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(if you haven't seen these videos re: the American Armenian community's confrontation of Jane Harman from revoking her support of the HR106 after co-sponsoring the same, you should - as to those that confronted her and memorialized it, bravo kezy, shot jarpeek es!!!)
Here is the pardox ---
Holocaust survivors complain that the international community failed to act for political reasons - i.e. b/c of good relations with Germany, indifference or to protect other interests elsewhere that may be impinged if Germany was confronted. They also asserted that political recognition of the event was necessary to condemn the purveyors of the dark chapter of history and to help prevent further like events in the future.
The Genocide of Armenians likely occurred because world powers (read British, French, German, America, Austria) believed that Ottoman Turkey was a viable geopolitical strategic asset and accomodating Turkish leaders rather than confronting them would protect or promote the interests of the powers that be. Rather analogous to what occurred to Holocaust survivors some 20 years later.
Yet, when it came time to recognize the Holocaust, it happened without much resistance and noone really towed the line that Germany should not be required to suffer the embarrassment and shame for the vile acts of a preceding government of that country or that Germany was a political ally that should not be agitated for fear of political retribution by them to other members of the international community.
The international community behooved Germany to fess up for Hitler's wrongdoings, and they rightfully acknowledged that dark chapter of history as did other nations and reparations followed including the formation of a new country. There was no preceding dispassionate scholarly examination as such would insult the indisputable historical record and those who suffered that genocide.
There was no subsequent appeasement of the superceding government for purposes of protecting German nationalism. It was nationalism that got Germany in trouble in the first place.
However, with regard to Turkey, their mass murder of our ancestors were accomodated by the international community through inaction, indifference or conflicting superior "political" interests. Analgous to the forces at play in the tacit contemporaneous consent of our genocide.
And, now, U.S., Turkish and Israeli dignitaries and leaders are balking at recognition of the Armenian genocide to appease Turkish nationalism and protect political relations. And, in the same breath, these persons are reducing the Armenian genocide to 'dispassionate scholarly examination' despite the substantial independent historical record that confirms that Armenians were subjected to genocide by Turkey.
How is it that Turkey is allowed to commit mass murder for political purposes and then permitted to deny their acts for political purposes but with regard to the Holocaust, Germany was not?
And how is it that Holocaust survivors and/or the leaders of prominent J-ewish organizations that influenced the political recognition of the Holocaust incl. reparations would support Turkey to such extent that they would proclaim that recognition of history is a matter for historians not politicians and the Armenian genocide is a matter for debate?
Distorting truth for political purpose was not permitted for the Holocaust and should not be condoned for the Armenian Genocide.
And to the same extent that the Holocaust was recognized internationally at the political level, the Armenian genocide must be recognized.