Recognizing genocide

April 24 will be the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the slaughter of 1.5 million Armeniens by the Ottoman Empire.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes,

Last Sunday, Pope Francis showed moral courage in openly calling for recognition of “the first genocide of the twentieth century.” Turkey, run by the increasingly brutal dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, immediately recalled its ambassador, as befits a bully.

Why won’t President Obama recognize the genocide, especially since he promised as a presidential candidate that he would do so?

CNN’s chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper captured the president’s failure succinctly: “For the sixth year in a row President Barack Obama has broken his promise to the Armenian community, made when seeking their votes as a senator and a presidential candidate, to use the word ‘genocide’ to describe the massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire a century ago. He did this in deference to the government of Turkey, which – historical revisionism aside – the Obama administration regards as a more crucial ally.”

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