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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: the Holocaust (Armenians)
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 23:25:35 EDT
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I see nothing wrong with people sympathizing with Armenian suffering.

However the German murder of European Jewry is not comparable.

The comparable case would have been the Turks' wiping out the Zionists in
Palestine who like the Armenians were seen as a threat to national or
imperial integrity.

The Turks in fact wanted to wipe out the Zionists.  However, the Germans
as allies of the Turks intervened on behalf of the Jews.

The Armenians were supported by the Russians, but the Russians as enemies
of the Turks were unable to intervene on behalf of the Armenians.

At the time of the massacre of the Armenians there was a massive public
outcry; however, the slaughter was quickly overshadowed by the aftermath
of European war and economic disaster.

Nowadays no one talks much about the massacre of Armenians because they
were massacred by third-world Muslims who as a group are popular with
Western leftist intellectuals.

The massacre of Armenians is further evidence that the existence of
independent Muslim states in the 20th century is a regressive development
in the history of humanity.  

If leftist intellectuals were truly interested in human rights or human
progress, they would call for the anihilation and colonization of states
like Libya, Iran or Syria.  Sympathy for Arab and Islamic nationalism
is evidence of Western self-hate or leftist mindlessness and sometimes
leftist antisemitism.