1⃣ Today the Labyrinth of Lies

The 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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2⃣ 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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3⃣ 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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4⃣ 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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5⃣ 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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6⃣ 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 🇬🇷
7⃣ 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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8⃣ 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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9⃣He 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 to

He 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 others

Hasson himself arranged to flee eastward with his wife, daughter and pregnant lover in August 1943

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1⃣2⃣ 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.
1⃣3⃣ 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.
1⃣4⃣ 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
1⃣5⃣After 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.
1⃣6⃣That 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 publicoffice

By 1949, 4 years after only 300 Nazis were in prison
1⃣7⃣From an original wanted list of 13 million, just 300 paid anything like a serious price

Τhe group that would come to be known as the

Nokmim, Hebrew for avengers,

was born in the spring of 1945 in Bucharest.
1⃣8⃣Posing 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 away
Some of these ex-SS men would be strangled, others hanged-for passing off the death as a suicide
1⃣9⃣Their initial plan was to poison the water supply at Nuremberg

This 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
2⃣0⃣ would move sympathy away from the Jewish cause
Kovner 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
2⃣1⃣The 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.
2⃣1⃣One 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

At New York Times for April 20 1946, on page six you will find an Associated Press report
2⃣2⃣that 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
2⃣3⃣The Nokmim tracked down to Winnipeg, Canada, Alexander Laak, responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Jews at the Estonian concentration camp of Jägala

They waited for Laak's wife to leave, then confronted him with his crimes and let him take his own life with a rope.
2⃣4⃣ They were extremely efficient in tracking people down and conducting extrajudicial executions
If 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."
2⃣5⃣Until the 50s the Nokmim went to Spain, Latin America, Canada-any place where Nazi murderers had found a bolt hole
If 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
2⃣6⃣ 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....
2⃣7⃣ 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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2⃣8⃣As de facto rulers, the 3 Pashas have been considered the masterminds behind the #Armenian🇦🇲 Genocide

After 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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2⃣9⃣ 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 Law

These events initiated the #Armenia🇦🇲 Genocide

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3⃣0⃣On 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

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3⃣1⃣This is Soghomon Tehlirian

Սողոմոն Թեհլիրեան; April 2, 1896 – May 23, 1960

One of the National Heroes of #Armenia🇦🇲

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3⃣2⃣ 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

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3⃣2⃣He shadowed Talât as he left his house

He 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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3⃣3⃣At his trial he remained calm, and thoughts of vengeance did not occur to him

He 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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3⃣4⃣"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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3⃣5⃣ 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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3⃣6⃣ The song Գինի լից, Gini lits ("Pour the wine") is a well-known revolutionary song which commemorates the assassination of Talaat by Tehlirian

It has been recorded in a variety of versions and is known by heart by #Armenians🇦🇲

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3⃣7⃣ Tehlirian moved to Yugoslavia & married
They 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 Mastara
In 2017 a square in Marseille #France🇫🇷 was named after him
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3⃣8⃣The 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
3⃣9⃣ Ok, you get it by now, the #Jewish🇮🇱 Avengers did what the #Armenian🇦🇲 Tehlirian did

In 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
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4⃣0⃣ 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

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4⃣1⃣As 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
4⃣2⃣(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
4⃣3⃣ During World War II, he assisted the

Armenian 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

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Time out, i need to rest.
4⃣4⃣ 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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4⃣5⃣ Garegin Nzhdeh at the age of 17 joined the #Armenian🇦🇲national liberation movement
The 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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4⃣6⃣After 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

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4⃣7⃣ 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 1907

He returned to #Armenia🇦🇲, in 1908 he joined the ARF and participated in the #Iranian 🇮🇷revolution

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4⃣8⃣In 1909, upon his return to the Caucasus, Nzhdeh was arrested by the #Russians🇷🇺 and spent 3 years in prison

In 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
4⃣9⃣During the Second Balkan War he was wounded
For the brave and extraordinary performance of the #Armenian🇦🇲 fighters, #Bulgarian🇧🇬 military authorities honoured Nzhdeh with the Cross of Bravery

In 1914 he returned to the Caucasus to prepare the formation
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5⃣0⃣ of the Armenian volunteer units within the Russian🇷🇺 army to fight against the Ottoman🇹🇷 Empire

In 1920 The Soviet🇷🇺 Government proposed that the regions of Nagorno-Karabagh and Zangezur should be part to the Soviet Azerbaijan🇦🇿.
5⃣1⃣This step was strongly rejected by Nzhdeh
A 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
5⃣2⃣The next years until WWii he traveled the world to organize #Armenian🇦🇲 diaspora

In 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
5⃣4⃣The Armenian🇦🇲 military unit, which was supposed to be used against Turkey🇹🇷 was sent to the Eastern front, to the Crimean peninsula in 1943

Nzhdeh requested the detachment's return and terminated his connections with Nazi Germany🇩🇪

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5⃣5⃣ 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🇦🇲
5⃣6⃣ territories was intensely discussed by the Soviet🇷🇺 leadership in 1945

The 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
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5⃣7⃣ He was transferred to Bucharest and later to Moscow, where he was arrested
He was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment, he died in Soviet🇷🇺 prison at 21 December 1955

Garegin Nzhdeh's memorial in Kapan opened in 2003
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5⃣8⃣ Ok, so far i told you 4 stories:

Vital Hasson a Jew NAZI collaborator that raped, stole, killed and betrayed his fellow Hellenic🇬🇷 Jews

The Nokmim, the Jewish🇮🇱 Avengers

Soghomon Tehlirian, the Armenian🇦🇲Avenger

Garegin Nzhdeh, the🇦🇲 that fought all his life for Armenia
5⃣9⃣And here comes my beef with Whataboutism

During 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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Another TIME OUT and the last part 3 with Names and Shames tomorrow.

Stay tuned.
6⃣1⃣As promised here is part 3,

the Name and Shame

The Azerbaijan🇦🇿 Israel 🇮🇱 lobby

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6⃣2⃣ 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
6⃣3⃣ 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
6⃣4⃣ 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

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6⃣5⃣ 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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6⃣6⃣ It does not matter how much dirty money you spend, the truth will always come out

The 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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6⃣7⃣"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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6⃣8⃣ They publish "studies",

this one by Dr. Alexander Murinson, all pro turkey🇹🇷 and pro Azerbaijan🇦🇿

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https://besacenter.org/author/amurinson/
6⃣9⃣ 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🇦🇿
7⃣0⃣ If you don't remember the case for Cagaptay here is the link
https://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
7⃣1⃣ 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🇦🇿"

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7⃣2⃣Another 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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7⃣3⃣ 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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7⃣6⃣ 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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7⃣7⃣ 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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7⃣8⃣ 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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7⃣9⃣ 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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8⃣0⃣ Bob Lawrence and Associates, Crane Group, The Livingston Group, Tool Shed Group, Jefferson Waterman International

The New York Times, Washinton Times, Forreign Affairs, Huffington Post, The Hill

Millions of dollars go to lobby US politics
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8⃣2⃣ 2 more smaller fish before we go to

Azerbaijani🇦🇿 Laundromat

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