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The Armenian Allegation Of Genocide The Issue And The Facts THE ISSUE: Whether within the events leading to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire genocide was perpetrated against Armenian Ottoman citizens in Eastern Anatolia. The Ottoman Empire ruled over all of Anatolia and significant parts of Europe, North Africa, the Caucasus and Middle East for over seven hundred years. Lands once Ottoman dominions today comprise more than 30 independent nations. A century of ever-increasing conflict, beginning roughly in 1820 and culminating with the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, characterized the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire participated in no fewer than a dozen named wars, nearly all to the detriment of the empire and its citizens. The empire contracted against an onslaught of external invaders and internal nationalist independence movements. In this context -- an imperiled empire waging and losing battles on remote and disparate fronts, grasping to co ...

Armenia was the very first Christian country. So it should be no shock or surprise that satanic forces (Muslims) tried to brutally "snuff it out"... /s/ Steve @ BibleProbe.com . During this same period, Greek Christians suffered just as badly from Ottoman Turks bent on eradicating Christianity from Greece also. This bitter dispute is rooted in a violent period of world history, as Europe and much of the Middle East was torn apart by World War I, in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire. This era of atrocities continues to be referred to as "The Armenian Genocide", but in reality the Turks targeted all minority groups which were Christian, and killed or displaced millions of Armenians, Ionian and Pontic Greeks as well as Christian Assyrians. The Pontic Greeks were driven on the same death marches by the Turks, along with the Assyrians, as they lived in more inland areas. The Ionians had the best chance for escape, as they lived on the western coastal region, though many were still slaughtered - even in ...

will disappear in the coming years 01/17/2013, 08:31 Policy Toral ( 2581 ) 30 1138 Established in May 1948, Israel had originally considered the Western powers, entered the era of the collapse of the colonial system and to build a system of neo-colonial, as an instrument of control of the Islamic world. In the XIX century, this carried the Ottoman caliphate. However, with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I practice Islam quarter of the world's population has become a potential threat to Western global domination. Saudi Arabia and "Israel" were those two subjects, which was handed over control of the major shrines of Islam - Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, as well as control over the political mentality of global ummah. Saudi monarch acting chief religious authority, while "Israel" asked his presence provokes discourse military-political situation in the Middle East and gave the anti-Islamic rulers of the Arab world an excuse to dictate over their peoples. No exaggeration to say that the historic ...

IT IS STRANGE HOW SELECTIVE OUR CREST IS AWARENESS! While the persecution of the Jews occupies a prominent place in Western history books, are other genocide gladweg forgotten. In the nineteenth century the modern Turkey was not. There was the Ottoman Empire, governed from Constantinople, today's Istanbul. Inside the dreadful Muslims dominated, in cooperation with local elites, in an empire that stretched from Balkans to an end in the Middle East. Many nationals – of modern citizenship was in this realm no – were, but there were also Crhistelijke Muslim communities. Non-Muslims had limited rights as long as they accepted the dominance of Islam and an additional tax paid. One of the Christian communities in the Empire was formed by the Armenians. The middle of the 19th century, came in response to the growing backlog the rich relative to the West, a political modernisation, the so-called Tanzimat. Part of it was a more modern system of Government and legal system. ' Western ' views about citizenship an ...

Did the Armenian Genocide Inspire Hitler? Turkey, Past and Future by Hannibal Travis Middle East Quarterly Winter 2013, pp. 27-35 is well known by genocide scholars that in 1939 Adolf Hitler urged his generals to exterminate members of the Polish race.[1] "Who speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?" Hitler asked, just a week before the September 1, 1939 invasion of Poland.[2] However, while it is generally agreed that Hitler was well aware of the Armenian Genocide,[3] some genocide scholars and historians of the Ottoman Empire have questioned whether he actually made the above statement or even intended to exterminate portions of the "Polish race."[4] Still, there is evidence that the massacre of the Ottoman Armenians helped persuade the Nazis that national minorities posed a threat to empires dominated by an ethnic group such as the Germans or the Turks. Furthermore, these minorities could be exterminated to the benefit of the perpetrator with little risk. Indeed, it was German officials who ...

Liquidation of the Ottoman Empire After the fall of the Ottoman Empire as well as in Syria, the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and the Caucasus, did not end the wars never. I just changed the fronts. So why did not end these wars? The answer is very simple. The imperialist powers want this war to liquidate the Ottoman Empire. This is included in the liquidation operations in Turkey.PKK terror, college events, national and spiritual values of the Turkish nation rather mazisinden blows done to pull off. And recently transformed into the world's richest language, the language of the Turkish tribes. Reads all the young generations can read a thousand-odd years of cultural treasures brought to become not understand. Imperialist and anti-Islamic forces to liquidate the Ottoman Empire, while inadvertently causes the Ottoman aspirations. And grown in a century of hostility to the Ottoman and Turkish descendants of the current generations "Our capital Istanbul" has become to say. Turkey began as a savior. ...

The Development of Islam in the Last Century www.grace-and-truth.org www.grace-and-truth.net We should understand that Islam is not a religion in the Western sense of the word. The aim of Islam is to establish a state religion, which means Islam needs a religious state. Only when Islam becomes a state, is Islam fully developed. Therefore, we have to study the development of the whole Islamic culture in order to understand Islam. If we look to the past one hundred years, we see that the last big Islamic empire was the Ottoman Empire, now the Republic of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was the reigning super power for four hundred years and controlled the whole Middle East. The other super powers of India, Indonesia and Africa were broken apart with some Sultanates having only very limited authority. Today we have nothing but the broken parts of previous empires. The colonial powers of England, France, Russia and others came and divided this Muslim super power, the Muslim empires, into so-called national states. ...

Greetings, esteemed teachers, fellow brothers and human beings, I stand before you on this day in defense of WAR. For countless centuries humanity has waged war not only against nature, but his own kind. There is the Crusades of the Middle East over religion, the French Revolution, the invasion of the Ottoman Empire, and the more recent World Wars and the Cold War, which is not really a physical war, but one full of clandestine operations by both sides seeking to undermine each other's economy. In view of the legions slaughtered and of corpses strewn all over battlefields, the compassion in us cries out in horror and denounces it. Is it necessarily so? Humans are born for the challenge, for the fight, and constant struggle is what hones our wits, sharpens our spirits and strengthens our limbs. Look at us today, sitting in offices and moldering away like rotting meat. Is this what our race has struggled from the swamps to become? Fighting is not necessarily uncivilized. It is an art, and there is honor in ...

Useful Notes: Ethiopia Ethiopia is the oldest Christian nation in Africa. Founded thousands of years ago as the land of Axum, Ethiopia was an independent power in East Africa, near the Red Sea. Contact with the Roman Empire to the north eventually led to the conversion of Ethiopia to Christianity. Ethiopia has been a Christian land since before many parts of Europe, such as Poland or Norway, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is part of a branch of Christianity called Oriental Orthodox. In the 500's AD, Ethiopia invaded it's near neighbor Yemen, under the pretext that the Arab Jewish King,note Abu Nuwas, was persecuting Christians. The Ethiopian hegemony lasted for about a century until the Sassanid Persians conquered that part of the Middle East. During the Ethiopian occupation of Yemen, it was said that the Christian king of Ethiopia, Kaleb, built a Church known as Al-Qualis to the Arabs living in Yemen (which is part of the Arabian peninsula). It is said that a merchant from Mecca disrespected the chur ...

Happy New Year to everyone.. now is the final chance to review what you've accomplished this last year and think: what might I have done better ? Peace Party down here tomorrow for all family friends and those close to the work of IIPSGP.. 4pm in Kemp Town.. last chance party to celebrate 50 years of peace activitiy in the house here in Eastern Road, Brighton.. Eileen cant be with us in person but its her 99th birthday party.. and she will be here in spirit.. my mother was born on January 1st 1914 before the madness of World War one destroyed much that was beautiful in the world.. the chaos in the middle east all arose out the break down of the Ottoman Empire for example.. if only they had negotiated everything peacefully instead of mass death on the battlefields.. anyway, peace and blessings to all in 2013, Shalom, Salaam, Mir, Pax, Eirene...

Ancient peoples of the Middle East Arabs are the most recent of all Semitic peoples according to their appearance in history. In fact, it is not possible to speak about Arabs in ancient times, but only about their ancestors. Most of the Middle East is now formed by conventionally called "Arab countries", recently invented by the British and French rulers after having defeated and dismembered the Ottoman Empire. They created politic entities without any historical background and assigned some of them to the Arabs instead of the peoples that have legitimate right to those lands. That is the case of Egypt, Iraq and the Israeli territories given to the Arabs. They have as well divided the country that rightfully belongs to the Arabs into different states without any historical or cultural reason and over which they established the rulers. That is the case of Kuwayt, Qatar, Bahrayn, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and "Saudi" Arabia, names that are impossible to find in any historical record. Since Arab nationa ...

Ottoman History Podcast announces the release of Episode in which Emily Neumeier (University Of Pennsylvania) talks about the career of Osman Hamdi Bey, one of the foremost figures in late-Ottoman art, and explains recent research to retrace the story of an early work of his that turned up in the Penn museum. In the process we discuss the world of art, archaeology, and diplomacy that this figure inhabited, all accompanied by images of and produced by Osman Hamdi Bey: in Spring of 2011, Ottoman History Podcast is an online radio program dedicated to accessible and academic discussion of new topics in the history, society and culture of the Ottoman Empire and Middle East. Guests and contributors include over 40 scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. Episodes in English and Turkish are released on a weekly basis. For more, visit:

Muslim population in Western Europe rising Posted on April 11, 2011 by taffy IB NEWS… The population of Muslims in Western Europe has been steadily rising in recent decades, largely due to immigration from the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. In Southeastern Europe, much of which once formed part of the Ottoman Empire, Muslims have been present for many centuries, but they are a relatively new phenomenon in the western part of the continent. On the whole, Muslim’s represent about 5 percent of the population of the EU 27. Far-right politicians in Europe have long warned that the Muslim numbers will continue to grow due to higher birth rates. Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s anti-immigrant National Front party, who openly discusses the rising number Muslims in France, could conceivably win next year’s presidential election, according to polls. While the percentage of Muslims as part of the overall population of Western European nations are in single digits, a 2009 study by the Telegraph ...

Collectively, if one looks at Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Irag, Iran, Turkey , Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan even the most devoid individual living on earth would begin to see a reconfiguration taking place of what Britain accomplished with the demise of the Ottoman Empire. It would appear that a "Mortal Wound" inflicted upon this empire did not stop its resurrection. Revelation 13:3 One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast. And so many of you are still waiting for the Holy Roman Empire to be resurrected...Well, duh...who do you think controlled the Middle East before became the Middle East and before the rise of the Ottoman Empire...dude?

If you think the picture below is true, I want you to know the truth. The fact is that the Middle East, from Algeria to Bagdad and Iran to Budapest, was once a part of the Ottoman Empire. Europe took that empire away from the Turks in the early nineteen-hundreds, and Europe divided it up among themselves. This was one of many empires, like the Roman and the Byzantine Empires, that had conquered the land since the Jews--who are the only people to have had an actual homeland there--lost it to the Greeks a bit before Jesus's time. The Europeans divided the conquered lands among themselves, and they in turn gave those lands to local rulers to form Syria, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, and so on. The area called Palestine was given to Great Britian, and it was agreed that Palestine would be given to the Jews who lived there to form a safe haven for Jews in the one and only original Jewish homeland. However, as soon as the British did, their first act was to give three-quarters of the British colony of Palestine, the par ...

The biggest robbery of the century – How they made it? By Mufleeh on December 7, 2010 By Latheef Farook At the turn of the last century Palestine, now turned into Israel, was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. About 95 percent of the population in 1896 were Arabs who owned ninety percent of the land. It was such a peaceful place that there was hardly anyone spoke loud and using a dirty was unheard of. In 1897, the first World Zionist Congress in the Swiss city of Basle decided to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Ten years later in 1907 Britain decided at the London Colonial Conference to establish a hostile power which would keep the Middle East in turmoil. This common conspiracy brought Britain and the Zionist Jews together .The two jointly manipulated and brought down the Ottoman Empire during World War 1 .As planned, Palestine was brought under British Mandatory Authority in 1917 paving the way for Jewish migration especially from Russia to settle in Palestinian lands after driving them out. A ...

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad is one of Islam's leading thinkers today. He graduated from Cambridge University with a double-first in Arabic in 1983. He then lived in Cairo for three years, studying Islam under traditional teachers at Al-Azhar, one of the oldest universities in the world. He went on to reside for three years in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad and other ulama from Hadramaut, Yemen. In 1989, Shaykh Abdal Hakim returned to England and spent two years at the University of London learning Turkish and Farsi. Since 1992 he has been a doctoral student at Oxford University, specializing in the religious life of the early Ottoman Empire. He is currently Secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London) and Director of the Sunna Project at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University, which issues the first-ever scholarly Arabic editions of the major Hadith collections. Shaykh Abdal Hakim is the tr ...

It's a sticky situation in the Middle East. After the Roman Empire, there was a regime change--the Byzantine Empire--then the Ottoman Empire. Muslims, Christians, not sure if there were many Jews lived there. Then, all of a sudden, Jews make war to make a permanent homeland for themselves. Well, what about the people that were living there first? Maybe not the original people, but people that had been living there for hundreds of years. Is that right? Is there some power source in the one tract of land that whoever owns it has an advantage. I don't know. But crazy is as crazy does. Violence only makes things worse with crazy people. It's like a defiant child who won't acquiesce. Might there be some concessions instead of using violence. It doesn't affect me, really, but why all of the fighting? Why don't the Palestinians relocate to some other Muslim country since they are the underdog. The methods that they use prove that God is not with them. If there is *** wherever you go, more than l ...

Why Muslims Without Any Exceptions are Generalised as Terrorists Is Because Islam Is Perceived As Threat To The West? A Self Confession by Mr Hempher, A Bristish Spy Mr Hempher Writes: Our Great Britain is very vast. The sun rises over its seas, and sets, again, below its seas. Our State is relatively weak yet in its colonies in India, China and Middle East. These countries are not entirely under our domination. However, we have been carrying on a very active and successful policy in these places. We shall be in full possession of all of them very soon. Two things are of importance: 1- To try to retain the places we have already obtained; 2- To try to take possession of those places we have not obtained yet. The Ministry of Colonies assigned a commission from each of the colonies for the execution of these two tasks. As soon as I entered the Ministry of Colonies, the Minister put his trust in me and appointed me the administrator of the company of East India. Outwardly it was a company of trade. But its r ...

During the last 126 years Jews from 108 nations have migrated to the land of Israel. In 1882 the first wave of modern immigration to Israel started as Jews fled persecution, or followed the Socialist Zionist ideas of Moses Hess. From 1882 to 1919 around 75,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, mostly from Russia. They bought land from Ottoman and individual Arab landholders and established agricultural settlements. During this period the Hebrews language was revived, newspapers and literature were published in Hebrew and political parties and workers organizations were established. In 1917 during World War I, the British government in its Balfour Declaration supported plans for a ‘national home’ for the Jews in their promised land. Later, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) lost control of the Middle East. This made it possible for hundreds of thousands more immigrants to arrive from Europe. Anti-Semitism drove most there. Many more would have come had it not been for Arab protest and resulting British restrictio ...

The history of Islam concerns the Islamic religion and its adherents, known as Muslims. Muslims and their religion have greatly impacted the political, economic, and military history of the Old World, especially the Middle East, where lies its roots. Following its origin in Mecca and Medina, the Islamic world expanded to include people of the Islamic civilization, inclusive of non-Muslims living in that civilization. Three centuries after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Arab Caliphates extended from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Central Asia in the east. The subsequent empires of the Umayyads , Abbasids, Fatimids, Ajuuraan, Adal, Warsangali in Somalia, Ghaznavids, Seljuqs, Safavids, Mughals, and Ottomans were among the influential and distinguished powers in the world. The Islamic civilization gave rise to many centers of culture and science and produced notable scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, nurses and philosophers during the Golden Age of Islam. Technology flourishe ...

CONFESSION OF BRITISH SPY! Read patiently to understand. Memoirs Of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy To The Middle East is the title of a document that was published in series (episodes) in the German paper Spiegel and later on in a prominent French paper. A Lebanese doctor translated the document to the Arabic language and from there on it was translated to English and other languages. Waqf Ikhlas publications put out and circulated the document in English in hard copy and electronically under the title: Confessions of a British spy and British enmity against Islam. This document reveals the true background of the Wahhabi movement which was innovated by Mohammad bin abdul Wahhab and explains the numerous falsehood they spread in the name of Islam and exposes their role of enmity towards the religion of Islam and towards prophet Mohammad sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam and towards Muslims at large. No wonder the Wahhabis today stand as the backbone of terrorism allowing and financing and planning shedding the bl ...

THE COMING OF THE WEST: The Western world had for centuries been gradually penetrating most of the areas that had once been part of the Muslim empire, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, in the vacuum left by the long decay and decline of the Ottoman Empire, European powers came to dominate the Middle East. Among the first Europeans to gain a foothold in the Middle East were the Venetians who, as early as the thirteenth century, had established trading posts in what are now Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, and who controlled much of the shipping between Arab and European ports. Then, in 1497, five years after Ferdinand and Isabella ended Islamic rule in Spain, Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four Portuguese ships around Africa and in 1498 found a new sea route to India from Europe. Dutch, British, and French frigates and merchantmen followed and began establishing trading outposts along the shores of the Indian Ocean, eventually undercutting both Venetian shipping and the Mediterranean trade on which ...

***A TRUE HISTORY LESSON OF THE MIDDLE EAST LANDS*** JEALOUS ENVY of the Arab people for Israeli lands does NOT constitute a LIE to be believed as some kind of made up truth over ownership of the lands of the Middle East particularly the TRUE & CHOSEN OWNERS/peoples of Israel!! Many seem to FALSELY think that there is an Palestinian ARAB people today. There IS NOT, the Palestinian people are the JEWS who had the land region where Israel exist today minus a great deal of territory stolen by the Arabs through the 12th century conquering Ottoman Empire that existed for 623 yrs from July 1299 to November 1922. In prior times this large area of land was identified by the Roman Empire during their existence as the land of JEWS! The last Muslim caliphate, (which controlled the middle east even the stolen & occupied lands of Israel) was the Ottoman Empire. They were defeated in World War 1 along w/ Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Austria & under the final San Remo, Italy conference of July 24th, 1922 resulted in the a ...

I think I understand how he made this mistake. He's too busy looking at old Mormon temple maps of the region and has confused Syria with the Assyrian Empire, Iran with teh Persian Empire, and "The Sea" with the aegean, which is the only water you can see in a map of the middle east that's a close up of phoenicia, i mean canaan, I mean philisti, i mean assyria, I mean judaea, I mean israel, i mean babylon, I mean persia, i mean the seleucid kingdom, the hasmonean kingdom, i mean rome, i mean byzantium, i mean the islamic caliphate, I mean the mamluk caliphate, i mean the ottoman empire, I mean the british mandate, I mean Israel...

America taking democracy to the middle east and fighting a war against radical Jihadist taking over from the middle of the map; sure reminds me of the Crusades: Where Christian Europeans decided to fight for the spread of their beliefs against the growing Ottoman Empire(Muslim coalition).The "Holy War", has always been over the children of Israel and the Holy City.

I want an a presidential candidate to say: "Look, the Middle East is a mess. Almost every country is a dictatorship, brutal theocracy or failed state. We're still dealing with the scars of the Ottoman Empire, which ended over a century ago. I'm not sure I know what to do, but the policies we've tried since FDR seem to have made things worse."

For anyone wanting to see the movie Obamas America 2016 let me save you from wasting an hr and a half of your life. According to this random guy by 2016 the Middle East will become one state which he calls the United States of Islam. If this sounds familiar its because the middle east was united for about 700 years up until about 1920 only they called themselves the Ottoman Empire. Kind of hypocritical for us to tell another vountry not to take over everything around itself since thats exactly what we did to make this country. Ask an Indian, if you can find one we forgot to kill.

The world is becoming more complicated everyday. The Radio Jihad Network with programming seven days a week exists to help explain and untangle everything from the major league baseball playoffs to the Sunni Muslim takeover of the Middle East and Northern Africa. Football Season is in full gear, th...

Speaking on the House floor Friday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) claimed President Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East was “a massive beginning of a new Ottoman Empire that [he] can take great credit for.” Gohmert continued, “This president is trying to buy affection from people who are...

As I was driving yesterday I heard President Obama deliver a wonderful speech to the UN General Assembly on how to deal with the hate speech of both a small number of anti-Musim Americans and vocal critics of the United States in the Middle East. Below is my take on what is happening in the Mid East which is today's Dearborn Press and Guide. Middle East Turmoil The things that have been happening in the Middle East since the Arab Spring beginning in early 2011 have been a mystery to me. From the toppling of regimes in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Yemen to the ongoing Syrian civil war, to the threat of Iran’s nuclear potential, to threat of Israel bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, to the assassination of the US Ambassador to Libya in early September, I am constantly wondering “Why now? Why there?” I suspect the same is true of most Americans. Nevertheless, the Middle East and the safety of Israel continue to be of huge importance to the U.S. and its NATO allies. The recent violence outside Amer ...

Part 3b of 3 a & b: The Divine Plan I have no doubt that Albert Pike understood the necessity of bringing the final war to the Middle East in the attempt to manipulate Bible prophecy for his own purposes. In his pride he thought that he could manipulate God. God laughs at Pike. The divine plan also called for World War 1, because it was necessary to take Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) in 1917. This was 2,520 years after Babylon had taken Jerusalem in 604 B.C. The long "seven times" of prophetic judgment was fulfilled upon Jerusalem, and so in 1917 a new page of history was about to unfold. World War II was fought for many reasons on the surface, but its real purpose was to create the conditions necessary to establish the Israeli state in 1948. This too was part of the divine plan, because Jesus had prophesied this in Matthew 24:32 in terms of the "fig tree." Earlier, Jesus had cursed the leafy but fruitless fig tree in Matthew 21:19, saying, "Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever ...

Pastrami, long a fixture of delicatessen cuisine, can trace its roots back to the Ottoman Empire which flourished throughout Southeastern Europe from 1299 to 1923. It is believed that the first pastrami was produced in Turkey as a brined pork product seasoned with cloves, allspice, mustard, and paprika. As the Ottoman Empire spread from Turkey and the Middle East to Europe, pastrami was modified for Jewish cuisine by substituting beef for pork in order to adhere to Jewish kosher traditions. This beef product became popular in European regions with large Jewish populations, such as Romania and Armenia. Pastrami first appeared in America in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was introduced by Jewish immigrants. Since the majority of Jewish immigrants arrived in New York City, it became a popular meat in many city eateries and remains so to this days. It is speculated that the traditional European name for this brined meat was "pastirma", but was changed to "pastrami" in America in order to sound s ...

The United States and Arabian Oil. Though the United States had constantly intervened in the internal affairs of countries in “Our Own American Hemisphere” and had expanded into the Pacific in a foolish quest to grab an empire like England and Germany, we had not been involved in meddling in the Middle East until it was obvious that we would not be a major exporter of oil any more. Up to World War Two we had been exporting oil as one of the natural resources that we exploited in our own land and we were not exploiting the Middle East, though American Oil companies were drilling in Saudi Arabia as early as the mid 1930’s with agreements with the newly installed Saudi Royal family that nobody had ever heard of before. Hum? During the First World War, the British had defeated the Ottoman Empire south of Turkey and along with France divided up the lands that had formerly been under Turkish/Ottoman control. In the 1920’s when the lands of the region were cut up to form countries, there was no earnest a ...

The Middle East is to the twenty-first century what the Balkans were to the nineteenth (both are remnants of the Ottoman Empire). Israel is America's Austria-Hungary. Kaiser Romney would have the U.S. write them a blank check.

To the men that gave their livelihood, careers, businesses, and income. The men that gave blood, sweat and tears. The men that showed exemplary courage, bravery, strength and honour. The men that gave no second thought when it came down to leaving their mothers, fathers, siblings and sweethearts. The men that loved there country more than everything else that they held dear. The men that held there head high and there bayonets higher. The men that never lost hope even when there was none to hold onto. The men that we as a people, nation and a country rely on to hold our values dear, under the union jack, under the Southern Cross and ahead of the people. We must never stop appreciating, we will never stop needing and we will always rely on. From the struggles of the Boer war, the tragedy that was the trenches of the Western Front and the battles against the Ottoman Empire. The skies above Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the South Pacific. The men on the ground, sea and in the air. The men that fought Naz ...

Turkey’s Human Rights Hypocrisy By TANER AKCAM Worcester, Mass. A NEW political order is emerging in the Middle East, and Turkey aspires to be its leader by taking a stand against authoritarian regimes. Earlier this week, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, went so far as to denounce the Syrian government’s continuing massacres of civilians as “attempted genocide.” Turkey’s desire to champion human rights in the region is a welcome development, but Mr. Erdogan’s condemnation of Syria is remarkably hypocritical. As long as Turkey continues to deny crimes committed against non-Turks in the early 1900s, during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, its calls for freedom, justice and humanitarian values will ring false. Turkey’s attempt to cultivate an image as the global protector of Muslim rights is compromised by a legacy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Christians and terror against Arabs and Kurds. Memories of these crimes are very much alive throughout former Ottoman t ...

(with photos) CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, July 14 (KUNA) -- The British-Kuwait Friendship Society held here late Friday its 14th annual Book Prize Award for the best scholarly books on Middle Eastern Studies. The Award, sponsored by Abdullah Al-Mubarak Foundation, was held at Corpus Christi College...

In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin’s subject is the Middle East immediately before, during, and after World War I. Central to Fromkin’s 567-page survey is the British and French division of the Arabic-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Paris and London carved up the region, which ...

Why is the Middle East so poor today? Mostly because of the terrible governance of the Ottoman Empire. Private property was not allowed to exist. Taxes were onerous, assigned to be collected by tax farmers, whose assessments were always extreme and arbitrary, but never uniform. As a result, economic and civil rights were never felt to be secure, and a great deal of lawlessness and banditry were the result.

Foreign policy News paper 21/04/2012: The late Princeton scholar Philip K. Hitti called Greater Syria -- the historical antecedent of the modern republic -- "the largest small country on the map, microscopic in size but cosmic in influence," encompassing in its geography, at the confluence of Europe, Asia, and Africa, "the history of the civilized world in a miniature form." This is not an exaggeration, and because it is not, the current unrest in Syria is far more important than unrest we have seen anywhere in the Middle East. "Syria" was the 19th-century Ottoman-era term for a region that stretched from the Taurus Mountains of Turkey in the north to the Arabian Desert in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to Mesopotamia in the east. Present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, western Iraq, and southern Turkey were all included in this vast area. In other words, the concept of "Syria" was not linked to any specific national sentiment. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of Wo ...

America: during the rein of the Taliban bin Laden trained around 85,000 jihads before the attack on America on September 11,2K1 and so they were scattered across the middle east, that is a lot of folks who have a hate towards our western way of life, they have plan's to regain the Ottoman empire which because of G.H.Bush has now a reason for a new Modern Cursade which it will be a trouble spot for us as well as the rest of the western world.

On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Paris and London approved a secret agreement to dismember the Ottoman Empire and divide the Middle East between themselves. The Sykes-Picot agreement set new boundaries for many countries in the region, and began a period of direct control of the Middle East that the West has sought to perpetuate to the present. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US and Iraq's former colonial master, the UK, NATO has been transparent in its desire to once again exercise direct control over the countries in the region. The few regimes that are opposed to NATO hegemony are being faced with a concerted effort by NATO and its regional backers to overthrow them.

" for 1400 years our Ummah has not known of terms like Patriotism (Wataniyya) or Nationalism (Qawmiyya). These words were injected into our vocabulary by the Syrian and Lebanese Arab-Christians and they were the first propagandist of nationalism in the Middle East. And this was when the Ottoman Empire was dismantled, Palestine given away to the Zionists and the Muslim countries divided into several states. Patriotism and Nationalism were invented to keep us weak, whereas Islam transcends countries and nations. "

The meaning of "Nakba Day" . . . By Walid Khalidi Tuesday, 15 May 2012, is the 64th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day. This date commemorates the end, on 15 May 1948, of the so-called “Mandate” over Palestine “granted” to Britain by the League of Nations (the UN’s predecessor) following the end of World War I. The Mandate system, a form of imposed international trusteeship, was devised by the victorious powers, chiefly Britain and France, to give a veneer of legality to their post-war military occupation and rule over the former Middle Eastern Arab provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire. Thus, while Britain obtained mandates over Iraq, Palestine, and Trans-Jordan, France obtained mandates over Syria and Lebanon. The main purpose of Britain’s mandate over Palestine was to give effect to a unilateral promise made by its government in 1917 (the Balfour Declaration, after the then British foreign secretary) to the World Zionist Organization (WZO) to establish “a Jewish National Home” in P ...

The United States Military Has its' sights set on the Middle East, not only for its' natural resources, but also because it wishes to reestablish the Ottoman Empire as a preemptive defense against Russia.

Ahmad is the most elementary transliteration. It is used commonly all over the Muslim world, although primarily in the Middle East. More recently, this transliteration has become increasing popular in the United States due to use by members of the African American community. Ahmed is the most common variant transliteration, used especially in the context of the Ottoman Empire. This transliteration is also used throughout the Muslim world. Ahmet is the modern Turkish transliteration. Modern Turkish uses a Latin-based alphabet, and most Arabic-derived names have standardized Turkish spellings. The less common transliterations of Ahmad are used by Muslims outside the Middle East proper, such as in Indonesia and Russia. Some Muslims who have the first name of Ahmad, prefer to use their second name instead of "Ahmad" as it is such a common name

WAR AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (reviewed on April 1, 1994) Shlaim (Collusion Across Jordan, 1988), a leading historian of the Israeli revisionist school, offers a brief but suggestive overview of the US role in the Middle East. The Middle East was one of the major theaters for the Cold War, the principal source of energy of the West, and a strategically central region in geopolitical terms. Even with the Cold War over, it remains both significant and volatile. However, for the first time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

The Indian Army during World War I, sometimes called the British Indian Army, contributed a number of divisions and independent brigades to the European, Mediterranean and the Middle east theatres of war in World War I. One million Indian troops would serve overseas, of whom 62,000 died and another 67,000 were wounded. In total 74,187 Indian soldiers died during the war. The Indian Army had undergone major reforms in 1903, after Kitchener was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. He instituted the large–scale reforms, including merging the three armies of the Presidencies into a unified force and forming higher level formations, ten army divisions. In World War I the Indian Army fought against the German Empire in German East Africa and on the Western Front. At the First Battle of Ypres, Khudadad Khan became the first Indian to be awarded a Victoria Cross. Indian divisions were also sent to Egypt, Gallipoli and nearly 700,000 served in Mesopotamia against the Ottoman Empire.[2] While some divisions wer ...

Arabian Horse History & Heritage Horse of the Desert Bedouin "An Arabian will take care of its owner as no other horse will, for it has not only been raised to physical perfection, but has been instilled with a spirit of loyalty unparalleled by that of any other breed." Somewhere in the inhospitable deserts of the Middle East, centuries ago, a breed of horse came into being that would influence the equine world beyond all imagination. In the sweet grass oasis along the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in the countries that are now known as Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and in other parts of the Arabia peninsula, this hearty horse developed and would soon be known as the Arabian horse. To the Islamic people, he was considered a gift from Allah, to be revered, cherished and almost worshipped. Long before Europeans were to become aware of his existence, the horse of the desert had established himself as a necessity for survival of the Bedouin people. The head men of the tribes could relate the verbal histories of each f ...

Finished a fascinating historical novel, "The Oracle of Stamboul" set in the late 1800's during the waning days of the Ottoman empire. Now engrossed in Alice Hoffman's novel "The Dovekeepers" based on the tragedy of the Jews who were forced to flee Jerusalem and pursued into the desert by the Roman legions. Both books focus on females, a savant 8 year old girl who becomes an advisor to the Sultan in "The Oracle" and four woman who were key figures during the seige by the Romans on Masada in "The Dovekeepers." I can highly recommend both books to anyone who enjoys historical novels set in the Middle East.