Posted on 12/19/2014 8:00:04 PM PST by george76
Now that the ethnic-cleansing campaign of the Turkish regime has been "successfully" completed, and there are only two Jews left in Edirne, why is the governor of the city still so angry?
The sweet little secret in both Turkey and Europe is that anti-Semites do not need the existence of a Jewish state to attack or threaten Jews. Hatred of Jews did not start with the re-establishment of the state of Israel.
The truth is that those who carried out ethnic cleansing of Jews are the last persons who should whine about the non-existent Israeli "occupation." Israelis are not occupiers in Israel. Israel is the home of the Jews; you cannot be an occupier in your own home. Israel has the legal, moral and historical right to exist as a sovereign state.
The latest anti-Semitic statement in Turkey was made on November 21 by Dursun Ali Sahin, the governor of Edirne, a city in Eastern Thrace. Governor Sahin announced that because he was angry at Israel, he would turn the city's synagogue into a museum. "While those bandits [Israeli security forces] blow winds of war inside al-Aqsa and slay Muslims," he said, "we build their synagogues. I say this with a huge hatred inside me. We clean their graveyards, send their projects to boards. But the synagogue here will be registered only as a museum, and there will be no exhibitions inside it."
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Today, the current Jewish population of Edirne is two.
The Jewish presence in Edirne dates back to early Byzantine times, during the rule of Roman Emperor Theodosius I (reigned 379-395 CE). During the Ottoman Empire, Edirne -- home to many Jewish intellectuals, scientists, musicians, publishers and merchants -- was as central to Jews as Constantinople (Istanbul) and Thessaloniki.
What happened?
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I wish someone would remind these MORONS that only NOMADS were moving through the area that is Israel, oh, and by the way....WE PAID FOR THE LAND.
Jesus, this kinda stuff TICKS me off.
Ticks Him off too.
“And we didn’t commit genocide against the Armenians either!” [/Turk]
So many people fall into this smokescreen. It’s fashionable these days to rage about “Zionism”, especially on the left.
It is nothing more than a thinly disguised hatred of Jews.
Anything (attack) applied to the Jews or Israelis has to do with “Rights”. Rights to terrorize and attack Jews, that's called “Justice for Palestine”, “Free Gaza” or Palestinian “Rights”. Any act in Ethnic cleansing of Jews is a “Right”.
On the other hand, anything slight move the Israelis make in order to DEFEND themselves...now THAT’s Ethnic cleansing...against the Paleostinians.
Not disguised at all.
If they did commit genocide, why were the ancestors of Rob Kardashian not murdered? OJ would have been convicted, and the pox that are the Kardashian sisters would not exist!
Whoops, forgot the closing </sarc> tag. Though I’m only half-joking here.
Ye beat me to it. Yes, per the Bible, God Himself is perturbed.
I for one would rather not be on His bad side...
Well said (pointing out the hypocrisy).
“WE PAID FOR THE LAND.”
Sadly, that is part of the problem. You are playing by the “rules.” That just enrages the monsters more.
Sigh.
Not only that, but the vast majority of what the world now refers to as Palestinian lands, are currently being occupied by Muslim Arabs! Why no outcry for them to give up some or all of their land!!!?????
“Why no outcry for them to give up some or all of their land!!!?????”
Because everyone knows that unless you have a foil, your cause will fail. The so-called Palestinians are nothing more that pawns used to get more stuff to kill more Jews.
Palestinians:Arabs: Southern Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Libyans, and handful of locally originating muslim Arabs; willful cannon fodder; a subgroup of the Master Race.
I have no idea why any Jew with other options, would want to live in Hadrianople.
This is horrifying. The Jews have been great contributors to every society they’ve been part of, including the United States. Turkey is becoming more like the rest of the Middle East, which is ominous.
Systematic Islamist indoctrination in Turkey.. Education is the new battlefield. Turkey’s government is pushing to advance its declared policy goal of raising devout Muslim generations.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4947/turkey-improves-education
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