This Week in History: April 17-23, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
April 17
1704 – John Campbell publishes in Boston the first successful U.S. newspaper.
1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln’s assassination. She owns the boarding house where her son John Surratt, along with John Wilkes Booth and others, conspire to kill the president. She is hanged on July 7th with three others convicted of the conspiracy. Mary, aged 42, is the first woman executed by order of the U.S. government.
1924 – Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Company merge to form MGM.
US acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide: Its implications
US acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide: Its implications
It is incumbent upon the international community and the United Nations to respond with commensurate measures to Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel.
(May 6, 2021 / Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) The recent formal recognition by President Biden of the genocide of the Armenian people at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in the early 20th century is not merely a pro forma gesture to the Armenian people. It is of vast historical significance. It corrects a century-old historic anomaly by acknowledging a reality that, due to political pressure from Turkey, has been deliberately overlooked.
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President Biden is being showered with congratulations for his statement recognizing the Armenian genocide. Its bitterly ironic, because human rights abuses on similar scale unfolded while Mr. Biden was vice president and remain under way.
Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination, Mr. Biden said. Let us renew our shared resolve to prevent future atrocities from occurring anywhere in the world.
Said the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, our hearts are full of joy that President Biden has taken the historic step. The Senate majority leader, Charles Schumer, tweeted, This is a step I have long pushed for presidents to take: President Biden is our first president to formally reco
Myanmar’s genocidal military is still a friend to Israel
Public pressure has forced Israel to halt arms sales to the brutal military junta, but the state’s political support remains strong.
Myanmar s military marches in a parade in the city of Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. (Mil.ru/CC BY 4.0)
The message that the world was silent during the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust is routinely cited by the State of Israel and its Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. And yet, Israel itself is complicit in silence surrounding a present-day atrocity: the crimes committed by the Myanmar military junta, which Israel is supporting with weapons, training, and political backing. Although legal, media, and public pressure has forced some change in Israel’s defense export policy to Myanmar, political support for the junta has remained strong.