Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies, March 11, 2010; also Armenian National institute, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, CommonDreams, History of Macedonia, & Huffington Post: The Obama administration, citing its relations with Turkey, has pledged to block the passage in the full House of Representatives of a resolution passed this past Thursday by the Foreign Relations Committee acknowledging the 1915 genocide by the Ottoman Empire of a 1.5 million Armenians. Even though the Obama administration previously refused to acknowledge and even worked to suppress well-documented evidence of recent war crimes by Israel, another key Middle Eastern ally, few believed that the administration would go as far as to effectively deny genocide. [source]