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The 1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocides: Inconvenient Precedents for the Arab Spring Revolutions
By Ranbir Singh
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It was in a speech of 22 August 1939 that Hitler urged his volk to slaughter without mercy men, women and children of the inferior Slavic race as he planned to invade Poland. He ended this speech with these chilling words: "Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Of course it was not just the Armenians who have been forgotten. The Assyrian nation were also prime targets of the Ottoman policy to deliberately exterminate ancient Christian nations of the Middle East. It has often been cited as a template for the very Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis in which six million Jews were deliberately wiped out in the name of racial purity. What makes it more poignant as that there is one other very inconvenient fact that is ignored in all this. For years we have been fed information that Israelis an apartheid state and that the Zionists foisted their unwelcome colonialist intentions on the Palestinian natives. But if we look back to the very genesis of the Zionist project we find Jewish pioneers from Europe making arable land and small communities in what was desert and malaria infested marsh sparsely inhabited by nomadic Bedouin. This land was bought legally from the Ottoman authorities but nevertheless alarmed the sublime Porte enough for the caliphate to deliberately settle Circassians, Egyptians and Crimean Tatars in the region. Sultan Abd



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