This is truly pathetic.
A prominent US Jewish advocacy group has retracted its decision to call the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a genocide, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday.
“Although independent scholars may have reached a consensus about the genocide, in an effort to help accomplish the reconciliation (between Turkey and Armenia) there is room for further dispassionate scholarly examination of the details of those dark and terrible days,” the second statement read.
Just imagine the outrage that would erupt if someone were to suggested there was room for further dispassionate scholarly examination of the details of the Holocaust. Perhaps there will also be some declaration that recognising the Armenian genocide is anti-Semitic.
Pathetic? I would call them a bunch of geniuses. Imagine changing back their position to genocide-denying while maintaining an appearance of recognising the genocide for six days before you mangaged to exposed them. For six whole days since this was published they have fooled their own members, the New York Times, the Forward Haaretz and every other section of the Israeli media. They even reinstated their theri strongest internal critic to his position as director fooling him to think they still recognise the genocide. Bur wait, there’s more: they even roped the Israeli government into the act continually apologising and expalining that they don’t control the ADL’s statements. Its hard to call such an effort of fooling everyone pathetic I would give them the Oscar but that’s just my opinion.
Of course these other news media may have taken the comments of a Turkish official with a grain of salt or even (gasp!) followed the proper journalistic procedure of verifying their story.