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The Armenian Genocide and Palestinian Nakba
Many historians and genocide scholars have regarded the 1915 Armenian Genocide as the model for all subsequent genocides in the 20th century. It is critical to examine the strategies used by the Ottoman Empire to massacre Armenians in the early 1900s, as we can recognize identical patterns three decades later in the Palestinian Nakba.
Cultural annihilation
The Armenian Genocide went beyond a campaign of mass, indiscriminate murder; it was a complex plan to eradicate all vestiges of Armen
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Armaan, very interesting historical parallel you made between 1915 and 1948. I found your article very interesting. Please keep up the good work.
You fail to recognize the underlying problem. Palestine was never a country, the Hamas supporting Palestinians want to kill all Jews. Who attacked who on October 7th with the same personal atrocities we Armenians faced from turkish soldiers. Have you ever wondered why the Mid i a nites no longer bother the Israelis? Read Numbers 31 to 32 and understand God’s will and military strategy
Right. Excellent.
The underlying problem was te establishment of the Zionest State of Israel on others land !!
hamas is a guerrilla terrorist organization who committed atrocities on oct 7th but what is happening now in retaliation is genocide. as an armenian how can you not condemn israel for supplying azerbaijan with military aid specifically for the assault on armenians in 2023? they were complicit in genocide then and they commit it today. netanyahu has been itching for years to do this
It is outrageous to me, unless I have missed it, that not a single Armenian political, social, or religious organization has raised its voice to publicly criticize and condemn the ongoing Genocide in Gaza by Israel funded by us, the American taxpayer. Why are we afraid to speak up?
Given its military and politcal support to Azerbaijan, Israel is no friend of the Armenians. Worse, Israel has yet to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Written so well! Great job Armaan. Love the photo from “The Battle of Algiers.”
Armand brings up an important. Armenians have a duplicitous relationship with Jews. On the one hand , the American Armenian community has a close and functioning relationship with American Jews but there are serious constraints when Israel enters the discussion. Most American Jews support Israel as a homeland but an increasing number are embarrassed or say nothing about the oppressive campaign against Palestinians. Armenians have plenty to be concerned about with Israel with lack of genocide recognition, land grabbing in Jerusalem and contributing to the killing of Armenians with the Israeli/Azeri relationship…. Yet our outrage is minimal. But then again where were we in Rwanda, Dafur or the Kurds. We want respect …. We must offer it. Our passivity with Israel is more disappointing since they act overtly against the interests of Armenians.
When the Kurds were being massacred, many Armenians offered worn out arguments about the Kurds and 1915, yet Kurds saved many Armenians in Syrian villages in the ISiS/ Turk campaigns.
Our divisions and lack of political maturity are showing.
well spoken
Armenia has made a action in recognition of Palestine. As Israel has persistently shown itself to be hostile to Armenia since independence including over the ottoman genocide yet demand full acknowledgement of the Nazis killing of Jewish people. Perhaps the notorious inertia of independent Armenia and being strung along by Israel over the possibly of genocide recognition and not obstruction internationally and the welfare of the Armenian community in Israel and risking its deeper support for Azerbaijan who recognised Palestine in 1992 along with Georgia yet Armenia was in its own bubble on the issue until this year. What one doesn’t give one cannot expect to get so when there are wrongs just being were Armenian and not interfering people we don’t want to get involved means being generally not targeted and anti Armenianism isn’t a universal phenomenon yet when are being persecuted haven’t been able to elicit much support from other peoples of the world .
I enjoyed reading this article
To understand the injustice Palestinians have suffered read “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” and “The Biggest Prison on Earth” both by Ilan Pappe who is an Israeli historian. When I hear “The hostilities started on October 7” that is a very biased statement. What Hamas did on October 7 was horrible, but one needs to consider the totality of the injustice Palestinians have faced over the last 100 plus years.
It is important also to understand that many Jews of conscience despise the Israeli government. Read about the fine organization “Jewish Voice for Peace”. Do not equate the many conscientious Jews with the racist Zionists in charge of the Israeli government.
And finally AIPAC via their surrogate ADP (American Democracy Project) spent 1.2 million to help Henry Cuellar retain his house seat in Texas in 2022. Cuellar is co chair of the Azerbaijani Caucus in the US House of Representatives. He was also indicted for accepting $600,000 in bribes from the Government of Azerbaijan. So it is important to understand that Israel is not only helping Azerbaijan militarily, but also diplomatically. AIPAC is a very powerful and toxic organization (in lock step with the Israsli Government) that controls our US Congress. On some bills pertaining to the middle east lawmakers will simply ask “How does AIPAC want us to vote” instead of reading the legislation to determine whether it is morally right and in the interest of the United States.