ADL recognizes the Genocide of the Armenians?

It was a pity to see the group which advocates for human rights and recognition of the rights of the Jewish people and their treatment, taking a lot of controversy on the media, whether it recognizes the Armenian Genocide or not.

After much heated debate and pressure on Mr. Foxman the director, ADL recognized the Genocide, at last.

According to Wikipedia:
"The Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) is an advocacy group founded by B'nai B'rith in the United States whose stated aim is "to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens."[1]

With an annual budget of over $50 million,[2] the ADL has 29 offices in the United States and three offices in other countries, with its headquarters located in New York City. Since 1987, Abraham Foxman has been the national director in the United States."

Foxman tried to please the Turks and even noted that the fate of the Turkish Jews would be in trouble, if USA ever recognizes the Genocide. He also added that this issue should not be the concerns of the governments, but that it should be discussed between Armenian and Turk scholars and historians, to come to a reconciliation about their past history.

It seems that Mr. Foxman knows nothing about the "Genocidal Attitude" which is still prevalent today in Turkey towards the minorities, be them Greeks, Assyrians, or Armenians. It seems that Mr. Foxman did not hear about Hrant Dink and how he was assassinated just months ago in front of his newspaper's offices. He wouldn't even know about Mr. Hrant Guzelyan who was shot and imprisoned in the 1980's and later exiled to France, because he was gathering Armenian orphans from Anatolia, bringing them to Istanbul to give them shelter, education and Christian upringing.

Perhaps Mr. Foxman should discuss the Holocaust with the Nazis.

Raffi

Your Emotions

So enjoy the exhilaration when it comes. Take the ride to the heights when you get the opportunity. But don't get hooked on the thrill of the moment. Take charge of your emotions. And when it comes time to do the right things, don't let your feelings lead you to compromise. That is the way to live a happier, more successful life and one that is more pleasing to God.

Life on the Edge; James Dobson

Badanegan Doun and Camp Armen (Պատանեկան Տուն) 4

Hrant Dink, in 1954, born by an Armenian father and mother and later all migrated to Bolis, had 2 younger brothers, the middle is Khosrov, and the youngest is the 4 years old Yervant.
One day, his mother, grabbing Hrant's hand, comes to the Gedik Pasha Armenian Evangelical Church to ask us to accept her son in Camp Armen (Badanegan Doon).
I told the mother, that our purpose is to accept a student from Anatolia, you are already saved from that place, here there's a school too, also a church, and an orphanage for boys and girls. If you are not able to pay, a contributer will be found and the boy will be accepted in a school. "This boy's son is Armenian Evangelical, you must accept him", she said. I told her that our purpose is not gathering of the Evangelicals, these boys are all Armenian, we even have Catholic and Assyrian boys. The Apostolic, the Catholic and the Evangelical are also Armenian. We do not discriminate and we do not take sides.
Hrant's mother, one day, brought her husband, and said, "this is the boy's father, but he is a drunkard, and does not take care of the house." Again, I refused. One day, one of our cousins, tells my mother, "Akhhh, sister Anoush, please tell Hrant that on our street there's a family with 3 sons, the father does not take care of them, and the mother has kept them out." And I, who didn't want to take any of them, accepted the three of them, and kept them in our care for 8 years. They received their education in the school, and I, every morning after school, used to narrate about our condemned people.
They grew up as Armenians, all of them, but Hrant Dink turned out different, brave and tall, he founded Agos Newspaper, in Turkish, so that the Turkish journalists would be able to read Agos too, in which the history of the Armenians would be published. This is not a lovable move for the Turks, specially for the government.

Badanegan Doun and Camp Armen, Hrant Guzelian

*Translation by R. Chil.

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"Armenian Lebanese" on Monte Carlo Radio Station

This is an interesting Arabic program that discusses about the Armenian Lebanese, who were widely discussed, specially after the elections in Metn and their siding with other political parties.
You will hear about the presence of the Armenians before the 18th century. Mr. Salmanian will talk about the Armenians in general and the 3 religious organizations (Armenian Orthodox, Armenian Catholic, and Armenian Evangelical) present in Lebanon. Also, about the Genocide of the Armenians and how the Armenians survived.

في برنامج" دروب متقاطعة" هذا الأسبوع، نتعرّف عن قرب على اللبنانيين الأرمن، وما يتمتّعون به من خصوصيّة ثقافية وسياسيّة بعدما كثر الحديث عنهم وعن مواقفهم بمناسبة الانتخابات النيابية الفرعية الأخيرة في منطقة المتن

Interview with Mr. Hrayr Jebejian

Interview with the Executive Secretary of the Bible Society
in the Arab Gulf Countries, Mr. Hrayr Jebejian, on his responsibilities
and the situation of the Armenian communities in the area he serves.

The interview is conducted in Armenian.


*This video belongs to Hairenik Online TV Station

Anjar Camp! Be There!

The chanitz camp this year will take place in Anjar, from 6 to 9 September.

The speaker is Mrs. Yester Kilaghbian

The main leader is pastor Sebouh Terzian

The main theme is "Who? What? I'll See..."

The cost is 25$ only.

OUTING !!!!!!!!!!

WHAT : Outing

WHEN: Wednesday August 22, 2o07

TIME: Around 8:30 (after the worship)

WHERE: Still to be negotiated !!!!

WHO: All chantisagans are invited to join us!!!!

"Aztag's website will soon have a new look."!

Beside its published newspaper on paper, Aztag started to publish its newspaper on the web starting from Nov. 26, 2002, according to the archives on WayBackMachine.

From the beginning of the launch of their website, it has been largely accessed and read by large amount of internet users and to this day more than 1 million people have visited the site (based on Aztag's counter), by local Lebanese Armenians, but mostly from outside Lebanon.

The initial design has not changed since the beginning of the launch, but it has kept the consistency of renewing the website everyday before 8:30 am (Beirut timing).

The website, compared to the many other local and foreign news websites, needs renovation and change. The "About Us" section needs to work, if you want to know about the Editorial team. Moreover, the fonts used are ASCII fonts, that are not readable or identified by the search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN. So, if you wanted to search for an article about "Հայաստան", you will not find any article from Aztag.
As you may know, Google has a search engine in Armenian, and Windows XP has language settings in both Armenian Western and Armenian Eastern. From both these services and opportunities, Aztag does not benefit.

If Aztag starts to benefit, it will become the first Armenian newspaper online in the diaspora, and with this success will follow the pouring of the advertisements, which are many, one of which is the well know Google adsense.

Another less effective, yet important aspect of Aztag's website is its design and most of all its background, which is the color of the sand with thin black lines, which sometimes creates readability problems.For more clarity, and in order to have the official opinion of Aztag, we contacted the Aztag offices, and came back with this short interview with Vahram Emiyan, one of the editors of Aztag.

Chanitz- Are all the pages that are publised on paper, also published on your website?
Aztag- All the pages that are published in our newspaper are also posted on our website.

Chanitz- Lately, we have seen the launch of Agos newspaper online, which a reader needs to subscribe with a fee. Recently, we see that they are asking more Armenians to subscribe, so that they will afford to keep their website. Have you thought about a similar project? Would it succeed here in Lebanon? If not, why?
Aztag- Our website is without subscription. We haven’t thought about asking our readers to subscribe.

Chanitz- Do you intend to keep the website free of charge? If yes, why?
Aztag- Our intention is to keep our website free of charge and in order to achieve that goal we rely on donations by our generous benefactors.

Chanitz- If someone searches for an article in Armenian on Google, the user will not be able to find the articles of Aztag. Have you thought of ways to make your newspaper found on Google?
Aztag- For now it is not possible to find Armenian articles which are published in Aztag by searching on Google, but it’s something we will be working on.

Chanitz- The website of Annahar is in Arabic and free. They have many advertisements on their website too. What are the reasons for not seeing ads on your website?
Aztag- We will be posting ads from around the world. That is a project we are working on.

Chanitz- What future plans do you have for the Aztag website?
Aztag- Soon the Aztag website will have a new look.