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Why There Will Never Be An Assyria
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Sunday, April 27 2008, 23:00:07 (CEST)
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Never as a practical matter, that is, and certainly never through the actions of any of our nationalists. The reasons are simple. In the first place any such territory or region could only come into being if surrounding Muslim states handed over land they now control. The only other way would be if land for Assyria was forcibly taken from Muslim control and given to so-called Assyrians whose greatest characteristic and pride comes from being Christians.

No one “gave” land to make an Israel. It was taken through force and is maintained through force to this day and only because the West underwrote the entire venture and continues to do so. Europe, and then the United States, merely colonized the MidEast with an Israeli colony dependent on a Home country. Israel is not a “natural” state in that it wasn’t created by the people themselves nor was it something they wanted to create had not Christians made it clear they were murderously unwelcome anywhere in the world where Christians ruled. As was always the case, historically, the Jews felt their only refuge was among Muslims, once the last and most brutal of many European pogroms against them took the form of a “Final Solution”. The difficulty wasn’t with Jews residing in Palestine, they’d been doing that since before Moses…the problems started when Europeans stole Muslim lands to make a separate country for Jewish refugees…as a way of salving their own conscience for what they’d done to them and, happily, getting rid of them by some other means than Auschwitz.

These same conditions don’t exist in the case of Assyrians because they are Christians who are welcome and not discriminated against in every Christian nation on earth, most of which are among the most advanced and wealthy in the world. The European Jews had no alternative, Christian Assyrians have several. Consequently there’s no guilt-factor, and no compelling emergency that would require settling Assyrians in a country of their own…even though Assyrians pretend to be suffering all that Jews did…it’s none the less painfully clear that they are not and never did. Never suffered anything like the abuse Jews have for centuries. There are a host of nations able and willing to take them in and assimilate them, even allow them to be all the “Assyrian” and Christian they want with no hard feelings and no persecution as well as plenty of personal security and unparalleled economic opportunities. There is, therefore, no necessity for an Assyria and there never will be. The motives of those clamoring for an Assyria of their own are highly suspect and seem to revolve around the notion that Christians in the MidEast deserve or are owed a plot of land all their own where Christ can reign supreme, although anyone who knows us knows we’d descend rapidly into a religious war and murder each other for Jesus.

There is, in short, no need at all for an Assyria…certainly nothing even approaching the conditions which made a homeland a dire necessity for European Jews. One suspects that the driving force behind the clamoring for an Assyrian homeland has more to do with tweaking Islam by setting a Christian enclave in the midst of Muslims…who might as well deal with a Christian thorn in their side along with an Israeli one. Christians don’t want to be “chased out” of their ancient homeland where once Christ ruled…neither do they want to be “second class citizens” or tagged with an “Arab” nationalism and many of the loudest nationalists are strident anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, anti-Iraqi and anti-Turk racists. But none of this presents a dire necessity for a homeland and can be avoided by simply migrating to the West where, incidentally, better economic opportunities exist. If the Jews get their own land, say our racist nationalists, why not Christians? The trouble is that all of these less than compelling motivating factors aren’t enough, especially when so many rich Western nations beckon, to unite Assyrians into any kind of fighting force with enough grim determination to wage all out war, surrounded on all sides and landlocked by understandably wary and angry Muslims, till the end of time.

No matter what justification we think we have or how much the world weeps over us, no Muslim power or people will allow a Christian enclave to be created in their midst. Muslims have seen all too well what Israel has cost them…have seen the Israelis armed to the teeth by the Christian West and prodded to create disturbances and aggression against their neighbors with land-grabs and illegal settlements so that the resulting tensions and periodic uprisings among the Muslims can result in a steady flow of weapons to Israel to “defend itself” with and a river of cash from the U.S. Treasury into the hands of our weapons manufacturers who want to “protect Jews”.

Muslims know already that a Christian Assyria would serve the same purpose…would become a dependency and tool of the Christian West, most notably the United States which is hardly friendly to Muslim interests and not to be trusted. Such an Assyria would be even more isolated than Israel since it would be landlocked with no coastline, surrounded on all sides by understandably hostile and suspicious Muslim neighbors. Without any resources, other than some petroleum, Assyria would become an economic and military dependency of the United States, a convenient excuse for intervention on “behalf” of its “suffering” Christian population which might find itself ruled by a clique beholden to and skimming the cream from “defense contracts” and weapons purchases making Assyria’s sole “business” acting as bait, encouraged to trouble the waters periodically so that Muslims might then “pose a threat to Christians”, opening the flood gates of the same Treasury from which military manufacturers grow rich….the same standby Europe has used to intervene in the MidEast for centuries and the Americans to intervene in the South Seas. For all these reasons and many more, no Muslim entity will look favorably or cooperate or even consider handing any land over to what would become a Christian equivalent to the state of Israel and a constant reminder and presence of the very same nations who are even now murdering innocent Muslims.

Neither Iraq nor Kurdistan, Iran, Afghanistan nor Syria will ever allow or “give” land to a Christian enclave created by and dependent on the Christian West. If the Assyrians, huddled in their few remaining villages, join in the chorus coming out of Turlock and Chicago demanding “their rights” they will simply be moved off the land, as happened in the past because Muslims know all too well that these kinds of appeals lead to Western intervention ostensibly on their behalf. As quickly as possible therefore Assyrian villages need to be overrun by Muslims who will dilute the concentration of Assyrians-only enclaves. It was this same motivation that forced the Turks to move the Christians off their borders…because they welcomed and urged foreigners to cross into Turkey to “save” them and preach to them, or at least bring their hoped-for goodies.

The only other way for an Assyria to be created is if the Assyrians themselves make a concerted effort to rise up and seize the land…and this too will never happen. Not only because our nationalists are all confirmed cowards and hopelessly inept, unable to unite for anything, not even Christ, but because there’s simply no compelling reason to risk life and limb and the lives of their children when they can live in any number of safer and far more advanced countries where neither their religion nor their so-called ethnicity will be the least cause of worry or retaliation. And, true to form, that’s exactly where all our nationalists now live and from where they issue their “call to arms” from coffee shops and bingo halls.

Such was not the case with the Jews. Had there been any alternative for the remaining European Jews they would have leapt at the chance to go anywhere BUT Palestine or “Zion”. No Jew in his right mind and without the specter of Bergen-Belsen in his recent memory would have left Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw or Rome for Haifa. There was, quite literally, nowhere else to go for the remaining Jews of Europe…and the Balfour Declaration, while cynically presenting itself as a favor and a “promise” to Jews, actually helped achieve a modified version of Hitler’s solution by ridding Europe of the last Jews Hitler hadn’t had time to kill.

There’s simply no comparison between the plight of the Jews and the so-called plight of our so-called Assyrians. Of course they try to make parallels by co-opting words used to describe the very real brutality Jews suffered. We borrow words such as “diaspora”…”genocide”….”holocaust”…”persecution”, perverting and bastardizing the true meanings in an attempt to make ourselves equal objects of pity and concern….maybe, we think, the West will do for us what it “did” for the Jews...forgetting completely what the West did TO the Jews…as a prerequisite before their conscience supposedly bothered them enough to make the biggest ghetto yet and call it Israel. In similar manner we think if we can only “tell the world” all that we supposedly suffered at the hands of “violent Islam” and “persecuting Arabs”…touting our “second-class” status along with a litany of imagined or misrepresented “crimes” committed against us “because we are Christians and Assyrians”, the world MIGHT rush to our defense and create an Assyria for us.

It’s a most pathetic spectacle which fools hardly anyone with an ounce of sense and only embitters our Muslim neighbors all the more, which doesn’t seem to phase our nationalists, all residing safely outside the Mideast, whom one can be forgiven for thinking actually want more such “persecutions” and “martyrdoms” as a further means of prodding the West’s conscience into action. The ugliest part of all this “national” yowling and melodrama is that our children are reared with a notion of entitlement plus a debilitating and most unbecoming hatred of Arabs, Turks, Kurds and Islam…their parents first scarring them with tales of martyrdom and persecution which never occurred or are blown way out of proportion and then, to keep them active in the cause, continually pick at the wounds, peeling back the scabs and digging at the sensitive flesh much as beggars in certain countries found it profitable to blind or disfigure their own children because the pity aroused among passersby could increase their take. The final tragedy occurs when our young grow up and take over from their parents, picking and scratching at their own wounds, needlessly inflicted on them by their parents. This insane cycle is fueled by such purple prose compilations of “first hand accounts” by Rosie Malek among others as well as pop history books relating the supposed genocidal brutality of Arabs etc. Books that are self-published and lack all academic or scholarly credentials by hacks and hate-filled Christians who blame Islam and Arabs for their own mediocre accomplishments or merely wish to lash out at those who displaced Jesus from the MidEast.

It will take a few hundred years at least for this Christian West that our people appeal to, to regain that self-serving myth of themselves as lovers of freedom and champions of human rights. Right now Michael Youash is in Washington D.C appealing to the conscience of American politicians to “do something” for poor Assyrians….right there from the heart of the city that’s leading the war against Iraq from politicians who voted for it and support it to this day…does he expect Iraqis to hand over anything? Most likely not. What he’s appealing to is a military seizure of his Assyrian triangle…of America becoming the “champion” of Assyria as it has of Kurdistan.

This too will never happen. Assyrians have proven themselves not only a joke but also a serious liability to anyone who thinks to work with them. The main problem is that their ethnic identity is all wrapped up with and confused with their Christianity…and this Christianity of theirs plus their regional and factional disputes, will keep them at each other’s throats for the foreseeable future, even as they were when the Arabs first liberated them from Byzantine control…..indeed it will only get worse once taxes and oil money, government contracts and foreign aid dollars enters into it.

In the absence of any real likelihood for an Assyria, all sensible and practical Assyrians have removed themselves long ago from the front ranks of our nationalists leaving only the most backward, the most useless, the most venal, self-serving and stupid to “lead this nation”. This type cares little what the actual prospects are for success or, more importantly, how much additional harm will come to the few remaining and harassed Assyrians struggling in Iraq. Rather this sort of fellow is all caught up with his image as a “savior” of the Assyrian nation…as a Redeemer…as one who “proves Isaiah was right” and therefore “proves the Bible is the word of God”, or who simply likes the feel of being a leader, even if over only three men and a dog who meet in a basement down a back alley.

Ironically, but not surprisingly, it is precisely this sort of nationalist who will effectively kill the idea, once and for all, of any kind of Assyrian nation by making himself and his plans odious to both Muslims and Western Christians. In this, we wish him Godspeed for the sake of the few remaining Christian Assyrians of Iraq to whom our nationalists and their darling Christian nations have been the greatest enemy.



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