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If the Holocaust exists and must exist in our consciousness, what has the ihudim (jews) done to prevent or at least recognize the American Genocide at the hands of the Ottomans?
For the Ihudim of the Holocaust: http://www.ushmm.org/
For the Americans of the American Genocide:?
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Methinks you mean the ARMENIAN Genocide, not American,
Man, I wasn’t even aware the Ottomans harmed my country. Good thing we gave pieces of their empire to the Jewish folks. /sarcasm
You’ll find that many Jews, myself for one, lobbied for the United States, despite the diplomatic ripples it might cause, to officially recognize that tragedy as a genuine attempt at genocide. I work in Glendale, CA. Which has a huge ex-pat Armenian community. Some of the finest people I’ve had the pleasure to work with.
Not that I hold modern Turks responsible for it, anymore than I hold animosity for modern Germans, or, as an American, think I should be held responsible for the near obliteration of Native American Cultures. Still, history must recognized, or else we are doomed (as we seem to be) to repeat it.
The American genocide was a result of the colonists, not the Ottomans.
I wouldn’t call it a genocide, either. There was no ethnic-cleansing policy. Just really brutal in some instances.
Oh, you’re being funny again, like your last question.
The world didn’t know of the Armenian genocide until after it happened. Similar to how the world didn’t know of the holocaust until the Allies took Germany.
American? Don’t you mean Armenian? Two completely different groups there buddy.
President Obama wrote:
“I look forward to strengthening relations between the U.S. and Turkey and support Ataturk’s vision of Turkey as a modern and prosperous democracy,” Obama wrote in the guestbook at the godlike Atatürk’s tomb. Obama praised Atatürk’s “vision and courage”.
Adolph Hitler also greatly admired Atatürk’s dictatorship and the successful Turkish slaughter of the Armenians. As he said, “Wer redet heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier?” (”Who today remembers the destruction of the Armenians?”)
About 1,200,000 Armenians were murdered. Another 80,000 Syrians, mostly Christian were murdered in those same years.