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Canadians, Kardashians Blamed for Crackdown on Synagogues in Turkey

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | 11 Comments

This could be a sign of big trouble to come:

A Turkish newspaper reports that police burst into an Istanbul synagogue during recent Sabbath services and demanded worshipers’ ID’s.
The Turkish Milliyet newspaper reported that the Muslim government in Turkey appears to be cracking down on non-Muslim minorities. . . .
Rabbi Yitzchak Haleva, Chief Rabbi of Turkey, says it’s “much ado about nothing.” . . .

(Suggestion to Turkish Jews: Get a new chief rabbi.) The story includes this intriguing addendum:

Turkey recalled its ambassador to the U.S. last week after the House Foreign Relations Committee narrowly approved a resolution recognizing the Turkish slaughter of Armenians during World War I as genocide. The London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabiye editorialized that the “Jewish lobby” in Washington is to blame for the resolution.

Ah, so the Turks get mad at the U.S., and take out their frustrations on Turkish Jews? Let’s go back to last week’s news:

Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the United States on the heels of a vote on a resolution in the House Foreign Affairs Committee declaring the 1915 massacre of millions of Armenians a genocide, previewing the potential problems the measure could create for ties between the U.S. and Turkey.
The Obama administration moved quickly to smooth relations after the committee voted Thursday 23-22 and sent the resolution to the House floor, although it is unclear if the House will ever vote on the measure.
At a press conference Friday while traveling in Guatemala, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacted, “As I made clear yesterday in Costa Rica the Obama administration strongly opposes the resolution that was passed by only one vote in the House committee and we’ll work very hard to make sure it does not go to the House floor.”

Is the Obama administration pro-genocide? Or just anti-Armenian? 

Maybe Hillary Clinton is just jealous of Kim Kardashian’s big fine Armenian booty. That would be understandable.

What’s not understandable is why the “Jewish lobby” gets blamed for this Armenian resolution.

It’s time for the Islamic world to find a new scapegoat. IYKWIMAITYD.

UPDATE: “Jewish lobby” blamed for deadly earthquake in Turkey.

Kim Kardashian’s big fine Armenian booty could not be reached for comment.

Category: Canada, Celebrities, Foreigners, Turkey

Comments

11 Responses to “Canadians, Kardashians Blamed for Crackdown on Synagogues in Turkey”

  1. Thomas L. Knapp
    March 8th, 2010 @ 6:13 pm

    Any particular reason why your lips were zipped when the Bush administration did exactly the same thing in 2007?

  2. Thomas L. Knapp
    March 8th, 2010 @ 1:13 pm

    Any particular reason why your lips were zipped when the Bush administration did exactly the same thing in 2007?

  3. chuck cross
    March 8th, 2010 @ 7:05 pm

    Our country is almost BK (it is according to most), Americans are still losing jobs, Congress is about to shove a commie-pinko healthcare bill to the President’s desk, yet they find time to create these ridiculous bills, thinking that the U.S. Congress of all bodies has the moral authority to recognize X, or promote/condemn Y, is absurd.

    I recognize there was a genocide, most other folks do, too. There is usually one going on somewhere on earth. Life’s tough, and the world is not a happy/friendly place.

    All it serves to do is piss off Turkey about something that happened a 100 years ago. Brilliant.

  4. chuck cross
    March 8th, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

    Our country is almost BK (it is according to most), Americans are still losing jobs, Congress is about to shove a commie-pinko healthcare bill to the President’s desk, yet they find time to create these ridiculous bills, thinking that the U.S. Congress of all bodies has the moral authority to recognize X, or promote/condemn Y, is absurd.

    I recognize there was a genocide, most other folks do, too. There is usually one going on somewhere on earth. Life’s tough, and the world is not a happy/friendly place.

    All it serves to do is piss off Turkey about something that happened a 100 years ago. Brilliant.

  5. David
    March 8th, 2010 @ 7:12 pm

    Chuck,
    Totally agree with you. How do these guys have any time to consider other issues when our economy is going south at a very fast rate? Can any one name something that we produce and export? I can think of very little. The reason is that our great, expensive, moral government is in every business and life in the US. Instead of thinking about Turkey’s problems 100 years ago, how about trying to reduce the size of our government by 50% or more. Start with organizations like Home Land security, DEA, ATF, OSHA and on and on.

  6. David
    March 8th, 2010 @ 2:12 pm

    Chuck,
    Totally agree with you. How do these guys have any time to consider other issues when our economy is going south at a very fast rate? Can any one name something that we produce and export? I can think of very little. The reason is that our great, expensive, moral government is in every business and life in the US. Instead of thinking about Turkey’s problems 100 years ago, how about trying to reduce the size of our government by 50% or more. Start with organizations like Home Land security, DEA, ATF, OSHA and on and on.

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  8. Robert Stacy McCain
    March 8th, 2010 @ 10:45 pm

    Any particular reason why your lips were zipped when the Bush administration did exactly the same thing in 2007?

    Uh, I had a job then, Tom. You know, before I joined the glorious pajama proletariat, unshaved, unbathed, and unpaid here in the Basement of the World.

    There were people at the Washington Times who got paid to have opinions on stuff like this. I wasn’t one of them.

  9. Robert Stacy McCain
    March 8th, 2010 @ 5:45 pm

    Any particular reason why your lips were zipped when the Bush administration did exactly the same thing in 2007?

    Uh, I had a job then, Tom. You know, before I joined the glorious pajama proletariat, unshaved, unbathed, and unpaid here in the Basement of the World.

    There were people at the Washington Times who got paid to have opinions on stuff like this. I wasn’t one of them.

  10. chuck cross
    March 9th, 2010 @ 12:49 am

    Kim K. looks good with some meat on those bones!

  11. chuck cross
    March 8th, 2010 @ 7:49 pm

    Kim K. looks good with some meat on those bones!