Today the Labyrinth of LiesThe title of the thread is taken from the German movie
"Im Labyrinth des Schweigens" (2014)
A conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II
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But in fact only the title is relevant with today's thread.My theme today is to express my frustration about the
mainstream
Whataboutism
of prominent analysts, journalists and its wide use in social media.
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Whataboutism is a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.Whataboutism is particularly associated with Russian propaganda.
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When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the Soviet response would often be"What about ..." followed by instancing of an event or situation in the Western world.
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Today analysts, journalists and all of us use this fallacy to attack the opposite argument, no matter if we are presented with data and documented facts.We always pull the Whataboutism card as an easy way out.
"Yes, but what about the xxx..."
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Let me tell you a story.In fact a lot's of them.
Let's start with the story of Vital Hasson,
a jew that was a native of Thessaloniki, Hellas
Vital Hasson, was a Jew who worked for the Nazis, hunted down refugees and tore apart families in WWii Hellas
In the words of one survivor, a woman by the name of Bouena Sarfatty, “He was like a lion let out of a cage.”
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When a ghetto was created within Salonica by the Nazis, the depth of Hasson’s depravity made itself known.Hasson, raced through the ghetto in a horse-drawn carriage, and made his fellow Jews sweep the streets.
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He stole from the imprisoned, carrying around the ghetto an open bag into which women and men were expected to place what jewels or money they had managed to hang on toHe identified young men to be inducted into forced labor, he reserved particular cruelty for girls and women
He forced them to strip naked, searched their genitals for hidden money, sheared their hair, raped them and pimped them to othersHasson himself arranged to flee eastward with his wife, daughter and pregnant lover in August 1943
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Upon the liberation in October 1944 the British
captured and returned him to Hellas
At the trial in the summer of 1946, a sensational event that gripped the Salonican &Jewish diaspora
Hasson was sentenced to death and executed
https://www.jta.org/1948/02/15/archive/two-greek-jews-sentenced-to-death-charged-with-betraying-co-religionists-to-hazis
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Jews across the political spectrum, from Bernie Sanders to Benjamin Netanyahu, claim to seek inspiration in Jewish tradition to explain and propel their political values.But cultural inheritance does not necessarily determine a person’s behavior or destiny.

And Jewish history ought not be sanitized.What Hasson’s story teaches is that under the right circumstances, the politics of hate are seductive, even to those who might otherwise be a target.

Let's talk now about the Jewish Avengers.Not the Marvel Comics Avengers,
but one group, having survived the ghettoes and the death camps that did not let Nazi foot soldiers walk free.
The Jewish avengers who tracked down and executed their tormentors

After the war, allied officials identified 13.2 million men in western Germany alone as eligible for automatic arrest because they had been deemed part of the Nazi apparatus.Fewer than 3.5 million of these were charged and, of those, 2.5 million were released without trial.

That left about a million people and most of them faced no greater sanction than a fine or confiscation of property that they had looted a temporary restriction on future employment or a brief ban from seeking publicofficeBy 1949, 4 years after only 300 Nazis were in prison

From an original wanted list of 13 million, just 300 paid anything like a serious priceΤhe group that would come to be known as the
Nokmim, Hebrew for avengers,
was born in the spring of 1945 in Bucharest.

Posing as allied military police serving the postwar occupation authorities, they would identify a Nazi who had melted back into civilian life, stage an arrest and spirit him awaySome of these ex-SS men would be strangled, others hanged-for passing off the death as a suicide

Their initial plan was to poison the water supply at NurembergThis plan, devised by the Israeli poet, Abba Kovner, was viewed with serious misgivings by many as it was felt that the deaths of many innocent Germans would not be tolerated by the rest of the world and that it

would move sympathy away from the Jewish causeKovner drew the attention of the British authorities, and he was forced to discard the poison into the sea before he was arrested
Their largest operation was aimed at Stalag 13, a detention centre for former SS men in Nuremberg

The Vengeance group discovered that bread for the detainees was supplied by a single bakery.One of their younger members, Arye Distel, who had blue eyes and Aryan looks, got a job as a trainee baker, then worked up a plan to poison one morning's consignment of loaves.

One of their younger members, Arye Distel, who had blue eyes and Aryan looks, got a job as a trainee baker, then worked up a plan to poison one morning's consignment of loavesAt New York Times for April 20 1946, on page six you will find an Associated Press report

that begins as follows:"Nineteen hundred German prisoners of war were poisoned by arsenic in their bread and all are seriously ill"
How many of those SS men actually died following the poisoning has never been verified, but some put the figure at several 100 others at a 1000

The Nokmim tracked down to Winnipeg, Canada, Alexander Laak, responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Jews at the Estonian concentration camp of JägalaThey waited for Laak's wife to leave, then confronted him with his crimes and let him take his own life with a rope.

They were extremely efficient in tracking people down and conducting extrajudicial executionsIf little is known about them, that's because the men of the brigades were impeccably discreet.
"They kept their mouths shut and took their secrets to their graves."

Until the 50s the Nokmim went to Spain, Latin America, Canada-any place where Nazi murderers had found a bolt holeIf ex-Nazis had Odessa the old boys network that helped them gain safe passage out of Germany and start new lives abroad, then the Avengers were Odessa's nemesis

If you are brave enough and followed this thread until now, you might wonder how these 2 stories are connected to Whataboutism?
Coming up another story....

The "3 Pashas"refers to the 3 senior officials who effectively ruled the Ottoman Empire during World War I
Mehmed Talat Pasha (1874–1921), Grand Vizier
Ismail Enver Pasha (1881–1922), Minister of War
Ahmed Cemal Pasha (1872–1922), Minister of Navy
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As de facto rulers, the 3 Pashas have been considered the masterminds behind the #Armenian
GenocideAfter the war the three were put on trial (in their absence) and sentenced to death, although the sentences were not carried out.
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Talaat Pasha ordered on 24 April 1915 the arrest and deportation of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople, most of them being murdered, and on 30 May 1915 requested the Tehcir LawThese events initiated the #Armenia
Genocide#IStandWithArmenia
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On the night of 2–3 November 1918 and with the aid of Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Talaat Pasha and Enver Pasha (the two main perpetrators of the genocide) fled the Ottoman Empire
in a German
submarine, from Constantinople harbor to Berlin#IStandWithArmenia
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This is Soghomon TehlirianՍողոմոն Թեհլիրեան; April 2, 1896 – May 23, 1960
One of the National Heroes of #Armenia

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Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talât Pasha in Berlin on March 15, 1921. The assassination was a part of Operation Nemesis, revenge plan for the #Armenian
Genocide#IStandWithArmenia
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He shadowed Talât as he left his houseHe crossed the street to view him from the opposite sidewalk, then crossed it once more to walk past him to confirm his identity
He then pointed his gun to shoot him in the nape of the neck
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At his trial he remained calm, and thoughts of vengeance did not occur to himHe carried on as before until five to six weeks later, when he saw a dream, materially almost like a vision
His mother's corpse arose before him
He told her, "I saw Talaat"
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"His mother answered,"You saw Talaat and you did not avenge your mother's, father's, brothers', and sisters' murders?
You are no longer my son."
This is the moment when the defendant thought, "I have to do something.
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I want to be my mother's son again.She cannot turn me away when I go to be with her in heaven.
I want her to clasp me to her bosom like before."
It took the jury slightly over an hour to render a verdict of
"not guilty."
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The song Գինի լից, Gini lits ("Pour the wine") is a well-known revolutionary song which commemorates the assassination of Talaat by TehlirianIt has been recorded in a variety of versions and is known by heart by #Armenians

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Tehlirian moved to Yugoslavia & marriedThey moved first to Casablanca, then to Paris and finally to San Francisco.
His first statue in #Armenia
was inaugurated in 1990 in the village of MastaraIn 2017 a square in Marseille #France
was named after him#IStandWithArmenia

The Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem compares Tehlirian to S. Schwartzbard who assassinated Ukrainian statesman S. Petliura in Paris for what Schwartzbard believed to be Petlyura's culpability in the anti-Jewish pogroms in Ukraine

Ok, you get it by now, the #Jewish
Avengers did what the #Armenian
Tehlirian didIn a larger scale but in its core the same
Now back to our first story the #Jewish
NAZI collaborator.Let me tell you the story of another #Armenian
national hero#IStandWithArmenia

Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan(Armenian: Գարեգին Տէր-Յարութիւնեան) better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh (Armenian: Գարեգին Նժդեհ,
IPA: [ɡɑɾɛˈɡin nəʒˈdɛh]; 1 January 1886 – 21 December 1955)
was an #Armenian
statesman and military strategist#TurkeyIsATerrorState

As a member of the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation, he was involved in national liberation struggle and revolutionary activities during the First Balkan War and World War I. Garegin Nzhdeh was one of the key political and military leaders of the First Republic of Armenia

(1918–1921), and is widely admired as a charismatic hero by Armenians
In 1921, he instrumented the establishment of the Republic of Mountainous Armenia, an anti-Bolshevik state that became a key factor that led to the inclusion of the province of Syunik into Soviet Armenia

During World War II, he assisted theArmenian Legion of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany
,he hoped that if Germany
succeeded in conquering the USSR
,they would be able to grant Armenia
independence #IStandWithArmenia
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Now back from the time out, let's continue our story.How can it be, a #German
NAZIS collaborator be the national hero of #Armenia
?Not so fast my dear reader, see his Awards and the appointing states...
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Garegin Nzhdeh at the age of 17 joined the #Armenian
national liberation movementThe word nzhdeh in #Armenia
means "pilgrim" or "emigrant"Shortly after, he moved to St. Petersburg to continue his education in a local university
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After 2 years of studying at the Faculty of Law, he left St. Petersburg Univ and returned to the Caucasus in order to participate in the #Armenia
national movements against the Ottoman Empire#IStandWithArmenia
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In 1906, Nzhdeh moved to #Bulgaria
, where he completed his education at the Dmitry Nikolov Military College of Sofia and got a rank of Lieutenant in 1907He returned to #Armenia
, in 1908 he joined the ARF and participated in the #Iranian
revolution#IStandWithArmenia

In 1909, upon his return to the Caucasus, Nzhdeh was arrested by the #Russians
and spent 3 years in prisonIn 1912 he formed an #Armenian
battalion within the Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps of the #Bulgarian
Army to fight against the Ottoman
Empire in the Balkan wars

During the Second Balkan War he was woundedFor the brave and extraordinary performance of the #Armenian
fighters, #Bulgarian
military authorities honoured Nzhdeh with the Cross of BraveryIn 1914 he returned to the Caucasus to prepare the formation
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of the Armenian volunteer units within the Russian
army to fight against the Ottoman
EmpireIn 1920 The Soviet
Government proposed that the regions of Nagorno-Karabagh and Zangezur should be part to the Soviet Azerbaijan
.

This step was strongly rejected by NzhdehA convinced anti-Bolshevik, he led the defense of Syunik against the rising Bolshevik movement and declared Syunik as a self-governing region in December 1920
April 1921 he declared the independence of the Rep of Mountainous Armenia

The next years until WWii he traveled the world to organize #Armenian
diasporaIn 1937 he was back to Bulgaria
that during World War II was part of the Axis powers, Nzhdeh suggested supporting if the latter would make a decision to attack Turkey
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Gertrud was the code name of the joint invasion plan for Turkey
by Nazi Germany
and Bulgaria
, the idea began forming in the beginning of the summer of 1942
Project was abandoned because of the rapid advance of the Red Army in the Caucasus region and the invasion of Sicily
by Nazi Germany
and Bulgaria
, the idea began forming in the beginning of the summer of 1942Project was abandoned because of the rapid advance of the Red Army in the Caucasus region and the invasion of Sicily

The Armenian
military unit, which was supposed to be used against Turkey
was sent to the Eastern front, to the Crimean peninsula in 1943Nzhdeh requested the detachment's return and terminated his connections with Nazi Germany
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On 9 September 1944 Nzhdeh wrote a letter to Stalin offering his support were the Soviet
leadership to attack Turkey
A Soviet
plan to invade Turkey
in order to punish Ankara for collaboration with the Nazis and also for returning the occupied Western Armenia

territories was intensely discussed by the Soviet
leadership in 1945The Soviet
military com told Nzhdeh that the idea of collaboration was interesting but in order to be able to discuss it in more details Nzhdeh would have needed to travel to Moscow#IStandWithArmenia

He was transferred to Bucharest and later to Moscow, where he was arrestedHe was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment, he died in Soviet
prison at 21 December 1955Garegin Nzhdeh's memorial in Kapan opened in 2003
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Ok, so far i told you 4 stories:Vital Hasson a Jew NAZI collaborator that raped, stole, killed and betrayed his fellow Hellenic
JewsThe Nokmim, the Jewish
AvengersSoghomon Tehlirian, the Armenian
AvengerGaregin Nzhdeh, the
that fought all his life for Armenia

And here comes my beef with WhataboutismDuring the attack of #Azerbaijan
to #Artsakh
the Azerbaijani regime propaganda machine uses social media in a disinformation campaign against #Armenia
This is m Rage Against their Machine
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As promised here is part 3,the Name and Shame
The Azerbaijan
Israel
lobby#ArtsakhStrong
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From the 2002 study of Jacob Abadi:The collapse of the Soviet
Union provided Israel
a unique opportunity to establish diplomatic relations with its Muslim republics.. Israel's relations with these republics reveals that both sides were motivated by material gains

2006"It is common knowledge that Azerbaijan
, following Turkey
s footsteps, tries to use the political clout of Israel
and American
-Jewish organizations in Washington, D.C. to counter Armenian
interests."http://lalettre.hayway.org/protected/en/communique000101ca.html

Over the years this relationship evolved, hot fresh money from the Azerbaijani
Kleptocrat in charge created a spider nest of lobbyists, journalists and useful idiots that amplify #Azerbaijan
propaganda #ArtsakhStrong
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I started this thread because i got annoyed by @irinatsukerman 's Whataboutism,
i soon realized that Irina is a small fish,
a member of the clan that makes #Azerbaijan
social media army to make Azerbaijan look like a shark.They are not.
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It does not matter how much dirty money you spend, the truth will always come outThe truth is the spider nest has a 2 centers, one in Israel and one in Washington
Besa Center in Isreal https://besacenter.org/
The Jerusalem post https://www.jpost.com/
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"The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (also known by its acronym, the BESA Center) is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global strategic affairs"Many words to describe one, LOBBY
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They publish "studies",this one by Dr. Alexander Murinson, all pro turkey
and pro Azerbaijan
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https://besacenter.org/author/amurinson/

The communicating vessels:remember our old friend Soner Cagaptay @SonerCagaptay Senior Fellow @WashInstitute?
That is right, the one that tweets forged maps
Murinson & Cagaptay worked together back to 2005 at the same always project, lobby for Turkey
and Azerbaijan

If you don't remember the case for Cagaptay here is the linkhttps://twitter.com/Prodactiv/status/1316081679065284608
I already established the connection between Tel Aviv and Washington, let's move on to another familiar figure
Gallia Lindenstrauss @GLindenstrauss Institute for National Security Studies

She published a study in 2015 that made me shiver,Her Cynicism(!)
"It can therefore be argued that the current gains from the relations are worth the risk that Israel is running with regard to the possibility of a future regime change in Azerbaijan
"#ArtsakhStrong

Another small fish of the #Azerbaijan
Israel
lobby is Arye Gut @arye_gut a "permanent commentator on Israeli public TV and radio on Azerbaijan-Israeli and Israel-Turkish relations"He writes at @Jerusalem_Post
First article 2017, remember the date...
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Since then he has written countless one sided propaganda pieces @Jerusalem_Post that idolizes the Azerbaijani
Kleptocrat in charge and his regime.Again dates are significant....
https://www.jpost.com/blogger/arye-gut
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More small fish,Jesse Bogner @JesseBogner an ultra nationalist disguised as progressive
Jesse is a propagandist against #Armenia

#ArtsakhStrong
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Small fish in charge the @Jerusalem_Post Azerbaijan
lobby,Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman @MaayanJaffe "American-Israeli journalist"
Again glorying the Kleptocracy dictatorship of Azerbaijan

https://cnsnews.com/commentary/maayan-hoffman/heres-what-jewish-muslim-paradigm-peace-looks
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Wannabe small fish, Nesrin Can @Nnnnnesrin "Former Special Adviser for Finnish Cabinet Ministers on Foreign & Security Policy & the EU"
She works with my beloved @irinatsukerman Irina trying to be relevant again
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Wannabe small fish, Rachel Brooks @RachelB97714318
quoting Daily Sabbah.
Reaaaaalllllyyyy?
By the way, this is the most UGLY layout i have seen the last 10 years.
https://twitter.com/RachelB97714318/status/1318796826967986176
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Useful idiots,the likes of @TimberwolfP , people in the states with zero knowledge of who they support.
The most Corrupted KLEPTOCRACY,
the post Soviet Dictator Aliyev
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Wait a minute, why do you call them 'useful idiots'?That is a bit aggressive, isn't it?
That is the LEAST i can call them, given the facts
Fabiani and Co, Carpino & Associates, Patton-Boggs, Podesta Group,
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Bob Lawrence and Associates, Crane Group, The Livingston Group, Tool Shed Group, Jefferson Waterman InternationalThe New York Times, Washinton Times, Forreign Affairs, Huffington Post, The Hill
Millions of dollars go to lobby US politics
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Is that all?Of course NOT.
This spider nest can hold the Trump Towers
, it is that wide and strongYou know by now who Alexander Murinson is and that the Washinton Times received dirty money from the Azerbaijani
regime2017 https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/6/azerbaijani-civilians-attacked-by-armenia/
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2 more smaller fish before we go toAzerbaijani
Laundromat #ArtsakhStrong
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