Like Israel, the US shamefully struggled for many years with its failure to recognize the Armenian Genocide because – very mistakenly and actually meekly – the US feared Turkish anger.
MEMBERS OF the Armenian diaspora rally in front of the Turkish Embassy in Washington after US President Joe Biden recognized last year that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.(photo credit: JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS)ByISRAEL WLEO GIOSUÈ CHARNY