- What is the real reason that after almost 100 years,
the US government is still incapable of, or unwilling to acknowledge
the Genocide of 1.5 million Christian Armenians? The reason is certainly
not the lame answer officially offered to us: we might offend Turkey.
The movement of the "Young Turks" a coalition of political
conspirators that was responsible for overtaking the Ottoman Empire as
well as for carrying out the Armenian and Assyrian Genocides, came to
an end in 1918.
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- Is there another reason why we cannot address the barbarity
of the Young Turks and call their murder of a minority, Genocide? Is
the possible reason stemming from the fear that we might discover the
identities of some of the more prominent, genocidal Young Turks, whose
plans were carried out by a vicious military? Is there a fear that this
discovery will draw new attention to another vicious military that is
poised at this very moment, ready to carry out similar crimes against
humanity? Some of the prominent founders of the Young Turks, as well
as party members consisted of those known as the "Donmeh," (or
"Donme"). The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 is quoted as saying
that the Donmeh are "a sect of crypto-Jews," posing outwardly
as Muslims. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the "Donme
took active part in the Young Turk movement." (1) (2)
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- The reason most of us acknowledge atrocities of the past
is so we may see what humanity has been capable of doing, and utter a
vow summed up into two words: "Never again." It is also a way
of at least honoring the memories of those who needlessly suffered and
died at the hands of vicious militaristic governments that have been
out of control and run primarily for the benefit of an elite few during
the last 100 years.
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- The genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians at the direction
of the Young Turks, and the genocide of millions of Soviets at the direction
of the Bolsheviks took place in the early 1900s, as a result of a Marxist/atheist
new world order movement that began infiltrating governments and establishing
plans for central control of everything necessary for human life. The
United States was not spared this Marxist infiltration and various Marxist
ideas became established here in direct violation of our Constitution.
Marxist ideas included establishing a "federal income tax"
on people's wages, establishing a private central banking system, and
taking over small local farms and awarding them to huge conglomerates
that now control most of our nation's food. The conglomerates also control
the "quality" of the foods we buy from them, they control government
policies, and they are now forcing Frankenfoods on us that defy description.
They have caused the United States to become a nation of sick people
who are now completely dependent on the giant pharmaceutical industry
to help relieve our growing list of symptoms stemming from malnutrition
and outright poisoning.
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- The removal of small, local farms remains a very dangerous
political move. When one takes a moment to review the genocides of the
past instead of ignoring them, one can see clearly that the most effective,
least expensive method of carrying out genocide, has been by denying simple
basic necessities of life, such as food and water to those targeted for
death. Administering death blows is costly. Past experience has shown
that simply withholding the necessities for survival works quite effectively.
The result is a slow death, and if the military government first isolates
the victims and has the help of a pandering press, their acts of mass
murder will also be silent. (3) (4)
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- As one looks at the 100-year-old Armenian Genocide, the
methodology used to plan it sounds suddenly familiar. Chillingly familiar.
- First the Young Turks used its propaganda machine to
paint a distorted picture of the Armenians: the Armenians, the Young
Turks claimed, were a terrorist threat to "national security."
This was a lie, but the Armenian civilians had no voice, and were helpless
and unable to defend themselves from the military government lording
itself over them. Accusing people of being terrorists has historically
worked well in justifying their murder. The Armenians were rounded up
from their ancestral lands, their properties were confiscated, and they
were forced to walk a death march into the desert and beyond without food
or water.
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- Hundreds of thousands died of hunger and thirst, and
others were barbarically and savagely murdered by the military, because
a military out of control is always a savage murdering machine. Some
Armenians were tied together and clubbed to death, others were tied together
and shot thus saving bullets, and still others were tied together and
thrown into pits and burned alive. The hundreds of thousands who died
of hunger and thirst were later described as merely having "died
of natural causes." Some still deny that this genocide happened,
but the bones in the desert and subterranean caves speak loudly.
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- In order to successfully carry out a genocidal massacre
and displacement of an entire population, there are three primary elements
necessary, and all three are woven together by a fourth element. The
fourth element consists of the dark threads of lies and false accusations
that are then parroted to the masses by a lying media. The first element
is that those who are to be "ethnically cleansed" from their
desirable ancestral real estate must be primarily an unarmed civilian
population. The second is that those doing the cleansing must have at
their disposal a highly sophisticated, vicious military willing to slaughter
the unarmed, including children and babies. The third and greatest element
needed is silence. During the days, months or years that the genocide
takes place, the rest of the world must be made to look in the opposite
direction through deflection or entertainment, and thus silence can be
maintained. The world must not notice, not see, and not hear the cries
of the sick, the starving, and the dying. These elements have been working
well for an elite few for 100 years.
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- While we reassure ourselves that "never again"
could such atrocities happen, and while we might say the Armenian Genocide
was a part of past history that no longer threatens the world, as I write
this, the militaristic state of Israel has completely cut off from the
rest of the world the 1.5 million Palestinian citizens it is holding prisoner
in the Gaza Strip. In 1948, when Zionist atheists declared the coveted
land of Palestine as their "birthright," the Zionists also declared
that Palestinians were a terrorist threat to the "national security"
of the new state of Israel. Palestinians were rounded up from their desirable
ancestral real estate, properties were confiscated they have been refugees
since.
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- Israel has been slowly starving this largely unarmed
civilian population of Gaza by blocking all borders and refusing to allow
delivery of common vital supplies such as food, medical provisions, and
services necessary for human survival. Israel is now planning to further
cut fuel, power and supplies to the unfortunate 1.5 million Palestinians
attempting to survive in Gaza. Israel also controls and has restricted
the Palestinians' access to their own water supplies. While Israel claims
it is no longer occupying Gaza, this is a false claim. The exact opposite
is true. In addition to closing off all of Gaza's borders, including
the Egyptian border, in addition to blocking entry of simple foods and
supplies to 1.5 million men, women, children and babies being held prisoner
in the Gaza Strip, Israel has also used its influence to block the flow
of money into Gaza, making it difficult for the poorest of the poor to
even receive donations. There is also no postal service through which
to send bread and food. (5)
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- While causing all of this, the Israeli military, with
its soldiers safely tucked inside its sophisticated armored vehicles and
its armored Caterpillar bulldozers, with its drones, its planes, helicopters,
blimps, jets, and gunboats (all generously paid for by billions and billions
of US tax dollars), the Zionist forces make daily incursions into the
Gaza civilian area, firing at homes, killing unarmed civilians including
children, and we have recently learned that, according to various confessions,
armed Israeli soldiers have been brutally beating Palestinian children
for no reason other than for sheer pleasure. One soldier tells of how
he witnessed another attack a 4-year-old boy who was building a sandcastle
in his own yard. The soldier broke the boy's wrist and leg, and then "started
to stomp on his stomach." In other "campaigns," the Israeli
forces have been filmed breaking children's arms by pounding them with
large rocks and twisting them. (6) (7)
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- Countless refugee homes have been demolished. Israeli
gunboats have targeted unarmed fishing boats, damaging those as well.
On land, Israeli forces have destroyed countless acres of fruit trees,
ancient olive orchards, and agricultural land, further deliberately exacerbating
the food and poverty problems. Their tanks and weapons have murdered
thousands of civilians, including children and babies. None of this has
been enough to satisfy Israel, however, and Israeli leaders now speak
of upcoming plans for a more massive military incursion into the refugees'
"open-air prison" called Gaza.
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- The only thing making all of this much, much worse is
that the current government of the United States is encouraging this
"collective punishment" of an innocent, captive, civilian population.
The propaganda justifying Israel's planned starvation of the children,
babies, women and men in Gaza is being played yet again like a familiar,
old, warped record: The Palestinians, Israel claims, are a terrorist
threat to the "national security" of Israel, a land that was
violently stolen from the Palestinians almost 60 years ago, without concern
or compensation for the Palestinians who owned it.
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- How many more times will we allow this warped record
to be played while we all look the other way? What will it take to get
the U.N. to finally do something and open Gaza's borders? The broken
record will continue being played unless we end our silence, acknowledge
the past, and acknowledge the present. We need to stand up to Israel
despite the ridiculous Zionist threat of being labeled "anti- Semitic."
The gaunt, haunting face of starvation is staring at us once again.
It is staring at us from the present.
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- One such face is that of a 20-year-old Palestinian man
by the name of Mahmoud Abu Taha, who was diagnosed with intestinal cancer
in August of this year. He underwent surgery in Gaza where according
to news reports, medical services are now severely limited due to Israel's
blockage of Gaza's supplies, services and electricity.
- The surgery was not successful, and Mahmoud then needed
additional medical care not available in Palestine. As his family desperately
attempted to obtain permission from Israel to send him for treatment
in an Israeli hospital, his condition deteriorated. Unable to eat, he
was given liquid nourishment, but because of the Israeli border blockage,
the quantities of this liquid nutrient were also severely limited. According
to reports, due to the shortage of supplies, Mahmoud was eventually limited
to only one "feeding" per day, resulting in the loss of approximately
one-third of his body weight. (8)
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- "Mahmoud is melting away in front of our eyes like
a candle," his brother, Hani, would say. (9)
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- Although permission to cross the border was initially
denied because Israel said Mahmoud was a security risk, permission was
finally granted a few weeks ago for him to obtain the lifesaving treatment
he needed in Israel. Accompanied by his father, they traveled by ambulance
but only made it as far as the border, where the Israeli checkpoint forces
refused to allow the critically ill man into Israel. Mahmoud's father
was arrested for unknown reasons at the checkpoint (Palestinians, including
children, can be arrested for no reason at all). The ambulance carrying
Mahmoud was ordered back to Gaza.
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- Earlier this week, permission was again obtained for
Mahmoud to cross the border. Mahmoud was carried again into an ambulance
and taken toward the border. Although emaciated now to the point where
he could not stand or move his limbs, as he lay motionless in the back
of the ambulance receiving oxygen and an IV, he was subjected to an 8-hour
delay at the Zionist checkpoint as military personnel pondered yet again
whether Mahmoud Abu Taha was a national security threat to the State of
Israel, and whether he should be permitted to meet with the Israeli doctors
standing by waiting for him. It was a long day and a long delay for the
critically ill young man.
- For Mahmoud, this journey of hope and desperation was
about to end. It was not to end as hoped, however. Mahmoud died a few
hours after finally being allowed to enter Israel. Following his death,
the Zionist military then reportedly released his father from jail.
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- This is the face of one young person who was denied adequate
nourishment, humanitarian care, medical care, basic services, the right
to travel freely, basic human rights, basic freedoms, and compassion by
a military force that is completely out of control, and has never been
held accountable for its racist crimes against humanity. Mahmoud's only
crime, and the only reason he was treated so terribly, was that he was
a Palestinian. Mahmoud was not a terrorist. He was a human being living
under the occupation of a brutal military force that wants the world to
believe that all Palestinians are a terrorist threat to "national
security," and therefore there is justification in torturing, detaining,
and killing them all. Israel is now planning to deliver further torment
to the 1.5 million prisoners in the largest concentration camp ever created
on the face of the earth: Gaza Strip. Unable to escape the closed borders,
the people of Gaza are pleading with the world for someone to please acknowledged
them and help them.
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- Mahmoud was not a terrorist. Of this we can be certain.
But it is no longer easy to identify who is or is not Jewish. There
are Jews who are presenting themselves as Muslims. There are Jews who
are atheists. There are Jews who are Zionists. There are Zionists who
are Jews. There are Zionists who are not Jews. There are Jews who are
not Zionists. There are Christians who are Zionists supporting Israel
rather than following the teachings of Jesus. There are Jewish converts
who have no ancestry with the tribes of Israel.
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- There are Jews who have been treated terribly by Zionists,
and there are Zionists who do not want to be associated with Jews. There
are Jews who are Semites; there are Jews who have not a trace of Semite
ancestry in them. Most Semites are people such as Mahmoud. Most of those
currently occupying seats in the US government are Zionists embracing
Marxist concepts, and some have dual citizenship in both Israel and the
US. These people represent the interests of Israel rather than the interests
of the US.
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- In this confusing time, there are two clear identifications
we must be brave enough to make: The first identification is that Mahmoud,
who was unable to move his limbs or stand up, was not a terrorist threat
to anyone. He was a dying young person whose short life was made even
more miserable by a militaristic government that has been making the lives
of all Palestinians as hellish as possible for about 60 years. The second
identification we need to make is in Resolution 260 (III) A of the United
Nations General Assembly adopted by the UN on 9 December, 1948. It reads
as follows:
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- "In the present Convention, genocide means any of
the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
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- (a) Killing members of the group;
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- (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
of the group;
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- (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of
life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part;
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- (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within
the group;
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- (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group." (10)
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- That is the international, legal definition of Genocide.
This is what it looks like:
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- Good bye, Mahmoud. I pray that we will never forget
you and the needless suffering you and your family were forced to endure.
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- (Photo of Mahmoud by Muhammad Sabah, B'Tselem.)
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- Mary is a writer, and the author of a bestselling book,
The Love Song. She urges all who wish to put a stop to the Genocide of
the Palestinians to send a copy of this article to everyone you know,
as well as to the UN. Demand action. Demand that the UN open the borders
of Gaza. Let the UN know we know the truth. End the support of Zionist
Israel. With loudspeakers at the border, play calming songs of true spirituality
and peace such as this http:// homepage.mac.com/larrynickel/Kyrie%20-%20Choir.html
and this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2673401390420936142&q=ave
+maria+schubert&total=657&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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- 1. Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906. Donmeh. 10/29/2007
- http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=438&letter=D
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- 2. Britannica. Donme. 10/29/07.
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9030930/Donme
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- 3. Armenian Starvation. 10/29/2007
- http://www.diamandagalas.com/defixiones/images/ar-vict-
bread.jpg
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- 4.Armenian Starvation. 10/29/07
- http://www.greece.org/genocide/quotes/q-ar-vict-mother.html
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- 5. Palestinian water restrictions.
- http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article14
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- 6.Breaking a 4-year-old's wrist and leg.
http:// observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2195924,00.html
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- 7.Bone-breaking campaigns. Horrifying, graphic video.
- http://www.hanini.org/Thebonebreakers.html
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- 8. Israeli Human Rights report - shortage of medical
supplies
- http://www.btselem.org/english/Gaza_Strip/ 20071018_Gaza_Medical_Care_Cancer_patient_Mhmoud_Abu_Taha.asp
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- 9. "Like a candle..."
- http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1707972007
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- 10. Genocide.
- http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
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