The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

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“...in the eyes of the first Zionist historians, the Bible ceased to be an impressive theological text and became a book of secular history, whose teaching is still dispensed to all Jewish pupils in specially designated lessons....According to this teaching, the people of Israel were no longer made up of those chosen by God, but became a nation issuing from the seed of Abraham. And so when modern archaeology began to show that there had not been an Exodus from Egypt, and that the great, unified monarchy of David and Solomon never existed, it met with a bitter embarrassed reaction from the secular Israeli public; some did not even flinch from accusing the 'new archaeologists' of 'Bible denial'.” p. 316

...Jews could not claim Palestine if they remained only a people united by religion or a faith made up of all sorts of people, people who had never been to Palestine...they had to have a common ancestor and an ethnic claim to that territory. But, it's always been a puzzle where the white Jews of eastern Europe, especially, came from. Zionists refuse to believe there was ever any Jewish evangelism...that the Jewish faith was taken to non-Jews, unrelated to Abraham's seed....because it waters down the claim that all Jews came from Abraham and from Palestine and so must be allowed to return there, their “ancestral homeland”...only it turns out if isn't.

“The myth that recounted the expulsion of the 'Jewish people' by the Romans became the supreme justification for claiming historical rights over a Palestine that Zionist rhetoric transformed into the 'Land of Israel'. We have a particularly astonishing example of the molding of a collective memory. Thus, even though all specialists in ancient Jewish history know that the Romans did not deport the population of Judea (there is not even the slightest work of historical research on this subject), other, less qualified individuals have been, and largely remain, convinced that the ancient 'People of Israel' were forcibly uprooted from their homeland, as is solemnly stated in the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel.”p. 317

...It's funny how we go sniffing after the Jews, taking their example and trying to make it fit us, and on top of that have such hatred for them.....but why not, Christians love Jesus, a Jew, but hate his ancestry. We too are desperate to have been “deported”...to have been driven into a “diaspora”...that's one reason why Bet-Solomon and so many others make up fantastic lies about Islam and how we wuz persecuted...we too have to have been run out...or ran in fear for our lives, like the Jews supposedly were....only it turns out they weren't...never happened...and it never happened to us either....and those assyrians of Urmia and Hakkari who ran to Iraq.....they also were not “returning home”...poppycock.

“Over the centuries, Jews ardently longed for Zion, their holy city, but it never occurred to them, not even those living close by, to go and settle there in their earthly life.” p. 317

...that hurts. Because it's also true of the assyrians who supposedly yearned for a return....why didn't they go? They say it was because Saddam was too scary...but assyrians in Iraq, under Saddam, had little to complain of no Muslim as much right to....just take our own Donny George...here's a Christian in a Muslim country run by a party that supposedly loves to “persecute” us, and yet he was educated there, became the director of all museums and the department of antiquities...how so? And he wasn't the only one...many assyrians enjoyed a much better life than they have since...and who in his right mind would return now that the awful Saddam is gone....anyone want to live in what the United States has made of Iraq? None of these assyrians, crying for a “return” are ever going back.


“I still naively believed, a few years ago, that the Exile had indeed taken place in the early years of the Christian ear; but I never thought that two thousand years of absence conferred rights to the land, whereas twelve hundred years of presence gave none to the local population.” p. 317

...amen to that.


“It would never occur to anyone to deny the existence of the United States because indigenous peoples were robbed of their lands when the nation was formed. No one would claim that the Norman conquerors should be expelled from the British Isles or the Arabs brought back to Spain. If we want to avoid transforming the world into a giant mental hospital, we must resist the urge to redistribute populations according to some historical model. Israel can today claim the right to exist only by accepting that a painful historical process led to its creation, and that any attempt to challenge this fact will produce new tragedies.” p. 318

...yes, except there are people who make billions off these “new tragedies”.

...we all know very well that no assyrian, yearning and crying and wailing for a return of his “indigenous” lands is ever going to give back the stolen lands, of the indigenous people, on top of which he now has his home...in the United States, Europe, Australia etc. It just won't happen, ever. So, why do we think we have a right to remove people , even if they have “taken over our lands”? Where our boys are concerned, they are already fit for a mental institution.



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