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Re: who do you suppose reads here?
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, November 22 2013, 3:53:07 (UTC)
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....so they got off the "redefine assyrian politics" thing they were on...and Maggie broke the silence by posting this...an even older post...like from 1934.




Assyrian Young People’s Association-371 Riverdale Ave.-Yonkers, New York
September 22, 1934
To the Editor of Assyrian Progress:

It is a long time since anything has been said or done about the Assyrian question, either by the League of Nations or by our leaders or organizations in America and elsewhere. We have been waiting to hear from the League of Nations for quite a while, and nothing of interest has really come up. When we first heard of the cold-blooded massacre of our poor people in Iraq,

...your poor people were not massacred...if you mean Semele, that was group-punishment much like America used against Iraqis recently for what NON-IRAQIS did.......and Semele was no massacre and there was no attempt to massacre assyrians...had that been the aim the Iraqi army would have killed everyone in the village and moved on to do the same in the other assyrian villages and wherever assyrians could be found...but they didn't do that.

..If you people would read something besides a bad Jewish history book you'd know that the assyrian refugees who ran to Iraq to save themselves from the well-earned anger of their Muslim neighbors whom they betrayed to the Brits...refused all efforts to settle them by the Iraqi government...idiots of that day, much like the ones today, insisted that Britain had "promised" them a home of their own. Britain did no such thing...some British officers in the field found it expedient to make promises on behalf of their government they knew would never be honored...the whole point was to fool you fools into siding with them against your fellow country-people. It was sad and tragic but it wasn't started by Iraq or the army...the trouble began when assyrians refused to settle for what was being offered and instead went chasing a pot of gold in Syria where they were SURE the French would "do something for us"...the French didn't and so they returned to Iraq carrying their weapons and trouble started when shots were fired....whether the assyrians fired first or the Iraqis doesn't matter...the assyrians were refugees allowed into the country as guests...they had never lived in Iraq before and were not, I repeat NOT "the indigenous people of Iraq". A nation, any nation, can't allow bands of armed men cross borders whenever they feel the urge...Iraq was trying to settle itself as a new country ravaged by war...they had no patience for the assyrian guests they took in, Muslims mind you...took in.



we did get together in our unorganized way and tried in some way to do something for our persecuted people.

...your people were not persecuted...your people ran for their lives from Turkey and Iran where they had taken sides with enemies of those countries against their own governments...had those governments caught them your people would have gone on trial for treason and then hanged..as would have happened in any other country under similar circumstance...your people suffered the results of their OWN actions....they gave the Iraqis no option but a cruel one....had Iraq intended harm to assyrians it never would have allowed those Christians to enter the country in the first place...it was YOUR action which ruined it for your people, not Iraqi reaction.


As I understand, the reason we were not working in one accord was the misunderstanding and jealousy of our leaders in the clubs, churches, and organizations right here in America.
Why must we sit back and expect other people to feel sorry for us, and yet do nothing to help?

...because you are weaklings more intent on kissing Christian ass than on taking care of yourselves...also cowards of the first water.

From a letter published in the "Assyrian Progress" periodical
Published by the Assyrian American Benevolent Association of California
Volume II: November 1934-Decempber 1936

Republished recently by David Malick

LOL, nothing has changed in 80 years.......

...you bet your sweet ass nothing has changed...this guy was whining 70 years ago and you've been whining all week....no, nothing changes because you people don't change...still going off at the mouth about things you don't understand...still feeling persecuted and misunderstood...still talking and talking and TALKING about what you "should do"...and "would do" if only you COULD do!

...why not show this guy up...why not DO something yourself instead of post other people's failures..as if that exonerates you from your own failures....what have YOU succeeded in accomplishing this week...last week...ten years ago?

...they'll be LOLing about you years from now.



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