"A Better Middle East," according to retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, would be Armenia getting Mt. Ararat and Georgia's Javakhk (Javakheti) Armenian region.

Peters' "Blood borders: How a better Middle East would look" article, published at Armed Forces Journal, provides a map of "better Middle East," that makes new countries in the region.

According to Peters, the new countries would be based on current ethnic populations. This doesn't answer the questions why, in that case, Armenia gets Mt. Ararat (where no Armenian lives now) and does not get Nagorno Karabakh (where only Armenians live).

It is also surprising to see that Azerbaijan would be "united" with Northern Iran, where many ethnic Turks (Azernbaijanis) live. Why wouldn't they qualify to join Turkey?

Peters article is provocational, interesting and somewhat uninformed. There are more ethnic groups in the region than he discusses and many more details to the conflicts.

Peters admits that, although Armenia would not lose anything, it would not get justice either: "And one haunting wrong can never be redressed with a reward of territory: the genocide perpetrated against the Armenians by the dying Ottoman Empire," writes the former Lt. Col.

Thank you to Harut Sassounian for the information.

p.s. a technical error. Georgia also loses territory, although the map doesn't indicate Georgia as a "loser."

I thought making "animals that pray in Armenian" was pretty crazy!

There is more to come.

Armenians are going crazy this summer. Gibrahayer, Cyprus-based news publication, has published an ass in its newest issue with the title Welcome to “34 the Shop."

What is this about?

Do you know Animals That Pray In Armenian?

Well, I have not known any until this point. I Googled "Armenian," and found an advertisement on the right informing of "Plush Animals That Pray In Armenian. First Ever Armenian Praying Animals."

The newly-lunched http://www.hyemedznank.com/pages/home.asp (Hye Medznank – Let's Grow Up as Armenians) wants to teach kids Armenian through talking toys.

Perhaps Colorado's Armenian community should buy one (it's only $20), if it indeed prays. Then there will be no need to bring priests from California.

Hippo that prays in Armenian

The "the largest freely available archive of full-text books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet" has added Armenian Legends and Poems to its collection.

Internet Sacred Text Archive informs that "this little sampler of Armenian literature" was made available on 14 June 2006.

The "little sampler of Armenian literature" is available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/asia/alp/index.htm and has 195 pages of Armenian legends and poems (publication of 1916).

Four Russian hostages were killed in Iraq on Saturday, hundreds of newspapers around the world report.

The information came after the video of the killings was posted on a website. Well, none of the newspapers link to the website (or mention the name of it), and I know, although sad, people might want to see the savage video.

The enblem of Mujahedeen Shura Council

I did some research and found out that the "website" is actually a blog! Since blogian hides nothing from its readers, here is the link: http://www.albayanat.blogspot.com/. The "website" is in Arabic. It belongs to "Mujahedeen Shura Council," al-Qaeda linked organization.

They have posted a list of servers that host the video:

http://share2net.com/?id=8039650
http://share2net.com/?id=63565745
http://www.sendspace.com/file/elojkt
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9wmlb4
http://www.sendspace.com/file/07r6nv
http://www.sendspace.com/file/e5joa0
http://www.uploading.com/?get=CKP6SR5L
http://www.uploading.com/?get=X3CSRKM5
http://d.turboupload.com/d/725254/15751604…2_NEW.rmvb.html
http://d.turboupload.com/d/725292/15751604…2_NEW.rmvb.html

check here for updates.

Hetq informs of an unbelievable democratic, anti-corrupt and fair act that has happened in Armenia. The state has paid damages to journalists in Armenia through a lawsuit. Unbelievable! So is there hope after all?

Link

Simon says, don’t trust alcoholics and drug addicts. They will get you in trouble at some point, because narcotics mean more than anything to them.

A Chechen terrorist leader was killed in Russia on June 17, 2006 (while I was out river rafting in Colorado’s Arkansas river). Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, who was allegedly preparing an attack on the eight world leaders in St. Petersburg, was tipped in to the Russian police by one of his “colleagues” for $55! The colleague desperately needed a dose of heroin.

Even if you are a dirty anti-shower terrorist, don’t trust addicts. They will sell anything to get high.

He accused Russia of bombing an Armenian passenger plane. Now he is dead, but the world media is not aware of the allegations against Russia

Now, the world newspapers have missed one thing. It is something that I wrote about last week. Sadulayev was the person who announced that an Armenian passenger plane had been shot at by the Russian military last month. Did Russia get rid of the “evidence”?

I hate writing about Azerbaijani hate. I don’t want to give the impression that I think Armenians are holly and Azerbaijanis are pieces of shit. I don’t claim that everything Armenians write is true, and everything Azerbaijanis write is a lie.

But I think ever a war – in this case information war – should have limits and boundaries. It seems Armenians kind of have the feeling of this (perhaps they won the war that’s why?), but some Azerbaijani propagandist machines just blow everything off.

Now, I am going to quote an article that perhaps 12 people have read. I know that people will say I may contribute to Azerbaijani propaganda by linking to their websites. But I want us to understand that generations in Azerbaijan are fed up with these kind of unhealthy stories. Stories that are more than lies or hate.

Ready? Here you go. It turns it is a “well-known historic fact” that Armenians are “alien nationals,” according to “The Right to Vote” Azerbaijani website. Aliens in a land where they have been living for 3000 years (at least the website admits this).

I have to admit I could not finish the “article.” I know I am supposed to read everything to the end before criticizing it, but it is really difficult to read unhealthy propaganda.

The article, nevertheless, says that some Azerbaijani names have been exchanged by Armenian ones in Armenia. I do not agree with this policy (if this is indeed true; although Armenians still use the Turkish name for Artsakh – Karabakh), but I have to admit that Armenians learned this from their Turkish-Azerbaijani neighbors.

Anyhow, I don’t care if Armenians have “only” lived in Armenia for 3000 years. I don’t care that Azerbaijanis have lived in Armenia and current Azerbaijan for “only” 700 years. But I do get worried when Azerbaijanis think they have lived in Armenia and Azerbaijan for 2 million years. This is kind of unhealthy.

Link

A brochure published by Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA) about the destruction of the world-known Julfa cemetery is available through http://azg.am/MEDIA/Jugha_Broshur.pdf.

The brochure does not have many new details about the vandalism, but it does reveal an interesting photograph on the very last page indicating an Armenian priest performing live requiem at the Iranian-Azerbaijani border while the medieval stone-crosses were being smashed by the Azerbaijani army.

Zabel Adamian, a former teacher at the Baghdad Armenian school, was killed in an Iraqi bomb attack on 10 June 2006, Raffi Baltaian informs.

Zabel’s daughter lost one of her legs during the accident, while 15 other Iraqi citizens died during the Baghdad incident.

Raffi Baltaian lives in Iraq and informed the sad news through Armenian@Yahoogroups.

I have a very close Armenian friend living in Iraq. We usually stay in touch on weekly basis, and when I did not hear from her for a week I was so scared and worried… Thanks God, she e-mailed and said that her Internet was down that’s why she had not been in touch.