Antisemitism; a Thread....
Antisemitism is millennia old. It's factual, yet the contemporary use of the term is twisted to almost 180 degrees.
Jews were persecuted historically. By the powerful Egyptian and Greek empires from 6th to 3rd centuries BCE, to Roman 1/7 #CNNExposed
Empire from 2nd century BCE to 400 CE. From 400 CE onwards, this persecution took a religious angle from an ethnic one.
It is important to understand that Jews were stateless and scattered in Europe, ME and Levant.
The Christian Europe subjected them to a series of ...
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..pogroms, expulsions, ghettoisations and all sorts of discriminatory and punitive actions. Every major European nation is guilty of these heinous, inhuman atrocities. In last two millennia prior to 1949, Jews as a community only flourished in two zones; the Moorish Spain..
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..around 711 to 900 CE and the regions under Ottoman Empire.
Both Islamic Empires .
This persecution culminated in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany.
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The term, Antisemitism being used today has all that historical baggage.
However, does it fit to be used against those...
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..critical of the State of Israel....?
How does a term explaining stateless, persecuted, oppressed Jewish community of the past comparable to a nuclear power, which is subjecting the Palestinian community to the same crimes its ancestors suffered themselves.
How are the
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Palestinian Muslims any different to the early 20th century German Jews in terms of treatment by the majority in power...?
How does a criminal past of European powers, be used to shield the criminal acts of a Jewish Power of today....?
Would @CNN or any other champion
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..of the cause of Antisemitism care to explain...?
PS. The reasons why Jews were persecuted is another debate for which a Palestinian or a Pakistani or Turkish Muslim of today have very less explanation to do compared to the Europeans and the West...
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Comfort Women of Japan and Chaklas of British Raj in India.
A thread.
In early 20th century, Japan employed women from occupied territories like Korea, China and Philippines etc as sex slaves to entertain its soldiers.
This ended with Japan's defeat in WW2.
Countries of the
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..origin of these women, particularly Korea, took this matter up diplomatically later, resulting into an official apology by Japan in 1993.
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In roughly the same era, Indian women were being used in the same manner by the British Indian Army. 12 to 14 women were stationed
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..with each Regiment for the purpose. This was even legalized under The Cantonment Act of 1864. This contributed to adding a "British flavour" an existing 'Anglo Indian' community in India; a latent reference to it is also there in the John Masters classic - Bhowani Junction.
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Keep watching how FM Qureshi's comments would be molded and twisted to deflect the global sympathy away from the murdered Palestinian children....
Keep watching....!! #ceasefire
Muslims saving Jews from Nazis during Holocaust:
- Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, helped from 100 to 500 Jews disguise themselves as Muslims.
- Egyptian doctor, Mohammed Helmy, saved the life of Anna Gutman and her 1/6
..family putting himself and his own family at risk in Egypt for 3 years
- Si Ali Sakkat, sheltered 60 jews who escaped a Nazi labour camp in his farm for 3 years at Tunis till Germans withdrew from N Africa
- Refik Veseli; only 17, saved a Jewish family who migrated from...2/6
Belgrade by sheltering them in his village in Albania, inspiring his villagers to shelter more Jews from the Axis occupation forces
- Khaled Abdul Wahab from Mahdia, Algeria, saved dozens of Jews families by sheltering them in his farm. Used his position as an interlocutor 3/6
Those who say India could have started a war post Pak retaliation of 27 feb 19 have absolutely no clue of Indo-Pak military environment.
Even in the Pro Active Strat (PAS) application, IA requires a minimal force mobilization. It maybe in form of certain forces pre
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..positioned in garb of training close to border.
Infact Balakot strike occurred a few weeks after pulwama. Till that time, only a few paramilitary troops were moved in IOK. The reserve components of Indian Defensive Corps were in their Garrisons. The Strike Corps not 2/6
mobilized. IA was weeks away from initiating even a localised offestrik even along the LOC, border is out of question.
Say hypothetically, had IA launched "an attack" after Abhinandon as alluded by some Einsteins; it could have resulted in dozens of more Abhinandons as IA 3/6
Nawaz Sharif, Army and the people of Pakistan....
This is narration of actual events from an eye witness.
25 Oct 16 was a gloomy day at Qta. 62 Coffins of young police recruits were lying at Musa Stadium Qta. They were brutally killed by terrorists of TTP the... .1/n
..previous night at Police Training Academy Qta. Their deeply grieved relatives were waiting for Janaza since last 4/5 hours so that, they could take the bodies of their loved ones to their hometowns. All were waiting for PM NS who arrived from Isd in wake of that terrible...2/n
..incident and was currently in a meeting at the CM Office.
After a painfully long wait, he arrived with his entourage. Janaza was offered in next 5 min. PM Sahib, with a stiff neck and his signature scorn, walked off..without having a glance on the relatives of the shaheeds..3/n
Wars don't just happen. These are usually consequent to clash of eco / commercial/ social interests of belligerents.
Azerbaijan - Armenia recent War over Nagorno Karabakh (NK) is no different.
As the map shows; Azerbaijan is a hub of Gas Pipelines to EU / Turkey. This... 1/4
..poses competition to Gazprom / Russian monopoly over regional energy supplies to EU. For instance, Turkey's dependence on Russian gas reduced from 54% to 34% recently on completion of Trans-Anatolian pipeline. This increasing trend of supply of Azeri / Caspian....2/4
Gas to Turkey and onwards to EU has to be curbed by Russia to retain/ sustain its own supplies, with assistance of its own Allies (that's correct, Armenia; a major base of Gazprom Ops).
So while Russia stands with Armenia; Turkey, EU, USA and Israel stand with Azerbaijan...3/4