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And finally, to “justify” that genocide could not have happened against the Armenians Ben-David talks about the recent conflict with Azerbaijan as if the issues are at all related. Forgetting that it was Azerbaijan who started the violent conflict in the first place, and this, Michael, you can check easily because it wasn’t long ago that major American newsmedia was reporting the mass expulsion of Armenians from then Soviet Azerbaijan, Mr. Ben-David presents Armenians as aggressors.

What nation wouldn’t defend her sons and daughters from open aggression demonstrated by Soviet and later independent Azerbaijan?Would he equally present Israel as the aggressor in its fight against Hamas or Hizbollah? Furthermore, we witnessed last year the deaths of over a thousand Lebanese as a result of the Israeli military operations, would he endorse someone who uses that tragedy to counter argue the reality of the Holocaust? No.

So, Michael, Ben-Davids “good” article is not worth the paper he wrote on and therefore it is garbage not worth quoting.

This is a simmering problem in the US, as well. There are powerful groups who oppose any negative narratives in school boolks and consider it ‘anti-Ameircan’ to bring up incidents like the forced march of the Navajos ordered by our hero Kit Carson.
While I think it’s important to not get stuck in guilt and shame for past events, I think it’s a bad mistake to keep the past hidden. Sooner or later, these things come out, and they seem even worse if they come as a surprise. Secrecy leads to suspicions, and suspicions lead to imagining even worse things than the reality of it.
Are you listening, Mr. Bush?

Serious.

The sad thing? Once we admitted to this, now reports appear that say that the Dutch government has cut these pages out of history books in schools. When asked about it, the government explained that this does not fit into what they want to teach, which is children to be proud of our nation. I am all for the latter, but I do not quite see how denying the past accomplishes that in the long run, and it is completely dishonest. Being proud of your nation doesn’tmean you cannot admit the nation did some horrible things, it’s believing that your country is great despite those things.

One side comment when I read Ben-David’s article. He could not resist the obligatory slam against the Palestinians so that the Jerusalem Post would print his article. As an additional point, Israel still has a LONG way to go in examining the truths behind it’s founding narrative. When Israel fully reveals the atrocities committed by Irgun, Stern Gang et al then I will agree with Ben-David. From my Grandfathers stories to the Irgun reunion I attended in 1956 there is a LOT yet to be revealed.