In the Diaspora, the ADL has done a warrior's job protecting Jewish interests, lives and property for nearly a century. While the modern nation of Israel exercises a foreign policy, American Jewry also has global interests, and the ADL and other large Jewish organizations exercise de facto and sometimes contradictory "foreign policies" in our behalf. One such vital policy is twofold: protecting & enhancing the excellent and unique diplomatic relationship between "moderate" Secular/Muslim Turkey and Israel; and supporting & protecting the 25,000 remaining Turkish Jews. There is absolutely no doubt that an over thirty year holocaust against the Armenians was perpetrated by various Turkish govenrments 1890-1923, with the assistance by Muslim Kurds and some elements of the German Kaisers' governments' complicity, by the way. However, if, in the interest of today's American Jews being "moral" and "a light to the nations" Joey demands of the ADL that they abandon support for Israel's diplomatic policy toward Turkey & also jeopardize the Turkish Jews, just to make legitimate the Armenians claims, then Joey is torally wrong. In fact, the historical argument is soley between the Turks and Armenians and Jews and the ADL have every right to stay neutral. Are Jews compelled to rescind our self-interest to become the world's human rights policemen? First, especially in times of great threat, we take care of our OWN interests, then we cure the world. Joey, if you are an "internationalist" and not a Jewish nationalist first, then you should fire yourself from your mis-titled blog and just call ir CY, but not JEWCY.
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Joey's attack on ADL & Foxman
In the Diaspora, the ADL has done a warrior's job protecting Jewish interests, lives and property for nearly a century. While the modern nation of Israel exercises a foreign policy, American Jewry also has global interests, and the ADL and other large Jewish organizations exercise de facto and sometimes contradictory "foreign policies" in our behalf. One such vital policy is twofold: protecting & enhancing the excellent and unique diplomatic relationship between "moderate" Secular/Muslim Turkey and Israel; and supporting & protecting the 25,000 remaining Turkish Jews. There is absolutely no doubt that an over thirty year holocaust against the Armenians was perpetrated by various Turkish govenrments 1890-1923, with the assistance by Muslim Kurds and some elements of the German Kaisers' governments' complicity, by the way. However, if, in the interest of today's American Jews being "moral" and "a light to the nations" Joey demands of the ADL that they abandon support for Israel's diplomatic policy toward Turkey & also jeopardize the Turkish Jews, just to make legitimate the Armenians claims, then Joey is torally wrong. In fact, the historical argument is soley between the Turks and Armenians and Jews and the ADL have every right to stay neutral. Are Jews compelled to rescind our self-interest to become the world's human rights policemen? First, especially in times of great threat, we take care of our OWN interests, then we cure the world. Joey, if you are an "internationalist" and not a Jewish nationalist first, then you should fire yourself from your mis-titled blog and just call ir CY, but not JEWCY.