Comments on: Monday Snark News Briefs

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:19:19 +0000

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.

By: Zimriel

Zimriel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:30:16 +0000

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.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:07:53 +0000

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.

By: soccer dad

soccer dad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:46:47 +0000

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?