Category Archives: Yazidi
Brian Lilley on the Yazidi slavery and genocide testimony at Parliament
An open letter to the people and government of Israel.
Dear Israel:
This is in the form of a letter and not a petition as while I am confident the number of signatories would be high, this is about a moral and just action and not about public pressure to perform it. I only make this letter public as it has the greater chance of reaching the right eyes in that fair land.
Israel more than any other nation on Earth today knows what it means to face extinction, both as a geopolitical entity, and also as a people, a history and a culture. It is also one of the only moral governments that protects minorities and as such, I would hope they would consider using some of their precious and needed resources to help the Yazidi, a similarly ancient and indigenous people, who are now gathered in the hills and facing extinction at the hands of the new Caliphate and the old rules of ‘Mohamed Abd’allah’. The same man and rules that caused the extinction of Jewish tribes that built the prosperous city of Yathrib, now called Medina in what is currently ‘Saudi Arabia’.
I believe Israel is the only nation on Earth that has the logistics and materials to supply weapons and ammunition, and perhaps the equipment needed to desalinate water, if indeed the Yazidi have access to the Sea. If not, perhaps somehow water can be brought to them along with the weapons needed to continue their defense.
Jews know about fighting for survival. If there is any possible way that Israel can help the Yazidi people, a people who’s own culture and faith is a first cousin of the Jewish one as both can be said to be descended from the Zoroastrians, please do so and do so immediately.
Let “never again” include the Yazidi also.
Eeyore for Vladtepesblog
Some links showing the need for action:
2. Yazidi legislator: “Hundreds of my people are being slaughtered”
4. Death of a religion. ISIS and the Yazidi