Letter to the Editor: Deir ez-Zor to Gaza
In Gaza, the history of genocide is repeating itself. U.S. President Donald Trump, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have indicated their desire and future plans to depopulate the Palestinians from their homeland. History will recall that the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians involved depopulating most of historic Armenia by deporting Armenians to Syria’s desert, Deir ez-Zor.
The definition of genocide is clear. During their incursion into Gaza, Israeli forces indiscriminately killed thousands of Palestinian civilians, with no connection to the terrorist organization Hamas, causing serious harm to innocent men, women and children. Hospitals and schools were bombed and destroyed. People were starving, and the Israeli army refused to allow food and medical supplies to enter Gaza. The extreme right wing of the Israeli government has always sought to take over Gaza as Israeli territory.
The finality of the genocide will be what Trump and Netanyahu have indicated — the depopulation of two and a half million Palestinians from Gaza by deporting them to Egypt, Jordan or other Arab countries. A whole population would be eliminated from their homeland. They would then turn Gaza into the “Riviera” of the Middle East. If Trump and Netanyahu could do this with the power of the United States military, then Turkey would be tempted to eliminate Armenia and have a clear path to Azerbaijan and their oil fields.
The Israeli government should be ashamed of its treatment of the innocent Palestinians. They should recall what Hitler did to the Jews of Europe. It seems as though history does repeat itself, especially when the shoe is on the other foot.
Ezan Bagdasarian
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What you said in this article is so very true.As children of 1915, every Armenian must stand up against ethnic cleansing, no matter where it is happening.Especially, if the President of our own country is the one advocating the crime.
Just like Hitler proclaiming the worldwide whitewashing of the Armenian Genocide leading up to the Holocaust, the Israelis learned first hand from the Azeris; no one will react to this new form of genocide. The irony is striking.
So true. But who is listening. Americans have ears that are covered with headsets listening to their music, nothing else. They would care less. That is why all these foreign governments can get away with murder, a long as the US government supports their point of view. The citizens don’t care less about foreign countries. Generally, the US citizens’s favorite pastime is watching football and drinking beer and arguing about being a Republican or a Democrat, which involves taking a stance on guns and birth control (which incidentally is a woman’s issue, but it seems men seem to think they should shed light on it too, go figure).
The US has a reputation of selectively supporting a few nations, and ignoring the others, especially if they are smaller countries that do not benefit the United States. I don’t know how Israel benefits the US, nevertheless, the US puts in a lot of $ and manpower in supporting any position Israel has. A small country, same as Armenia, but a big difference in the support they get.
The average American – who make up the large majority of Americans – are totally ignorant and insular. They hardly know anything about the World outside the United States, which is the whole World for them. They couldn’t care less and they don’t. I don’t know if it is 99% of Americans, but I would bet that way more than 95% of Americans have never heard of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia (that another Georgia exists, would perplex and confuse them), etc.
Thank you for your comments…
American Education is very poor…
They know nothing about Armenians…
But I also met educated people who have friends ….
They tell me my best friend is Armenian …
Many people try to know who I am, and I tell them like Aram Khachaturian Armenian.
They don’t know who he is!!!
If I tell Kim Kardashian, they know very well…!!!
Dear Ezan Bagdasarian, Thank you for your great article…
Who doesn’t feel with others ‘thee’ doesn’t belong to human genes…
I have created the word Pedicide ( Pediatric Genocide because they are genociding children…
Pedicide: Pediatric Genocide
Wounds after wounds
Scars after Scars
Miseries filled our heart valves
Debilitating our lives.
Lacrimal ducts blocked with salty sands
No corners left to breathe healthy air….
Wounds… Scars…
We can’t see blue skies
Dusted blood filling our eyes
Asking us to stay blind
We are blind
We want to be blind … Stay blind
Not to see more ‘Pedicides’
(children’s skulls crushed under blocks of rocks)
Yes, Pedicide … Yes Pedicide
The word ‘Pedicide’ should be added
Before the word genocide…
And why kill innocent angelic lives
Were they born to die under bright sunny stars…!!!
Why Hate and Beyond Hate!?!… Why!?!
Can anybody hate beautiful darling innocent saints…!
Smiling…Giggling…Singing…Dancing lives…?
Unearthly…Unexpectedly…!
Holocaust sufferers became Holocausters…!
Committing worse than Genocides … Pedicides…!
We humans do inquire, desperately,
When it will end, when…!
Their god pretends to be deaf-blind…!
Not hearing the cries, the godly shouts,
The chants of mothers who lost their beloved…s…
As if refusing to punish them…
Thus, they insist on continuing their ‘cides’…!
Sylva Portoian, MD, FRCP
May 2024
From my recent Poetry Book, of 405 pages full of Paintings on Genocide, and each page I have written a poem …”Pedicide Iss Genocide”
Dear Ezan, well said, a just and fair comment, remember at the time of Armenian genocide in the hand of pan Turk, The superpower of the world in that time, mainly England, planted the seed of Palestinian genocide by transferring Zionists from Europe to Palestine, in other words Armenian and Palestinian have a lot in common. As evidence of the last couple of year in Gaza revealed no one care about Palestinian, also the event in Artsakh revealed no one care about Armenian, neither Russian, nor American, nor European and not even France, other wise the tyrant in Baku did not dare to do what he did in Artsakh if those countries did not choose to be silent. Who can claim that Hitler killed more than 15 thousand children in a small community of 2 million population in 15 month period during the heat of the second world war?!