Hmmm. Well, I can see good points to both sides of this argument. More or less what Amos said, I guess...

If the Turks get upset enough over this that it causes them to be less cooperative with Mr Bush's future war plans in the Middle East, I will not be disappointed.

Grab, you stated a very good point that seems to normally completely escape people when you said.... "It's only "recently" that the Jews have had their own nation and means of extermination (of others)."

Bloody right! They have had the actual means of conducting extermination of others on an organized national basis only since 1948 (discounting the ancient Biblical time of the Exodus, as you pointed out). Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, and Belgians...etc...have had those means on the other hand for a long, long time.

It's a little misleading to say, "Oh, we never DID anything like that to anyone," when one simply was not in the position to DO it, is it? The Jews, as a people, were not in such a position from the time Rome scattered them out of Judea...until 1948. History has shown again and again that ALL nations of people are quite capable of committing atrocities on other people when and if they are in the position to do so and when and if they have the temporary motivation to do so, for some reason. As I've said before, no one has completely clean hands when it comes to this sort of thing.