The Armenian Genocide? No Such Thing

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa 

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On Wednesday, August 27, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu said he recognizes the genocide of other peoples – Assyrians, Greeks – and the big one, the Armenian Genocide which official Israel never has since 1948 because Turkey was one of the first countries to recognize the Jewish state, and for decades to come, the relationship was good; business, tourism (albeit one way); thousands of Israelis every year vacationing in Antalya and touring Istanbul.

This was, remember, the generation after Ataturk’s transformation of the country post-Caliphate. Ataturk intelligently recognized the superiority of Western societies and set out to re-mold Turkey in their image.

But that was then, and today is now, with Turkey under the shameless public Jew-hater Recep Erdogan.

The Prime Minister on a Patrick Bet-David podcast was asked why Israel does not recognize the Armenian genocide, and his answer was, “I think we have. I think the Knesset passed a resolution to that effect,” but the Times of Israel said no such legislation has been passed into law.

And when Ben-David asked why no Israeli prime minister has recognized the genocide, he answered, “I just did. Here you go.”

But this Israeli wishes he had not because the Armenian Genocide is like the “Palestinian” nation; there is no “Palestinian” nation and there was no Armenian Genocide. Saying so is a covert way undermining of the very term “genocide” as part of mankind’s endless aggression against Jews.

And here’s why there was no genocide, as that word, invented by a direct survivor of the Holocaust who lost his whole family, understood it. Rafael Lemkin, an educated, Polish lawyer, and like many educated Europeans knew other languages, said after the War there was no word in any language that he knew to describe what had just happened to the Jewish people, so he invented one. It is not a synonym for massacre.

The Holocaust, he realized, was something unique in history. This was not a war between peoples for material conquest, over natural resources, or internal civil war for power. When Attila the Hun, Jinghis Kahn, Alexander and Julius Caesar, etc. rolled over peoples, they exploited them, used them as cheap labor, taxed them. What would have been the point of exterminating them and losing their labor and taxes?

No, Adolf Hitler and devotees had the goal of conquering not only all of Europe and Russia and the Middle East but the whole world, and in each country they would seek out the Jews to murder every one them, so that in the future there would be no Jews in the world.

His invented word is rooted in the Latin “gens” meaning nation. It is related to the words generate, generation and degeneration — on display last week in a school in Minnesota where a madman murdered two children, seriously wounded more than a dozen, and took his own life. In a better generation, the madman would have been known as a degenerate for wearing women’s clothing and deluding himself that he was in whole or part a woman, and never mind he had no womb.

Today, the word “genocide” has been corrupted. The UN’s definition of genocide is, according to Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

There are two sub-rosa, anti-Jew corruptions here, which should not surprise because the United Nations is a gathering these days – if not at the beginning –where almost a third of the members states are Muslim, a religion whose devotees cannot tolerate the existence of the Jewish state, many of its Believers denying there ever was a Holocaust.

The first mistake is “in whole or in part.” No, genocide demands total success, and the second more important corruption is including among the targets of genocide “groups.”

For example, President Trump recently, welcoming into the White House South Africans with white skin victimized by men with black skin and driven from their homes and property, referenced the most recent statistic of 129 farmers there murdered there and called it genocide. No, these 129 victims were not a nation.

Today, Jew-haters shriek the Jews are committing genocide among the “Palestinians,” in effect doing to them what Nazis did to Jews last century. And I would not be surprised if some estimates by anti-Jews say the genocide is against six million “Palestinians” because that number is a very Jewish number and the Ishmaelites covet everything Jews have.

And never mind there is no evidence of even one politician in the Jewish state who has called for the genocide of these six million “Palestinians,” let alone has a plan for such a massive campaign. Israel also does not lack for leftists who would be happy to expose the Israeli machinery for exterminating all the “Palestinians,” and why have they not? Because there is no such plan or campaign. Jew-hatred always manifests as lies and delusions of Jews doing great evil that never have any truth to them.

Unfortunately, “genocide” was been corrupted intentionally by such as Samantha Power who rose to fame and prominence as Ambassador the United Nations appointed by B. H. Obama for writing a book deflating the term by defining some eight other horrors as genocide too, when they were not.

The sub rosa intent of corruption No. 2 is to deny the Holocaust was just the property of Jews. Indeed, a news item from California recently reported on the woke Department of Education there publishing material on the Holocaust that does not even mention the Jews. It is another form of Holocaust Denial spread by even the well-disposed to Jewish people such as President Trump.

No, in historical fact, there was only one genocide in history. No other major violence was a genocide, and that includes what happened to the Armenians in 1915. That was no genocide and here’s why:

First principle: The Jews do not have a monopoly on suffering. A Jewess in the 1940s Germany violated by a drunken Nazi did not suffer any more than the Armenian woman treated the same way by a brutish Turkish Muslim in 1915.

However, the context and circumstances were completely different. One of my friends in the neighborhood as a boy in the 1950s was Armenian, a wonderful person, who went to college at Amherst and became a pediatrician. His father and grandfather in 1915 escaped what the Turks, those masters of Muslim cruelty, were doing, no less than what the Muslims in Gaza did to Israelis two years ago and two months ago in Syria to the Druze. Ronny’s father spoke good English but with a strong accent; his grandfather not a word. When in their home, I would see him, and all I could do was smile and nod.

So, I have personally known victims what the Turks did to the Armenians. Their 1.5 million dead were as much innocent pathetic victims of the Turks as millions of Jews were of Nazis.

But this was still not genocide because the Turks were not out to find every Armenian in the world and kill them. The Armenians in Asbury Park, NJ and/or Fresno, CA were not in danger. What the Turks were up to was driving these Armenians off land the Turks coveted, and treating them in the worst possible way to terrorize them into fleeing.

There is no evidence whatsoever that the Turks had a plan to seek out and murder every Armenian in the world because, as Hitler thought of the Jews, the Armenians were enemies of humanity and must be exterminated like a disease. In Nazi eyes, the Jews were a mongrel people that that did not practice racial purity. The Nazis made propaganda films comparing Jews to swarming rats and deadly microbes. Did the Turks do that or something similar about the Armenians? I doubt it.

To repeat, individually the Jews have no monopoly on human suffering but the Holocaust was something unique in human history, which also irritates big time Jew-haters. Anything that marks the Jews as a unique people gets under their skin.

So, I object to using the term Armenian Genocide not because I doubt the horrors they went through but because it diminishes the almost otherworldly Holocaust of the Jews.

There has been only one genocide, and it is not to be confused with mass murder and massacre. The prime minister of Israel in validating the term “Armenian Genocide” diminishes the enormity of the Shoah. As it is today in France, a recent poll found 20% of the youth never heard of it. And when the Muslims finally take over, it will be officially denied there and in other countries succumbing to the Muslim conquest.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.