Professors Call on Israel to Recognize Armenian Genocide


WASHINGTON (TheYeshivaWorld.com)–As Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues playing the world’s champion of human rights, four professors from Bar Ilan and Georgetown Universities have sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seeking official Israeli recognition of the Armenian genocide and an official call to Turkey to bring an end to its occupation of Cyprus.

Signing the letter are Professors Yossi Katz, David Tzuriel, and Yaakov Katz, all from Bar Ilan and Dr. Ofir Yisraeli from Georgetown.

In the letter, they decry Turkey’s “hypocrisy”, pointing out that despite the many agreements signed between Israel and Turkey, the latter is rapidly become an adversary of Israel.

The academics feel that over the years, Israel has refrained from addressing the Armenian Genocide during World War I and immediately thereafter, opting to place strategic ties with Turkey over doing the correct thing. But now, they say, Israel can indeed adopt a morally commendable position towards compelling Turkey to accept responsibility for its actions.

They are also calling on Turkey to make painful concessions regarding its ongoing occupation of Armenian and Kurdish lands, including autonomy for the Kurds located in southeastern Turkey.

The professors urged the prime minister to adopt their position, implementing the new rules of play as Turkey has done. They point out that such a step is critical towards revealing Turkey’s hypocrisy to the world following the Gaza flotilla incident and Turkey’s self-portrayal as a champion of peace and justice.

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  1. Grish Begian says:

    Galat you are out of subject and you are just brain washed like rest of you.. go to Islambull and visit your beloved hero’s bathhouse Ata Turk for a good massage… Iranians never kill Christians and there is nothing wrong with them…don’t mix bloody Turks with civilized and cultural people like Persians…and remember Persians and Armenians are belong to the same family group and they have a history of civilization.. they have been forced by Arabs to change their religion and they know that ….and of course you have to look into Ottoman and Persian wars in the past…Persians always believe that Turks made of “donkeys” and still it is a puzzle to me, why Persians call Turks “donkeys” do you have an answer for that??

  2. Gelat says:

    as far as i know that Iranians support us on any subject.but as far as i know that armenains are called “sheeps” in Russia and “Cavemen” in LA….
    i respect Armenia and Armenian nation,thats why i am here.but truth to truth right?
    Is Armenians civilized nation?I didnt know that,i knew that Armenians always lived under several empires and never had their own state(so called armenian kingdom)..so did you check my link?

    • johny mason says:

      You are some thing my new friend, so can I ask what country your form ?I hope it’s a country older then Armenia because if your not you must be suffering from a something. Armenians are the first Christians in the world, there wars have fight wan and lost butt every one recognized Armenians every where in world as hard working people and people you do not want to fuk with.

  3. Grish Begian says:

    Galat, this is exactly what you wrote in this forum compare what you wrote on top….you be the judge and…
    don’t respond “you are what your friends are” you carry the same deadly viruses left over from Mongolian Turks..

    Gelat says:
    June 11, 2010 at 12:17 pm
    Itan has to be punished,their products should be banned.

    Now I know why Persians call Turks “donkeys”…….

  4. Gelat says:

    Begian ,personally i hate Iran and persian nation regardles their religion,but it doesnt mean Iran nation hates Turks all right?

    Who is a liar? You get carried away with making things up. You are here accusing Turks with something they didn’t do, with hopes of monetary outcome. Armenians are the ones planning to file insurance claims, and ask for monetary and land from Turkey. Turks are here only to defend themselves against your lies and false propaganda.

    Your great grandfathers were far from being innocent. They betrayed the nation they lived in peacefully for centuries, they backstabbed Turks by siding with Russians during WWI when Turks were at their weakest state fighting at many different fronts with multiple nations, when their resources were fully deployed. They thought that they can win, they miscalculated and suffered the consequences of breaking peace. They lost the war, losing sides of wars are not genocide victims. You cost a lot of Turks their lives as well along with yourselves, you deserved it as starters of it all, but Turks didn’t. You need to apologize, get a lesson from history, and work towards positive. You are still moving with greed and acting hostile, you will not benefit from it this time either. Change your attitudes

  5. Grish Begian says:

    You are brainwashed “Turcochick”, who can use HATE words like your Mongolian masters…those killed one were human and they were not in politics they were living in their ancestral land for 3000 years like Persians..
    I wonder why you hate Persians and other neighbor of yours…so Persians were right to call Turks “donkeys”..I bet Persians don’t hate Turks…they just call them “donkeys”.. well Europeans learn from Persians and they are calling Turks Mongolian donkeys….

  6. Gelat says:

    Begian
    I though the only retarded person here is Edward,but i guess he has friend like you…,are you better race than mongolians?xaxaxa,at least they had Great Mongol Empire all the way to Germany,and they are enjoying for having Cengiz Khan in their history,but Armenians?You were nothing but just ethnic minorities during ruling empires…when you have diffuculties to answer my questions,you jump another topinc and accusing Turks like “mongols”,brainwashed”,”murderers” etc..Is this the level you will drag this argument down to? Can you Armenians do anything constructive? Can you argue in a civilized way? It seems to me that you are only good at coming up with lies, accusations, threatening others to accept your version of everything, burning flags. Those are middle eastern tactics which are bound to fail in the western world

  7. Grish Begian says:

    Now that you want me talk in a civilized way, my dear Gelat….read this message below……

    “OTTOMAN TURKS COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST THEIR CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS”
    1915-1923

  8. Gelat says:

    Thats good,pretty simple but not accurate
    This is the right way:Ottoman Armenians got slapped on their both face when they tried to unify with Russians to break the regions of the empire.

  9. Grish Begian says:

    Dear Gelat…

    see this beautiful clip about historical truth..

    The Last Days of Europe

  10. Gelat says:

    Begian
    I watched your video,its just dream product,but you wanna see something real?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4mRNpi5ZkM

  11. Mr Gelat,
    Forget Armenian, French or Brithish sources. Read what the Germans and Autrians, your allies, said about the genocide.
    Read my book about the Turkish Media (Alemdar, Vakit, Tejuman, Yeni Gune, Seoz, and 102 Turkish newspapers) who admitted the occurence of the Armenian said.
    My book is on Google, search: Kezfez

  12. Ara says:

    http://www.muhammadtube.com/videos/427/turkey,muslim-converts-to-christianity-face-upto-3-year-jail

    Poor Gelat,
    You don’t have freedom of religion in Turkey- See above link. You guys are so brainwashed from your government that you cannot tell the truth even if you wanted. Nobody in Turkey used to talk about what happened to their peaceful Armenian neighbours. At the Universuty here in the USA I had a Turkish classmate who thought like you exactly. But after I told him the story he researched and found out the truth. Besides the historical archives all over the world we know about the Genocide from our own parents who told us what happened to them – what how the Turks tried to exterminate our people.

  13. Edward says:

    Gelatin Gelat,Gel Burda, retarded Edward asks you for the umpteenth time:tell the bloody armenian dashnaks the meaning of your sweet name &the etymology of the idioms `talking Turkey` – that`s what you`re doing and `cold Turkey`-that`s the state you`re in.And please gelataturk ,stop the self-abuse for a second &try to learn the english language & grammar before you make a turk,excuse me, afool of yourself with your illiterate half- witted gibberish.You`re not talking to brainless morons like you &yer gray-wolf scum. We all know how you were sexually abused by all the goats in yer herd, but that doesnt justify yer puking on web-sites.You will die drowned in your own womit and all the camels &goats in yer MIT herd will be very sad for you as they wont ever find another gelanaturk like you. Abdi Ipekci

  14. Grish Begian says:

    Dear Edward,
    Just don’t bother with this 21 years old Turkochic…she is send by her AK Party “Oglus’ in order to hack her eggs in Los Angles ….may Allah give her will power to overcome with her disabilities……….

  15. johny mason says:

    Armenians are good people, have strong politics, sport men, musicians, don’t get me wrong modern Turkey has nothing to do what the grandfathers did to the Armenians, Asoris , Greeks and etc, but this is for shore Israel cantrols American land

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