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...orange surplus. According to Ben-Yehoyada, the 1990s saw the advent of popular Israeli and Jewish ethnic food. But many items associated with Israel in fact originated all over Europe and the Middle East. Schnitzel, from Germany, is often stuffed into pita, Falafel is Egyptian, Israeli salad is actually Turkish, and fried eggplant is Iraqi. “[Ben-Yehoyada] was incredible,” said Sarah B. Honig ’10, a member of the Harvard Culinary Society, which co-sponsored the event with the Harvard Students for Israel. “I thought it was a huge...
...everyone aligns with this view, however—others, namely the current Turkish government, vehemently reject the use of the word “genocide” to describe these events. This puts President Obama in a difficult situation. In years past, the president of the United States has delivered a speech commemorating these events. Obama will almost certainly keep with this unofficial tradition. But, if he omits the word “genocide,” Armenians around the world will accuse Obama of breaking his promise to explicitly label the events as such. Likewise, if he does utter...
...logic itself. In an official statement last year, President George W. Bush declared that “as many as 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, many of them victims of mass killings and forced deportations.” Ironically, many Turkish activists celebrated this description for its omission of the word “genocide,” despite its overwhelming castigation of the events in all other ways. Never mind Bush’s accusation that their forebears had executed a campaign of forced deportation and mass murder; as long...
...inflated death tolls and disputable sources to prove their points. Armenian activists must realize that the accusation of genocide is grave and that using any source or figure that is even remotely disputable is an irresponsible act that only undermines their cause. Carelessly spreading inaccurate information insults both the Turkish and Armenian peoples, slandering the Turkish nation for crimes it did not commit as well as casting doubt on the true accounts of Armenian survivors...
Prosecutors say the three Germans, Fritz Martin Gelowicz, 29, Daniel Martin Schneider, 23, and Atilla Selek, 24, and the one Turkish national, Adem Yilmaz, 30, were planning a series of car bombings in Germany that could have been deadlier than the attacks in London and Madrid. And according to prosecutors, the men had specific targets in mind: U.S. military bases including Ramstein, and Germany's biggest airport in Frankfurt, as well as discos, pubs and restaurants. So far, the suspects have remained silent, so their answer to these charges is not yet known. (See pictures of a Jihadist's journey...