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Re: Ken bestows his "Blessings"
Posted by Tiglath (Guest) - Wednesday, August 16 2006, 11:40:49 (CEST)
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Dear Mary,

Thank you for your kind comments. I respect your opinion.

Just to clarify, first the article on `Infidels` is only for the Assyrian community. You are so very right! We can disagree, fight and scream among ourselves, but when it comes to dealing with those outside we must always defend each other and never, never, never criticize each other to the outside.

One of the major problems we have in dealing with Nations and International Organizations is that so many Assyrians criticize each other to outsiders. This is absolutely unacceptable.

Whenever I am asked about an organization or individual by an outsider I am always careful to say only good about them.

This builds confidence towards us. If we are seen as being disloyal to each other, nobody will trust us.

Thank you for your comments on Hezzbolah. Frankly, I have just been very, very shocked as 100% of the messages I have received have been supporting Hezzbolah and not even one has said anything in the least bit negative about them.

100% of the messages have been against Israel. I do not understand this, as Hezzbolah has done terrible, terrible - unmentionable things in Lebanon.

The most terrible has been as moslem terrorist groups always do, using the civilian population as `human shields`.

Their offices are all in civilian communities, they have consistantly launched their rockets from behind civilian buildings in which they have refused to let the civilans leave knowing that the heat guided Israeli rockets will retaliate to destroy the launch site.

Israel for all its faults has gone so far as to call up every person in the villages that are controlled by Hezzbolah asking them to leave so they will not be hurt, showered the villages with leaflets asking the civillians to leave and then carefully bombing only the Hezzbolah launch sites and offices.

What they did not imagine was that Hezzbolah would keep people hostage in their sites and purposely shoot from behind buildings so that when Israel retailates they would kill civilians.

They also did this to the UN - firing from behind the UN at an angle calculated carefully so that when the Israeli rockets retalited they would hit the UN.

Finally, the building that collapsed in Lebanon that collapsed and made such news, collapsed a full eight hours after it was bombed by Israel.

Israel is of course not perfect, but I am deeply troubled that 100% of the messages are against Israel and 0% even mention Hezzbolah which is doing the exact same thing that their brothers working under orders from Iran are doing in Iraq - killing civilians.

The main reason Israel did not do well in this battle was because they refused to kill civilians and with the way Hezzbolah in the long trdition of moslem terrorist groups organized themselves so any attempt to get them out would entail huge civilian casualties they were in a serious bind.

My simple point is that need to be objective and it is not objective to be 100% against Israel who as a fellow non-moslem state in the Middle East, whether we like it or not is our ally.

Moslem terrorism and I have experienced it firsthand many times having been draggged out of a car in central Baghdad, missed by minutes the bombing of the UN Compound where we went every day and being shot at in a plane flying out of Baghdad to name justst a few.

I think in saying that Israel is aiding an `anti-Assyrian entity in Assyria` you are referring to the Kurds.

I think you are right. I agree that Israel should not be aiding the Kurds. The problem is that we are their natural allies and because we are perceived as I have clearly seen over the past days so radically anti-Israel even though they want to support and work with us as natural allies in being non-moslem states in a moslem area, they have been forced to work witht he Kurds because in spite of the terrible things they have done to us in the past and today as we speak, at least the Kurds are not moslem terrorists in the sense of forcing a radical islamic regieme on the people they govern.

I have been to Kurdistan so know fully well that they have their own form of totalitarianism, ie Barzani is everywhere Saddam was and that they are intolerant, anti-Assyrian and worse.

At the same time they have not set up and Islamic Republic as is happening in Iraq and as a result as bad as they are, Israel does not have too many options in the area to work with.

If we could get over our anti-Israel attitude they would be our natural allies and transfer the support they wrongly give to the Kurds to us and would help us in our goal to attain a Province temporarily and ultimately a nation.

What makes me particularly angry is that both publicly and privately the Prime Minster and Foreign Minister of Iraq have said to me personally `The Assyrians are the original people of Iraq. It is their country. They are entitled under the Constitution to a province of their own. The problem is they have never asked for it.`

I have had the same conversation with just about every menber of the Iraqi Cabinet.

In other words, we currently are being offered a Province in Northern Iraq which we can govern and the failure on our part is to not officially request it.

This is what I am working the hardest on.

The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in particular were troubled by this. I was deeply troubled and angry to find out that to this day we have not formally made a request for something that we have always wanted and now have the opportunity to have.

The response from the various Assyrian Leadershp I have brought this up to has been essentially `We dont belive it. They would never do something like this for us.`

This is just plain foolish. If they are offering it we should take them up on the offer and if they say it but do not do what they say that is another problem and we should deal with it form there.

What I have seen is an Assyrian leadership that is essentially lazy and would rather cry `Martyr` and `Persecution` than actually do something, ie, take the Iraqi Government up on their offer because it would entail work and sacrafice and they would rather sit in their comfortable air conditioned rooms and complain than work.

This is the core issue today. We have an offer on the table to give us one Province which w can administer as we like. To this moment, no one Assyrian entity has formally asked for this.

You are right about the American policy having many problems in Iraq. The reason the American policy is not helping us is our own fault.

When I am in Iraq I go to the daily meeting and Press Conferences. I have attended nearly all international Conferences on Iraq and I will tell you with a couple rare exceptions there are NEVER ANY ASSYRIANS PRESENT!

One meeting we had one of the American officials told me `We want to support and help the Assyrians but we cannot do it for you.`

The reason the American effort in Iraq is not helping us is because we are so lazy that we have done nearly nothing to appeal our causes on the ground in Iraq as every moslem organization from throughout the world does.

I repeat, I have been to dozens of meetings and with a couple exceptions in Iraq, in Washington, in the EU, in Japan I have NEVER encountered any Assyrians attending the meetings and working for our cause.

This is the problem.

FInally, though it is not too late. We can still if we grow up and start working gain a province of our own. It wil not be provided to us on a golden platter, but must be formally applied for and then organized.

Thank you for your helpful words. It is these kind of discussions where we respect and honor each other that we can work together and make progress.

Thank you for your time which I know is very valuable.

Your brother,

Ken



Reply to: Ken@Jhelp.Com "It is not the critic who counts: Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again...who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly..." Theodore Roosevelt



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