Armenian Genocide and Turkey: and the US Congress

So the US congress first voted on a non-binding committee resolution to condemn as genocide the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 2007. It voted again on the matter this week. It is unlikely that the vote will reach the House floor. The administration will exert pressure to prevent it. But the Armenian community and their supporters (like Sen. Bob Dole) have been trying for decades to push Congress to vote on similar resolutions. Notice that the Israeli lobby protected Turkey when it was less democratic but more pro-Israeli. Only when Turkey less authoritarian and less pro-Israeli did the AIPAC-influenced members decide to vote on the resolution. Spare me your sympathy and your crocodile tears. Victims of the Armenian genocide don't need Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (one of the worst voices in foreign policy in the US congress) to tell them it was a genocide.