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1. Here is what Historic Western Armenia looks like today:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FW8dc1HzXg

2. Wow Rupen this is excellent news! Historic!

3. It seems to me that since Andrew Tarsy said in the Boston Globe that he was not satisfied with the ADL statement, neither should Armenians be satisfied.
   We should believe that the ADL will support the genocide resolution after all these years just because it says it will?
   How, with a simple statement that is not backed up by action?

4. This is wonderful news even though it took so long…but slow and steady wins the race. Is there any explanation as to why Mr. Foxman and the ADL “…notoriously lobbied against passage of a Congressional resolution affirming the Armenian Genocide.”? What possible reason could they have for supporting the Turkish point of view???

   • {“What possible reason could they have for supporting the Turkish point of view???”}

     Ms. Fletcher, are you serious?

   • The government of Israel has long depended on the support of Turkey in its regional policy. For Foxman and his ilk, towing the Israeli government line is more important than truth and justice.

5. A step in the right direction.
   But alas, too late and the damage has been done.
   It is not clear yet whether this is merely the opinion of the ADL CEO, or a fundamental change in the policy and stance of the ADL itself.
   Time and future action of the ADL will tell.
   Vart Adjemian

6. This is BS.
   No Armenian-Americans should thank ADL, nor react positively to this disgusting display of hypocrisy and double dealing by this treacherous organization.

   The damage that ADL and repellent anti-Armenian Abe Foxman have done to our AG Recognition Cause is permanent: there is no way to recover those lost years, nor repair the damage of decades of ADL proactively denying the AG on behalf of Turks.
   Again: they not only did not recognize the AG – which is their right – but actively participated in the worldwide AG denial campaign. We can never forget nor forgive that. Their pro-Genocide* actions have contributed to the endangerment of existence of Armenians in RoA and NKR.

   Now that Jewish-American diaspora and Israel are at odds with neo-Nazi IslamoFascist Erdogan Sultanate, the ADL has decided to use Armenian-Americans for some ulterior purposes. Nothing doing.
   Let ADL keep their “recognition”: that train left the station long ago. We don’t need it.

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   * Denial of the Armenian Genocide is the continuation of it.
   Actively working for the Genocidal Turkish government in AG denial is in fact promoting another Genocide of Armenians.

   • I am torn, Avery.

     On the one hand, you are right: This is clearly hypocritical, based purely out of self-interest, and long overdue.

     On the other hand, a cold hard fact of activism is that if you make someone feel good for saying the right thing, the person will be more likely to continue saying the right thing in the future. If we say, “Thanks but no thanks” to the ADL, what incentive will it have to do anything good for Armenians in the future? After all, if it doesn’t recognize the genocide, it will have bad relations with us. Yet if it does recognize the genocide, it still will have bad relations with us because we will say, “Thanks but no thanks.” We will be giving them no reason to recognize the genocide.

     Your response may be that we shouldn’t talk in terms of incentives, ADL should be motivated to do the right thing purely based on morality. Indeed it should. But the fact of the matter is that it is not. We can take the world as it should be, or take it as it is.

   • Alex, I understand.
     You make good counterarguments.

7. I wish to point out that the ADL statement was only a blog post and lacks the necessary validity.

8. Its a start. But the Israelis, ADL and the country are tied together. Until the Country of Israel, with the ADL, recognizes the Armenian Genocide they along with the US are complicit in it as they facilitate the denial. They know the truth, there is no just excuse.

9. Good post Avery, all the Armenians here with the wool over their eyes need to get to reality, and stop this shameful, docile attitude towards those who cause permanent damage to Armenians, and all for some perceived notion of such and such having such and such “power”.

   The ADL is not a “Jewish” organization any more. It is simply a Zionist-Israeli organization, which considers everything else disposable against one iota of benefit for Israel. And these people target and harass everybody that criticizes Israel, even Jews.

   If the ADL and Zionist community want to be taken seriously, the first order of business is to beg for forgiveness for the decades of heinous behavior and the permanent damage they caused towards Armenians and their quest for mere recognition of truth. And next, recognition by Israel would have happened YESTERDAY as I write this. Instead, not only has nothing changed, but while some of us are “impressed” with the ADL, Israel just became even more extremist with the appointment of a warmonger defense minister and is still involved in supplying arms to Azerbaijan to cause even more harm to Armenians. And to top this off, joining hands with the Baku Khanate, they have constantly been pumping out anti-Armenian propaganda full of lies with their multitude of news outlets and media.

   These people consciously and deliberately CHOSE their position and thus have a permanent stain on themselves they will need to deal with to eternity. Consequently, these organizations pointing out Holocaust deniers becomes downright laughable. The case of the glass-house residents hurling rocks at people.

10. O que se passa companheiros , sua impressionante pedaço de escrita sobre
    tutoria e completamente explicou , mantê-lo o tempo todo.

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