Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said President Bush "reiterated his opposition to the Armenian Genocide resolution, the passage of which would be harmful to U.S. relations with Turkey."

Many across the Jewish community in the United States seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief when the influential Anti-Defamation League acknowledged the Armenian Genocide. The growing gap between public understanding of the historical events and the political concerns of the Jewish-American leadership over relations with Turkey had become untenable.

NEWSru.co.il web site has accomplished a survey titled “Israel and Armenian Genocide.” The survey proceeded in two stages (August 27-28 and October 2). 561 people took part in the survey, 509 of them answered all of the questions.

The United States congress is expected to vote on the Armenian genocide resolution. But there are doubts since it may badly damage US and Turkish relations. The House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts that the bill will pass.

“It is with dismay that I read the content of the letter signed by former US Secretaries of State urging Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to derail H. Res. 106,” says a statement by Vartan Oskanian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, on the letter by Former Secretaries of State to U.S. Speaker of the House Pelosi on the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106).

For the first time in history a member of the Turkish parliament recognized the 1915 events and spoke of restitution of the despoiled property, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.

Today the “Liberal Jews of Great Britain” visited the Genocide museum and institute in Yerevan, Armenia. As the museum's director, Hayk Demoyan, told panorama.am, rabbis Danny Rich and Ruth Barnett were part of the delegation. A seminar and dialogue titled “The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire” was held. The visit by the rabbis had a pre-planned program.

The Armenian Assembly of America welcomed the news that Congressman John P. Sarbanes (D-MD) has officially joined the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues this week, bringing the total Caucus membership to 155.

The project of constructing a memorial dedicated to the Armenian Genocide victims is no more endangered, The Boston Globe reports.

Another important milestone on the journey to UK Recognition of the Genocide was passed on July 11.

After escalating criticism from the Armenian American community for his role in obstructing an article on the Armenian Genocide this April and his discriminatory behavior against Armenian American reporters, Los Angeles Times Managing Editor Douglas Frantz has resigned effective July 6th and will be returning to Istanbul, reported the Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region (ANCA-WR).

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urging her to support H. Res. 106, the Armenian Genocide Resolution.