The Hidden Truth
As for the Assyrians, their systematic massacres at the hands of the
Arabs, Turks and Kords since the Islamic conquests in the mid-7th
century AD have reduced their population, robbed them of their land and
restricted their movement to within the confines of their villages. They
destroyed their infrastructure by exacting heavy taxes on every adult
and farm produce. Assyrian villages were forcibly depopulated. Their
land and property were confiscated and their churches and institutions
systematically destroyed. They were not allowed to travel freely like
their Muslim counterparts without prior official permission. They were
not allowed to practice their culture and tradition openly and freely.
The Assyrians were squeezed out of their wealth and forced to live the
life of subservience for holding fast to their Christian religion.
If the Palestinians exist, so do the Israelis and the Assyrians. The
Palestinians are as ancient as the Assyrians and the Israelis. If the
Arabised Palestinians believe that, they are genuine descendants of
Philistia of the pagan Plishtayi and are extant; then the Assyrians and
the Israelis are extant too. The world of Islam (Arabs, Turks, Mongols,
Kords) by denying the Assyrians their existence, are also implying that
they will continue carrying out systematic massacres against the Jews
and Assyrians in a bid to exterminate and deracinate them to total
extinction.
The Assyrians and the Jews, too, need to take their rightful place as
recognised peoples in the international community, as any other nation,
in their own historical land and become part of the world family of
nations in their traditional homeland of the Middle East. The Israelis
and the Assyrians were forcibly banished and displaced by past and
present invaders. Israelites and the Assyrians have every right to
return to their homes, liberate themselves from foreign occupation and
live in their historical land, free and under their own sovereign rule.
Historically, recognized nations, as Assyrians, Israelis and Arabs,
different in language, religion and culture had their own recognised
delineated states and borders, independent from one another. Yet,
according to the Palestinian National Covenant, the Arabs consider the
Israelis as Arab Jews. As for the Zionists, the Arabs allege that the
majority of the Israelis having lived, in Diaspora, outside the
so-called Arab Palestine, since their banishment, have forfeited their
right to reclaim their historical homeland. The Palestinians label the
banished Jews, foreign Zionists. As for the Assyrians, the Arabs allege
that the Assyrian nationality was annulled, and with its annulment and
removal of the political map of Mesopotamia from the geography of the
World Atlas Map, in Post World War I, Assyria was voided and that no
mention should be made about it or its dispersed people. Islam, by
describing a Jew in Diaspora as a ‘Foreign Zionist’, denies him the
right to return to Jerusalem, Israel. ZION is the sacred symbol of his
beloved traditional homeland. Similarly, Islam denies the Assyrian his
return to his homeland of his capital city, Ninweh.
In the eyes of the Arab and Islamic nations, Israel remains an alien
state forcibly established on ‘Arab soil’. While they consider
restoration of Assyria as another thorn in the side of the Arab Muslims
– a real threat to the spread of Islam, and an impediment to the concept
of globalisation of their religion and expansion of their Umma Nation.
The Assyrians were divided into several religious sects of different
Christian minority ‘millet’ groups, in order to understate their
population count and nullify their Assyrian national identity. The
Assyrians were hence called by their denominational name. Arab
governments stopped calling them Assyrian. Instead, they called them by
their religious denomination such as Nestori (Nestorian), Orthodox,
Maronite, and Jacobite etc. On some occasions, Islamic governments
provocatively called the Assyrian ’Arab or Kord’.
The mandated powers, in collusion with the Arab/Islamic states, adopted
the Islamic ‘millet provision’. Thus, Assyria was dismembered and its
Christian people described as alien groups of different sects of
unidentified nationalities. Islamic governments call them by the name of
their religious leader or church affiliate and not by their own racial
identity. The aim of the key power brokers was to deny the Assyrians
statehood.
The Assyrians are not aliens. In the immediate aftermath of World War I,
by design of the Mandated Powers, the Assyrians were deliberately
dislodged and became internally displaced within the Mesopotamian
region. Locally, they were still the same people, on their own soil,
native inhabitants of Assyria. Demographically, nothing had changed
except that they were cut off by evicting them from their homeland and
creating new political borderlines that acted as barriers. The Assyrian
territory was dismembered and fell under four different Islamic states.
Henceforth, the Assyrians were branded foreigners, alien to their native
land. Citizenship of the newly created Islamic states was imposed on the
Assyrian. The mandated powers described it as fait accompli.
By creating new Islamic states and kingdoms, the mandated powers drew
new borderlines, and scattered the Assyrians among Kordish, Turkuman and
Arab mobs. They alienated them from their homes in Hakkari, Turkey and
Urmia, Iran. By this process, the Mandated Powers aimed to void the
Assyrian racial identity and invalidate its political status.
Dismemberment of Mesopotamia and decimation of its native Christians was
a pre-planned Anglo-French scheme under the, 9 May 1916, Sykes-Picot
Secret Agreement. Its implementation was encouraged and welcomed by the
Islamic states. Sir Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence played an active
role in keeping a tight lid on the Assyrian issue. As a result, the
Assyrian issue was quashed by the Mandates, and put on hold. It has
since been frozen and held in abyss.
In the case of the Israelis, the Arab argument failed to convince world
public opinion not to allow them to return to their ancestral land. In
November 1947, the United Nations in favour of a homeland approved
Resolution 181 for the Israelites in part of their Biblical homeland,
Israel. On 14 May 1948, Israel proclaimed its independence. The three
Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and to a certain degree
Poland went through such an ordeal in the mid-20th century. Yet, in the
end, they too legitimately reclaimed full sovereignty. The Assyrians are
left unaided to continue to strive through legal means of the U.N. and
the International Court of Justice to regain recognition.
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