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=> Is Their a Political Solution?

Is Their a Political Solution?
Posted by Bob Aprim (Guest) - Monday, February 5 2007, 18:00:29 (CET)
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First off we have to separate the religious from the political. There simply is no religious channel by which states and nations can be compelled to do anything political. In fact the two are often antithetical. Orthodox Jews still refuse to accept the legitimacy of the state of Israel, though they agree to live there, because this was to be brought about by god alone, as promised in the bible, not politicians. So that in their case the political solution, though it achieved a desirable goal for all, flies in the face of god, so to speak, for some.

Therefore, while it does no harm to pray for Issaiah to make our dreams come true, we can’t very well announce this to political bodies as a plan of action. And if we’re not content to wait on Issaiah, then we have to explain our position in recognizable, political terms, realizing that our own orthodox may resent any successful political solution…and may even work against it.

This brings us back to the inescapable question: have any indigenous people ever received compensation, in the form of valuable lands returned, that we can place our hopes in such an outcome? As far as I know, this has never happened. The reasons it can never happen have been spelled out already. The main being that this would set an unworkable precedent for the majority of the nations of the world which came into existence through just such thefts…Israel and, most recently, Kurdistan come to mind and how likely is it that either would return anything to anyone?

We placed our hope on America and Great Britain, two Christian nations we live among and were eager to help and did, which both profess democratic ideals and respect for minorities…and look what we got. Is it reasonable to place our hopes on the next Christian nation that promises us anything or the same ones again? Clearly we have nothing to offer them in this regard and they have nothing concrete for us. It may be that our insistence on being real and true Christians, unlike their own sort, has demonstrated to them our uselessness as the kind of ally they typically prefer. Saddam, while he did as they asked, was more to their liking, as was Chille’s Pinochet, The Shah, while he behaved, Noriega of Panama, Batista in Cuba and any number of willing and malleable thugs, cultured or not…including the present government of Iraq, Iran and Kurdistan too.

And if no powerful nation can be expected to do right by us, or even use us for their own purposes, so long as they give us back our homeland, what can we do by ourselves? If we had it in us, good Christians or no, to stand and fight, we never would have left in the first place. As Christians the entire West is open and friendly to us. It’s doubtful that, having once tasted the security and bounty of the West, Assyrian mothers would be willing to pack their children off to school in an Assyrian homeland if they knew the surrounding Muslims, even more numerous and fierce than the Palestinians, might attack school busses, or pizza parlors and playgrounds etc.

Jews flocked to the new Israel, not because it was Israel but because they’d just suffered a Holocaust and did not trust their Christian neighbors or governments any longer. No Jew of Vienna or Budapesht, Berlin or Warsaw, even though these were Christian nations, would have moved to barren Haifa in 1920 or 1946 if it hadn’t become a matter of life and death. Jews had no other, Jewish, country to go to and they no longer felt safe in Christian ones…Assyrians have their choice of the most advanced nations of the world, if they can get there…all of them Christian, which is after all where most of us are writing and making these demands from. Therefore it’s unlikely Assyrians would return to fight for Assyria...especially since they left before any sort of serious rebellion ever started. If it was too rough on them then, going back to attack a government primed, ready and made even more brutal by 17 years of war, with rifles and homemade bombs wouldn’t attract many now, certainly not enough to get the job done. They say it, but talk never won a war…and it would take a war to seize the Nineveh Plains…ask the Kurds.

So, what is left? What is the solution? If by “solution” we mean how can we still get our homeland back, inspite of all that’s been said and transpired, the answer is that this is a problem with no solution when stated so. No matter how complex the equation, to be a valid proposition it must have a solution, or else it’s just numbers and letters, sound and fury with no meaning or resolution. The only solution I see is to follow the lead of those Christians of Iraq, Iran, Syria etc who’ve been trying, since the Muslim Conquest, to live in peace and harmony with their fellows, of whatever religion. Concede that Assyria and Babylonia are now Iraq and, without preaching sedition (which is illegal and punishable by law in every country on earth) do what we can in those countries, and especially in the wealthy, powerful and sympathetic West, to advance the Assyrian heritage as a cultural heritage, not a Christian religion and not as a basis, or front, for seizing a modern state…because this will be resisted with all might and main which not even the promised aid of great Christian powers will overcome, or even attempt.

If we recall that Iraq is now a democracy, meaning the majority will legally prevail in every instance and that the majority, for the forseeable future is a Muslim one, we need to tread lightly…as any minority has had to do in all the democracies of the world for much of recorded history, until these fledgling democracies of the Mideast have had the opportunity to develop more open, secular, societies devoted to personal liberty, freedom for unpopular opinions, such as Turkey must come to grips with, and respect for a minority point of view. It certainly doesn’t make it any easier that the majority, in the new democratic Iraq, is fundamentalist Shi’aa, even more intransigent than the Sunni of Saddam. This is just one more hardship to be faced down.

Our best bet is to make a shining example of our heritage and earn its pride through our achievements. Of course any further wars brought to that region by western Christians will inevitably make things harder for us…just as any more attacks on Christian nations, by Muslims, will increase the pressure on Muslims living there. This is normal and to be expected, though tragic…therefore we, especially, shouldn’t encourage such attacks in the future (I seriously doubt if any of us with family or friends still living in Iran or Syria wants to see this same coalition “liberate” those countries.).

Unfortunately, if the Kurds manage to retain their Kurdistan, they will have cut off that part of Iraq which belonged to all Iraqis, Assyrians especially, making an independent nation of it so that those Assyrians who decide to live there will not even have the satisfaction of living in relatively “ancient” Iraq, which is our Uruk, after all…and was ancient Assyria before, but in modern Kurdistan...something that never existed before in that specific region. As bitter as it is, this may be the lasting legacy of this war of Iraqi liberation, for Assyrians, and something we have no choice but to come to grips with. We may go on refusing to spell out the word “Kurdistan”, as a way of showing our displeasure but the existence of this new nation, inspite of our denial, shows how weak and useless such window-dressing-protest is.



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