Today, in front of the collective negation of humanity, aka the UN, I was asked to speak at a tribute to the victims of the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian Genocides by Islamic jihad. While it was a small affair, it was powerful, passionate and determined to change the sanction of genocide. This year’s commemoration was organized and hosted by Panthracian Union of America ‘Orpheus’ and supported by the Hellenic League of America, HLA. I spoke, along with such guest speakers as First Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Professor Alex Hinton; President of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, Elias Tsekerides and President of the PanPontian Federation of USA and Canada, Dimitris Molohides. The SIOA board member, the magnificent Pamela Hall, was there. I will update the posts with her pics and video later...... Geller partial remarks: December 19th 2007 the International Association of Genocide Scholars adopted a resolution to recognize the Assyrian Genocide. Finally, an international organisation made of qualified scholars has made a resolution to recognize the jihad slaughter of millions of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Jews and Yezidis by the Islamic warlords of the Ottoman Empire and call it what it was - Genocide. The Ottoman Empire now Turkey claims to have changed and has become a Democratic country and and wants to be welcomed into the European Union despite never acknowledging let along making amends or recompense for the their murder of millions, during the late Ottoman Empire, of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and other minorities were killed in a planned, organized genocide that was carried out by the government of the time. And yet the "moderate" Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan "Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." The Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire numbered about one million at the turn of the twentieth century and was largely concentrated in what is now Iran, Iraq and Turkey.[1] Like other Christians residing in the empire, they were treated as second-class citizens and denied public positions of power. Violence directed against them prior to the First World War was not new. Many Assyrians were subjected to massacre and forced conversion to Islam. Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter — with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It's a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command — and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad — that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? The world looked away then too. Hitler aligned with the leader of the Muslim world, al-Husseini (an officer in Ottoman Empire who was active in thr Armenian genocide.) Al-Husseini lived in Berlin, in the lap of luxury, all expenses paid by, Hitler. The Assyrian Diaspora should operate on two levels towards genocide recognition. Assyrian organizations should work on a national and international level to publicize the genocide through media campaigns, letter writing campaigns to major newspapers, insertion of single page advertisement of Assyrian Martyrs Day in major newspapers and lobbying important politicians in adopted homelands. At an international level, Assyrian organizations should use the fora of the United Nations and its relevant agencies as well as the European Union to publicize its Genocide. It is also important to engage a public relations firm to help "promote" the Assyrian Genocide to the international community. The issue of reparations remains a contentious one. Do you think a demand for reparations by the victims should be part of the genocide recognition dialogue? Reparations could form part of the genocide recognition dialogue with Turkey. However this will depend on whether any Assyrians had purchased insurance policies or held bank accounts and title deeds to family property during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians have filed law suits against New York Life Insurance, Axa Insurance and Deutsche Bank trying to recover monies of their dead ancestors. So far New York Life and Axa have compensated Armenian descendants. Assyrian activists, like their Armenian counterparts, have sought to pressure Turkey by gaining recognition of the genocide by countries around the world. Do you think this approach is beneficial?Assyrians can focus on the current Middle East situation without taking an eye off the past. I hope that the Assyrians can use their present persecution to tell the international community that their suffering has continued almost non-stop from the early 20th century. It is important that the victims of the First World War are not forgotten and their memories are preserved for future generations. News account: Numerous articles in the American press documented the genocide of Assyrians by the Turks and their Kurdish allies. By 1918, The Los Angeles Times carried the story of a Syrian, or most likely an Assyrian, merchant from Urmia who stated that his city was ‘‘completely wiped out, the inhabitants massacred,’’ 200 surrounding villages ravaged, 200,000 of his people dead, and hundreds of thousands of more starving to death in exile from their agricultural lands. In an article entitled ‘‘Native Christians Massacred,’’ the Associated Press correspondent reported that in the vicinity of Urmia, ‘‘Turkish regular troops and Kurds are persecuting and massacring Assyrian Christians.’’ Close to 800 were confirmed dead in Urmia, and another 2,000 had perished from disease. Two hundred Assyrians had been burned to death inside a church, and the Russians had discovered more than 700 bodies of massacre victims in the village of Hafdewan outside Urmia, ‘‘mostly naked and mutilated,’’ some with gunshot wounds, others decapitated, and still others carved to pieces. Eyewitness accounts and quotes Statement of German Missionaries on Urmia. There was absolutely no human power to protect these unhappy people from the savage onslaught of the invading hostile forces. It was an awful situation. At midnight the terrible exodus began; a concourse of 25,000 men, women, and children, Assyrians and Armenians, leaving cattle in the stables, all their household hoods and all the supply of food for winter, hurried, panic-stricken, on a long and painful journey to the Russian border, enduring the intense privations of a foot journey in the snow and mud, without any kind of preparation... It was a dreadful sight,... many of the old people and children died along the way.[23] The latest news is that four thousand Assyrians and one hundred Armenians have died of disease alone, at the mission, within the last five months. All villages in the surrounding district with two or three exceptions have been plundered and burnt; twenty thousand Christians have been slaughtered in Armenia and its environs. In Haftewan, a village of Salmas, 750 corpses without heads have been recovered from the wells and cisterns alone. Why? Because the commanding officer had put a price on every Christian head... In Dilman crowds of Christians were thrown into prison and driven to accept Islam.[24] Visitors will descend into the main gallery via a stair right next to the remains of the Survivor's Staircase. Atlas readers have been following (scroll link) the astonishing depravity of the intention of the scandalously overpaid officials of the 911 Memorial and Museum to exploit the human remains of some 911 victims in a ghoulish display: 911 Memorial Museum Ghoul Officials Exploit the Human Remains of 1,123 "Freak Show." I hope they file a class action suit. Atlas readers, please start working the phones and your email lists. We must help the 911 families rescue their loved ones' remains from becoming a circus sideshow: Email to Joe Daniels, President, 9/11 Memorial Museum: Email Mayor Bloomberg, Chairman, 9/11 Memorial Museum The letter, below, was delivered to the offices of Mayor Michael Bloomberg today, April 5, 2011 at 12:50 PM. Today at NYU, the righteous vs the wrongeous Left wing tools protest the only humane society in the Middle East -- victim of sweeping Islamic anti-semitism (below). Interesting to note, The Students for Justice for Palestine had an NYU officer on their side, none on the side of the pro-freedom, pro-Israel side. There were also a number of adults (faculty?) on the SJP protest and the pro-israel counter protest were all students. Counter protest: Good on these righteous souls for standing against Jew-hatred by the terror tool group. This is what must be done at every protest, every America-hating, Jew-hating action. The Students for Justice in Palestine organized this bund rally: “When Zionist militia groups violently took over the land that became Israel in 1948, they committed mass atrocities that led to the expulsion of approximately 700,000 indigenous Palestinians from their homes. These people have never been allowed to return, and many continue to live difficult lives in refugee camps scattered throughout the Middle East, as well as in temporary refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank….
NYC PROTEST GREEK, ARMENIAN, ASSYRIAN GENOCIDES BY ISLAMIC JIHAD
Rand said, evil is made possible by the sanction you give it, withdraw your sanction. We are at war. The jihadi wars that behind the unsepeakable atrocities that befell the Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Zeyadis and Jews are on the rise and on the rage.
Other leading British and American newspapers corroborated these accounts of the Assyrian genocide. The New York Times reported on 11 October that 12,000 Persian Christians had died of massacre, hunger, or disease; thousands of girls as young as seven had been raped or forcibly converted to Islam; Christian villages had been destroyed, and three-fourths of these Christian villages were burned to the ground.[21] The Times of London was perhaps the first widely respected publication to document the fact that 250,000 Assyrians and Chaldeans eventually died in the Ottoman genocide of Christians, a figure which many journalists and scholars have subsequently accepted....
As the Earl of Listowel, speaking in the House of Lords on 28 November 1933, stated, ‘‘the Assyrians fought on our side during the war,’’ and made ‘‘enormous sacrifices,’’ having ‘‘lost altogether by the end of the War about two-thirds of their total number.’'....
About half of the Assyrian nation died of murder, disease, or exposure as refugees during the war, according to the head of the Anglican Church, which had a mission to the Assyrians.Tuesday, April 05, 2011
9/11 FAMILIES DELIVER LETTER TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG RE: HUMAN REMAINS AT GZ MUSEUM
Telephone: 212.312.8800
info@national911memorial.org
mbloomberg@cityhall.nyc.gov
We are 9/11 family members and group leaders who feel that all 2, 749 relatives of the victims deserve to have a voice, and a choice in the final disposition of the human remains of their loved ones. We also affirm that while a number of 9/11 families have supported returning the remains to GZ, they never agreed to placement in a museum, 70 ft. below ground (Please see complete list of family signatories following the letter, below.)
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NORMAN SIEGEL
Attorney at Law
260 Madison Avenue, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(212) 532-7586
April 5, 2011
BY HAND
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
The City of New York
Office of the Mayor
New York, NY 10007
Dear Mayor Bloomberg:
We represent a group of 9/11 family members whose loved ones died at Ground Zero. We write because our clients have serious objections as to New York City’s plans to incorporate the human remains found at Ground Zero as a “programmatic element” located some 70 feet below ground within the National September 11 Memorial Museum (“Museum”). Our clients believe, as do numerous museum curators, that this use of the remains is inappropriate and, indeed, inconsistent with the underlying purpose of the Museum, which is to educate the public about the events of 9/11. In 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation committed to a memorial, including a repository for unidentified human remains that was to be “distinct from other memorial structures like a museum or visitors center.” Placement of the human remains within the Museum is completely contradictory to the LMDC’s criteria that was supported by many 9/11 family members.
Our clients particularly object because the families of the victims were not consulted about this current plan. They believe that many of the 9/11 family members will agree that the remains should be placed in a respectful and accessible location at the World Trade Center site, separate from the Museum, akin to the Tomb of the Unknowns, where both they and the public could go to pay their respects to loved ones. Indeed, those who passed in the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 are honored in this way at Arlington National Cemetery, and family members of those who died at Ground Zero have a similar interest in such a collective memorial.
Given this, our clients propose drafting a letter, addressed to the family members of the 2,749 World Trade Center victims, seeking their input with respect to the disposition of the remains. Such a letter would be prepared wholly at our clients’ expense but, because the City possesses the addresses of these families, we would ask the City to mail the letters out (again, at our clients’ expense) rather than seek these addresses through the Freedom of Information Law or otherwise. In this way, the City bears no cost, but those who lost family members at Ground Zero would have the opportunity to be heard regarding the disposition of the human remains of their loved ones.
Contrary to your reported comments made yesterday about this issue, we believe that the vast majority of the 9/11 Families are not aware of the current plan and were not consulted about placing the 9/11 remains in the Museum, 70 feet below ground.
Please let us know if this proposal is acceptable to you or if you have any other suggestions as to how 9/11 family members could be consulted in this process. We will call you tomorrow regarding this request, and appreciate your consideration.
Sincerely,
Norman Siegel
Steven J. Hyman
Aimee Saginaw
McLaughlin & Stern, LLP
260 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 448-1100
cc: Michael Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (via fax)
Charles S. Hirsch, Medical Examiner, City of New York (via fax)
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9/11 Family Members:
Co-chair, Advocates for a 9/11 Fallen Heroes Memorial
Bother-in-law of FDNY Battalion Chief Orio Palmer, Batt 7
914-482-0284
Rita and Jim Riches (Deputy Chief /FDNY-ret)
Chairman, 9/11 Parents and Families of Firefighters and WTC Victims
Parents of FF James Riches, Engine 4
Rosaleen Tallon, Ed. D.
Family Liaison, Advocates for a 9/11 Fallen Heroes Memorial
Eileen Tallon
Sister and Mother of FF Sean Tallon, Ladder 10
Rosemary Cain and Nancy Nee
9/11 Parents and Families of Firefighters and WTC Victims
Mother and Sister of FF George Cain, L-7
Joyce and Russell Mercer and Christine Mercer
9/11 Parents and Families of Firefighters and WTC Victims
Parents and Sister of FF Scott Kopytko, L-15
Maureen and Al Santora (DC/FDNY-ret)
9/11 Parents and Families of Firefighters and WTC Victims
Parents of FF Christopher Santora, E-54
Sally and Al Regenhard
Skyscraper Safety Campaign
Parents of FF Christian Regenhard, L-131NYU: DUELING PROTESTS OVER ISRAEL
The mindless led by the evil ...... toxic combo.
Where are these young people on gender apartheid, clitorectomies, ethnic cleansing, Islamic imperialism? Where are these bots on the cultural annihilations, jihadi wars and enslavements? What manipulated maroons. I mean, really. They really need a semester in Yemen or Somalia or Gaza or Mecca (oh, that's right, no non-Muslims allowed).Calling Israel "this generation's South Africa," SJP vows to do for contemporary Palestinians what the anti-apartheid campaign did for blacks in South Africa. Toward that end, SJP exhorts college students to help punish the "Apartheid State of Israel" by demanding that their schools divest their financial assets from all companies that conduct business there. SJP has staged campus protests against Starbucks, General Electric, Disney, and scores of other companies.
SJP members, who denounce what they term the Israeli-sponsored "concentration camps" wherein Palestinians are purportedly forced to live, harass Jewish students when they emerge from campus synagogues. In one incident after a rally at San Francisco State University (SFSU), SJP supporters surrounded a small group of Jewish students and incited violence while shouting such epithets as, "Too bad Hitler didn't finish the job!" On April 9, 2002 (Holocaust Remembrance Day), pro-Palestinian groups at SFSU protested Israel's occupation of the West Bank and then circulated posters depicting Jews eating Christian babies. That same day, SJP members held a rally and a sit-in on the Berkeley campus, resulting in 79 arrests. Pro-Palestinian protests also erupted on several other campuses that same day, involving nearly 10,000 students at Ohio State, the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Carnegie Mellon University. In November 2002, Yale University's SJP set up a mock Israeli checkpoint on campus, harassing Jewish students with cardboard rifles.
A co-founder of the Berkeley SJP is Snehal Shingavi, a graduate student who gained notoriety in 2001 for teaching a controversial course called "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance." Explaining that his instruction would focus on "Israel's brutal oppression of Palestine since 1948," Shingavi in the course catalog urged conservative students not to bother registering for his class.
SJP's national conference at the University of Michigan in November 2002 was sponsored by the Islamic Association for Palestine, a now-defunct, Illinois-based front group for the terrorist organization Hamas. The conference also featured keynote speaker Sami Al-Arian, a former professor at the University of South Florida who was the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad operations in North America.
SJP’s version of Israel’s founding and history, and of the Palestinian people’s relationship with Israel, reads as follows:
“Military occupation has come to define the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967. The Israeli military has governed Palestinians’ lives arbitrarily through the use of checkpoints scattered within Palestinian lands, Jewish-only roads, land confiscations, home demolitions, arbitrary curfews, and illegal extra-judicial executions….
“In 2002, the Israeli government announced its plans to build what it termed a ‘security barrier’ encapsulating the West Bank. While this wall ostensibly was built out of security concerns, it is not built along the ‘border’ between the West Bank and Israel, but rather in large part on land within the West Bank. This land grab has had disastrous consequences, isolating towns and villages from other communities and separating farmers from their lands and livelihoods….
“While most discussions about the Palestinians tend to focus on the peope living in Gaza and the West Bank, it is worth noting that Palestinians also account for 20% of the Israeli population by citizenship. While many of Israel’s crudest supporters tokenize them for their own political ends, the truth is that while these Palestinians have many of the benefits of Israeli citizenship–including the right to vote and participate in political institutions–they also face a number of institutional and social barriers that clearly demarcate them as second-class citizens who are unwanted by a state which excludes them from the national identity….
“The parallel between contemporary Israel and apartheid South Africa is striking. From visible efforts to separate Palestinians from Israelis, as well as a humiliating, indifferent, and inhumane security state system, to strong similarities in the rhetorics (sic) used by Israel and apartheid South Africa, it is evident that the Israeli system of controlling the Palestinian people and maintaining Jewish control over the state apparatus matches many of apartheid South Africa’s goals of maintaining White control over the government as well as the indigenous African populations.”
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