Comments on: Armenia Needs Real — Not Symbolic — Help

By: Mardukhai

Mardukhai — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:19:55 +0000

Mr. Epstein, your clients should get over it. The Armenian Genocide happened, but it was over 90 years ago. Admit it, move on. The Ottomans the Slavs of Macedonia, and the Republican Turks slaughtered the Greeks of Ionia. And the Greeks burned Salonika, and the Serbs oppressed the Macedonians, and so on and so forth.

Regarding Karabakh, the Azeris started that war, using the same justification as the Palestinians used in 1948 — “It’s our country, we’re the majority, and if we want to kill off a minority down to the last man, woman, and child, that’s our right, damn it!”

All this was just after the Azeris slaughtered the Armenians of Baku. The Azeris have lots of oil, they don’t need Karabakh. They don’t live there. They should let it go.

By: Jan from Holland

Jan from Holland — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:46:54 +0000

Armenia really needs symbolic help, I understand that´s not very helpful for the rich clients (Turkish Government) of Mr. Jason Epstein. How much did you have earned for this anti-Armenian Propaganda?

Shame on you!

By: P. Connolly

P. Connolly — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:14:32 +0000

Yes, Jason on this April 24th let us recognize and acknowledge the fact that the Leaders of the Armenian Diaspora don’t really care about what has become of the descendants of those Turkish subjects who fell so long ago. So many of them today have become experts at political intrigue, deceit, and ethnic hatred; they are a disgrace to their heritage and ancestry ! This year -for once and for all- let the Diaspora Armenians drop this hate campaign against the Turkish Government and people and instead divert some of this energy not only toward bettering and improving their own lot but also toward ridding mankind of the dreadful specter of War. One of the surest ways to accomplish this is to avoid Ethnic hatred and prejudice in all their forms.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:52:30 +0000

How sensitive of Jason Epstein to lecture Diaspora Armenians on April 24th – the day Armenians worldwide commemorate the start of the Armenian Genocide.

May 2, is Yom Hashoah, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the Holocaust. Perhaps on that day Mr. Epstein could call on American Jews to pressure Israel to constructively use the annual $3 billion U.S. taxpayers send it and settle its differences with the Palestinians.

In the meantime as an “advisor” to the Turkish Government he should advise his clients to open the border with the tiny country of Armenia, something which would go a long way toward lowering tensions.

By: PoliGazette » Armenia

PoliGazette » Armenia — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:37:33 +0000

[...] I think that Jason Epstein is right to point out at Pajamas Media that Armenians in the Diaspora should stop forcing governments to recognize [...]

By: Mary Jackson

Mary Jackson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:23:46 +0000

I agree, although this is not to minimise what happened.

Pressure on Turkey from the international community would help. Unless Turkey acknowledges the genocide, neither country can move on.

(I have visited Armenia. A beautiful country with kind people, but an air of tragedy, understandably hangs over the place. Many seem to hanker after the “security” of the Soviet era.)