Armenian holocaust not recognised by Bush

President George W Bush has urged US legislators not to pass a resolution declaring the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire to be genocide.  “This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings,” he said hours before a vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Such a move, already taken by [...]

The forgotten Holocaust – Part II

Few days ago the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) national director Abraham Foxman has issued a dramatic reversal of his position of the Armenian genocide in a statement describing the massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians as “tantamount to genocide.” Dramatic change it is, when consider the position of prominent Jewish activists, the state [...]

The forgotten Holocaust – Part I

I was born and raised less than an hour drive from Auschwitz; I have visited this “anus mundi” more than dozen of times. I can’t wait for my children to reach the age when they are allowed to entered this place of human shame. It must never be forgotten, never placed in the back of [...]