رسالة إلى روم المشرق المستعربين

أعزائي المستعربين ،

منذ أكثر من 100 سنة، ونحن نلعب دور الحرباء، اقنعنا أنفسنا أنه من أجل العيش بسلام في أرض أجدادنا، يجب علينا أن نقبل اعتماد ثقافة حضارة أجنبية. ومع ذلك، فإن أيام السلام والتعايش المشترك بدأت تتلاشى بسرعة. تتسارع الأحداث في جميع أنحاء بلادنا، ولا بد أن نسأل أنفسنا الى أين سيوصلنا دعمنا المتواصل للعروبة.  قد يشعر الكثير منكم بعدم الارتياح لهذا الطرح، ومُسائلة التزامنا بالحضارة العربية قد يبدو غير عقلاني، وربما إهانة، ولكن دعونا نفحص 

 حقا ما جلبت لنا العروبة نحن الروم. 

ACTION ALERT – Stop the use of your tax-dollars from funding the extermination of ethnic Greeks

For Immediate Release – June 30^th, 2014

In 2013, the American people stood up to the American War Machine and said NO to military invention in Syria! Members of Congress were flooded by phone calls by concerned constituents saying NO TO WAR! Social Media was bombarded with photos of US Servicemen holding signs saying “I will not fight with Al-Qaeda." The powers that be were FORCED to listen to the will of the American people, and cooler heads prevailed.  

A Letter to the Arabized Roum of the Levant

Dear Arabist Sympathizers,

For over a 100 years, we have donned the cloak of a chameleon, convincing ourselves that in order to live peacefully in the lands of our forefathers. We must admire and adopt the culture of a foreign Civilization. However, the days of peaceful co-existence are fading fast. A paradigm shift is occurring throughout our homeland, and the time has come for us to question our continued support of Arabism. Now many of you may feel that to question our commitment to Arab Civilization maybe irrational and even insulting, but let us truly examine what Arabism has brought to us Roum.

Not Arabs, but Hellenes

 Not Arabs, but Hellenes: Who are the Roum of the Levant?

The Roum or ‘Rum’ of the Levant are an ethno-cultural minority made up of the descendants of former Koine-Greek speaking Christians. This fragmented “Roum Nation” is most notably made up of the Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and the Hatay province of Southern Turkey. Their name derives from the Greek word Ρωμιοί, meaning Romans; and refers to their Eastern Roman or ‘Byzantine’ heritage. Therefore, ‘Rum’, literally means ‘Eastern Roman’ or ‘Asian Greek’.

The Roum Nation Rises

The Roum Nation Rises
OA reveals ethnic Antiochian Greek Flag design

For Immediate Release – April 30^th, 2014

Without a symbol to unite them, the Roum-Romioi of the Levant have long been victims of a policy of de-ethnicization, which has allowed them to become targets for assimilation by Arabists and Syriacs. In order to stop this process of de-ethnicization, and reawaken the ethnic Roum-Romioi identity of the Levant. Operation Antioch proudly unveils the first ever Antiochian Greek ethnic flag.

100th Anniversary of the Genocide of Thracian Hellenism

For Immediate Release – April 6, 2014

A hundred years ago, our ancestors were forced to endure the 20^th century’s first Holocaust, alongside Ottoman Armenians and Assyrians. Masterminded by Otto Liman Von Sanders and the Ittihadist Ottoman Government, the Ottoman Greek Genocide saw the extermination of Thracians, Bithynians, Ionians, Cappadocians and Pontians. April 6^th, or as it was referred to in 1914 “Black Easter” commemorates the deportations and massacres that initiated in Thrace, and later spread to Asia Minor and Pontos. This often forgotten phase of the Ottoman Greek Genocide is commonly referred to by Thracians as ‘the Genocide of Thracian Hellenism’.

Η 100η επέτειος από τη Γενοκτονία του Θρακικού Ελληνισμού

Greek Translation provided by Eλεύθερη Ελληνίδα

6 Απριλίου 2014

Εκατό χρόνια πριν, οι πρόγονοί μας αναγκάστηκαν να υπομείνουν το πρώτο ολοκαύτωμα του 20ου αιώνα μαζί με τους Αρμένιους και Ασσύριους της Οθωμανικής Επικράτειας. Ενορχηστρωμένη από τον Otto Liman Von Sanders και την τζιχαντιστική Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, η Ελληνική Γενοκτονία είδε την εξόντωση των Θρακιωτών, Βιθυνών, Ιώνων, Καππαδόκων και Ποντίων. Η 6η Απριλίου, ή όπως αναφέρθηκε το 1914, “Μαύρο Πάσχα” τιμά τη μνήμη των εκτοπισμών και των σφαγών που ξεκίνησαν στη Θράκη και αργότερα εξαπλώθηκαν στη Μικρά Ασία και τον Πόντο. Αυτή η ξεχασμένη περίοδος της Ελληνικής Γενοκτονίας ονομάζεται από τους Θρακιώτες “Γενοκτονία του Θρακικού Ελληνισμού”.