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Sometimes, a man’s career comes down to one word – just ask Michael Richards. For U.S. diplomats, that word is “genocide,” when referring to the murders of 1.5 million Armenians – nearly every man, woman and child – who were executed, starved or deported from the countryside in forced death marches through the Syrian desert by the Ottoman Turks. ... Tiptoeing around the Armenian Genocide began with the Clinton administration ... NOTE: The original source includes links to relevant Web sites and articles.

For weeks, Washington, D.C. has been the scene of frantic smoky back-room lobbying and political maneuvering against H.Res.106/S.Res.106 (AHA The Armenian Genocide Resolution). A recent article in the Los Angeles Times and a commentary by The Jewish Exponent’s Jonathan S. Tobin published by Jewish World Review describe Israel’s dilemma of being torn between allegiance to Turkey, the only Muslim nation not actively trying to drive it into the sea, and moral obligation to a people whose history of persecution and extermination (video link) parallels that of the Jews so closely that Armenians are sometimes referred to as "the Chosen People...