Turk Analyst Condemns Oskanian of Insulting Jews From the UN Podium

TURK ANALYST CONDEMNS OSKANIAN OF INSULTING JEWS FROM THE UN PODIUM

Azg/arm
2 Feb 05

Armenian foreign affairs minister Vartan Oskanian’s speech at the
Special Session of General Assembly of the UN dedicated to the 60th
anniversary of Auschwitz death camp liberation caught the attention of
Hatem Jabbarl from Caucasian Department of Eurasian Military Research
Institute. In an article of January 28 of Haberanaliz newspaper
Jabbarl draws readers’ attention to Vartan Oskanian’s readiness “to
join other survivors on behalf of the people and government of
Armenia” and to “Jews and Armenians are linked forever by Hitler”
statement and says that the General Assembly’s Special Session played
more into Armenians hands than into Jews as the Holocaust is
recognized worldwide while the “so-called genocide” is only
recognized, Jabbarl thinks, by states that are unwilling to see Turkey
developed due to their past enmity.

Jabbarl considered Oskanian’s speech an opportune occasion to
influence the international community from such an authoritative
podium as UN’s and expressed an opinion that the Armenian foreign
minister “insulted the memory of Holocaust, the Jewish people as well
as the participants of the Special Session by offering his
condolences”.

Jabbarl explained Oskanian’s “insult” by anti-Semitism rampant in
Armenia. Writing that anti-Semitism has grown into a state policy in
our country, he merely points out to Roman Yepiskoposyan’s “The
National Systems” book and chairman of Armenian Aryan Union Armen
Avetisian’s statements that “the Yezids and Jews should be put out of
Armenia” as well as to the head of Armenia’s Jewish community,
Rima Varzhapetian, as she feverously seeks signs of anti-Semitism.

This means that the Turkish analyst is more concerned with creating an
illusion of anti-Semitism than with the real state of things.

But what really lies behind Jabbarl’s words is the concern that the
condolences of the Armenian minister to the Jewish nation create
grounds for friendship which will supposedly bind Turkey’s hands as it
is striving to remove the US Congress resolutions on Armenian Genocide
by means of Jews institutions. In other words, the reason Hatem
Jabbarl on “finding” anti-Semitism in Armenia raised it to the rank of
state policy is that he wanted to oppose anti-Semitism to Armenian
foreign minister’s speech, rather annoying for Turkey.

By Hakob Chakrian

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress