The Jerusalem Post says that the Turks didn’t ask Israel for help to block the Armenian genocide resolution in the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee– as they did on a similar measure in 2007:
In years past Ankara had looked to Israel, and Jewish groups in Washington, to fight the resolution that came up almost every year. The passage of the resolution in the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has triggered a crisis in Turkish-US ties…
[In 2007] Turkey’s ambassador to Israel, Namik Tan, who is now Ankara’s envoy to the US, told The Jerusalem Post that Turkey expected Israel to "deliver" American Jewish organizations and ensure that the US Congress does not pass a resolution.
Funny: in 2007 the House tabled the Armenian genocide resolution. So Turkey evidently assumed that Israel controlled the Jewish lobby in Congress, and could stop the vote. As often as we write about this, it is still amazing to see Israeli sources so openly admit it (even though we are talking about a three year time lag, which assures the US media won’t pick up.)
"Both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton lobbied against the genocide resolution, but only at the last minute. Both supported it as candidates. Turkey may also have lost support from the powerful US Israeli lobby because of PM Erdogan’s verbal attacks on Israel."
JPost is right. Israel Lobby especially Abe Foxman did play a significant part in the defeat of the resolution in 2007. However, now Ankara considers Israel as stumbling block to its independent foreign policy. Personally, I think it would wake-up many Turks who still believe that their future is with the West instead of the East. They are learning the truth from their recent experience through two Zionist plans to topple the elected AKP government and Israel’s training of the Kurd rebels in Iraq and failure to be admitted into EU.
link to rehmat1.wordpress.com
Actually, according to JPost, Foxman and the ADL supported the resolution and the Turks feared it could therefore get traction.
“In 2007, Anti-Defamation League national director Abe Foxman incurred Turkish wrath when he issued a statement saying that the Turkish actions toward the Armenians from 1915-1918 were ‘tantamount to genocide.’
At the time, Tan said “Israel should not let the [US] Jewish community change its position. This is our expectation and this is highly important, highly important.” Turkey’s concern then was that the ADL decision would open the dikes and enable the passage in Congress of the resolution.”
And from Leonard Fein in the The Forward, August 2007:
Then Fein asks:
Guess that’s all changed. Read Fein’s article here: link to forward.com
What you really have with this is the confession that Israel and the US operate with absolute impunity for any of their activities. They believe they can both still keep their course – US waging war where is pleases with no external recourse, and Israel continuing its slow genocide on the Palestinians. So the naming of the genocide in Turkey no longer is a threat to them – Israel nor Zionism in general does not think doing this will dim their Holocaust hegemony nor that they world will call them to account (they will make movie 100,456,000 movie on the Holocaust), and the US has circumvented every law which calls it to account.
There is a phrase for this, it was coined by Eduardo Galleano – “Impunity is the daughter of oblivion.”
Oops, the lobby let the cat slipped out of the bag here, because Erdogan has shown anger toward of Israel. This all started in Davos, (Switz) with Perez and his inane drivel, which caused Erdogan to leave the forum. Perez was such a putz up there and the crowd knew it. This will be interesting story to follow.
If Israel screws this relationship up, they are on the road to destruction. This relationship of having enemies all around you has never created a lasting nation in the history of the world, but please correct me if I’m wrong.
By all accounts, the US stands to lose from Israel souring the relationship between Turkey and the US. In addition, Israel will be further isolated now that Turkey may be close to joining the EU.
Thank the foreign affairs chairman, Howard Berman (a la aipac). They’re glad to be of service to the nation. -But this is something that should have happened a long time ago. Armenians are red hot about this. But, where’s Barack to smooth this one over? I need the sweet words of Barry to sooth my foreign worries…Does this mean if it passes, There will be another Holocaust in the world? I can’t believe it will pass. This seem like a warning shot to the Turks.
Barack gonna block the resolution – if he can.
Compounded by Danny Ayalon insulting Erdogan in Israel before Erdogan’s “verbal attacks on Israel.”
The Netayahu gov’t is a real wonder, aint it?
Morgenthau updated the USA govenment almost daily, the NYT and other big newspapers carried frontpage headlines such as “Thousands of Armenians Killed!”
The Armenian genocide lasted all through WW1 and into 1923. Most of the human damage was done in the years up to 1917, the year Wilson went to war for his moral
cause. Ironic, no?
Our newspapers carry no similar front page banner headlines, say during Israel’s war on Lebanon, or during the Gaza Turkey Shoot; Shrub too told the American people we were going to war for a moral cause (especially a bit later, after no WMD were found).
Wilson did try to help the Armenians a bit during the war, and even more so, after it:
link to armenian-genocide.org
I think a good argument can be made that the core reason Wilson went to war was
that American bankers and military suppliers had greatly extended themselves in behalf
the Brits and its allies, and they wanted to be sure they’d eventually get paid. Before the USA entered the fray it sure looked to them like they had made a bad investment.