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Yasser Arafat: “We admire Armenians in all things but one”

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    Yasser Arafat: “We admire Armenians in all things but one”

    Hetq.am, By Minas Kaynakjian -- The other day on Armenian TV, there was a program dealing with the two visits of Yasser Arafat to Armenia back in the 70’ and 80’s. Arafat would spend several hours in Yerevan on his way from Beirut to Moscow for consultations with the leaders of the Communist Party.

    Before parting he laid a bombshell at the feet of his Armenian hosts on his second such visit.

    According to the program, the Armenian elite at the time hosted their famous guest with all the trappings of Armenian hospitality. The two sides were quick to make parallels between the two peoples, Armenians and Palestinians. Arafat even went so far to confess that he even exhorted his people to be more like Armenians – in terms of their industriousness and love of country.

    Arafat is alleged to have told the Armenians that there was one thing he would never tell his people to copy from the Armenian experience. The Armenian delegation at the VIP transit lounge became anxious and more than a bit concerned. What did the leader of the Palestinian national movement have in mind?

    Arafat got up and said that Armenians, after being evicted and exiled from western Armenia, took foreign citizenship and started to accumulate wealth and property in their newly adopted countries. This, he pointed out, lead Armenians to forget about the country they had lost, western Armenia. Palestinians, he stressed, would never become citizens of any Arab nation they were living in for this very reason.

    Is there any truth in what Arafat said? Have Armenians given up on the dream of returning to their occupied homeland for the very reasons cited by Abu Ammar? Has the accumulation of material wealth and property in foreign lands served as a substitute for the lands that 95 years ago constituted the bulk of the Armenian homeland?

    A number of interesting recent incidents lend informal support to this thesis.

    We have the results of a 2009 Gallup Poll in Armenian suggesting that Armenians yearn to leave Armenia, many for good. It would appear that Armenians would prefer to migrate than to stay and build a new nation. Any notion of re-establishing an Armenian presence to the west of the Araks River, given this reality, remains the purview of fanciful imagination.
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      Re: Yasser Arafat: “We admire Armenians in all things but one”

      I don't know if Arafat actually said that, and if he did, he probably was trying to make excuses for how bad his people were treated by other Arabs.

      Palestinians can't get citizenship in any other Arab nation, b/c they mostly can't get full citizenship in any other Arab nation and are treated like 2nd class, and in some cases 3rd class citizens.

      Just b/c they speak Arabic and are mainly Muslim, doesn't mean other Arab Muslims like them. Look how bad they were and are still treated in Lebanon, there are fourth generation Palestinians there, that still can't get citizenship, that still live in the refugee areas. Hezbollah even opposes the naturalization of Lebanese Palestinians, which is one of the real reasons they'll go to war with Israel for "Palestine," so they can finally kick them out.

      Egypt, Kuwait, Syria, etc all deny Palestinians citizenship. Only Jordan gives it to them, but they're no saints they were massacred there. Even in the Iraq war Shias took the the time to stop and massacre Palestinians.

      Arab nations say that they don't give citizenship, b/c then Israel could deny Palestinians the right of return, but Israel already denies that, so it's a crappy excuse.


      If Palestinians could have gotten citizenship and lead full lives in other countries for the past 4 decades, most of them probably would be living more fulfilling and successful lives, like the Palestinian Diasporas in Europe and the Americas, and be using their success to help the Palestinian peoples still living in the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza.



      Had Armenians not obtained citizenship in any other country it would have put us in a worse spot, b/c we'd truly have even less political influence than we already do, and the financial aid that comes in every year from the diaspora would have been greatly diminished.

      We wouldn't have gotten western Armenia back, b/c we still became part of the USSR (the same government that gave artsakh and nakhichevan to Azerbaijan) and there would be no way western powers would of helped a great chunk of Turkey to go to the USSR, especially if there weren't any Armenian constituents in those countries

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        Re: Yasser Arafat: “We admire Armenians in all things but one”

        who cares what arafat says, he's a known terrorist, and got to be a "leader", later on. Anyone who listen to this guy's bullxxxx, should reread history. he can rot in hell as far as i'm concerned.

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