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Harut Sassounian
California Courier Editor
Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
It is highly doubtful that the Israeli government will comply.
They will argue national security reasons.
The sale of arms to Turkey and Azerbaijan cannot be the only reason that Israel is against the Genocide recognition. There must be other reasons and considerations.
Vart Adjemian
Well, as a result of Israel’s sale of at least five billion dollars worth of highly sophisticated military weapons to Azerbaijan, this therefore makes Israel an accessory to Azerbaijan’s continuous campaign of terrorism directed against Armenia and Artsakh (in which so many Armenian soldiers are being killed by Israeli military weapons).
It actually doesn’t surprise me that the Zionist state of Israel has recently become a supporter of Azerbaijan’s hilarious “Khojaly genocide” claim. By supporting this horribly silly claim, Israel is therefore attempting to minimize the significance of the Armenian Genocide (the first modern genocide in world history); but then again, attempting to minimize the Armenian Genocide, is something which Israel has been aggressively doing since its illegal creation in 1948.
As for the cultural genocide which Israel has been conducting (over the past seventy years) against the Palestinian population of Palestine (present-day Israel), not only does it not see anything wrong with this, but it’s actually deeply proud of all this.
This is a great step in the right direction regardless of the outcome. I’m happy to hear about it.
Non recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Israel for trade reasons with Turkey and Azerbaijan who are accused of the Armenian Genocide, is no surprise as Leiberman whose name was involved in relation with Azerbaijan, is one of the bloodiest Israeli leaders who not only killed and prosecuted Palestinian women and children, but also he is the leader of expansion of settlements in the occupied Arab lands, after the diplomatic failure of Trump and Israel in the last UN General Assembly.
I hope his request includes an enquiry into the ethnic background of the high-level members of the Young Turks, to start with.
Kudos to Prof.Auron, a rare, longtime voice for justice in the illegitimate, apartheid, hypocritical state of Israel. Armenian Genocide deniers can deny all they want to, but they can’t escape the empirical fact that the Ottoman Turks committed the first major genocide of the 20th century against the Armenians. The Jewish people do not have a monopoly on genocide. Prof. Akcam’s recent discovery of the “smoking gun” Ottoman documents should be the final nail in the coffin of AG deniers. But, as we all know, the AG deniers are heavily influenced by selfish considerations of Realpolitik (mainly involving billions and billions of dollars in arms sales or, in Turkey’s case, potentially bankrupting reparations payments to Armenians) and have no interest in justice for Armenians. If Armenians were as numerous as Jews throughout the world, no one would dare deny the AG. In many countries, denial of the Jewish Holocaust is illegal, and I have no problem with this; however, the same should be true for denial of the AG. Unfortunately, being a senior citizen, I don’t expect to live long enough to see this happen.