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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Noami Wolf and Others Who Trivialize Genocide

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Through the course of Israel’s third war in Gaza since it withdrew fully in 2005 I have had to publicly respond to a number of friends and acquaintances who either intentionally or unwittingly committed themselves to the ranks of Israel’s most rabid haters. This is especially true of those who joined the global blood libel chorus falsely and poisonously accusing Israel of genocide. I was fully aware that in doing so I risked losing those relationships. But I responded nonetheless. Not just to defend Israel and the Jewish people against the depraved charge of mass murder, but because I heard the cry of the those who perished in the seven real genocides in the 100 years since the First World War whose anniversary was commemorated this week.

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I guess in Shmuley's world only Jews can be victims of genocide.  Did the tooth fairy massacre the Palestinian civilians, women and children?[/quote]

Here is a link to his entire speech.  He absolutely did not limit it to Jews.  https://www.facebook.com/RabbiShmuleyBoteach/posts/10152316643076089[/quote]
How convenient that the Israeli government should recognize the Armenian genocide just-in-time for Rabbi Boteach.  What he forgot to mention that this recognition of the Armenian genocide by the Knesset had nothing to do with moral solidarity of two peoples with terrible memories.  It had, though, everything to do with the 2008 crisis in the Israeli-Turkish relations that soured after the 2008 deadly raid on the Gaza-bound international flotilla. Until that time, Turkey could always count on the Israeli lobby groups in the U.S. to push Congress to block any attempts to recognize the Armenian genocide - which most of the civilized countries have already done.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-s-recognition-of-armenian-genocide-is-political-1.365252#

"This is my duty as a Jew and as an Israeli" is cliche that is meant to revive anyone from their dogmatic coma. Each time this religious-nationalist conjunction is used, accompanied by a certain obligation, usually moral, the listener must assume that behind the pomposity and the drama hides some shame that is seeking to be retroactively erased.

So as not to remain in the theoretical sphere, let's examine the full statement made by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Monday after he decided to hold an annual Knesset session to mark the Armenian genocide by the Turks. "It is my duty as a Jew and as an Israeli," he said, "to recognize the tragedies of other peoples. Diplomatic considerations, important as they may be, do not allow us to deny the disaster of another people."

Rivlin made the statement about a week after the Knesset allowed its Education Committee to discuss the issue for the first time publicly, and about a year after former Meretz chairman and MK Haim Oron was authorized to hold a secret meeting about it in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. That, more or less, is how under the pretense "my duty as a Jew and an Israeli," 63 years of Jewish disregard for and denial of the slaughter of between 1 million to 1.5 million human beings just melts away. "[/quote]

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