I do not think that word means what you think it means: The Turkish Prime Minister says he’d be more comfortable talking to the Sudanese president responsible for the genocide in Darfur than he would be talking to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Why? Because “A Muslim could not commit genocide.” Yes, really. The Turkey-Israel relationship, she is over. And good riddance to bad rubbish, if that’s the way the Turks think. Of course, it is. Because they never committed genocide against the Armenians. Oh, no. It was a civil war, you see, that wound up murdering a million and a half Armenians.
The frequent kassam attacks return: I guess there’s going to be a Goldstone 2, because if the terrorists keep this up, Netanyahu will likely send in the troops again. The constant drip-drip-drip of rocket fire can only be taken for so long.
Make peace with us or we’ll kill you: It’s the Arab way. The Palestinians threaten it, the Syrians threaten it—it’s only a matter of time before more countries jump on the bandwagon. It’s good to see that the Obama outreach to Syria is also paying dividends—this was in Assad’s speech to the OIC.
Jordan’s “moderate” king: The time for peace is now or never. That is starting to be an absolutely familiar refrain these days. Except I’ve heard it a whole bunch of times. “If we don’t make peace soon, there will not be peace for decades! Or forever!” But here is the most hypocritical piece of garbage uttered by the man whose father destroyed Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem:
“The Israelis must understand Jerusalem’s standing among the Arabs, the Muslims and the Christians, and should not play with fire.”
Like he gives a damn about Christians. Notice what’s missing from that statement, though? A man truly bent on peace and understanding would say something along the lines that Jerusalem is holy to all three faiths and must be adminstered accordingly.
Not that we should be surprised, but Edrogan has an exceedingly short memory. Question: If an earthquake were to strike Turkey again to whom would Edrogan turn: Israel or the Sudan? Or would he simply do as the Iranians and Pakistanis did and declare that his antisemitism was worth letting thousands die?
Muslims can’t commit genocide? Well, they sure as hell cant rheaten it, especially when the object of the threat is Jews. But even in the case of Jews it is accurate to say that Muslims can’t commit genocide–they’ve tried but the IDF has been able to deal with it. So far, at least.
And let’s not be too hard on Jordan’s king–and by the way, it wasn’t his father who destroyed the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem alone; the grandfather began it. But at least the Jordanian royal family is being consistent…they ignored and destroyed Jewish sites in the Old City when they had a chance and now they’re ignoring the Jewish connection to the city again…when, as is an element of faith among the PA and Hamas, they’re not claiming that Jews have no connection to the city.
It was good of you to mention the Armenians. In many ways the Armenians were the Ashkenazim of Islam; they took the “middleman” / market-dominant-minority role that the Jews took across Europe. Hence the resentment.
You might say that the Armenians were “premature anticolonialists”. They objected to the Turkish colonial rule over Armenia and some of them supported the Russians during WWI. Some had earlier carried out terrorist bombings against the Turks. So, in a massive act of collective punishment (something Goldstone lyingly accused the Israelis of in Gaza) the Turks massacred a million and a half of them in 1915-16. The American minister in Istanbul sent back horrific reports about what was going on, and the Germans knew all about it, so it wasn’t like it was kept even as much of a secret as the Nazis later kept the Shoah.
This was actually a second collective punishment of Armenians by the Turks. The first was massacres in the late 1890s in retaliation for those bombings I mentioned. And that came on top of the earlier Bulgarian Massacres and Serbian Massacres in the 1880s and 1870s.
There is much I admire about the Turks, but they have their dark spots, almost as dark as the Germans, who also have much in their history and culture to admire.
Not only can Muslims carry out mass murder or genocide, they have done so often in history.
PS Today is the anniversary of Krystalnacht.