Opinion: In today’s pages: Jane Harman on the Armenian genocide resolution
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Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) defends her decision to withdraw her support from the Armenian genocide resolution:
I originally co-sponsored the resolution because I was convinced that the terrible crime against the Armenian people should be recognized and condemned. But after a visit in February to Turkey, where I met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Armenian Orthodox patriarch and colleagues of murdered Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, I became convinced that passing this resolution again at this time would isolate and embarrass a courageous and moderate Islamic government in perhaps the most volatile region in the world....Timing matters. I asked a leader in California’s Armenian American community just days ago why the resolution was being pushed now. ‘They didn’t ask me,’ he said. It wasn’t his call, and he probably would not have pushed it.
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