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By Peter Vinthagen Simpson, The Local, 11 March 2010

Though the motion had the backing of members of five of the seven Swedish parliamentary parties, the vote's outcome was uncertain to the last as the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs had recommended its rejection.

But with several centre-right politicians ignoring the recommendation and choosing to vote with the opposition, the motion was eventually passed by a single vote.....Read more >>

By Gregg Rickman, The Cutting Edge, 8 March 2010

Cutting Edge contribuitor Gregg J. Rickman served as the first U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism from 2006–2009. He is a Senior Fellow for the Study and Combat of Anti-Semitism at the Institute on Religion and Policy in Washington, DC; a Visiting Fellow at The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; and a Research Scholar at the Initiative on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research in San Francisco.

In the book The Guilt of Nations, Elazar Barkan wrote, “For a ‘new’ history to become more than a partisan ‘extremist’ story, the narrative often has to persuade not only the members of the group that will ‘benefit’ from the new interpretation but also their ‘others,’ those whose own history will presumably be ‘diminished,’ or tainted by the new stories.” Clearly Turkey’s reaction to the vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Armenian Genocide resolution shows that Turkey remains unpersuaded by its own guilt. This is painful to continue to witness.....Read more >>

By Carol Goar, The Toronto Star, 8 March 2010

Troubled by the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment, a group of charitable foundations in Europe and the United States banded together in 2008 to track public attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic.

Last year, they added Canada to the survey. Suddenly they had an outlier: a nation that defied most of the prevailing trends.....Read more >>

Much has been written about the connection between women and the nation over the course of world history. Symbols, words, and suggestive imagery have been used to equate women to territory, a nation’s future, and to other noble national ideals.

Not surprisingly, the woman figure has been adopted by Armenians as well, to express certain core ideals that remain tightly intertwined with Armenian cultural identity and nationalistic values. Terms such as mother tongue (mayrenee lezou), mother Armenia (mayr Hayasdan), and mother church (mayr yegeghetsi) are omnipresent in the Armenian lexicon. Coincidentally, such elements are deemed to be the pillars of Armenian existence and survival, namely throughout the diaspora.....Read more >>

The St. James Armenian Cathedral of Jerusalem is the pride of Armenians living in the Holy Land and around the world. It's also considered by all Jerusalemites as the most beautiful church in a city abounding with superb religious buildings. The religious edifice is the heart of the Armenian Quarter which covers one-sixth of the Old City of Jerusalem. Built during the Crusades, the cathedral is now in dire need of restoration.

In the past year, Keghart.com has referred to the financial challenges the St. James Brotherhood faces and the necessity of restoring the 800-year-old religious structure which houses the remains of St. James the Lesser, and the head of St. James the Elder, the brother of Christ. In addition, its treasury holds various religious relics, paintings, decorated tiles, and items belonging to Cilician royalty.....Read more >>

By Diana Johnstone, Global Research.ca, 4 March 2010

Diana Johnstone is author of Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions (Monthly Review Press). She can be reached at diana.josto[at]yahoo.fr

For Europe’s poorest countries, European Union membership has long held out the promise of tranquil prosperity. The current Greek financial crisis ought to dispel some of their illusions.....Read more >>