmeniaJan 8 2018 Israeli Foreign Ministry asked to disclose Armenian Genocide-related documentation13:54, 08 Jan 2018 Advocate Eitay Mack and genocide scholar Professor Yair Auron have asked the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to expose to the public any documentation of agreements, understandings, commitments vis-a-vis Azerbaijan and Turkey as to the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide.In a request sent to Mr. Aryeh Zini, the official in charge of implementing the Freedom of Information Law at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two also ask to uncover any correspondence with Turkish or Azeri representatives on the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide, any documentation of meetings or communications between representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Turkish or Azeri representatives on the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide, decisions and position papers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide, in view of Turkey and Azerbaijan’s objection.Eitay Mack and Yair Auron note that “it seems that the official Israeli denial of the Armenian genocide is tied to its diplomatic and military relations with Turkey, and in recent years to the relations with Azerbaijan.”“So far the contracts between Azeri and Israeli companies with respect to purchasing of defense equipment is close to 5 billion dollars. More precisely – $4,850,000,000. The biggest part of these contracts have already been executed and still we are continuing to work on that and we are very satisfied with the level of this cooperation,” they add.The request reminds that “on 2011, at the time of a hearing at the Knesset’s Education Committee, on the Armenian genocide, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Danny Ayalon, former Chairman of the Knesset Education Committee, MK Alex Miller, as well as additional MK’s from ‘Israel Beitenu’ party clarified unequivocally to the Azeri media that the State of Israel would not recognize the Armenian genocide so as not to harm relations with Azerbaijan.”In an interview on 24.5.2011, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said: “There is not a chance that the Knesset will recognize the Armenian genocide…We cannot afford to tarnish our relations with Azerbaijan, our key strategic ally in the Islamic world, over controversial historical issues concerning century-long events.”And MK Alex Miller said: “We are not going to determine whether or not genocide occurred. It would be naive to presume that the commission on education, culture and sports would be an entity within which we will not only address issues dating back almost a hundred years but also our strategic relations with Israel’s key ally in the Islamic world.”Eitay Mack and Yair Auron, thus, request that the Ministry disclose the following information:Any documentation of agreements, understandings, commitments vis-a-vis Azerbaijan and Turkey as to the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide. Any correspondence with Turkish or Azeri representatives on the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide. Any documentation of meetings or communications between representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Turkish or Azeri representatives on the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide. Decisions and position papers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to the question of recognizing the Armenian genocide, in view of Turkey and Azerbaijan’s objection.https://www.armradio.am/en/2018/01/08/israeli-foreign-ministry-asked-to-disclose-armenian-genocide-related-documentation/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 AS expected!!!!!!! Only holocaust matters. The Armenian WeeklyFeb 14 2018 Israeli Knesset Rejects Bill Recognizing the Armenian Genocide By Weekly Staff on February 14, 2018 JERUSALEM (A.W.)—The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) rejected a bill on Wednesday, which would have recognized the Armenian Genocide. Sponsored by Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid, the bill was rejected in a preliminary vote. An Israeli flag on the Lebanese border (Photo: Gaetano Virgallito) “There is no reason that the Knesset, which represents a nation that went through the Holocaust, shouldn’t recognize the Armenian Genocide and have a remembrance day for it,” Lapid was quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying. “The Israeli leadership diminishes itself by so transparently treating genocide remembrance as a commodity to be bartered with [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan,” said Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian, regarding the vote. Armenian Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian met with Kneset Speaker Yuli Edelstein last November, during Nalbandian’s official visit to Israel. At the meeting, the two exchanged views on a number of urgent regional issues, including the importance of the Israeli Parliament’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide. During the talks, Edelstein had noted that his point of view about the importance of recognition is “well-known” and that he has expressed it many times publically. In July 2015, during a committee meeting, Edelstein had said the Knesset “must do the moral thing” and recognize the Armenian Genocide. “I visited one of the Armenian memorial sites and it is very hard to ignore what I saw there,” Edelstein had recounted at the time, according to the Jerusalem Post. “I expect that I and the Knesset behave appropriately so that we can make decisions according to the moral standards of a democratic state.” https://armenianweekly.com/2018/02/14/israeli-knesset-rejects-bill-recognizing-armenian-genocide/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Yervant1 Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) One word hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!The Independent, UKFeb 15 2018 In the cases of two separate holocausts, Israel and Poland find it difficult to acknowledge the facts of history While Poland has decided to outlaw any claims that their countrymen participated in the extermination of the Jews, Israel continues to ignore the Armenian genocide by Robert Fisk The Israelis have been mighty pissed off with the Polish government these past few days. I don’t blame them. In fact – and I’m not referring to the racist, extremist military occupation government of Benjamin Netanyahu – the Israeli people and Jews around the world are quite right to be enraged at Poland’s latest Holocaust denialism. The Polish decision to criminalise any accusation of Polish complicity in the Holocaust, passing a law which effectively prevents any Pole from acknowledging that Poles themselves assisted in the genocide of six million European Jews, is iniquitous. Its purpose is not to elicit the truth, but to bury it. It certainly constitutes part of the denialism of the Jewish Holocaust. But – to give a taster to what this column is also about – I will say one word: Armenia. And reveal henceforth one of the most remarkable coincidences in recent publishing history. It involves century-old telegrams – hitherto regarded as forgeries, but in fact real – ordering the mass extermination of more than one million Christians, a truly courageous Turkish historian, and a total denial of the Armenian Holocaust by the one nation which should acknowledge its existence. But first, Poland. As in most German-occupied European nations, morality – or immorality – was coloured grey. Think Vichy, and the French “maquis”. Think Italian fascism, and the Italian communist resistance. In 2015, Ukraine passed laws that forced its citizens to honour nationalists who briefly collaborated with the Nazis and participated in the mass killing of Jews. No uproar from the West, of course, since we currently support brave little Ukraine against the Russian beast that has gobbled up Crimean Sevastopol. But now to the incredible timing of the Polish legislation. For even as this disreputable law was actually passing through the parliament in Warsaw a few days ago, that most brave of Turkish historians, Taner Akcam, was publishing a short but revelatory book (Killing Orders, published by Palgrave Macmillan) which proves, finally and conclusively, that the extermination orders of Talat *****, a leader of the Young Turks and one of the Three *****s who ruled the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, to destroy the entire Armenian Christian population in 1915 were real. Not forgeries as Turkey’s apologists and denial historians would have the world believe. Not concocted by Armenian counterfeiters, or fiction created by a non-existent Ottoman official, as these wretched people would have us think. But as copper-bottomed and terrible as the Nazi documents which prove Germany’s responsibility for the Jewish Holocaust – and the evidence that proves Poles sometimes joined in the slaughter. The facts of the Armenian Holocaust – for “Shoah” (holocaust) is the very word that many honourable Israelis use for the Armenian genocide – are well known but need, however briefly, to be repeated. In 1915 and in the immediate years that followed, the Ottoman Turks deliberately set out to liquidate a million and a half of their Armenian Christian citizens, sending them into the desert on death marches, butchering the men, raping the women, spitting the children on bayonets or starving them to death with their mothers and other family members in what is now northern Syria. The Kurds, sorry to say, assisted in this barbarity. Taner Akcam has written extensively and with immense authority on this appalling period of Turkish history – which the Turkish government, to this day, shamefully denies – and has as a result been abused by hundreds of right-wing Turkish extremists who have even tried to place him on an American “terrorist” list (he teaches at Clark University in the US). Akcam’s new book contains a dark and haunting – almost frightening – geography, for most of the 1915 massacres he writes about took place in or near towns which carry their own fearful message of slaughter and horror to us today: Mosul, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zour and, yes, Aleppo. It was in the Baron Hotel in Aleppo – still standing today, the descendants of the then owner Mazlouiyan still (just) occupying its lobby – that a set of original telegrams from Talat *****, along with other liquidation messages memorised by an Ottoman official, Naim Bey, were handed over to an Armenian Holocaust survivor called Aram Andonian. He paid cash for the documents. We don’t know how much. Until now, Turkish historians and their supporters in the West have regarded these vital papers as false. They claimed that Naim Bey did not exist, that Andonian was a forger, that the cypher in which Talat’s telegrams were written did not match the Ottoman cypher system of the time. They ignored the mass of evidence presented to the existing but quickly suppressed post-war trials in Istanbul, archives which subsequently went missing. And they held up telegrams – real enough but deliberately misleading – that “proved” Talat had the best interests of the Armenians at heart when he deported them. Akcam’s unravelling of the truth is both a detective story and a volume of sudden, inconceivable horror. He proves the cypher numbers were real, that Naim Bey did indeed exist; an Ottoman document on a corruption investigation – in which Turkish officials accepted bribes from Armenians in return for their lives – identifies him as “Naim Effendi, the son of Huseyin Nuri, 26 years of age, from Silifke, former dispatch official for Meskene, currently the official in charge of Municipal Grain Storage Depots”. And more powerfully than any previous historian, Akcam proves – along with papers from the archive of a dead Armenian priest – that the Ottoman authorities were sending two sets of telegrams about the Armenians. One set expressed the government’s insistence that food and tents should be provided for Armenian deportees and that their confiscated property should be recompensed. The other set insisted upon their secret liquidation, preferably away from the cameras of prying US diplomats (America was neutral until 1917) and German officers allied to the Turkish army. READ MORE Polish Senate approves new Holocaust speech restrictionsIsrael accuses Poland of trying to deny the HolocaustPoland moves to make phrase ‘Polish death camps’ a criminal offence The Nazis told their Jewish victims that they were going to be “resettled” in the east rather than gassed. They also tried to cover the traces of the gas chambers of Treblinka before the Red Army arrived. But the “double” instructions sent by Talat ***** and his 1915 genociders demonstrate that the pretence of humanitarian resettlement was conceived even before the organised genocide began. Some of the young German officers who witnessed the killings of 1915 turned up 26 years later in the Soviet Union, overseeing the slaughter of Jews. And here is one very short account (courtesy of the Turkish historian Akcam) of an Armenian witness to his people’s destruction, which could – if the identities and locations were changed to the Ukraine or Belarus – have been written during the Second World War: “In order to eliminate the last remaining Armenian deportees...between Aleppo and Deyr-i Zor [sic] who had managed to survive...Hakki Bey...evicted all the deportees along the Euphrates, starting from Aleppo... Close to 300 young men and boys...surviving in the camp Hamam were sent to the South in a special convoy... Solid reports about them arrived that they had been killed in Rakka [sic]... Elsewhere, we learned in no uncertain terms that in the area around Samiye, 300 children were thrown into a cave opening, gas was poured in and they were burned alive.” So here’s the real hypocrisy of this story. The Israeli government, so outraged by Poland’s Jewish Holocaust denialism, refuses to recognise the Armenian Holocaust. Shimon Peres himself said that “we reject attempts to create a similarity between the [Jewish] Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. What the Armenians went through is a tragedy, but not genocide.” The Americans, I should add – Trump included, of course – have been equally pathetic in their failure to acknowledge the Armenian truth. But oddly, not Poland. For 13 years ago, the Polish parliament passed a bill which specifically referred to the “Armenian genocide”. The speaker of the Polish parliament, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, said at the time that the Armenian genocide did indeed take place, that responsibility fell on the Turks, and that Turkish documents – though not yet those which Akcam has just revealed – “confirm” this. So there you have it. Poland punishes anyone who speaks of Polish participation in the Jewish Holocaust, but accepts the Armenian Holocaust. Israel insists that all must acknowledge the Jewish Holocaust – and Poland’s peripheral guilt – but will not acknowledge the Armenian Holocaust. Mercifully, Israeli scholars like Israel Charny do so. And mercifully, Turks like Taner Akcam agree. But how many times must the dead die all over again for nations to accept the facts of history? http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/holocaust-israel-poland-history-difficult-acknowledge-netanyahu-jewish-polish-government-a8212071.html Edited February 17, 2018 by Yervant1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted February 26, 2018 Report Share Posted February 26, 2018 For Israel Armenian Genocide, is a "political connection" but Holocaust it's the right thing to do. Hypocrites!Jerusalem PostFeb 25 2018 Wallenberg Foundation decries Israel not recognizing Armenian Genocide The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation expressed “deep disappointment” in the Knesset’s rejection of a bill to recognize the Armenian Genocide earlier this month.Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said that while Israel had sent a parliamentary delegation to the 100th anniversary event in Yerevan, it will not take an official stance on the matter, “in light of its complexity and diplomatic repercussions, and because it has a clear political connection.” The Raoul Wallenberg Foundation sent a letter on Thursday to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, copying in Hotovely and Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid who sponsored the bill.Edelstein called on the government in 2015 to change its stance, and in 2016 the Knesset Education Committee recognized the genocide.However, any motion for official state recognition of the genocide has failed to go through.“Regrettably, this voting down has been repeating itself, time and again, for the last few years, as a constant ritual,” read the letter, signed by foundation chairman Eduardo Eurnekian and founder Baruch Tenembaum.“With all due respect, we are not able to understand, let alone justify this stance,” they said. “Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, who suffered an indescribable plight during the Shoah [Holocaust]. Twenty-five-years earlier, the Armenian people endured another unspeakable tragedy, which, in light of the world’s silence, many believe has encouraged the Nazis to perpetrate their atrocities against the Jews during World War II.”The foundation believes that of all the nations in the world, the Jewish state should have “the intellectual honesty and the spiritual generosity to recognizing the horrific tragedy of the Armenian people. Alas, the Israeli government and its Knesset have lost this opportunity time and again. There is no political reality that could provide a reasonable excuse for that.”Eurnekian and Tenembaum observed a “deep connection” between Jews and Armenians. The NGO, which works to recognize Righteous among the Nations, notes that 24 Armenians have officially received that title so far, which is a large number in relation to the size of the population.“Mr. Edelstein, we know your personal support for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, as is the case of your predecessor, President Reuven Rivlin,” the letter concluded. “We feel that the Knesset would be praised around the world for taking a bold ethical stance, regardless of any short-term political considerations. We regret that this has not happened yet.”Lahav Harkov contributed to this report. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Wallenberg-Foundation-decries-Israel-not-recognizing-Armenian-Genocide-543580 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 Lowell Sun (Massachusetts) March 1, 2018 Thursday Israel can't have it both ways LETTER TO THE EDITOR In reading The Sun's article on the Polish prime minister being blasted on his comment by Israel, that Poland collaborated with Nazi Germany in that Holocaust of the Jewish people during WW II, I believe the Polish government was forced bythe Nazi Germans and had no choice. To prevent genocide and Holocaust in the future, why has Israel put aside the recognition of the first Holocaust of the Armenian nation in 1915 by the Young Turk regime during WWI? Each year Israel brings forth the Armenian Genocide issue in the Knesset, but gets turned away with no acceptable answers. While Israel condemns the Polish PM's remarks as anti-semitic, then the Armenian nation should condemn Israel for being anti-Armenian and anti-Christian until she comes forward to recognize the well-documented tragedy of the Armenian Genocide. Stephen T. Dulgarian Chelmsford http://www.lowellsun.com/opinion/ci_31703367/israel-cant-have-it-both-ways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted March 10, 2018 Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 It would be nice if they sent copies of those testimonies to the Israeli government, maybe it will refresh their memories and help them to stop the denial!MyNewsLA.com, CAMarch 9 2018 USC Shoah Foundation adds largest collection of Armenian genocide testimonies to archivePosted by Debbie L. Sklar on March 9, 2018 The USC Shoah Foundation Friday will formally announce the receipt of one of the largest collections of testimonies from survivors of the Armenian Genocide.The testimonies were recorded over several decades beginning in the 1970s by Richard Hovannisian, a leading scholar on the genocide and the son of a genocide survivor. The collection includes more than 1,000 interviews, making it the largest non-Holocaust-related collection added to the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. It is also the archive’s only audio-only collection.Foundation officials will officially announce the acquisition during an afternoon ceremony at USC. Ten of the testimonials — seven in English and three in Armenian — will be made available to the public Friday, with others added over time as they are digitized and indexed.The collection also includes documents and photographs relating to each interview, along with transcripts and translations. Many of the testimonies were recorded in Armenian, but about 20 percent are in English and some are in Turkish and Spanish.An estimated 1.5 million Armenians died in the World War I-era genocide, which has been the subject of fierce political debate for decades.“The figure `a million and a half’ can roll right over our shoulders,” Hovannisian said. “But it’s different when you take those individual interviews and start listening to them one by one. And then it becomes a million-and-a-half individuals and the loss of a civilization, of a way of life, a space where people lived for more than 3,000 years, and everything that space contained.”The Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education includes 55,000 testimonies from eyewitnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides. —City News Servicehttps://mynewsla.com/life/2018/03/09/usc-shoah-foundation-adds-largest-collection-of-armenian-genocide-testimonies-to-archive/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yervant1 Posted April 3, 2018 Report Share Posted April 3, 2018 Every time ErDOGan opens his filthy mouth against Israel, someone comes out of amnesia and blurts the Armenian Genocide recognition enough already, either recognize it or shut up. Public Radio of ArmeniaApril 2 2018 Israeli Minister calls for recognition of Armenian Genocide16:09, 02 Apr 2018 http://www.armradio.am/en/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gilad-Erdan-620x300.jpgPublic Security Minister Gilad Erdan has slammed Turkish President Erdogan, calling him “an antisemite,” and has urged to recognize the Armenian Genocide, the Jerusalem Postreported.Speaking on Army Radio, Erdan said that “it’s possible Israel should have acted against Turkey in the international arena and recognized the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire.”Erdan further said that he believes Israel should ”present the values held by the Turks around the world, including recognition of the slaughter of the Armenians. We must stand up to the hostility and antisemitism of Erdogan. A strange thing is taking place here when a country like Turkey, which butchers the Kurds [and] occupies north Cyprus is accepted in the West as a legitimate state.”Erdan’s comments follow a verbal exchange of fire Sunday, when Erdogan called Israel a “terrorist state and occupier,” and Netanyahu a “terrorist.” http://www.armradio.am/en/2018/04/02/israeli-minister-calls-for-recognition-of-armenian-genocide/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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