Speaking as a Jewish person living in Israel, I don't understand why any Jewish person or any body who claims to support Israel would support the Armenians. The other day, at the library at David Ben Gurion University of the Negev, I checked out a book from the library called "Armenian Terrorism: The Past, The Present, The Prospects," by Francis P. Hyland. In this book, the author shows a very strong linkage between Palestinian terrorist organizations and Armenian terrorist organizations against Turkey.
Actually, the Palestinian terrorist organizations were a major inspiration for the Armenian terrorist organizations and many ASALA leaders worked hand-in-hand with Palestinian terrorists, if you look back at the history. The Palestinians not only provided ASALA with a lot of financial and logistics support, but also gave them inspiration. It was the Palestinians who taught the Armenians that they might be able to achieve their goals through terrorism. In otherwise, Armenians who engaged in terrorist activities against Turkey used Palestinian terrorism against Israel as their model. The ties between the Armenians and the Palestinians go very deep, due to the nice working relationship that existed between the two groups.
Given this history of cooperation between the Armenian and Palestinian terrorist organizations, I don't understand how an organization such as the Anti-Defemation League thinks they can gain any thing by supporting the Armenians over a strategic ally of Israel such as Turkey, who is engaged in a very similar war against terrorism like us and understands where we are coming from. Turkey has been an ally of the Jewish nation since 1492, when Sultan Bayazid II accepted all of those Jews who were expelled from Spain. Why should we turn our backs on such a long-lasting friendship in favor of people who support the Palestinians? It just does not make any sense to me.
I totally agree with you! What's even more ridiculous is the fact that these Armenian claims and reasons why they want to use terrorism is completely unfounded. The saddest part is, people actually believe them, simply because they are white Christians. The fact that that Israel organization supported the Armenian claims, simply shows that corruption can occur anywhere, and that organization needs some immediate cleaning. In a time like this where, Iran wants nuclear weapons, and many countries have become more and more corrupt, I don't see how Israel thinks it will handle it. I'm sure it can handle it very nicely; however, at what cost? What happens when America and Israel have different relations in 10 years, who will give support, will they have to rely on 100% conscription to fight off many countries? Or perhaps avoid millions of casualties by continuing to be the ally of the Turkish Republic, which has one of the largest air forces in the world, as well as one of the largest armies.
You know some people actually wonder why Israel and Turkey spend all this money on arms and weapons. Yet they don't realize it applies to everyday life, one day you have a best friend, the next, he's your worst enemy. And vice-versa, there may be a time when Armenians fully admit that the Armenian Genocide was just made up as an excuse for Armenian Christian Unity and that the school system was corrupt and teaching hatred to Turks, and that they apologize for the trouble they caused Turkey, and then Turkey will re-open it's Armenian border, and they will be friends again, like for the past 600 years before the 1900s.