Howard Eissenstat
@heissenstat
Mostly Turkey. Also, books and Australian Shepherds.
Unlikely to argue on twitter.
@UCLAHist, @CrownCenterMES alum
Affiliations: @StLawrenceU and @POMED.
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Howard Eissenstat Retweeted
FWIW France and Germany passed genocide recognition bills and the sun still rises. Obvious lots a problems on the timing front but wouldn’t be surprised if this gets overshadowed by some other nonsense in the days, weeks and months ahead.
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Proud of my students' designs & them toughing it out in the rain!
#stlawrenceu#medievaltwitterhttps://twitter.com/StLawrenceU/status/1189345453881597953…
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This is a fabulously bad statement from
@IlhanMN.https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/1189303734163124227…
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For those of you wondering, the US government has made efforts at addressing some of its own crimes. Such efforts have typically been mealy-mouthed and unimpressive.https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/14/text…
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The House also voted to restrict arms sales to Turkey, sanction top Turkish officials, and require Trump to impose CAATSA sanctions against Turkey over its purchase of the S-400 weapons system from Russia. To be enacted, the bill needs to clear the Senatehttps://nyti.ms/32YDBIO
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I have, in a variety of contexts, argued for sanctions on Turkey over the past few years. I continue to support CAATSA sanctions. But sanctioning Turkey for doing what the US literally told them they could do is daft.
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Is the Armenian Genocide Resolution good foreign policy? No. Is it good domestic policy? Yes. Is it good history? Kinda?
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The most mature and sensible thing it could possibly do. Not that I expect that to last.https://twitter.com/WashingtonPoint/status/1189291236819132423…
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You can watch the vote live on C-Span https://www.c-span.org/video/?465756-2/house-session …
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#ArmenianGenocide recognition bill now being voted on in Congress. As a historian with more than a passing interest in genocide and recognition I am... ambivalent.https://twitter.com/heissenstat/status/1189215265973768193…Show this thread -
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Reposting this book recommendation. My advice is take some time off of twitter this week and read this instead: There are few better guides to international involvement in the Syrian Civil War than
@cjophillips' The Battle for Syria. https://amazon.com/Battle-Syria-International-Rivalry-Middle-ebook/dp/B01L7SSDNO?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_dp …pic.twitter.com/ppRiTVVt3n
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Short thread, on H.Res 296 (
#Armenian Genocide Resolution) https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/296/text … 1/6Show this thread -
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Every once in a while the absurdity of our current existence disorients me & I have to remind myself Donald Trump, the "you're fired" guy with weird hair really is president. This mashup by @jimmykimmelreally clarifies why I still struggle to believe itpic.twitter.com/KudB6A7HjM
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I think counter-factuals can be useful exercises. But I'm puzzled by the lack of humility with which such "if only" thinking occurs when addressing an issue as complicated as Syria was from the very start.
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I too advocated a tougher US policy on Syria from 2011 until late 2014 or early 2015. But: (a) Such a policy might have also resulted in disaster (albeit of another kind) (b) it would have been undertaken w/o the support of the American public. 1/2https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1189232771325149186…
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The eighth Kurdish mayor elected in March's local polls in Turkey has been dismissed this morning and replaced with a government appointee. This time it's Cizre, epicentre of fighting between PKK and state forces in 2015/ 2016https://twitter.com/cumhuriyetgzt/status/1189056561328656389…
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Pinned for the next 12 hours or so. A historian's view of the
#ArmenianGenocide resolution currently being debated in Congress.https://twitter.com/heissenstat/status/1189215265973768193… -
These questions aside, my biggest concern on this vote is the argument, that this resolution can or should be a means of punishing Turkey's current behavior. Any vote is political, of course, but this would be appalling, the worst abuse of historical commemoration. 6/6
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People interested in the wealth of historiographical writing on this should delve in; the field experienced something of a renaissance in the late 1990s and early 2000s. As a synthesis, I particularly recommend Ron Suny's They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else 5/6
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I do not believe that there is a serious debate among professional historians about the nature of Armenian Genocide, though some believe that the term "genocide" itself is historically problematic. See my "Children of Ozal" for discussion of the shift in historical debates. 4/6
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That said, symbolic gestures are part of what Congress does; I am not opposed. As a historian, there are elements that I find irksome. The dates (1915 - 1923) and numbers (1.5 million) do not represent, to my mind, a historical consensus and elide important debates. 3/6
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I'm agnostic on the question of whether Congress should "officially recognize"
#ArmenianGenocide. In practice, the only national assembly that has a real obligation to do so, the only one that really matters is for the Turkish parliament to do so. 2/6Show this thread -
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Looks like a great round-up, including Eric Schwartz,
@gonultol,@hbarkey,@tkucukcan, and my@POMED colleague@MerveTahirogluhttps://twitter.com/HelsinkiComm/status/1187833470158102528…
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"The Turks rightly concluded that
@realDonaldTrump was corruptible and not very smart, and therefore manipulable," says@aaronstein1 https://ahvalnews.com/talking-turkey/erdogan-able-influence-manipulate-trump-aaron-stein …@AhvalPod -
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A JOKE FROM TURKEY One man asks another how life is in Turkey. “We can't complain,” comes the the reply. “That's great,” says the first. “No, seriously,” says the second. “We can't complain!” Out 1/11
@amnesty report on 100's detained following the military offensive in#Syria.pic.twitter.com/3lRk4bfHzw
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Delighted that there is at least one thing my twitter feed can agree on.pic.twitter.com/jwia9vVodD
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Trump administration discussed ways to cut funding to Gulen movement-affiliated charter schools, realized it would be illegal, made no sensehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/trump-explored-cutting-grants-for-schools-tied-to-erdogan-foe…
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Two ugly truths: The Assad regime was the worst butcher of the
#Syrian Civil War. The Assad regime has all but won the Syrian Civil War. (Graphic: http://whoiskillingciviliansinsyria.org/ )pic.twitter.com/VIsWaBCzOk
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Today is a good day to reread
@LizSly's great piece on how ISIS emerged under Baghdadi from the skeleton of Iraq's Baathist regimehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-hidden-hand-behind-the-islamic-state-militants-saddam-husseins/2015/04/04/aa97676c-cc32-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html… -
Ironic is one word for it.https://twitter.com/Ian_J_Lynch/status/1188068609681248256…
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I wrote something about Iraq's protests. Not an analysis or foresight but the names, faces, and stories of some of those who were killed. No political agenda behind this. Simply giving a human angle to a number.
#IraqProtests#IraqXXVhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-protests-latest-death-toll-baghdad-tahrir-square-a9173506.html…Show this thread -
There's been a lot of public diplomacy highlighting Turkish-Pakistani relations of late.
#Pakistan was one of the most vocal supporters of#Turkey's#Syria incursion, for example.https://twitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1188790596934209536…
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Headline outrage aside, traditional media outlets like the NY Times and Washington Post have done a fine job covering the
#Baghdadi operation. I can't say the same for much of my twitter feed, where normally sober analysts are falling over themselves to leap to conclusions
Jimmy Kimmel
