By: David Davidian
One cannot support the conclusion, “Many may be surprised to read that the Armenian Genocide Holocaust) was perpetrated, not by the Turks, but by Turkish Jewry known as Crypto-Jews.” However, by the selective deletion of facts, a partially informed readership might not dismiss it.
If one studies the history of the era, one will conclude that the Germans, with whom the Turks had strong military ties, had the most influence over the Turks and their genocide of the Armenians. However, this is a topic for another study. By selectively deleting facts and ignoring the overall history one could even claim [again incorrectly] that Freemasonry was responsible for the genocide of the Armenians. Zionist machinations were not insignificant, but they were not aimed at the destruction of the Armenians or to take control of their businesses. Their goal was to populate Palestine with Jews. Better than just Jews populating Palestine would be to have a non-Muslim mandate over the process and Palestine itself. Thus, it was in the interest of Zionists for the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, if simple “equality and brotherhood” as promised by the progressive factions in the Young Turk movement wasn’t realized.
The Young Turk movement contained many elements, with initially Armenians in its ranks. The Young Turks deposed the Sultan and came to power in 1908, After the second Balkan war in 1913, Turkey lost control of its last remaining major areas of the Balkans. The promise of “equality and brotherhood” gave way to a coup by proto-fascists, including Talaat, Jemal, and Enver Pashas, who saw the empire disintegrating especially as the winds of WWI were forming. Young Turk leaders saw the national unifying programs of leaders such as Germany’s Bismarck and Italy’s Garibaldi as role models. The proto-fascists among the Young Turks knew after the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire by European powers, ethnic Turks might be left with only a small patch of real estate that wasn’t majority Arab, Greek, Armenian, or Kurd. Under guise of WWI the Turks began a campaign to remove or forcibly digest those ethnic groups that would be in the way of a new Turkish entity, an entity that was considered the heartland of Ottoman Turkey. That area was Anatolia, and its eastern expanse was the homeland of the Armenians.
The process of Turkifying Anatolia began decades before even the First Zionist Congress and it continues today with the suppression of Turkey’s Kurds. A goal that was initially vague and unsophisticated was catalyzed by the Young Turks and was made the national policy of the Turkish Republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The process is quite clear. And what is clear is that today’s Turkish state enjoys the success of that genocide. A shirt made of Turkish cotton could find as its origins an Armenian cotton field or factory.
It is claimed, “Zionists wanted to control the empire by inciting internal ethnic conflicts to get rid of Armenians and to take over their businesses and political positions.” There is no evidence of this claim and moreover nobody but ethnic Turks or Turkifiable Muslim immigrants took over Armenian property and business.
It is claimed, “So they promised Christian Armenian leaders to regain independent Armenia if they help dismantle the empire, and at the same time they promised Muslim Kurdish leaders to form independent Kurdistan if they exterminated Armenians.” Armenian political parties demanded equal treatment before the law and at best demanded autonomy. Zionists could not deliver an independent Armenia to the Armenians – they couldn’t even populate Palestine with a critical mass of Jews! If the Young Turk leaders were indeed Zionists, there is an additional contradiction here.
It is claimed, “The Armenians were duped by Zionists’ promises and publically endorsed the Balfour Declaration hoping that UK would protect them from the Turks and support them in forming an independent Armenian State.” The Balfour Declaration was made in 1917, by 1916 the majority of Armenians had already been murdered.
It is claimed, “Crypto-Jews, then, led Sultan Abdul Hamid to believe that Armenian revolutionaries were conspiring with foreign Christian missionaries to take over the empire, and prompted him to order the Young Turks, mainly crypto-Jews, to commit atrocities against Armenians to put down any revolution. Well, considering it was the Young Turks who overthrew Sultan Abdul Hamid, this would have been quite impossible.
The intent in this comment is not to debase or point out all that is missing but rather to demonstrate the absurdity of a Zionist genocide of the Armenians. In a series of articles in the New York Times, it was reported:
“On Jan. 8, [1915] Jemal Pasha [top leader of the Young Turks along with Talaat and Enver Pasha] ordered the destruction of all Jewish colonization documents within a fortnight under penalty of death. In many cases land settled by Jews was handed over to Arabs, and wheat collected by the relief committee in Galilee was confiscated in order to feed the army. … A proclamation issued by the commander of the Fourth [Turkish] Army Corps describes Zionism as a revolutionary anti-Tukish movement which must be stamped out.”
Jemal Pasha twice tried to expel all Jews from Jerusalem and both times the Germans, top ally of the Turks, intervened. However, in April 1917 8,000 Jews were brutally deported from the Jaffa region. Zionist leaders were terrified that the Turks may be planning for these Jews the same fate as handed the Armenians. This was even before before the pro-British Nili spy ring of Zionist Jews was discovered by the Turks in October, 1917, and its leading figures killed. Why would Zionists need spies to spy on Turkish intention if the Turks were led by crypto Jews? They wouldn’t.
There continues to be no lack of just causes in this world. They all have their legitimate battlegrounds. Identifying the field of battle is part of the challenge.
