Hillel Halkin: Moral of the Armenian Genocide  The latest flap,
involving the Anti-Defamation League and its director Abraham
Foxman, over Jewish recognition of Turkey's genocidal killing of
Armenians during World War I is more pathetic than anything
else.  It is sad and shameful that, under pressure from Israeli
governments fearful of antagonizing the Turks, Jewish
organizations in both Israel and the Diaspora have been so
reluctant to acknowledge a historical truth that is well-
documented and beyond serious challenge. Whether the Turks, who
were fighting desperately to hold onto what was left of the
Ottoman Empire, intended to kill every last Armenian they could
hunt down, of whether they simply wanted to kill enough of them
to make sure that Turkey no longer had an "Armenian problem"
after the war, there can be no doubt that many hundreds of
thousands, and probably well over a million, Armenians were
deliberately murdered by them in the years between 1915 and
1918.  As understandable as may be Israel's des