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Steven
Lv 4
Steven asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 3 weeks ago

Why isn't more awareness directed towards the genocide campaign against the Samaritans whom believe themselves to be the original Israelites?

The Samaritans believe themselves to be the original Israelites and believers in Yahweh, and not orthodox Jews that apparently only took up the Israelite religion after the babylonian exile.

However the Samaritans were almost wiped out during a genocide campaign.

Why is no awareness and sympathy directed towards the Samaritans that dedicate themselves to helping others?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans

Once a large community, the Samaritan population appears to have shrunk significantly in the wake of the bloody suppression of the Samaritan Revolts (mainly in 529 CE and 555 CE) against the Byzantine Empire. Conversion to Christianity under the Byzantines also reduced their numbers. Conversions to Islam took place as well,[17][18] and by the mid–Middle Ages, Benjamin of Tudela estimated only around 1,900 Samaritans remained in Palestine and Syria.[19]

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  • Lv 6
    3 weeks ago
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    It's a matter of promoting a political agenda.

    When you speak of "Samaritans" and "Orthodox Jews", you're talking about religion and culture. Genocide has nothing to do with religion and culture, although people have been conned into believing that it was all about religion and culture.

    Even before Zionism was established as a political movement back in 1896, the political aspect that it was flourished throughout the centuries nonetheless. There are examples of America's founding fathers criticizing "the Jews" - but not for cultural reasons - every case involved political issues.

    Long ago they decided that they needed their own political state as a base of operations and because of the historical association between Palestine and the Jews, it was there that their obsession took them.

    They tried to buy Palestine from Turkey but were refused. There is debate over evidence that they instigated WW1 to overthrow the Ottoman Empire and thus breaking their control of Palestine.

    A deal was made with Britain to bring the United States into the war in exchange for the rights to Palestine if Britain won - this agreement culminated in the Balfour Declaration.

    To exploit sympathy and raise public support, articles began appearing in the newspapers that told of "6 million Jews being persecuted" and "threatened with extermination".

    The official campaign called for the establishment of a "homeland for the Jews" - a sales pitch that was more effective than "a political state in Palestine".

    The claims worked so well that they carried them through the next couple of decades where the seeds that they'd sewn to generate support worked in their favor when they falsely accused Hitler of exterminating Jews on Aug 6, 1933.

    It should be noted that people's first reaction to "falsely" is one of disdain because they've been taught that the Nazis exterminated 6 million Jews. But there's a time sequence involved that makes the claims impossible. Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Between January 30 and Aug 6 is less than 7 months and not nearly enough time to plan and execute such a massive endeavor.

    What makes it even more doubtful was that the "Final Solution" (the so-called "master plan" to exterminate the Jews) wouldn't be written for another 9 years. It's hard to follow a plan that hasn't even been conceived yet.

    The Holocaust saga is exploited by Zionists for political reasons. 

    "The idea that Zionism and the State of "Israel" is the protector of Jews is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Jewish people... It has been the age-old intention of Zionism to intentionally stir up anti-Semitism anywhere possible, and even more commonly, to take advantage of any Jewish suffering anywhere in order to enhance its cause.

    "Indeed, hatred of Jews and Jewish suffering is the oxygen of the Zionist movement, and from the very beginning has been used to deliberately incite hatred of the Jew and then, in feigned horror, used to justify the existence of the Zionist state. This is, of course, Machiavellianism raised to the highest degree." - Jews Against Zionism

    To validate this statement one only needs to look around and see how accusations of "antisemitism" are being thrown around like worthless pennies.

    "To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: 'Who is it that I'm not allowed to criticize?' " - Kevin Alfred Strom

  • Aspen
    Lv 4
    3 weeks ago

    Although they themselves saw themselves to be different, in actuality we are just splitting hairs trying to distinguish them. 

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    "Wokeness" in support of the Samaritans 1500 years ago. LOL

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    Probably because it was over a thousand years ago. Timur mass executed 100,000s in his conquests of the 14th century, shouldn’t more attention be paid to that too?

    And just because you were ignorant of it before you read the wiki article doesn’t mean people aren’t aware of it, Stevem.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Battles and the suppression of attempted uprisings are not necessarily genocide. You seem to think it means 'killing a lot of people.' It doesn't.

    Edit Oh Dave - why do you keep repeating lies?

    You say: "There are examples of America's founding fathers criticizing "the Jews" - but not for cultural reasons - every case involved political issues."

    There are not. There are examples of you repeating an antisemitic statement attributed to Benjamin Franklin which is a blatant forgery and producing a letter from George Washington in which you change his reference to "tribe of black gentry" (by which he means black-coated financial speculators, as distinct from the uniformed soldiers of the Revolutionary War) to "the Jews."

    You say: "A deal was made with Britain to bring the United States into the war in exchange for the rights to Palestine if Britain won - this agreement culminated in the Balfour Declaration."

    Is this the deal you claim involved the Zionists financing the Bolshevik Revolution to force the British to bring the US into the war - 9 MONTHS after the US HAD joined the war? I really thought you'd given up on this rubbish.

    You say: "To exploit sympathy and raise public support, articles began appearing in the newspapers that told of "6 million Jews being persecuted" and "threatened with extermination".

    Rubbish.The articles reported the actual persecution going on in Russia and environs, and the figure was 5 and 3 million, as well as 6.

    Besides it didn't raise sympathy for the Jews - if it had they might have been able to escape Hitler's genocide.

    As for that quote - do you really want to be associated with Mr Strom?

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