Moving testimony from @AnaKasparian about her family history. There was a key difference between the Armenian and Jewish communities that arrived in Palestine during the twentieth century:
https://x.com/MouinRabbani/status/1956089223129522219
Moving testimony from about her family history.
There was a key difference between the Armenian and Jewish communities that arrived in Palestine during the twentieth century:
The Armenians arrived in Palestine seeking refuge, were welcomed as refugees, integrated into the host society and contributed to it. The current Palestinian Foreign Minister, Varsen Aghabekian, for example, is a Palestinian Armenian.
The Armenians were without exception Christian, the Palestinians largely Muslim, and religion was an entirely irrelevant factor.
The Jewish immigrants by contrast arrived not only as refugees but with an ideology, Zionism, to seize control of the country, dispossess its Muslim and Christian (including Armenian) inhabitants, and transform the Palestinians into stateless refugees.
They were consequently resisted with every means available.
Religious affiliation was of paramount importance to the Zionists, but irrelevant to Palestine's Muslims and Christians.
The Zionist project would have been just as strenuously resisted if it called for transforming Palestine into an exclusively Sikh, Anglican, or Zaidi state.
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