How Vile Is Christopher Hitchens? ... Let Me Count The Ways.

By David Edenden

I can't read minds, but I doubt that Christopher Hitchens gives a damn about the Armenian Genocide, notwithstanding the article below. 

Turkey denies history—all the more reason for the rest of the world to tell the truth about the Armenian genocide. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine:

"the later erasure of all traces of Armenian life, from the destruction of their churches and libraries and institutes to the crude altering of official Turkish maps and schoolbooks to deny that there had ever been an Armenia in the first place."

 It is merely a sort of reparation payment to his Greek Cypriot wife for abandoning her in England (along with his children) while he takes up with"true love" in the US.

Inaddition to Cyprus, the Elgin Marbles, comrade Hitchens has found time to applaud the cultural genocide the Macedonia people in Greece in their struggle to maintain a semblance of their culture. Along with Greece's campaign to export that genocide to the people of the Republic of Macedonia. Here he is condemning George W. Bush for doing the right thing.

"The unmistakable Greekness of the trove is part of the reason that the Greek government is so upset at President Bush's recent decision to recognize former Yugoslav "Macedonia" under its assumed name."

Apparently it was only recently that Hichens discovered that his grandmother was Jewish, a fact that she hid from her own children. It is still not enough for him to summon one ounce sympathy for those Macedonians in Greece who hide their ethnicity from their own children. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 

Anyway ... to much time spent on this vile excuse for a human being. 

I Like the Turks

By David Edenden

Below are two photographs that tell a story of hope and forgiveness.

The one on the top was the result of the Ilinden uprising of Macedonians in 1903. Macedonians had hoped that the "Great Powers" would be moved by the bloodshed to intervene on Macedonia's behalf, the way Clinton finally did in Bosnia. Too bad , so sad ... that was not to be. The Ottoman Turks put down the revolt with vicious brutality. (Is there any other was of putting down an uprising?).

Ottoman Turk Officers with "Trophy Heads" of Macedonian Rebels

The one on the bottom shows Yane (Jane) Sandanski, one of the leaders in the uprising, having his pictures taken with "Young Turk" officers of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. Five years separate the two pictures. It demonstrates the human capacity to look to the future to shape a new world rather that dwell on the hatreds of the past ... even in the Balkans.

Dimo Hadzhi Dimov, Yane Sandanski, Todor Panitsa with Young Turks

Sandanski gave up the armed struggle and formed "The People's Federative Party" to fight for Macedonian rights in the new Ottoman Parliament. Well, you know that this is the Balkans, and people do not live happily ever after. The Young Turks moved in a nationalist direction and began repressing minorities eventually leading the the "The Armenian Massacres" or more accurately "The Armenian Genocide".

Sandanski went back to the mountains and resumed the armed struggle. He managed to survive the Young Turks and the Balkan Wars in 1912, only to be assassinated in 1915 by agents of the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand who were ... you guessed it ... ethnic Macedonians.

So it goes.

The Economist: Turkey, Armenia, Iraq and the Kurds

By David Edenden

A long and informative article from the Economist on the "Armenian Genocide" resolution in the US Congress and Turkish vote to invade Iraqi Kurdistan. Like Macedonians in Greece, Kurds in Turkey have also been subjected to "Denying Ethnicity" ( Macedonians) (Kurds). Below are a few weasel words about current Turkish policy towards its Kurdish minority. It makes you want to spit!

Turkey and America |
Unearthing the past, endangering the future |
Economist.com: Oct. 18, 2007

"If Turkey wants to fulfill its dreams of being a regional power and an inspiring example of how Islam and democracy can co-exist, it must make peace with all its citizens, including its Kurds. And it should find a way to face up to its past. It could do worse than seek inspiration from Ataturk who, as Mr Akcam noted in a recent book, once called the Armenian tragedy “a shameful act”."

Samantha Power - One More Time

Dear Samantha Power
From: David Edenden

I just read your article (below) about the the Armenian genocide resolution of the US Congress. To those who say that the killing of the Armenians by the "Young Turks" in 1915 does not rise to the level of a genocide, then they have stripped the word "genocide" of all its' meaning.

I know I am getting repetitive, but what about the plight of ethnic Macedonians in Greece. The US Congress, Barack Obama, and yourself have taken an anti-Macedonian stance that is akin to supporting cultural genocide. I am not impressed.

Greece's values regarding minority rights are EU values; are Nato values; are US values; are "Greek Issues Caucus" values; are Senator Barack Obama values; and finally are your values. I am not impressed.

To think that the US Congress, will provide some moral authority on "genocide issues" is nonsense since it responds only to political lobbying (as you correctly note), not sober solomonic like reflection. I am not impressed.

In this case, they have may determine that Armenians should get the elevator while the Turks get the shaft. In the past with regard to Kurdish rights in Turkey, the Turks get the elevator while the Kurds get the shaft. Go figure.

Samantha, honesty is the best policy, let have a little from Obama and from you!

The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy
Samantha Power, time Magazine, Oct 18, 2007

Ninety-two years ago, the "Young Turk" regime ordered the executions of Armenian civic leaders and intellectuals, and Turkish soldiers and militia forced the Armenian population to march into the desert, where more than a million died by bayonet or starvation
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But this month in Washington these historical truths — about events carried out on another continent, in another century — are igniting controversy among politicians as if the harms were unsubstantiated, local and recent. At stake, of course, is the question of whether the U.S. House of Representatives should offend Turkey by passing a resolution condemning the "Armenian genocide" of 1915.
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While it is essential to ensure that Turkey continues to "treat the Americans all right," a stable, fruitful, 21st century relationship cannot be built on a lie.

Rep. Adam Schif is Pro-Armenian, Pro-Greek but Anti-Macedonian

When all is said and done, blogging for the truth does not amount to a hill of beans when it collides with the power of a powerful lobby, in this case Armenian.

My suggestion to Turkey is to try to get a US congressman to offer an amendment "The Armenian Genocide Resolution" sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff. This amendment would equate Greece's treatment, TODAY, of its ethnic Macedonian minority as cultural genocide.

Rep. Adam Schiff is aware of Greece's policy and endorses it since he is one of 77 US Representatives who co-sponsored Resolution 521 which adopted the Greek position on the Greek - Macedonian name dispute. It demands that Macedonians change the name of their country, The Republic of Macedonia their language, Macedonian their religion, The Macedonian Orthodox Church and their history to delete the existence of ethnic Macedonians in Greece.

Rep. Adam Schif is part of the vast American conspiracy of hack politicians to destabilize the world for their short term political advantage.

The House's Ottoman AgendaWashington Post: 

So, yes: The Armenian Genocide Resolution sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff does matter, logically or not. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul spent several days in Washington last month lobbying against it, though the Turkish-American agenda is chockablock with seemingly more important issues. Friends of Turkey in Washington, from American Jewish organizations to foreign policy satraps, are working the Hill; so is the Bush team. On the other side is the well-organized and affluent Armenian American community, 1.4 million strong, and some powerful friends -- including the new House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.Here is a debate that could occur only in Washington -- a bizarre mix of frivolity and moral seriousness, of constituent pandering, far-flung history and front-line foreign policy. And that's just on the American side; in Turkey there is the painful struggle of a deeply nationalist society to come to terms with its past, and in the process become more of the Western democracy it wants to be.
Start with the pandering: Schiff, a Democrat from Los Angeles, cheerfully concedes that there are 70,000 to 80,000 ethnic Armenians in his district, for whom the slaughter of Armenians by the Young Turk regime during World War I is "anything but ancient history." Local politics also explains why a resolution that has failed numerous times in the past 20 years is suddenly looking like a juggernaut: Pelosi, of San Francisco, also has many Armenian supporters.

Should "Ethnicity Denial" of Macedonians be Made a Crime?

By David Edenden 


Can some shit-disturbing, non-conformist, pain-in-the-butt, euro-trash MP in the EU Parliament introduce a law that makes it a crime to promote "Ethnicity Denial" of Macedonians. We need more made to order laws like this one for Armenians in Switzerland.

This Swiss law about Armenians is very interesting. It is specifically designed to be ant-Turkish at a time when Turkey is trying to enter the EU. It seems to be against the law to deny the Armenian genocide, but it is OK to deny the existence of Kurds in Turkey and Macedonians in Greece. 

If you have enough lobby power and it is in the interests of certain groups, you can get a law made to order, while your country happily ignores the rights of others. Laws for the benefit of Armenians are being passed in France and in the US. 

It is funny (but not hilarious) that one of the US politicians, Rep. Adam Schiff, who advocated for the Armenians is also denying the existence of Macedonians in Greece. It is a human condition to be a hypocrite but I guess this guy's motto is "you can't be too big of a hypocrite".

My suggestion "take the log out of your own eye before complaining about the sliver in someone elses' eye".

Swiss 'genocide' trial for Turk:
BBC NEWS | Europe |


"Swiss 'genocide' trial for Turk Dogu Perincek

Dogu Perincek's case risks straining Swiss-Turkish relations
A Turkish nationalist leader has gone on trial in Switzerland for denying that the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 amounted to 'genocide'.

Dogu Perincek, 65, is accused under Swiss law of racial discrimination.

The Swiss parliament, along with more than a dozen countries, recognizes the killings as 'genocide'. Turkey firmly rejects the 'genocide' allegation."

Inhale first before reading, because it will take your breath away.

France wants Turkey to admit guilt regarding the Armenian Genocide.

I call on France to admit its guilt for associating with Turkey in Nato and with Greece in the EU for complicity in "cultural genocide" with respect to ethnic Kurds in Turkey and ethnic Macedonians in Greece.


BBC NEWS Europe Turkey 'must admit WWI genocide'


France has said it will ask Turkey to acknowledge the mass killing of Armenians from 1915 as genocide when it begins EU accession talks.