ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the attitudes of members of the tiny Nili group to the Armenian massacre at the time of its occurrence during the First World War. It explores the reaction—or more correctly, the lack of reaction—by other segments of the Jewish community in Palestine and of the Zionist movement to the massacre at the time of its occurrence. The assumption that the material relevant to the Armenian question has, from all the material of the period, disappeared does not seem reasonable. In the wagons they were transporting Armenian children who had been assembled in Ardahan. Their parents had been murdered by the Turks and the young children, after being circumcised according to Muslim law, were transported to Constantinople by order of the authorities. In contradiction to Ben Gurion's statement, Turkey under the 'Young Turks' did not become more progressive: it reverted to its former methods of mass murder, in unprecedented dimensions, of the Armenians.
