Avedian, Vahagn, The Armenian Genocide 1915: From a Neutral Small State’s Perspective, Uppsala, 2008
The aim of this study is to find out how the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Turkey during World War I were perceived by a neutral small state, namely Sweden, what options did Sweden have to take, what the response was and why. The Swedish reaction should be of special interest since, Sweden, as a neutral state during the entire conflict, had no immediate involvement or interest in the ongoing conflict, thus, any subsequent reaction to the massacres would have been from a humanitarian perspective. The overall issue to be addressed is what a small neutral state such as Sweden was capable of doing when faced with a humanitarian crisis during wartime, how did they choose to react, and how can this reaction be explained. In order to answer this issue one must first chart 1) the amount of information in regard to the Armenian massacres and their nature available to the Swedish governmental and non-governmental actors 2) what kind of a response this information resulted in? 3) how can that reaction be explained and does it correlate with the response needed to cope with similar issues?
However, surveying the full amount of information needed for understanding and analysing the response to the massacres in order to exhaustively answer the central issue is beyond the scope of a master thesis paper and requires a larger study. Thus, this paper attends to the first part, namely charting the information at hand, while the analysis of the response, especially a neutral small state’s during an ongoing global conflict will be left for future studies. Through studying published news articles, books, and brochures authored by Swedish and other missionaries and field workers and reports from the Swedish Diplomatic and Military missions in Ottoman Turkey, this paper has attempted to clarify the amount and the nature of the information about the WWI massacres in the Ottoman Empire. Essential for such study, besides the theory regarding humanitarian intervention, is the theory stipulating that the behaviour of small states, such as Sweden, differs from that of major powers in the international relations. While major powers rely on their financial resources and strength as forcible means, small states tend to advocate a foreign policy which is of brief duration, more local and inclined to support international cooperation organisations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations.
The surveyed information in this study shows that the amount of information about the Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey were replete. Although the studied material does not cover the full scope of the required data needed to complete the study, this paper will show that the Swedish Foreign Ministry and Government was fully aware of the ongoing annihilation of the Armenian Nation and the need of a humanitarian intervention.
“But Solomon built him an house. Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in Temples made with hands…ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost…” Acts 7:47-48
“…seeing that he is Lord o heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands” Acts 17:24
“…be not ye called Rabbi…and call no man your father upon the earth…Neither be ye called masters.” Mat 23:8-10
Religion: The World has 2 Religions: Tree of Life or Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil “Gnosticism”. Gnosticism is Salvation through “Knowledge”; the Serpent promises “Freedom” and “Liberty” from God. Science: Scire “To Know” is the most corrupt religion.
Jesus Christ is the only “Reverend” (ref Ps 111:9), only “Priest” (Heb 5:10 “Melchisedek”), only “Father” (Mat 23:9) and only “Rabbi” (Teacher; Mat 23:7) in the New Covenant.
Catholic means “Universal”; Vatican means Vatis=Divine; Can=Serpent Priest; Roman means Romani “Gypsy”. The Vatican is controlled by Jesuits and Hospitaller Knights (SMOM aka Knights of St John of Jerusalem) Mark 16:8 is the last verse in in the Roman Catholic Bible (Vaticinus) “for they were afraid”; the New Covenant based on redemption through the Holy Ghost is described in Mark 16:9-20 “the Lord working with them, and confirming the with signs following. Amen.” Fear is not part of the New Covenant!
Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic religion has nothing to do with Jesus Christ. The Alternative Christ will come in his own name (Mahdi, Buddha, Maitreya, Krishna) and the Great Tribulation will begin.
Judaism is not Kaballah, Talmud or Zohar. Israel and Judah were physically replaced by Foreigners (2 Kings 17:30); the 7 branched candlestick was replaced with the 9 branched Hanukkah (Hanok=Cain’s descendant Enoch) Menorah. God’s ordained Levite priesthood was replaced by Samaritan Kohanim and Old Testament Judaism with Talmudism and Kaballah.
Jesus Christ is the Holy Ghost; ask Him for the Holy Ghost and your your body becomes the New Covenant Temple, something “Templars” and “Zionists” can never understand.
Missionary and Sermon are not in the Word of God. Synagogue is not a word associated with the Old “Jewish” Covenant (Ps 74:8); by Solomon’s Day all of them had been “burned up”. Congregation is not associated with the New Covenant (Acts 13:43); Paul waited for the Congregation to break-up, admonishing members to “continue in the Grace of the Lord”; he was “Stoned” for it.
Salvation is not a team sport; it is individual accountability to the Creator of the Universe. Sorry if this is too blunt, but all Religions are Gnostic. Science (Gnosis), Protestants (Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Anglican, Episcopal etc), Catholic (Roman, Liberal, Syrian), Jewish (Rabbis, Talmud, Kaballah are not Jewish in any sense), Orthodox (Russian, Coptic, Greek, Syrian), Muslim (Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabist, Sufi), Bahai, Hindu, Taoism, Buddhism, Mormonism, Unitarianism, New Age etc are merely Gnostic Religions; modern day Towers of Babel, reaching for but never getting through the impassable gulf between Heaven and Earth.
Of these, Science is the most Apostate by far. The Tower of Babel was not a physical tower; rather a vehicle for Gnostic Wisdom (“Slime” does not hold “Bricks” together)disseminated in Secret Societies and their Initiation rituals. After the Flood, God separated Man (Ur “Babylon” was the Sumerian version of the UN URI “United Religion Inititative”) by water in Peleg’s day (Gen 10:25); Science aims to put them back together under Satanic “Dominion”. The United Nations is the modern day Tower of Babel; in the UN Meditation Room (11ft X 18 ft X 33ft with 11 empty chairs in the back) is a 13,000lb “Lodestone” block illuminated by a single shaft of light. Lodestone is one of 2 natural magnets, it’s name means “Leading, Course Stone”; it’s Creation in Earth provides protection from the Sun by the Magnetic Field and also creates a Virtual Prison for Man; yes NASA knows this. Neither Man nor Aliens (Aliens are Gnostic created lies) have ever nor will ever live to transit the Magnetic Field. The Magnetic Field provided the means for Gnostics to Navigate the Oceans “Water” using a Ferro-Magnetic Compass, create the Radio and TV, and today, Gnostics use this Free Energy to control Weather, Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions using Electro-Magnetic Radars (Broadcasting antennas) and the Earth’s “Ionosphere” (worldwide TV screen) to create Virtual Images “Project Blue Beam”. God loving/fearing people will likely lose the Physical War but are guaranteed to win the Spiritual War; the Holy Ghost is our only protection and there is only 1 source; Jesus Christ.
Satan is currently Prince of this World; at Rev 6:14; Dan 9:27 Satan will be given legal “Dominion” by Jesus Christ. Everyone here is exposed to a myriad of his lies mixed with partial truths. It is not Man’s position to judge anyone’s fitness for “Salvation”; that is God’s. Everyone who has ever lived has equal access to salvation through the Holy Ghost and all will be judged at the end of life accordingly. Religions are “Towers of Babel”; once divided as Flood waters rose and now coming back together under the banner of a “One World Religion”. The original Tower of Babel was built of bricks (“Earth Dwellers” in Rev) held together with slime (organic mortar is deceased persons); it is no different today. Cathedrals, Mosques and Churches are those Towers. Babylon’s Priests are everywhere and their goal is to “Divide and Conquer”; this is Nicolaitane Doctrine; Rev 2:6;15 and God (Jesus) hates this elevation of clergy over laity.
The Apostle Paul warned people not to drift away from the simplicity that is in Christ. Christianity is merely believing Jesus is God in the flesh and having a Born Again relationship with Him through the Holy Ghost. This section will illustrate that man-made religion usurps Jesus’ authority, His eternal priesthood as Melchisedek, His divinity, and His 1 baptism with the Holy Ghost. There are 2 Commandments in the Age of Grace (Pentecost to 2nd Coming) Love God and Love your neighbor as yourself. Killing another human being or seeking revenge is not Authorized by God or His Word for any reason.
False religion usually falls into 2 errors: Amillennialism; Denying the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ on earth before the Spirit of God returns as it was in the beginning, and Limited Atonement (God shed His blood on the Cross for His elect only). Wars are the usual result and vast sums of money are made equiping both sides. The love of money is the root of all evil, and the perpetrators of evil are as Micah told us “A man’s enemies are the men of his own house” Mic 7:6 and as Jesus said “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household” Mat 10:36
Jewish religion ended at the Crucifixion. Amos 7:2-3;5-6 KJV clearly says God repents but will not raise Israel up; compare this verse in new bible versions and you will find the root of modern day Israel. There is no Salvation absent a Born Again relationship with the LORD through Jesus Christ (God in flesh and the Holy Ghost).
No Man is ever born as a Born Again Christian; you must ask Jesus for that. Religion is big business which makes money reselling knowledge that is free from God; try explaining that one to God when you die!
Loving one’s neighbor does not mean killing him for acts you believe he may have committed. James said pure undefiled religion before God is “To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction” Jas 1:27 This is everyone not Married to the Lamb; Jesus Christ. Before trying to justify killing, remember Jesus said “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Mat 10:28
¤ In the time of your life, live — so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live — so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
¤ Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.
¤ The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the whole world has always been full of that loneliness. The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War. ¤ You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.
¤ There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
¤ Somewhere among every man's ancestors is a prince or a lord, a priest or a saint, and don't forget it. Wake up! Inherit the wealth of your ancestors!.. Stop living like a mouse, live like the rich people do.
¤ Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.
¤ I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
¤ I did my best, and let me urge you to do your best, too. Isn't it the least we can do for one another?
¤ Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
¤ The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
¤ It's all over. We can begin to forget Armenia now. Andranik is dead. The nation is lost. I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.
¤ "I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia."
¤ There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.
¤ Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
¤ If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
¤ It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.
William Saroyan was an internationally renowned Armenian-American writer, playwright and humanitarian. His fame, and his most enduring achievements as a writer, date from the 1930's. He dazzled, entertained and uplifted millions, with hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs and essays; they continue to charm and touch us today.
Saroyan's talent was first projected to the world through an Armenian-English newspaper, Hairenik of Boston. In 1934, at the age of 26, with the publication of his first book The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, William Saroyan became an overnight literary sensation. His first successful Broadway play was My Heart's in the Highlands, in 1939, and in the same year, Saroyan was the first American writer to win both The Drama Critic's Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, for his play, The Time of Your Life. He refused to accept the Pulitzer Prize on the grounds that, "Commerce should not patronize art...," and he added, "it is no more great or good than anything else I have written."
Saroyan is unique among writers. He acknowledged the Armenian culture as an important source of literary inspiration, especially notable in the book-of-the-month choice, My Name Is Aram, in 1940. Another book-of-the-month choice, The Human Comedy, published in 1943, was dedicated to his mother and made into an MGM movie which won him an Academy Award Oscar, for Best Writing Original Screen Story.
In February 1943, 35 year old William Saroyan and 18 year old New York debutante, Carol Marcus, married in Dayton, Ohio. They were blessed with two children: Aram, born in 1944, and Lucy, born in 1946. Their first marriage ended after six years. Two years later, in 1951, Saroyan's remarriage to the same wife ended in divorce for the second and final time.
William Saroyan achieved great popularity through the thirties, forties and fifties. During his lifetime, he published over sixty books. His works have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions. To fully enjoy Saroyan, either in prose or on the stage, you have to be "with" him. This may require effort, but once you are with him, he can take you places you have never been before.
Saroyan writes humanely and powerfully, with restless enthusiasm. His major themes are aspiration, hope and honesty; materialism and success mean nothing. His works show the basic goodness of all people, especially the obscure and naive and the value of life. He once observed that he needed to write, "Because I hate to believe that I'm sick or half dead, because I want to get better; because writing is my therapy." In the last book published during his lifetime, Obituaries, he wrote: "My work is writing, but my real work is being."
Saroyan spoke for Armenians to the world. He gave international recognition to his people at a time when they remained dispersed and continued to meet with prejudice and outright hatred. Through his work, he brought more public understanding to the culture and the quality of the Armenian people, than any other person in Armenian history. By international standards, Saroyan is the most famous literary figure produced by his ancient people.
William Stonehill Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, on Monday, August 31, 1908. He was the 4th child of Armenian immigrants, Armenak Saroyan, preacher and poet, and his wife Takoohie, of Bitlis. On Monday, May 18, 1981, William Saroyan died of prostate cancer at the age of 72, about a mile from where he was born. "Everybody has got to die," he said, "but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?"
William Saroyan died, an artistic era ended. He loved America, but he could not forget Armenia. Saroyan wanted his heart in the Armenian highlands. A year after his death, half of his cremated remains were permanently enshrined in the Pantheon of Greats in Yerevan, Armenia, and the other half was buried later, in the Ararat cemetery in Fresno, California.
On May 22, 1991, William Saroyan was the first and only individual to be jointly honored by the USA/USSR Postal Services, on their Commemorative Stamps, as a symbol of the friendship between the two superpowers. First-day-issue ceremonies took place simultaneously in Fresno, California, and in Yerevan, Armenia.
The number of unpublished manuscripts left by William Saroyan, surpasses the massive bibliography of his published works. Since his death, from 1981 to 2003, 23 books have been published about his life and works.
For two hundred years after the fall of the Arshakuni dynasty of Armeniaº in 428, the country was governed by Marzbans (Governors-general of the boundaries), nominated by the Persian King. Of the thirty-five Marzbans who ruled in succession, six were Armenians. Western or Byzantine Armenia was at that time ruled by Curopalatesº (Governors), almost all Armenians by race, but with limited prerogatives.
The Marzban was invested with supreme power, even to the imposing of death sentences; but he could not interfere with the age-long privileges of the Armenian nakharars. The country as a whole, enjoyed a considerable autonomy. The office of Hazarapet, corresponding to that of a Minister of the Interior and Public Works, was entrusted to an Armenian, as was also the post of military Commander-in‑chief. Each nakharar had his own army, according to the extent of his domain. The "National cavalry" or "Royal force" was under the Commander-in‑chief. The tax collectors were all Armenians. The courts of justice and the schools were directed by the Armenian clergy.
Three times during the Marzbanic period, Persian kings launched persecutions against Christianity in Armenia. The Persians had tolerated the invention of the Armenian alphabet and the founding of schools, thinking those would promote the spiritual severance of Armenia from the Byzantine Greeks; but on the contrary, the new cultural movement among the Armenians actually proved to be conducive to a closer relation with the Greeks.
Intolerance under Yazdegert II
The internal policy of Sassanid Persia had now taken on an intolerant attitude in the matter of religion. All the races living within the Iranian Empire henceforth must, in conformity with Mazdeian tenets, worship the sun and fire. King Yazdegert II (438‑457), was a mixture of contrasting emotions. In the words of Yeghisheh, "One day a ferocious bull" or "an enraged lion" or "a furious tempest," on another day a man of "sweet disposition . . . who would humble himself from a haughty arrogance." He considered himself the first servant of Ormuzd (Ahura-Mazda), through whose grace he would crush the Graeco-Roman power, revive the empire of Cyrus and place all Asia under the influence of Iran. Repudiating the Hundred Years' Treaty of 420, Yazdegert invaded the Byzantine territories of Mesopotamia, destroyed cities, burned churches and seized captives. The Emperor Theodosius II, unable to take the field, concluded a humiliating peace in 441, which, among other terms, stipulated that those Persian Christians who had taken refuge in the Byzantine domain must be surrendered.
The triumphant Iranian then turned his attention to Central Asia, marching against the Kushans or Hephtalites, a hardy people of Medean origin, ruled by Arshakid princes, descendants of Darius the Great. Their country embraced modern Bukhara and Pahl, and they had fought successfully against Persia. After seven years of hostilities (442‑448), Yazdegert, at the head of a formidable army, inflicted a severe defeat on the Kushans, at Marvroud, near the River Murghab, where the Armenian cavalry became noted for its valor.
Derbend Gates
The reconstruction of the Derbend Gates had already been accomplished before the Kushan War. The road is between the Caucasian Mountains and the Caspian Sea, in flat country, which offered an easy way for incursions into northern Persia by the Mazkouts or Black Huns, a nomadic tribe ruled by princes and claimedº Arshakid descent. Acting under the suspicion that the Armenians might, in an attempt to revolt against him, get assistance from the Mazkouts, Yazdegert rebuilt a great wall called the Jora Bahag or Gate of Jor-Derbend by the Armenians.
Yazdegert's persecutions
He then unleashed a religious persecution. In his opinion, a model king, who adhered to the true faith and laws of Zradasht (Zoroaster), must devote his life to the glory of Mazdeism, by abolishing false creeds and bringing their followers into the true path of God. Speaking to the Armenian nakharars, whom he had summoned to Ctesiphon, he said, "I look upon you as herds of animals scattered through a wilderness. It gives me deep grief to think that God may be angered at me and be revengeful on your account." He of course did not admit that he was prompted also by political considerations. His vast empire was inhabited by many peoples with different religions and languages. Some of them were of Aryan stock, others non-Aryan or Touranian. Several of these peoples, such as the Armenians and Caucasians, were looking to the Emperor of Byzantium for aid at the opportune time for revolt.
Mihr-Nerseh advises moderation
In his desire to achieve his political purposes, Yazdegert called in Mihr-Nerseh, an elderly retired official, a military, diplomatic and administrative genius. He advised peaceful means rather than force in the effort to absorb Armenia. "You know," said he to his King, "how extensive and valuable Armenia is. But that country is also a neighbor of the Roman Caesar, whose tenets and worship she has adopted. If we succeed in bringing her people to our own laws, then they will love you and the Aryan world. And when the Armenians come nearer to us, we shall certainly win the Georgians and the Aghouans (Caspio-Albanians), too."
The role of Vassak
The rapprochementº policy seems to have found a supreme Armenian advocate in the person of Vassak, the Marzban, the powerful nakharar of Sewniq, the mountainous province bordering on the Persian frontier. While a youth of fifteen, he had been sent, in accordance with the Oriental custom, to the Persian capital as a hostage. After his coming of age and returning home to inherit his father's realm, he evinced brilliant qualities. The bishop-historian Koriun speaks of him as "the brave Sissakan, sagacious, ingenious and foresighted through God-given grace." This worthy grandson of the fearless nakharar Andok had effectively sponsored Mesrop's educational efforts. But his later conduct marred his early reputation. Upon the downfall of the Arshakuni dynasty, Vassak developed a burning aspiration for royal distinction, through the restoration of the kingdom. In the early stages of the politico-religious crisis, he artfully worked in harmony with the nationalist group; but when the hour of final test arrived, he became the head of the pro-Persian party, in opposition to the pro-Roman element. This party included chiefs of prominent aristocratic families, such as the Mamikonian brothers — Vardan, Hmayak and Hamazasp; Arshavir Kamsarakan, the Lord of the Arsharuni and Shirak districts; Ardak the great Ishkhan (prince) of the province of Moks, Vahan Amatuni; Nershapuh Ardzruni; Tatoul Vanandatsi; Arsen Endzayetsi. Among the motives of the chiefs in league with Vassak — "the renegades," as they are called by the historians, Parbets and Yeghisheh — was their grudge against the clergy who had been preaching the gospel of human brotherhood and the protection of the peasant and laborer against exploitation by the feudal masters of the land.
Restrictions tighten
Den-Shapuh, the Persian High Commissioner, concealed the iron hand in the velvet glove. His lavish entertainment of the aristocratic families and cultivation of social relations between them and the Persian residents, with a view to implanting in the country such alluring customs and ways of life as were prohibited by the Christian church, contrast sharply with his political and economic repression of the people. After completing a census and land registry of the country, he imposed oppressive taxes on property and persons. He then replaced Vahan Amatuni, the "nation's father" and Hazarapet, with a Persian, and conferred upon a Mazdeian magian (priest) the post and dignity of chief justice.
These measures did not bring results quickly enough, so Mihr-Narseh, "Grand Vizier and Commander-in‑Chief of Eran and An-Eran," promulgated an edict, enjoining upon the Armenians the advisability of "giving up the erroneous and foolish ways of the Romans, thus depriving themselves of the benefits of the Persian perfect religion." He exhorted the Armenians to remain no longer astray, deaf and blind, but to study and adopt the doctrines of Zardusht.
Council of Artashat
A general assembly was held in Artashat in 449, to discuss this edict and ponder an answer. The meeting was presided over by the Katholikos Hovsep, and attended by seventeen bishops, eighteen major nakharars of both parties, many noblemen, chor-episcoposes (suffragans), monks of high rank and noblemen priests, whose spokesman was Ghevond Yeretz (Priest).
Courageous answer
The answer of the Council to the Vizier, though respectful in tone, was a categorical refusal. The lengthy missive, as quoted by Yeghisheh, may not be a verbatim copy, but it throws much light on the sentiment and temper of the leaders of the nation at that critical moment. The following lines epitomize their carefully reasoned decision:
"From this belief no one can move us, neither angels nor men; neither fire nor sword, nor water, nor any other horrid tortures. All our goods and our possessions, are in your hands, our bodies are before you; dispose of them as you will.
"If you leave us to our belief, we will here, on earth choose no other lord in your place, and in heaven choose no other God in place of Jesus Christ, for there is no other God but him. But should you require anything beyond this great testimony, here we are; our bodies are in your hands, do with them as you please. Tortures from you, submission from us; the sword is yours, and here are our necks.
"We are no better than our forefathers, who, for the sake of this faith surrendered their goods, their possessions and their bodies. Were we even immortal, it would become us to die for the love of Christ. . . . We should die as mortals, that He may accept our death as that of immortals."
Yazdegert summons Nobles
The King of Kings, when informed of this rejection, flew into a rage and sent an order for the chief dignitaries to appear before him in Ctesiphon. They came, fifteen in number, headed by Vassak Sewny and Vardan Mamikonian. Their arrival was not heralded with military honors, as was the usual custom. Before receiving them in audience, Yazdegert had sworn "by the great Sun God, that if tomorrow morning, at the rise of the magnificent one (the sun), the nakharars would not kneel before it with him, and acknowledge it as god, they would be imprisoned and chained, their wives and children exiled into distant lands, and the imperial troops and herds of elephants would be sent to Armenia to demolish their churches and shrines."
Nakharars' submission
The nakharars, after their dismissal from the awesome presence of the great monarch, spent the whole night in discussing their dilemma, and finally agreed among themselves to make a pretence of yielding, for the sake of their homes and families. So on the next day, escorting the King of Kings, they went to the "House of Ashes" and knelt as in adoration of the rising sun, in accordance with the Mazdean rites. Yazdegert, in great joy, heaped honors and gifts upon them and called them "his beloved ones and friends."
The Magian propagandists
In pompous array, the nakharars were sent off to Armenia accompanied by 700 Magi, who, within twelve months from the Armenian New Year's Day in Navassard (August) were to convert the entire country to Mazdeism. They were required, so Yeghisheh, to lock and seal the doors of the holy churches; to deliver to the imperial treasury all the sacred symbols, vessels and ornaments; to prohibit teaching by Christian priests; to educate in public the wives of nakharars and the sons and daughters of noblemen and people in accordance with the Magian doctrine; to force the monks and nuns to wear lay costume; to suppress marriage laws and establish polygamy, to let daughters marry their fathers, sisters their brothers, grandchildren their grandparents; to have edible animals slaughtered after being sacrificed to the gods; to keep rubbish and cow-dung away from fire; to forbid the killing of certain animals but to destroy reptiles and vermin; to wash their hands with cow's urine, so that water might not be defiled.
Peasants drive off Magians
Fantastic laws and indecent practices such as these above were to be forced upon a people which had inherited and developed a civilization of its own, and for 150 years or more had officially adopted Christianity. But the Persian experiment proved unworkable. Scarcely had the strange cavalcade crossed the frontier at the village of Anghel (Anggh), 120 parasangs east of Douin, in July, 449, when a horde of peasants, armed with clubs and slings and led by a fiery priest, Ghevond, assailed and put the trespassers to feeling — an ominous rumble of a coming storm.
Vardan Mamikonian
The great nakharars, most of them ashamed of their sham apostasy, avoided appearance in public, and stole away to their respective homes. The few among them who, for selfish considerations or in honest conviction, were still in favor of compromise with Persia feared to speak out. Even Vassak was in perplexity. Despite his being the wealthiest man and holding the highest position in Armenia, he was suffering from intense mental agony. His two sons were hostages at the court of Ctesiphon; his son-in‑law, Varazvaghan, an open renegade, ever busy in intrigues against his father-in‑law, had fled to the Persian capital. Moreover, Vassak realized that his promises to the King of Kings were doomed to failure. He had been warned by the chief Magi himselfº that "Though our gods themselves were to come to our assistance, it would still be impossible for Magian doctrines to gain a footing in Armenia. Who can withstand men like these, who are neither afraid of chains, nor frightened by tortures, nor allured by wealth?"
Armenians gird for action
This pronouncement of a foreign functionary of deep learning and eminent position was truth, indeed. The Bible and the works of the Church Fathers, translated into Armenian between 422 and 432, followed by the teachings and preachings of two groups of young men, one hundred strong, almost all graduates from foreign seats of learning, had permeated the soul of the nation with a fervent zeal for Christianity. Men and even women, "armed and helmeted, sword in belt and shield in hand," were ready to accept the challenge, to fight and die for freedom of faith and conscience. The had implicit confidence in Vardan, too, who was destined to be their leader. He was the son of Sparapet (General) Hamazasp Mamikonian, and of Sahakanoush, the daughter of the Katholikos Sahak Partev, a descendant of Gregory the Illuminator. It was the tradition of the House of Mamikonian "to serve the Godly Homeland and to die for it." Theodosius II, the Byzantine Emperor, and Vram, the Persian King, had conferred the rank of General upon Vardan. He had visited Constantinople on diplomatic missions. As a soldier, with a record of service in forty engagements, he had led the Armenian contingents of the Iranian army and won laurels in campaign of Khorassan (modern Turkestan).
Vardan departs
Upon his return from Ctesiphon, the disunity among his countrymen threw him into such deep despair that he set out with the members of his family for Byzantine Armenia, where he hoped to live unmolested by the missionaries of Mazdeism. The Nationalist party, however, hurriedly sent a delegation to entreat him to reconsider his resolve. Even his political opponents, including Vassak, joined in the appeal, and the pressure became so strong that he yielded and returned. At the General Assembly which thereupon convened, he exhorted the leaders to cease dissimulation and stand bravely for Church and Country. All present came under the spell of his personality.
Vassak, who was in friendly contact with Persian headquarters, was now surrounded by a Nationalist force and declared himself on oath as a defender of the Faith. Posthaste, messengers soliciting aid had been dispatched to the great satraps of the border provinces, to the Byzantine Governor-General, and to the new Emperor.
Vardan's early successes
Alarmed by news of these appeals and preparations, the Persian high command had rushed an army to Trans-Caucasia. The Armenian army was thereupon divided into three parts. The first one, under Nershapuh, was sent to oppose the invaders from the North; the second, under Vassak, was stationed in Sewniq for flanking movements, while the third, under Vardan, undertook the defense of Caucasian Albania. The campaign was crowned with brilliant success. After scattering the forces of the common enemy, Vardan hurled his cavalry still farther north and razed Yazdegert's boasted barrier, the Gate of Jor. An alliance between the Armenians and the larger Caucasian tribes was then concluded.
No help from the Empire
But this bright course of victory did not continue long. The Armenian delegation to the Byzantine Court met bitter disappointment in its hope of aid. Attila, King of the Huns, one of the barbaric tribes who overthrew ancient civilizations in the early centuries A.D., then ruled over a conquered territory stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Rhine, and even threatened Constantinople, where the Emperor drained his meager treasury to purchase peace of the barbarian. Not until Attila's sudden death in 453 was the pressure relieved. But as long as "the Scourge of God" menaced the very gates of his Capital, no Byzantine Emperor dared irritate that other great enemy, the King of Persia.
Vassak's treachery
Nor was there any effective aid in sight for Armenia from other quarters. Finding the situation precarious and taking advantage of the absence of two Nationalist armies, Vassak and his followers threw off their pretense of patriotism, and openly stood against the uprising. A state of civil war ensued, in which Vassak seized key positions in the Ararat province and committed many acts of vengeance, including the destruction of churches, imprisonment of priests and arrest of boys from the Mamikonian and Kamsarakan nobility, to be sent to the Persian capital as hostages.
In the autumn of 450 Vardan hurried home, traveling more than 400 miles in thirty days, an almost incredible speed in that era. The renegade armed forces had fled into the well-nigh inaccessible heights of the Sewniq Mountains, which Vardan soon blockaded. Hoping to avoid further bloodshed, however, he sent a last appeal to the Persian King, assuring him of Armenian loyalty, if only religious freedom remained untouched. Yazdegert, who had just returned from a disastrous expedition against the Kushans, responded favorably, declaring a general amnesty for political offenders, and religious freedom for his Armenian subjects. The renegade party was loud in its expressions of joy and gratitude to the King, but the Nationalists still doubted the sincerity of the Crown, the Marzban and his Persian advisers. Hostilities inevitably broke out soon; in the spring of 451 the enemy forces under the Grand Vizier Mihr-Nerseh crossed the Arax River, and pushing northward to the Caucasus defiles, held the gates through which the tribal allies of the Armenians were expected to hasten in aid.
Armenian crisis
Isolated, deprived of any assistance from outside, even divided among themselves, the Armenians now faced the greatest crisis they had yet encountered. The Persian King had been assured of the absolute neutrality of the Byzantine government, while Vassak was not only acting as an adviser to the Persian commander, but was in correspondence with the allied nations of the Caucasus and the powerful princes of border provinces, subtly trying to discredit the Nationalist movement. Vardan and his colleagues fully realized the gravity of the situation; but with the very existence of the Armenian nation at stake, they accepted the challenge for a cause which they held as sacred.
On Easter Day, April 13th, 451, the Persian army arrived in Her and Zarevand (modern Khoy and Salmasd, Persia), and laid out a camp, defended with bastions, moats and towers. After a review of his army in the plain of Ararat, Vardan sent out a detachment of 2,000 cavalrymen to reconnoiter the enemy's position and forces. These scouts fell into a brush with the Persian rear guard, annihilated it and returned exultant to their own camp. Resolved to meet the foe on the frontier, so that the fertile fields and valleys of the country might be saved from devastation, Vardan near the end of April rushed his army 120 miles in five days, to the vicinity of Artaz.
The Armies confront each other
The Armenian forces were camped in a vast plain between Artaz and the districts of Her and Zaravand, known also as Shavarshakan plain (the modern Maku, Persia), near the village of Avarair. The rivulet Deghmoud, a tributary of the Arax, separated the two opposing hosts. The Armenian army, comprising 66,000 cavalry and infantry, recruited from among the standing forces of the nakharars, plus civilian volunteers, was accompanied by a considerable number of the clergy, who conducted services and encouraged the soldiers. The army was divided into four wings. The first, the right, was entrusted to Khoren, Prince of the Khorkhuruni clan, aided by Arsen Endzayetsi and Nerseh Qatchberuni. The center was given to the command of Nershapuh Ardzruni, aided by Mirhshapuh the Mardpet and by Prince Artak of Moks; the left wing was under the Generalissimo himself, aided by his brother-in‑law, Arshavir Kamsarakan, Papak Araveghian, Tatoul Vanandatsi and Tajat Gnduni. A fourth division, the reserves, was under the command of Hamazaspian, brother of Vardan. The army included archers, spearmen and swordsmen, all on foot, but its main strength was in its light and heavy cavalry, all armor-clad. Vardan, who had organized and drilled them, also supplied equipment to all who needed it.
The Persian Army
The Persian army numbered 300,000 men, 40,000 of whom were Armenians — the regiments of Vassak and his followers. In addition to the Persian elements, the enemy force included contingents from various Caucasian, Caspian and central Asian territories. The center was held by the division of the Madyan or "Immortals" — 10,000 horsemen under Mushkan Nusalavurd, the Commander-in‑chief. A herd of trained elephants, each carrying an iron tower full of bowmen, was another menace. The rear guard was reinforced by a column of elephants, on one of which, in a barbed tower, the Commandant sat, viewing the entire battlefield and directing movements.
On May 26th, 451, the Aryan division of Mushkan Nusalavurd and the Armenians of Vardan Mamikonian faced each other in battle array. The Eve of the Feast of Pentecost, according to Yeghisheh, assumed the aspect of the religious rally. On one side of the battle line the Persian Commander-in‑chief reminded the apostate Armenian princes of the precious marks of honor to be given by the King of Kings to all those who would bravely face the errant Armenians, "whose valor they knew." On the other side, Vardan, who from childhood had been well versed in the Holy Scriptures, now read aloud the deeds of the Maccabees, who successfully fought against Antiochus in defense of their faith. Then Ghevond, the priest, delivered a discourse, after which all the catechumens in the army were baptized and received the Holy Eucharist. The whole army rejoiced, crying out, "May God look down in mercy upon our voluntary self-offering, and may he not deliver the church into the hands of the heathens!"
The Battle of Avarair
To quote Yeghisheh,
"Both sides being thus prepared and seized with a mighty rage and burnt with a wild fury, rushed against each other. The loud cry on both sides sounded like the clash of clouds, and the thundering sound of the noises rocked the caverns of the mountains.
"The countless helmets and the shining armor of the warriors glowed like the rays of the sun. The flashing thousands of swords and the swaying of innumerable spears seemed like an awful fire being poured down from heaven.
"But who can describe the tremendous tumult caused by these frightful noises — the clangor of the shields and the snapping of the bow strings — which deafened everyone alike?
"One should have seen the turmoil of the great crisis and the immeasurable confusion on both sides, as they clashed with each other in reckless fury. The dull-minded became frenzied; the cowards deserted the field; the brave dashed forward courageously, and the valiant roared. In a solid mass the great multitude held the river; and the Persian troops sensing the danger, became restless in their places; but the Armenian cavalry crossed the river and fell upon them with a mighty force. They attacked each other fiercely and many on both sides fell wounded on the field, rolling in agony.
"Amid this great confusion the brave Vardan looked around to observe that a group of courageous and select Persian warriors had forced the left wing of the Armenian division to retreat. He immediately attacked with great vehemence, battered the right wing of the Persian army, and pushed the enemy back towards their beasts. Then he surrounded and slaughtered them. Thus he created such a great disorder that the troops of the Madyan Corps were dislodged from their prepared position and were put to flight without actually being defeated."
Vardan's martyrdom
"The Persian general Mushkan," continues Yeghisheh, "observing some scattered Armenians who had remained behind in the mountain vales, shouted encouragement to the soldiers of the Aryan army around him, who were holding a position against Vardan's troops. There on the battlefield consciousness of defeat came to both sides, because the piles of the fallen bodies were so thick that they looked like craggy masses of stone.
"Mushkan, seeing this, ordered Ardashir, who was seated on the wild beasts as if atop a lofty watch-tower or in a fortified city, to incite his troops with the loud sound of huge trumpets and he himself surrounded him (Vardan), with his vanguard. But the valiant Vardan with his brave warriors played no lesser havoc in that place, where he himself was found worthy of martyrdom.
"As the battle continued, the day drew to its close and the fighting ceased towards evening; many were in death's agony; and the bodies of the slain were so thickly heaped together that they looked like fallen trees in the forest. Broken spears and shattered bows were strewn all over and because of that the sacredº bodies of the blessed could not be fully identified; and there was a terrible panic and confusion over those who had fallen on both sides. The survivors were scattered over the hilltops and in more protected valleys; and whenever foe met foe they slew each other. The work of destruction continued without pause until sunset.
"And because the great Sparapet (General) of the Armenians had fallen in the battle there was no longer any chief around whom the remainder of the troops could rally. They became dispersed and threw themselves into strongholds of the country and occupied by force many regions and fortresses which no one could capture.
"And these are the names of the heroes who perished on that battlefield; the brave Vardan, the valiant Khoren Khorkhoruni; the daring Artak Baluni; the amazing Tajat Gntuni; the wise Hmayak Dimaksian; the wonderful Nerseh Qatchberuni; the youthful Vahan Gnuni; the just Arsen Endzayetsi; the progressive Garegin Servantsian.
"These 287 heroes and the nine distinguished nakharars perished there. Besides these 287 warriors, 740 others of the royal house, the house of Ardzruni and other nakharars inscribed their names in Book of Life on the day of that great battle. They numbered 1,036 altogether."
General Amnesty
On the side of the Persians, 3544 died, among whom were nine very distinguished men, by whose loss Mushkan was greatly disturbed. While he was thus sadly meditating, Vassak, who had hidden among the elephants, came to him and showed him stratagems whereby he might take the fortified castles. On the order of the King and on his own testimony and on that of the priests who were with him, Mushkan swore an oath, and sent forth messengers who announced that with the ceasing of the insurrection, the King had granted permission for the building of churches and for establishing all things as they were formerly. But though the King's order was in this instance truly followed, yet the people's confidence was not immediately restored, as the forces of both parties were broken, and the Armenians, through many former deceptions, had long been familiar with the treacherous nature of Vassak.
Luke 23:34 Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Luke 23:43 Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
John 19:26-27 Woman, behold thy son! Behold thy mother!
Matthew 27:46 Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
John 19:28 I thirst.
John 19:30 It is finished.
Luke 23:46 Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
John 3:16-21 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Written by Israel Shahak
A statement by Professor Israel Shahak
Last Sunday in Jerusalem, a Jew spat on a cross carried by Armenian archbishop Nourhan Manougian. The attack led to a scuffle in which the archbishop's medallion, worn by Armenian archbishops since the 17th century, was broken.
The Jew, a student of the Talmud, received no jail time or fine. Meanwhile, Jews are considering whether to initiate criminal proceedings against the archbishop. They may charge him with assault for slapping the yeshiva student.
Archbishop Manougian says he and his colleagues have already learned to live with the spitting. "I no longer get worked up by Jews who turn around and spit when I pass them by in the street; but to approach in the middle of a religious procession and to spit on the cross in front of all the priests of the sect is humiliation that we are not prepared to accept," he said.
Dishonouring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, and especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around AD 200 for pious Jews.
In the past, when the danger of anti-Semitic hostility was a real one, the pious Jews were commanded by their rabbis either to spit so that the reason for doing so would be unknown, or to spit onto their chests, not actually on the cross or openly before the church.
The increasing strength of the Jewish state has caused these customs to become more open again but there should be no mistake: The spitting on the cross for converts from Christianity to Judaism, organized in Kibbutz Sa'ad and financed by the Israeli government is a an act of traditional Jewish piety. It does not cease to be barbaric, horrifying and wicked because of this! On the contrary, it is worse because it is so traditional, and much more dangerous as well, just as the renewed anti-Semitism of the Nazis was dangerous, because in part, it played on the traditional anti-Semitic past.
This barbarous attitude of contempt and hate for Christian religious symbols has grown in Israel. In the 1950s Israel issued a series of stamps representing pictures of Israeli cities. In the picture of Nazareth, there was a church and on its top a cross - almost invisible, perhaps the size of a millimeter. Nevertheless, the religious parties, supported by many on the Zionist "left" made a scandal and the stamps were quickly withdrawn and replaced by an almost identical series from which the microscopic cross was withdrawn.
Then there was the long-drawn-out battle about Christian influence in elementary arithmetic. Pious Jews object to the international plus sign for it is a cross, and it may in their opinion, influence little children to convert to Christianity. Another "explanation" holds: it would then be difficult to "educate" them to spit on the cross, if they become used to it in their arithmetic exercises.
Until the early 1970s two different sets of arithmetic books were used in Israel. One for the secular schools, employing an inverted "T" sign. In the early '70's the religious fanatics "converted" the Labour Party to the great danger of the cross in arithmetic, and from that time, in all Hebrew elementary schools (and now many high schools as well) the international plus sign has been forbidden. Similar development is visible in other areas of education.
Teaching the 'New Testament' was always forbidden, but in the old time conscientious teachers of history used to circumvent the prohibition by organizing seminars or sending the students to libraries (not the school libraries, of course). About 10 years ago there was a wave of denunciations of such teachers. One in Jerusalem was almost sacked, for advising her history pupils, who were studying the history of Jews in Palestine around 30-40 AD, that it would be a good thing if they would read a few chapters of the 'New Testament' as a historical aid. She retained her post only after humbly promising not to do this again.
However in recent years, anti-Christian feelings are literally exploding in Israel (and among Israel-worshipping Jews in Diaspora too) together with the increase of the Jewish fanaticism in all other areas too. The real enemies of truth here, as in many other aspects of the Israel reality, are the socialists, "liberals", "radicals", etc. in the USA.
Imagine the reaction of the US Liberals, and of such papers as 'The Nation' and 'New York Review of Books', not to speak of the 'New York Times' , if in any state whatsoever, the government financed spitting on a Star of David? But when here in Israel, the government finances the spitting on a cross, they are and will continue to be, quite silent. More than this, they help to finance it. United States taxpayers, who are of course mostly Christians, are financing at least half the Israeli budget, one way or another, and therefore the spitting on the cross too.
By Christian Jewish Brother Nathanael Kapner: bronathanael @ yahoo.com
Real Jew News (SM) Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 1242; Frisco CO 80443.
Business as usual is a powerful motivating force especially when Jews like the Rothschilds are running an oil business. Banking is the forte of the Jewish House of Rothschilds. But raw materials-especially oil-are money in the bank.
The Young Turk movement, AKA Committee of Union and Progress, arose out of the Rothschilds' oil interests in the Black Sea area of the Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s. 'Creating stability' in an incendiary realm was necessary for the Rothschilds' new oil enterprise Baku Oil. The instability of the Armenian Christians' financial and intellectual prominence in the area was not "good for business."
Thus, hand-picked Jews of Salonika, (Jews made up the majority of the city's population), and foreign agitators such as the Russian Zionist Vladimir Jabotinksy, the editor of The Young Turk newspaper, were just what the Rothschilds needed for ridding the source of that instability, the Armenian Christians.
Now, the Zionist Young Turks who sought for the break up of the Ottoman Empire in order to obtain Palestine-and the House of Rothschild, who needed a Jewish-controlled Turkey and hegemony over the entire Middle East, could work together. This meant funding for the Jewish Young Turks and revolutionary subversives for the Rothschilds.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE JEWISH YOUNG TURKS 1680: Sabbatai Zvi, a Turkish Jew, proclaims himself to be the Jewish Messiah in Salonica. After amassing a following of thousands of Jews he led them on a Zionist exodus to Palestine. On the way he decided to become a Muslim. Many of his followers saw this as God's plan and also became Muslims.
1716: A group called the "Donmeh" forms in Salonica of Sabbatai Zvi's followers headed by Sabbatai Zvi's successor, Baruchya Russo. By the early 1900's, the Donmeh numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
They were known as "Crypto Jews" because though outwardly appearing to be Muslims, they were still Jews following the customs of the Jewish occult Kabbala which Sabbatai Zvi taught. They continue in their fervent, (yet secret), Zionist vision.
1860: Jewish Hungarian Zionist named Arminius Vambery becomes an advisor to the Sultan Abdul Mecit while secretly working as an agent for Lord Palmerston of the British Foreign Office. Vambery tries to broker a deal between the Zionist leader Theodore Herzl and Sultan.
1891: Out of the Donmeh a Zionist political group forms called The Committee of Union and Progress, later called The Young Turks. The group is headed by a Freemason Jew b y the name of Emmanuel Carraso with the help of the Rothschilds. 1895-1896: Sephardic Jews of Salonika together with the Turks massacre Armenian Christians in Istanbul.
1902 & 1907: Two Congresses of The Young Turks meet in Paris to plan, prepare, and effect the penetration the Sultan's army leading to the military coup of 1908.
1908: The Jewish Young Turks revolt and force the Sultan Abdul Hamid II into submission.
1909: The Jewish Young Turks rape, torture, and slaughter over 100,000 Armenians in the city of Adana, also known as Cilicia.
1914: The Jews of The Young Turks create unrest, turmoil, and bolster the paid Serbian assassin, Gavrilo Princip, which leads to World War I.
1915: The Armenian Holocaust engineered by the ruling Jews of The Young Turks, leaves 1.5 million Armenian Christians starved, tortured, and murdered.
1918: Jew Mustafa Kemal 'Attaturk' ascends into leadership.
1920: Russian Jewish Bolsheviks supply Attaturk with 10 million gold roubles, 45,000 rifles, and 300 machine guns with ammunition.
1921: Attaturk occupies the Port of Batu in conjunction with the Russian Jewish Bolsheviks ceding it to the Bolsheviks five days later. The Rothschilds are delighted.
1922: Jewish Khemalists orchestrate the burning of Smyrna resulting in the 'ethnic cleansing' of over 100,000 Armenian and Greek Christians left tortured, starved, raped, and dead.
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE SIR GERALD LOWTHER'S LETTER TO SIR CHARLES HARDING, May 29, 1910.
"Shortly after the revolution in July 1908, it soon became known that many of the Young Turks' leading members were Freemasons. It was noticed that Jews of all colours, native and foreign, were enthusiastic supporters of the new dispensation, till, as many Turks expressed it, every Hebrew became a potential spy of the Young Turks. Turks began to remark that the movement was rather a Jewish than a Turkish Revolution."
JEWISH MURDERERS KNOWN AS THE YOUNG TURKS 1. Emmanuel Carraso: B'nai B'rith Official of Italian origin. Grand Master of the Macedonia Resurrected Masonic Lodge in Salonika; Established the 'secret' Committee of Union & Progress in Salonika in 1890.
2. Tallaat Pasha (1874-1921): Thought to be a Turk but in reality a "Donmeh Jew." Interior Minister of Turkey during World War I; Member of Carasso's Masonic lodge and Grand Master of the Scottish Rite Masons in Turkey; Chief architect of the Armenian Holocaust and Director of Deportations. He wrote, "By continuing the deportation of the Armenians to their destinations during the intense cold we are ensuring their eternal rest."
3. Djavid Bey: "Donmeh Jew." Talaat’s Finance Minister; arranged the finances of revolution in Turkey with the Rothschilds; Later assassinated by Attaturk as a perceived rival.
4. Messim Russo: Assistant to Djavid Bey.
5. Refik Bey, AKA Refik Saydam Bey: Editor of Young Turk newpaper Revolutionary Press; Became Prime Minister of Turkey in 1939.
6. Emanuel Qrasow: Jewish propagandist for The Young Turks. Headed the delegation to inform Sultan Abdul Hamid II that "the nation has removed you from your office."
7. Vladimir Jabotinsky: Russian Zionist who moved to Turkey in 1908. Supported by B'nai Brith of London and Dutch Zionist millionaire, Jacob Kann; Editor of Young Turk newpaper. Later started the terrorist Irgun political party in Israel.
8. Alexander Helphand, AKA Parvus: Financier/liaison of the Rothschilds of the Young Turk revolution; Editor of The Turkish Homeland.
9. Mustafa Kemal 'Attaturk' (1881-1938): A Jew of Sephardic (Spanish) origin. Attaturk attended the Jewish elementary school known as Semsi Effendi School run by the Jew Simon Zvi. Over 12,000 Jews welcomed to Turkey by Attaturk in 1933 when Hitler came to power.
JEW ABE FOXMAN OF THE ADL DENIES THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST
For many years, the Anti Defamation League and now its director, Abraham Foxman, refuse to acknowledge that the massacres of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923 constituted genocide. Jews simply can't stand to share their so-called "martyred-race" status with anyone else. And besides, Jews don't like to have their crimes pointed out to them. If one does, he is instantly labeled an "Anti Semite!"
Foxman has reiterated the ADL's opposition to formal U.S. recognition of the Armenian Holocaust calling a proposed Congressional resolution "a counterproductive diversion." This position is inconsistent with the ADL's mission statement "to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike."
But the Jew Abe Foxman and his racist ADL organization do not care about any other ethnic group but their own. And they will lie and suppress the historical facts (and all historical facts that incriminate the Jews) of the Armenian Holocaust and the role that the Jews played in it. Foxman and all Jews do this in order to perpetuate their image as "innocent victims."
We cannot allow the Jews to get away with their suppression of historical facts that incriminate the Jews any longer. Abe Foxman and his racist Jewish friends love to see Revisionist Historians thrown in jail for questioning particulars of the Jewish Holocaust in Germany.
But it is Foxman and the rest of the Jewish censors who should be thrown in jail for denying the Armenian Holocaust! Why do Jews abide by a double standard constantly? Aren't we all sick of it, and all these Jews for that matter by now?
I, for one, Brother Nathanael Kapner, a former Jew and now an Orthodox Christian, will do all in my power to expose the Jews. For the Jews are *not* innocent victims of persecution against them but have “prompted” backlashes against them throughout their history of "wandering-among-nations".
The Jews in fact are the most fierce perpetrators of racist crimes the world has ever known. And the Armenian Holocaust of which the Jews are responsible is a clear example of their Jewish racist crimes.
Sources: Jack Manuelian, The Founding Fathers of Modern Turkey Times of London, The Middle East Christopher Jon Bjerknes, Jewish Racism Documents, Photos, History of Armenian Massacre by The Young Turks.
Jacob M Landau, The Zionist Jews who founded the idea of Turkish Nationalism; National Geographic Magazine, September 1916 issue, Saloniki; Yair Auron, The Banality Of Indifference: Zionism & the Armenian Genocide
Richard Davey, The Sultan and his Subjects; Arnold S. Leese, The Real Jew-A Lesson From Turkey; Grant Richards, The Cause of The World's Unrest; Dr. H. Stuermer, Two War Years in Constantinople; Andrew Mango, Attaturk; Clifford Shack, The Armenian & Jewish Genocide Project that Eliminated the Ethnic Conflict; Joseph Hantman, The Turkish-Israeli Connection and Its Jewish Roots; Hillel Halkin, Attaturk's Turkey Overturned; Carroll Quigley, Tragedy & Hope.
From A Nation That Survived The Genocide is an poster collection by Stepan Partamian the founder of the Armenian Arts Fund, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that promotes artistic excellence in several disciplines. You can buy the posters at his website http://www.yeswehave.org/ and read online or order the book Yes We Have - Armenian contributions to American civilization.
