ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the information found in testimony from the period of the Armenian massacre. It explores two events in which the dangers of a "similar fate" to that of the Armenians became a significant fear among the Jews of the Yishuv at the time. Those events are the expulsion of the Jews of Tel Aviv in April 1917, and the discovery of the "Nili" spy network toward the end of the war. Meir Dizengoff played a central role in the leadership of the Yishuv during the First World War. A great number of Armenians have been exiled to Syria and Palestine, a surviving remnant of the thousands and tens of thousands whom the Turks evilly robbed, destroyed and annihilated in the cities of Armenia at the beginning of the war, before the Russians entered Armenia. The government and the Kurds have committed a terrible massacre of all of the Armenian inhabitants.