Turkey and Ottoman Empire
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On occasion I have been asked to comment about events or affairs in countries that I know little about. I have always respectfully declined to talk about things I have not read about or studied from a historical perspective. We really should not comment on things we don’t know about. In recent years there has…
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Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky was born in Odessa in 1880 to a liberal Russian Jewish family. He worked as a journalist in Rome and Vienna and at an early age began to devote his energies and skills as a writer, orator, and polemicist to the Zionist cause. During the Great War he persuaded the British to…
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“My interest in Persia was aroused some years ago by the writings and the speeches of Professor Browne, and my interest to it was attracted because I have all my life thought that one of the greatest outrages against humanity that can be perpetrated is to kill the soul or the civilization of any nation……
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Two significant events have occurred in the South Caucasus in recent weeks. Firstly, the West has thrown its weight behind Armenia’s breakaway from Russian hegemony. Secondly, the Russian peacekeepers, who took up positions in 2020, have begun withdrawing from the Azerbaijani territory of Karabakh. Let us first acknowledge that Nikol Pashinyan has good reasons for…
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The United States has taken nearly 6 months, and the deaths of around 35,000 people, to finally lift its veto for the first time against international attempts at the UN to stop the Zionist slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza. In all that time it has provided the intelligence, missiles and moral/diplomatic cover to facilitate…
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Today, the attitude of Ireland toward Palestine and Zionism, Government and people, stands in marked contrast to that of Britain and its Government and Opposition. There was once a time when Ireland was an enthusiast for the Zionist project. Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, was both an anti-Semite and Zionist, like his British…
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The strategic reason for the alliance between British Imperialism and the Zionist Movement that was to lead to the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 lay in the British desire to enlist the support of International Jewry in the Great War effort against Germany, and then to manoeuvre itself into control of Palestine, through the use…
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The last few days have seen momentous events in the South Caucasus that few in the West, outside those in power who know, can understand. The last vestiges of the 30 year Armenian occupation of Azerbaijan has collapsed after a day of intense military effort, described as an anti-terrorist operation, was applied to it by…
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At a recent press conference, an exasperated President Putin replied to criticism of Russia from Armenia: “Before the 2020 Karabakh War and since 1994, Armenia occupied Nagorno-Karabakh & 7 other regions of Azerbaijan. All these years, we requested that Armenia return 5 regions back to Azerbaijan but keep Nagorno-Karabakh, plus 2 other regions (Lachin &…
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The “Chanak incident”, which occurred a century ago during September/October 1922, is virtually written out of British history – or referenced as a mere incident of no consequence. It is mentioned in the downfall of Lloyd George’s Coalition Government, with the Carlton Club and 1922 Committee, but only in passing, without explanation of its wider…
