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May. 9, 2021 10:30 AM
The Armenian genocide in many ways shook the established world order to its very core.Here was an atrocity so inexplicably depraved that there was no word to describe it, and no system to resolve it.
In this watershed moment in human history, the basis of our modern system of international governance, human rights, and international law were born.
It wasn’t, however, until the crime of genocide was repeated with the annihilation of Europe s Jewish population – inspired in part by the Ottoman Empire s extermination of the Armenians – that these nascent systems of international law and global governance would be fully institutionalized; namely with the establishment of the United Nations.
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May. 6, 2021 1:27 PM
The Armenian genocide in many ways shook the established world order to its very core. Here was an atrocity so inexplicably depraved that there was no word to describe it, and no system to resolve it. In this watershed moment in human history, the basis of our modern system of international governance, human rights, and international law were born.
It wasn’t, however, until the crime of genocide was repeated with the annihilation of Europe s Jewish population – inspired in part by the Ottoman Empire s extermination of the Armenians – that these nascent systems of international law and global governance would be fully institutionalized; namely with the establishment of the United Nations.
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The breakthrough agreement between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan to jointly explore and develop an energy field whose ownership had been disputed for nearly 30 years has cleared the way for the long-anticipated Trans-Caspian pipeline to Europe.
But analysts warn that there may no longer be the demand among European states to meet potential supplies.
The Dostluk field in the Caspian Sea - previously known as Serdar by Turkmenistan and Kapaz by Azerbaijan - had caused serious tensions between the two countries since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Although its exact reserves are unknown, they are estimated at 50-100 million tonnes of oil and 30 billion cubic metres of gas. The amount is not particularly significant - for comparison, gas reserves at Turkmenistan’s Galkynysh field amount to 21 trillion cubic metres – but the long-running dispute had hindered negotiations on a Trans-Caspian pipeline to facilitate Turkmen gas supplies to Europe via Azerbaijan. Dostluk, th
Op-Ed: The Bigoted Perception of History Must End Now
According to MEMRI, an article in the latest issue of the Urdu-language jihadi magazine Mujalla Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (“Journal Of The Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan”), published by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (the Movement of the Pakistan Taliban, TTP) – blames “the Jews and their puppets” for the coronavirus epidemic and for harassing Muslims during the pandemic. The author of the article writes that COVID-19 has been kept hidden since the 1960s to be used against Muslims. Around the same period, MEMRI reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called Jews “kikes.”
Such bigoted perceptions of a nation do not come out of anywhere. Rather, they are built up slowly over the course of time due to a distorted and falsified view of a people’s history. For centuries, anti-Semitism was the norm in Europe. After two thousand years of suffering massacres, blood libels, rapes, pogroms, systematic re