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Why attacks on the ANCA expose fear, not facts
It’s worth asking why the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) has recently come under such coordinated attack from media outlets aligned with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
What do these unfounded assaults say about the ANCA — and, just as importantly, about the authors behind them? What do they want? And what do they fear?
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Expressions of being “informed, organized and unwilling to be silenced” by ARF is in itself demonstration of fear. ARF accusations of alleged attempts to “silence” them is pure fiction. They seem to be “sensitive” against the deserved pushback by those who see a very suspicious alignment of ARF policies with that of the Kremlin.
If smear campaigns and sabotage against ANCA and the ARF by the Jewish lobby/Israel, were not bad enough, worse, it gets attacked and sabotaged by the arch-traitor and arch-saboteur Pashinyan and his unpatriotic supporters. It seems that Armenians are one’s own worst enemy. It makes the job of its external enemies so much easier, that they don’t even have to resort to their usual divide and conquer tactics.
Oh, c’mon Zaven. Are you really Armenian, or are you a Judas Tree?
Steve’s statement, “Armenians are one’s own worst enemy. It makes the job of its external enemies so much easier, that they don’t even have to resort to their usual divide and conquer tactics” is assured, given our post 1915 trauma and dispersal and restart from nothing.
Zaven seems to like to spout the same familiar narrative/trope exactly meant to silence and instill fear – and, y’know, Russia, Russia, Russia, we’re being too sensitive…sounds like Turkey in 1915 all over again. I guess when it comes to genocide, we are definitely attuned to its possibilities.
Meanwhile, Armenia is at stake as is the AAP. Then what’s left?
Armenians are located globally – even in (Russia). I love all my people, no matter where from. I think we can rise above Zaven’s myopic view to support the efforts of ANCA and hope Zaven will see the “Judeo/Christian” plot for what it is…outright evil and besieging Armenia.
In any case, genocide is UNACCEPTABLE. What is being done to Gaza is REPREHENSIBLE. Making Armenia the next proxy for the West, like Ukraine, is also REPREHENSIBLE. Wake up and join the movement. We are a global people and Armenia must pivot in several directions at once in whatever way possible. So it does require all of us. But do not ever say what most of us see is “fiction”.
ANCA is taking a stand against obvious attempts to silence the Diaspora. You have to be blind to not see.
Get noisier and repost the word to the unawakened faithful. Do not doubt for a moment that we are in an unholy war.