Saturday, 7 November 2009

THE ARMENIAN CURSE ON ISRAEL! Armen Kouyoumdjian SABATAI ZVI



THE OBLITERATION OF A COUNTRY
Lebanon's Fate at the Hand of Israel
by Armen Kouyoumdjian*

July 24 , 2006

Once again I have had to redirect my report towards a subject other than
the one I had planned to cover this week-end. Israel's assault on the
Lebanon cannot leave me silent. May I also declare that more than ever in
this particular case, I shall not tolerate any critical reaction to what I
am about to write, none whatsoever. This is not a moment for debating in
the Agora, and if you (or your mother-in-law to whom you pass-on these
papers) do not like it, do not read them.

PROGRESSIVE TREND Believe it or not, I used to be quite a fan of Israel
during my young days in Beirut. I do not think it has anything to do with
the fact that we are of the same age (I am 12 days older than Israel and
much, much wiser). It probably relates to my early interest in military
affairs. I even applauded its victories in the 1967 war, though it fucked
up my last summer in Beirut, before I left that city for good in September
of that year. It probably had not much to do with the several Jewish
classmates I had at both school and university there, many of whom ended up
for a short while in Israel before leaving it in disgust. I myself avidly
followed all the great military prowesses with great admiration. I soon
realised how wrong I was.

My first inkling that this was not a show to be admired came on December
27, 1968. I myself was just recovering from the May student revolution at
the Sorbonne where I was studying, when Israeli commandos flew into Beirut
airport and blew up in cold blood the 13-strong fleet of its once proud
Middle East Airlines. Hey, I thought, this is not war, this is vandalism.
If that did not change my mind, the following four decades have given
plenty more ammunition. The 1978 invasion of the South, the 1982 occupation
of half the country with the resulting destruction, and the Sabra and
Chatila massacres. Any lingering doubts that may have remained within me
would have been swept away when Menachem Beguin stopped Armenian scholars
from attending seminars on Genocide in Israel, after which followed
repeated denials of the Armenian Genocide by various top Israeli officials,
finally culminating in an unholy alliance with Turkey. They even instructed
Jewish organisations worldwide to shamefully collaborate in the negation
campaign. Begin's real name was actually Wolfovitch (hey, just like that
guy at the White House).

THE TARGET The country which Israel has now decided to obliterate is not
just any country. It is the cradle of the ancient Phoenician civilisation
that gave the world its first modern alphabet, and pioneered international
commerce. It has been the home of great artists and thinkers. It has given
birth to some of the world's most brilliant business brains, and at least
half a dozen country in Latin America have had presidents from among the
ranks of the large Lebanese Diaspora. In my Beirut school we spoke three
languages during break, never discriminated in any way among the many
communities which made up our classes, in an educational system the quality
of which I never saw again in the three countries where I have subsequently
lived. We followed the latest pop music and films from all around the
world. Half a century ago there were two French-language weeklies dedicated
to movies in Beirut. There is not a single one in Chile.

Above all this was the most hospitable country and people to have ever
roamed the earth. I cannot compare the slap-up banquets that hosts used to
come up with whenever one visited, to the visits my own sons made to the
houses of their Chilean classmates when, during a study session of several
hours their mothers would not even serve them a glass of water. Though it
does not apply to my own family history, when Armenian survivors of the
1915 Genocide arrived in the Lebanon, itself in the midst of a famine and
other difficulties, the local authorities built an entire village (Anjar)
to house as many as they could. The Armenians owe the Lebanese, and in fact
Arabs in general, a debt which can never be repaid enough.

This country, whose modern independence is recent, is built on a fragile
equilibrium which cannot easily take traumas. It is not the solid balance
of the cement-less vault of medieval cathedrals, but the delicate one of a
pyramid of Chinese acrobats. Mess around with one and the whole thing
collapses, as happened several times over the past half century. To expect
its authorities and modest armed forces to do other people's dirty work in
as unrealistic as it is unjust. If the genesis of the Hezbollah problem are
Iran and Syria, supposedly card-carrying members of the Axis of Evil, how
come their territory is not being attacked, whereas poor Lebanon is
obliterated?

THE PERPETRATOR AND HIS ACTS The answer is: the cowardly bully always
targets the weak and defenceless. To call Israel a Terrorist State would be
an undeserved compliment. Terrorists at least have an ulterior motive,
however warped it may sometimes be. Israel is a Vandal State. Vandals just
destroy for the sheer pleasure of causing harm. Within a few days, this
trading country's transport and energy infrastructure is in ruins, and half
a million of its population are refugees. Its painful recovery from a long
and also foreign-induced internal conflict has been wiped out at a stroke.
Its trading and tourist activities are dead. It will probably have to
default on its large public debt, much of which is held by its own banking
system which in turn might become insolvent. Customs revenues are one of
the main sources of treasury income. The cosmopolitan fabric of its
population will once again be ruined by the mass exodus, which will take
years to reverse, if ever. Meanwhile, there is an immediate humanitarian
problem of massive proportions, when medical help cannot even get to the
victims, and the power shortage prevents even those getting to a hospital
from getting proper treatment.

TIRED ARGUMENTS The main argument presented by Israel to justify its
actions is Self Defence. This does not stand any scrutiny. Both national
and international laws restrict your field of action in this respect. If
you are a private individual and someone throws stones at your house, you
can try to stop them and nobody will blame you for it. However, you have no
legal nor moral right to go to his house, kill his family, set fire to his
possessions, and then go on to do the same with his neighbours, the whole
town where he came from and the whole country it is situated in. Articles
33 and 147 of the Geneva Convention are very clear about banning collective
punishment and destroying targets of no military relevance.

It is amazing that a state with a secret service and armed forces that
carry such a high reputation, could not seek out the Hezbollah culprits who
"kidnapped" three of its soldiers (whatever happened to the concept of
prisoners of war, aren't they part and parcel of a military conflict?).
Instead, not just areas known to be used as Hezbollah hideouts, not just
the country's entire infrastructure, but residential areas of both Muslims
& Christians, not to mention United Nation posts and more have been struck.
Now there is a land invasion developing. The refugees who cannot leave the
country are clogging up the capital, causing an immediate refugee situation
which will then turn into deep social tension.

The territory of Lebanon will not only accumulate understandable additional
hatred against Israel, but will become a place of unrest which cannot be of
any comfort to its neighbour. Their old claim to annex Lebanon up to the
Litani river may be fulfilled, but it will only increase the pressure in
the overpopulated remainder of the country. Physics 101.

Let me get on to a more controversial argument, that of Israel's Right to
Exist. I think by its behaviour as a Rogue State, it has long lost this
right. Having a right to a country is not divine, even for God's chosen
people. It is a capricious gift of history. Some have it, others have it
for a while, and others never get it. Nobody has the right to mess up the
whole of humanity every few years, in order to "guarantee" their own
geographical survival. The Kurds are a nation that never managed to have a
country, but they are not responsible for the 1973 start of the long rise
in oil prices, which were multiplied by 30x in the following 33 years. The
Poles have been in and out of having a country for most of their history,
and though France and Britain went to war for them in 1939, they were sold
down the river as soon as WWII ended. The Kashmiri are fighting for a
country. We Armenians were without one for the best part of a thousand
years. Did we go out and steal anybody else's country as a result? Does
Hillary Clinton say for us what she said last week ("We will stand with
Israel because Israel is standing for American values as well as Israeli
ones"). Those values appear closer these days to those of Corporal
Schillgrüber in the 1930's.

THE CURSE If it is anything but a small consolation, everyone I have
spoken to in recent days has been highly critical of Israel. It is
understandable that the US administration has done nothing to prevent or
stop this outrage, but the indifference of the Europeans is harder to
fathom. In any case, the damage is done. A wonderful country has been
wilfully destroyed. It might recover, one day. There is a spot just north
of Beirut, a gorge through which flows the Nahr el Kalb (the River of the
Dog). From Antiquity, it became a tradition for conquerors passing through
Lebanon to carve their names on the stony walls of the river bank. Assyrian
kings, Egyptian Pharaohs, Greek and Roman generals and the more modern
armies (such as the nostalgic Régiment de Marche du Tonkin of the French
Army). Tourist guides loved to show them to visitors and say: "they all
came, they all went, but we are still here"). Maybe, Insh'allah, they will
still be there again. In the meantime, I am putting an old Armenian curse
on the State of Israel and all those who sail in her, adding that if God
elected that as the country of his chosen people, I do not know who is the
schmuck who gave Him the voting bulletin. The Armenian Curse is very
effective but secret, though I can tell you that compared to its
consequences, the Seven Plagues of Egypt appear as harmless as an old
ladies' bridge afternoon.

The day before Yom Kippur, you have to seek forgiveness from all the people
you have wronged. On the day of Yom Kippur, you have to seek forgiveness
from God. There are things, however, which have no forgiveness.

Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and
the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of
every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall
upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD." (Eze
39:4-5)

*Armen Kouyoumdjianis a prominent, well known Armenian economist and thinker, specializing in Latin America and is widely consulted by businesses in that area. He is also a member of the Center for Strategic Studies in London.

http://www.alhewar.org/Lebanon/obliteration_of_a_country.htm



The Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret

dailyjackup.blogspot.com
Sunday, October 30, 2011
https://www.atajew.com/2000/01/most-whispered-secret.html

Former Naval Intelligence officer - turned investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has just released an article on Dönmeh - secret Jews of the Middle East. These people are descendants of Spanish Jews who have been expelled by the Spanish monarchs in XV century and relocated to Ottoman Empire and other Middle East countries where many of them sham-converted to Islam and gradually attained great economic and political power.

It was they who made the Turkish revolution as Young Turks and smashed the ancient Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - the leader of Young Turks was actually Jewish (which is vigorously denied by Turkish government). Since then the Dönmeh have been the backbone of the political power in Turkey. This explains the exceptional "friendship" between Turkey and Israel. This also helps explain why the FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has been so effectively gagged after 9/11. Her testimony might cast some light on the role of Turkish and Israeli role in 9/11.

It was the Dönmeh too who gave rise to Saudi Kingdom and the ruling family there. This explains the close ties between "Saudi" Arabia and Israel and the Saudi support for Israeli drive to war with Iran as well as the Saudi LACK of support for their co-religionists - the Palestinians.

The Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret

Wayne MADSEN (USA) | 10.25.2011

There is a historical “eight hundred pound gorilla” lurking in the background of almost every serious military and diplomatic incident involving Israel, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Greece, Armenia, the Kurds, the Assyrians, and some other players in the Middle East and southeastern Europe. It is a factor that is generally only whispered about at diplomatic receptions, news conferences, and think tank sessions due to the explosiveness and controversial nature of the subject. And it is the secretiveness attached to the subject that has been the reason for so much misunderstanding about the current breakdown in relations between Israel and Turkey, a growing warming of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and increasing enmity between Saudi Arabia and Iran...

Although known to historians and religious experts, the centuries-old political and economic influence of a group known in Turkish as the “Dönmeh” is only beginning to cross the lips of Turks, Arabs, and Israelis who have been reluctant to discuss the presence in Turkey and elsewhere of a sect of Turks descended from a group of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition in the 16th and 17th centuries. These Jewish refugees from Spain were welcomed to settle in the Ottoman Empire and over the years they converted to a mystical sect of Islam that eventually mixed Jewish Kabbala and Islamic Sufi semi-mystical beliefs into a sect that eventually championed secularism in post-Ottoman Turkey. It is interesting that “Dönmeh” not only refers to the Jewish “untrustworthy converts” to Islam in Turkey but it is also a derogatory Turkish word for a transvestite, or someone who is claiming to be someone they are not.

The Donmeh sect of Judaism was founded in the 17th century by Rabbi Sabbatai Zevi, a Kabbalist who believed he was the Messiah but was forced to convert to Islam by Sultan Mehmet IV, the Ottoman ruler. Many of the rabbi’s followers, known as Sabbateans, but also “crypto-Jews,” publicly proclaimed their Islamic faith but secretly practiced their hybrid form of Judaism, which was unrecognized by mainstream Jewish rabbinical authorities. Because it was against their beliefs to marry outside their sect, the Dönmeh created a rather secretive sub-societal clan.

The Dönmeh Rise To Power In Turkey

Many Dönmeh, along with traditional Jews, became powerful political and business leaders in Salonica. It was this core group of Dönmeh, which organized the secret Young Turks, also known as the Committee of Union and Progress, the secularists who deposed Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II in the 1908 revolution, proclaimed the post-Ottoman Republic of Turkey after World War I, and who instituted a campaign that stripped Turkey of much of its Islamic identity after the fall of the Ottomans. Abdulhamid II was vilified by the Young Turks as a tyrant, but his only real crime appears to have been to refuse to meet Zionist leader Theodore Herzl during a visit to Constantinople in 1901 and reject Zionist and Dönmeh offers of money in return for the Zionists to be granted control of Jerusalem.

Like other leaders who have crossed the Zionists, Sultan Adulhamid II appears to have sealed his fate with the Dönmeh with this statement to his Ottoman court: “Advise Dr. Herzl not to take any further steps in his project. I cannot give away even a handful of the soil of this land for it is not my own, it belongs to the entire Islamic nation. The Islamic nation fought jihad for the sake of this land and had watered it with their blood. The Jews may keep their money and millions. If the Islamic Caliphate state is one day destroyed then they will be able to take Palestine without a price! But while I am alive, I would rather push a sword into my body than see the land of Palestine cut and given away from the Islamic state.” After his ouster by Ataturk’s Young Turk Dönmeh in 1908, Abdulhamid II was jailed in the Donmeh citadel of Salonica. He died in Constantinople in 1918, three years after Ibn Saud agreed to a Jewish homeland in Palestine and one year after Lord Balfour deeded Palestine away to the Zionists in his letter to Baron Rothschild.

One of the Young Turk leaders in Salonica was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey. When Greece achieved sovereignty over Salonica in 1913, many Dönmeh, unsuccessful at being re-classified Jewish, moved to Constantinople, later re-named Istanbul. Others moved to Izmir, Bursa, and Ataturk’s newly-proclaimed capital and future seat of Ergenekon power, Ankara.

Some texts suggest that the Dönmeh numbered no more than 150,000 and were mainly found in the army, government, and business. However, other experts suggest that the Dönmeh may have represented 1.5 million Turks and were even more powerful than believed by many and extended to every facet of Turkish life. One influential Donmeh, Tevfik Rustu Aras, was a close friend and adviser to Ataturk and served as Turkey’s Foreign Minister from 1925 to 1938.

Ataturk, who was reportedly himself a Dönmeh, ordered that Turks abandon their own Muslim-Arabic names. The name of the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine, was erased from the largest Turkish city, Constantinople. The city became Istanbul, after the Ataturk government in 1923 objected to the traditional name. There have been many questions about Ataturk’s own name, since “Mustapha Kemal Ataturk” was a pseudonym. Some historians have suggested that Ataturk adopted his name because he was a descendant of none other than Rabbi Zevi, the self-proclaimed Messiah of the Dönmeh! Ataturk also abolished Turkey’s use of the Arabic script and forced the country to adopt the western alphabet.

Modern Turkey: A Secret Zionist State Controlled By The Dönmeh

Ataturk’s suspected strong Jewish roots, information about which was suppressed for decades by a Turkish government that forbade anything critical of the founder of modern Turkey, began bubbling to the surface, first, mostly outside of Turkey and in publications written by Jewish authors. The 1973 book, The Secret Jews, by Rabbi Joachim Prinz, maintains that Ataturk and his finance minister, Djavid Bey, were both committed Dönmeh and that they were in good company because “too many of the Young Turks in the newly formed revolutionary Cabinet prayed to Allah, but had their real prophet [Sabbatai Zevi, the Messiah of Smyrna].” In The Forward of January 28, 1994 and in The New York Sun, Hillel Halkin wrote that Ataturk recited the Jewish Shema Yisrael (“Hear O Israel”), saying that it was “my prayer too.” The information is recounted from an autobiography by journalist Itamar Ben-Avi, who claims Ataturk, then a young Turkish army captain, revealed he was Jewish in a Jerusalem hotel bar one rainy night during the winter of 1911. In addition, Ataturk attended the Semsi Effendi grade school in Salonica, run by a Dönmeh named Simon Zevi. Halkin wrote in The New York Sun article about an email he received from a Turkish colleague: “I now know – and I haven’t a shred of doubt – that Ataturk’s father’s family was indeed of Jewish stock.”

It was Ataturk’s and the Young Turks’ support for Zionism, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, after World War I and during Nazi rule in Europe that endeared Turkey to Israel and vice versa. An article in The Forward of May 8, 2007, revealed that Dönmeh dominated Turkish leadership “from the president down, as well as key diplomats... and a great part of Turkey’s military, cultural, academic, economic, and professional elites” kept Turkey out of a World War II alliance with Germany, and deprived Hitler of a Turkish route to the Baku oilfields.” In his book, The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries and Secular Turks, Professor Marc David Baer wrote that many advanced to exalted positions in the Sufi religious orders.

Israel has always been reluctant to describe the Turkish massacre of the Armenians by the Turks in 1915 as “genocide.” It has always been believed that the reason for Israel’s reticence was not to upset Israel’s close military and diplomatic ties with Turkey. However, more evidence is being uncovered that the Armenian genocide was largely the work of the Dönmeh leadership of the Young Turks. Historians like Ahmed Refik, who served as an intelligence officer in the Ottoman army, averred that it was the aim of the Young Turks to destroy the Armenians, who were mostly Christian. The Young Turks, under Ataturk’s direction, also expelled Greek Christians from Turkish cities and attempted to commit a smaller-scale genocide of the Assyrians, who were also mainly Christian.

source: http://dailyjackup.blogspot.com/2011/10/donmeh-middle-easts-most-whispered.html
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Did You Know..
..that Modern Turkey was among the first countries worldwide to recognize the Zionist State of Israel in March 1949, less than a year after its declaration of independence, and has been Israel's one of the closest allies since its creation?
..that dictator Mustafa Kemal made a funny law called "Hat Law" which required the citizens of Turkey to wear English hats in public, and over 200,000 (two hundred thousand) Muslims were brutally executed on gallows because they refused to do so or preached against it; and that the same law is still part of Modern(?) Turkey's Constitution (Article 174)?
..that it is still a crime to criticize dictator Mustafa Kemal in Turkey and there are laws in Turkey currently in effect which criminalize those who speak up against dictator Mustafa Kemal's Zionist ideology or his anti-Islamic reforms?
Quote:
"The overthrow of the Sultan resulted in the establishment of new more secular nationalist government, under Mustafa Kemal. Of course, Mustafa Kemal himself was born in Salonica and was from a Donme(h) family of Jews. His embracing of Freemasonry occurred in 1909 and even the wikipedia acknowledges under its 'list of Freemasons' that Mustafa Kemal was a member of the Rissorta Lodge (Number 80) of Salonica."

Muhammad Rafeeq

Wikipedia - List of Freemasons
 
Quote:
"Long before the 'cultural revolution' of Communist China, and starting before the Bolshevik Jews of Russia destroyed Christianity and Christians in the Slavic World, the Donmeh (the Secret Jews of Turkey), and especially Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), tried very hard to strip Turkey of its religion and of its culture. It is vital to World Jewry to prevent the Muslims of Turkey from taking back their nation and their faith, and aligning themselves with their Muslim neighbors."

Christopher Jon Bjerknes
Dictator Mustafa Kemal's Personal Life
Quote:
"For (Mustafa) Kemal, Islam and civilization were a contradiction in terms. "If only," he once said of the Turks, with a flash of cynical insight, "we could make them Christians!" His was not to be the reformed Islamic state for which the faithful were waiting: it was to be a strictly lay state, with a centralized government as strong as the Sultan's, backed by the army and run by his own intellectual bureaucracy."

(Ataturk, The Rebirth of a Nation, Lord Kinross, 1965, page 437)
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"Sabbateanism (Donmeh) is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism. The Sabbatean 'believers' felt that they were champions of a new world [order] which was to be established by overthrowing the values of all positive religions."

Gershom Scholem
 

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