Blogging The Casbah: Armenia & Israel: A 1919 idea to get America proxies in the Middle East

Monday, May 4, 2009

Armenia & Israel: A 1919 idea to get America proxies in the Middle East

I'm perfectly aware that Wikipedia is often be a place for passionate people to write mini-editorials. Still, these subjective rants can be eye-opening.

This is what some yahoo had to say about the 1919 King-Crane Commission and the Armenians:

The commission also tackled the issue of whether there should be an Armenian state, and came to the conclusion that there should be one. While one explanation might be mere favoritism (the Armenians are Christian), the arguments used for an Armenian state are quite similar to later arguments for the existence of Israel after World War II. The report noted that the Armenians had suffered a traumatic experience in the genocide, that they couldn't trust the Turkish state to respect their rights anymore, and that they were "a people." Therefore, Armenian independence should be respected and ensured.

2 comments:

The Rooster said...

Did you read the rest of it? Say the part about Iraq and Israel? Interesting eh? But, I must also add that this article is not all inclusive, there is much more the the story and the report than available in the wiki rant provided.

Abu Guerrilla said...

Yeah, there is much more to this wiki rant. Very interesting though.