Before there was Gaza: Visiting the Armenian genocide museum in Yerevan

 

 

Before there was Gaza: Visiting the Armenian genocide museum in Yerevan 

     Holy cow!  I just toured a genocide museum in Armenia where they have carefully documented all sorts of horrors.  

 

     Back in 1915, Ottoman Turks gleefully murdered children, tortured people solely based on their ethnicity, assassinated intellectuals, made ethnic cleansing a top priority, destroyed Armenian universities, blew up religious institutions, treated Armenians as subhuman, raped their sons and daughters, confiscated their property and committed all kinds of other documented horrors -- exactly like what is happening in Gaza right now.

 

     The similarity is eerie.  

 

     In addition, I learned that Armenian resistance fighters back in the day clearly resembled Hamas resistance fighters now -- running out of food, water and bullets but still trying to protect their women and children from being slaughtered.  

 

     And for over a century now, Turkey has categorically denied that this horrendous Armenian genocide ever happened even despite all the authentic photographs and documentation that paper the walls of this huge museum -- just like Zionists vehemently insist that no genocide is taking place in Gaza today even though modern social media also clearly documents it.

      Visiting the Armenian Genocide Museum was deja vu all over again.

     The only real difference between the Armenian genocide back in 1915 and the Gaza genocide happening today is that Zionists now have access to American bombs and tanks and drones to help speed up the slaughter.

PS:  I met an Armenian man here who told me his family's story.  "Back in 1915, my grandparents were living in Cilica -- when suddenly all hell broke loose," he said.  "Women and children were lined up naked and then crucified by the hundreds.  They were tortured and raped.  It was a nightmare.  My grandparents fled in terror and the French rescued them and helped resettle them in northern Lebanon.  They were lucky to get out alive."

     What happened next?  "I myself was born in Lebanon -- but then the Zionists invaded Lebanon back in 1982 -- for the same reason that the Turks had invaded Armenia."  Lebenstraum.  "And so my family fled again.  Now we are living in Canada, just a few more faceless victims of the Armenian diaspora."

       And speaking of the diaspora, who do you think comes back to regularly visit their Armenian roots and support the Armenian cause?  Kim Kardashian and Cher!  But, unfortunately, I was unable to obtain their autographs. 

 

PPS:  Genocide is also going on in Palestine's West Bank as well as in Gaza.  Let's not forget the West Bank!  Settlers there are happily committing a different form of genocide than in Gaza however.  In Gaza right now, even despite the so-called ceasefire, the IDF just bombs the crap out of women and children living in tents.  But it's more of a one-stop-shopping kind of genocide happening in the West Bank.  

 

     "First the IDF trains us.  Then the IDF gives us weapons and stands behind us with its arsenal of weapons and tanks.  We settlers are basically IDF soldiers in disguise."  What?  Settlers and the Israeli Defense Force are one and the same thing?  Who knew.

 

      "Then we go on 'hikes' to Palestinian homes, shoot them all up, kill anyone who resists, set their houses on fire and steal all their livestock.  It's what we do on weekends and holidays.  Go burn down a Palestinian home.  It's like going to the movies for us.  It's our entertainment."  Better than watching The Odyssey at the four-plex?  "Yeah."

 

     "Plus it's our patriotic duty.  Everyone knows that Palestinians are sub-human."  So.  It's like some kind of fascist Kristallnacht genocide now happening in the West Bank -- but only on weekends?  "Pretty much."       

 

Resources:

Vanessa Beeley reminds us that both genocide and genocide denial is still alive and well:  https://beeley.substack.com/p/the-art-of-forgetting

As usual, the Electronic Intifada describes the (un)usual horrors of the Gaza genocide.  Yes, it is still going on daily in Gaza.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwS9YbgaPUg

And the wholesale slaughter of Russ$ans and Ukra$nians continues as well.  Mutual genocide for sure:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6dm7gAiy3E 

 

And the genocide in Burma is still going on:  https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wilj/vol23/iss3/8/ 

 

And even more slaughter in Ameri-Euro-Russ-Ukra$ne:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6dm7gAiy3E 

 

Michael Hudson connects the dots regarding all these American wars for oil:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_SpRNYAztU 

 

Here's a description of what's going on in the West Bank right now:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dGlH7b7tS4

 

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