Defending Foxman, or
Cool it, Armenians
By Israel Shamir
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Abe Foxman, the
head of the Jewish-Masonic thought police misnamed ADL,
easily one of the most repulsive men in American public
life, is not as good as a clock, but he can be right once in
a while; and this time is now.
The US Congress, this modern areopagus of saints and sages,
the highest moral authority of our planet, is about to
condemn the Turks for massacring Armenians almost a century
ago. 1915 was a long time ago, and the American legislators
probably do not know where Armenia is and where it was then.
This issue is a veritable can of worms, where nothing is as
it appears.
The reasons are anything but moral. Its American promoters
wish to punish Turkey for staying out of the Iraq War and to
scare this great country back into obedience. The Neocon
plan for the New Middle East calls for the creation of a
Greater Kurdistan including some parts of Eastern Anatolia,
and the condemnation of Turkey may lead to a new attempt to
tear the requisite lands away from Ankara.
The Armenians, always keen to copycat the Jews, want to have
a holocaust registered to their name, replete with
compensations, museums and a permit to massacre their
neighbors Azeris. Why should the events of 1915 legitimize
their atrocities against the Azeris, who actually allowed
the Armenian refugees to settle in their land? Here again,
the Armenians borrowed a leaf from the Jewish book: if the
Jews can kill innocent Palestinians on whose land they found
refuge after being expelled by Germans, the Armenians may
do the same to the equally innocent Azeris.
This decision is likely to antagonize Turkey, and thus it is
not to be undertaken lightly; on the other hand, it is good
to keep ‘em on tiptoes, so they won’t be too cocksure. In
addition, Armenians have a small but efficient lobby, a
little brother to the mighty Jewish one, and their desire
has some weight.
Now, in questions of importance an Italian consults with his
priest, a Swiss – with his banker, a German with his
policeman, while an American goes to the Jews who happily
unite a financial and religious institution with a secret
police function. This time, Abe Foxman gave a correct reply:
“A congressional action will not help
reconcile the issue. The resolution takes a position; it
comes to a judgment. The Turks and Armenians may need to
revisit their past. The Jewish community shouldn't be the
arbiter of that history, nor should the U.S. Congress.”
Afterwards, the ADL and three other powerful Jewish
organizations—the American Jewish Committee, the Masonic
B'nai Brith International, and the Jewish Institute of
National Security Affairs — asked Congress to stay away from
the trouble.
The reasons of Foxman were as hard-nosed
as those of the Armenian apologists. Turkey is traditionally
friendly to the Jews, and a decision of the American
congress is usually considered to be taken, or at least
approved by the Jews. A hostile resolution is going to cause
some ill feeling of Turks to the Jews and to the Jewish
state; while the Armenians are traditional enemies of the
Jews anyway.
Foxman was attacked and almost lynched by
many members of his community who had dreamed for years for
a politically correct opportunity. [See
http://www.jewcy.com/feature/2007-07-09/fire_foxman ]
It’s hard to regret his possible political demise; but this
time he was right. The U.S. Congress and the Jewish
community shouldn't be the arbiter of history.
If the Americans feel they must condemn
mass killings, they should begin with themselves. Let
them begin with mass killing of Iraqis and Afghanis, instead
of paying for its surge. Afterwards, they may condemn the
massacres done by their fathers and grandfathers – be it
Dresden or Hiroshima, Vietnam or Cambodia, Philippines or
Mexico, Atlanta or Wounded Knee – and compensate the
sufferers, and all other nations they bombed and robbed. In
such a way they will obtain some moral right to express
their view, if not to sit in judgment.
The Jews should get off their high horse, while they
continue to suffocate and starve Gaza. Let them pay for the
horrors of Al Nakba, the Palestinian holocaust, for 60
years, before voicing any view on genocides, whether in
Turkey or in Sudan. But it is not likely they will. They do
not know where to stop. This extremism will eventually cause
their defeat. They had to take a good Communist idea to its
Trotskyite extreme, and now, taking Holocaustism to its
extreme, they launched a “kNOw (cute!?)
Genocide, a new multi-ethnic, non-partisan coalition formed
to combat the ongoing denial of known cases of genocide,
such as the Darfur, Cambodian, Jewish, Rwandan, and the
Armenian genocides.”
I wonder why they stop at that. What
about the Sack of Troy and ensuing genocide? Do not deny it,
the Trojans are extinct but for computers! And let us
consider the oldest genocide, that of the Neanderthals. They
were exterminated by Homo sapiens. Our ancestors killed them
all. We should not forget nor forgive this crime.
Speaking of Armenians, the US Congress
may recognise and condemn the massacre of Cypriot Greeks by
Armenians in the 13th century when they
practically depopulated the island, or the massacre of
Azeris in 1918 in Baku (over 30,000 slain) and in 1992 over
Karabagh by Armenians. On the other hand, provided that the
Armenians are the descendents of the Amalek tribe, Congress
should recognise their genocide by King Saul and demand of
the Jews that they pay for it…
I do have strong doubt about many new inventions, and
genocide, a concept invented in 1945, is one of them. There
is nothing new in killing since it was practiced by Cain on
Abel; why would they need a brand new concept? The inventor,
a Polish Jew named
Raphael Lemkin, served as a US adviser; he felt that killing
a Jew is much worse a crime than killing a goy. Indeed, he
studied the Talmud, and the Talmud makes this important
contradistinction. In order to convince the American goyim,
he invented the concept of genocide. So, genocide is just a
new word for the Talmud-defined special offence of killing,
or threatening a Jew. Genocide is not the same as “killing
civilians”, otherwise the victims of Leningrad siege and
Dresden bombing would qualify.
The ‘genocide’
concept was invented by Jews, and Jewish inventions work
well only for Jews. For instance, Jewish siege of Gaza fits
the definition of genocide, but try and say that; you will
be called Nazi and excluded from a polite society. On the
other hand, when Ahmadinejad calls for undoing the Jewish
racist state, this is “genocide;” when a Hezbollah missile
killed ten Israeli soldiers last August, this was a case of
“genocide,” for “they were killed only because they were
Jews”. The killing of a goy does not qualify: when the
Germans starved Leningrad, Americans nuked Hiroshima, or
Jews bombed Gaza and Beirut, this was not genocide
because the perpetrators were indifferent to the
ethnic-religious orientation of their victims, claims the PC
legalist. The Yankees could not exclude that Hiroshima is
populated by Scots; the Germans could think Leningrad is
mainly Zulu; while the Jews thought only murderous
terrorists lived in Beirut and Gaza. This explanation is so
forced that it calls for Ockham's Razor. My
explanation “genocide is killing of Jews” is easier.
Later, mass killing
of Jews was promoted to the “Holocaust,” while the genocide
concept was downgraded and used for branding the general
enemy: Communists, Muslims, disobedient rulers. The killing
of a few dozen Albanian brigands in Kosovo was “genocide,”
and Serbia was bombed for this crime, while its President
died in a Hague jail. A civil war in Rwanda became
‘genocide’, though the Tutsi population actually increased.
It is now ascribed to Muslims. Cambodia was “genocide”,
while Vietnam (where Americans killed five million) was not.
In short, “genocide” is a politically motivated label of
little importance.
Listen, war is
hell, and killing civilians is a crime, or should be crime;
whatever their ethnic background is. This simple rule is
better than genocide innovations. The problem is, it
eliminates the high moral ground of the Allies over the
Axis, for both sides killed a lot of civilians. But it
should not bother us. Let us get rid of the genocide
invention – anyway it does not help us, and it helps our
enemy.
Joachim Martillo discovered that the Save
Darfur Genocide PR campaign was arranged and orchestrated by
the American Jewish network “David Project” and its
affiliates in order to demonise Muslims and Arabs and to
recruit non-Jews [See his revelations on
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/ and
http://karinfriedemann.blogspot.com/ ] Have no doubt:
the Armenian Lobby signed on every dotted line; without that
they won’t get far.
So, what happened with the Armenians?
Armenians suffered during the WWI because they fought
against the Ottoman Empire – and lost. They sided with its
enemy. They were promised almost the whole of Anatolia by
the Allies, and Turks could experience the grim fate of
Azeris but for the sword of Mustafa Kemal. Armenians made a
good try to ethnically cleanse the Turks and the Kurds, but
failed. They were interned or deported by the Imperial
government. Likewise, the Japanese were interned by Franklin
D. Roosevelt, the Germans were deported by Britain, the
Palestinians were deported by Israel, the Turks were
deported by Greece - and many perished.
Since then, the world has changed. The
Ottoman Empire is gone; and Turkey is just one of many
successor-states, among them Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq,
Greece etc. This is unfair and outright racist plan to
single out Turkey, especially if the Armenian deportees were
killed by their neighbours, the Kurds. Now there is an
(almost) independent Kurdistan with a lot of oil. If some
Armenians are spoiling for compensation, they may try the
Kurds. If however some Armenians want to return to the Lake
Van, they may be allowed to come back while fully
recognising Turkish sovereignty.
The dissolution of empires is a painful
event, with succession wars a permanent feature. Still,
India does not claim that England owes it compensation for
the Hindu – Muslim massacres and wars of 1948. A community
is likely to suffer from the wrong choice in case of war.
Armenians surely suffered, but the Turks are not to be
blamed. We should reject the racist concept of inherited
guilt: whoever was in the wrong in 1915 is certainly dead.
Nowadays, the Armenians live in modern
Turkey in peace; they are not looking for condemnations. The
recently assassinated Armenian journalist was adamantly
against such a foreign condemnation – he thought this is an
internal Turkish affair. He was right: every nation may do
its soul-searching and guilt-attributing. But the
holier-than-thou attitude promoted by the Western
well-wishers should be limited to a minimum.
Even in the case of our beloved Palestine
we do not call for the US Congress to condemn the Nakba: we
call on them to give equal rights to the Palestinians living
in Palestine, and to allow the return of refugees. Let the
past to take care of itself; while we may take care of our
present.
The Armenians are advised to take care of
their present as well. Because of their obsession with the
past, their republic is in dire straits. Whoever can
emigrate does so. There are more Armenians in Moscow than in
Yerevan. Playing into neocon hands won’t improve their
situation. Instead of aggravating the situation and dreaming
of redrawing maps, they should cool it and make peace with
their Turk, Azeri and Kurd neighbours.
Recommended reading:
An American historian on the Armenian
Turkish problem:
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/Armenia/justin.html
Armenian-Turkish Conflict
Speech given by
Dr. Justin McCarthy at the Turkish Grand National
Assembly
March 24, 2005
Jews demand Foxman’s head:
http://www.jewcy.com/feature/2007-07-09/fire_foxman
Jewcy.com July 9, 2007
Fire Foxman
Denying the Armenian Genocide should be the last
atrocity perpetrated by the ADL chief.
By Joey Kurtzman
Joachim Martillo on Armenian Genocide:
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/
and
http://karinfriedemann.blogspot.com/