Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "travelingisrael.com" channel.

  1. I mean, the Palestinians and Arabs started all of the wars, so why would someone feel bad beating up their assaulter?.
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  2. Bceause nobody cares about Christians in the Middle East the persecution is almost completed. In the year 1900 about 18-20% of the Middle East was christian. Now the Middle East is only 2-3% christian. Lebanon was 80-90% christian. In the year 2000 Lebanon was 55% christian, now ? It`s around 30%, a christian majority country for almost 2000 years turned into a minority in just 2 decades. There are about 10 million Lebanese worldwide, 85% of them are christian, but only 5 million live in Lebanon, as the other 5 million of which most are christian live in exile in North & South America + Europe. Even when they were a slight majority christians were discriminated by the Hezbollah-controlled state. Assyrians are an ancient people with their own Christian Church, there were 1.5 million Assyrians in Iraq in the year 2000 ( about 5% of Iraq ), now it`s 150.000 ( 0.2% ). The Kurds and Arabs completely destroyed that culture and religion. There are between 3.5 - 5 million Assyrians worldwide, but only 150.000 in Iraq and nobody knows how few are left in Syria ( in 2011 there were 600.000 Assyrians in Syria ) due to the ongoing civil war, but many Christians fled and became refugees. People know about the Armenian genocide, but in the same timespan by the same people the Assyrian genocide ( Sayfo) happend, nobody knows about it, Assyrians were a majority in southeast modern-Turkey in 1919, but the Turks and Kurds massacred them all and now barely any Assyrians are left in that region. And nobody cared when ISIS killed tens of thousands Assyrians ( and Yezidis ), the Assyrians were disarmed and forbidden from carrying weapons by Kurds and Arabs and the Kurdish military literally let ISIS kill Assyrians + Yezidis in order to settle Kurdish people in those regions. By 2030 at best only 5000 Assyrians will be left in Iraq. Armenians are likewise an ancient people and fulfilled the same role as Jews in the Middle East. Namely as a minority that was forced into financial professions as they were considered impure ( + in Islam artisans were also considered impure, so Armenians were also in manufacturing )... In the Ottoman Empire 18 out of 19 banks were owned by Armenians, Armenians made up 30-40% of the economy and were very well educated. Naturally the Arabs, Kurds and Turks had similar conspiracy theories about the Armenians as they + Europeans had about Jews. However the Armenian genocide is still denied and Armenians are still persecuted in the Middle East. A country like Azerbaijan can invade them multiple times, ethnically cleanse 150.000 people and it only makes international news for a single day. I really want to emphasize something : The Murder_of_Gurgen_Margaryan by Ramil_Safarov really shows the modern mindset. Safarov was an Azerbaijani who went to NATO english-language training in Hungary, where he met 2 Armenians. And no, Safarov didn`t even talk to any Armenians, nor was there any interaction between them whatsoever... Safarov just killed one Armenian, Gurgen in his sleep, and failed to kill the other. Naturally he was caught and on trial, but his defence attorney claimed "It is not illegal to kill an Armenian in Azerbaijan so my client didn`t know any better" ------ How can you fix that mindset, that this is somehow considered a reasonable argument ?????? Also during his initial interrogation, he confessed to the murder and claimed he regretted not having killed Armenians before this murder..... Anyway he was sentenced to life imprisonment with possibility of parole after 30 years. He was imprisoned for 8 years in Hungary before the country made a deal with Azerbaijan and he was transfered to Azerbaijan, where he was supposed to continue his sentence... However the President of Azerbaijan personally welcomed him as a hero, pardoned him and honored him. The minister of defence promoted him, gave him a free apartment and 8-years worth of salary. Members of parliament claimed "Any honorable Azerbaijani would have done the same" and all of Azerbaijan celebrated this coldblooded murderer as a hero. And the genocide of the Armenians is still ongoing. For example, when the recent forced migration of Armenians out of Arktash, proving the Armenian fear of 3 decades that the Azerbaijanis would ethnically cleanse them if they got the chance, correct. This is the reality of Christians in the Middle East. An ever shrinking population, being driven out of their countries, persecuted and discriminated and in the worst cases just killed and nobody cares. An ongoing ethnic cleansing that is almost finished. [ This topic is about Christians, but just for information, it isn`t much different for any other minority in the Middle East. The Druze for example, Yezidis, or Bahai, or Shabaak and so on. The Middle East gets more Muslim and Arab/Kurd/Turk over time... These minorities survived ~1400 years under islamic Caliphates, but the modern era discrimination is the most successful one. ] Ironically, Iran is probably the best treatment of Christians but really, only Armenians, today.
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  3. It is still disorientating to me that literally no one gives a shit that Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed Nargono-Karabah of Christian Armenians just last year. Like it is funnier when people look for excuse upon excuse to not call it genocide but call israel's retaliatory war against the official government of Gaza, Genocide. Makes it clear that the West doesn't give a shit about Christians or Jews if they're not currently in the West.
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  4. According to Jewish historians and history popularizers there was only 1 Jewish village in Canaan in 1100. The rest are colonizers, the land belongs to the Arabs, specifically the Palestinian Arabs. Btfo.
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  5. Lol, that opening line. So religious states are illegitimate to you but somehow the middle East filled with religiously justified states including Fatwah and Hamas are somehow more justified than an Israel founded by secular Jews. Lol.
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  6. You know the Philistines weren't in the region earlier than the ancestors of the Jews right?.
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  7. 0:22 cuz Israel sent them a boat load of Palestinians which then ended the last Christian majority Christian in the Near East, to make Jews feel a bit more safe. Makes it funnier when u bring up Christian ethnic cleansing in the region.
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  8. There are two important errors here. 1. The Roman Empire becoming Christian did not really bring the anti-Jewish laws. There were already anti-Israel laws in the Roman Empire before Israel, they would literally kill a Jew that arrives on Cyprus even if by shipwreck after the Jewish revolts during Trajan's reign. These laws were regional and ignored at times but that's the same with Christian and Muslim anti-Jewish laws. When this is further taken in context of the illegalization of Paganism like Christianity was, after the conversion of the Empire you could argue Christian Europe was closer to being pro-Jew than Pagan Roman Europe. 2. The Church wasn't the main agent of blood libel against Jews. If anything it was one of the controls against it, it protected Jews against pogroms in the 1000s, it was skeptical of the superstitions that drove pogroms in the 1600s. It wasn't like completely innocent and never against Jews but certainly, it wasn't the chief of the blood laibel against Jews. 3. Ur analogy on the shop. Rabbanic Judaism isn't 2nd Temple Judaism and Jesus and Al his disciples were Jews. A better comparison would be if both the disgruntled worker and a family member of the bar owner, starts two different bars with the name of the one of their former employee whose business then closes down. The relative's franchise remains small while the employee's franchise grows.
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  9. No it wasn't. It was "peaceful" cuz the Ottomans controlled the area but even then there was still war even within the Ottoman Empire like Zahir Al Umar's conquest/consolidation of Palestine.
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  10. But in a 2 way choice between zionists and the anti-zionists, the anti-zionists are worse.
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