TRAGICOMEDY OF MODESTY
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am
06-11-2007 15:43:16
Apparently, the world is not going to leave us alone. On top of the
Americans, the British are now starting to play with the recognition
of the Armenian Genocide. Apparently, soon the Armenians worldwide
will be smiling all the time, and we will enjoy watching the official
propaganda television.
Never mind that the U.S. House did not discuss the Armenian
resolution. It appeared in the British parliament instead. Never
mind that it failed in the UK. The Armenian resolution appeared in
the parliament of Morocco instead.
Nothing came out of Morocco, never mind, reports came instead that
the Armenian resolution had been seen amid the ice of Greenland,
among the dunes of Sahara, on the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the
constellation of Ursa Major. Never mind that this does not change in
any way the situation we are in, our national vanity is fed instead,
and we think we can make the world follow our rules and thereby direct
the process of the recognition.
Meanwhile, in reality it is the contrary, like the destiny when
a person only has to put a bridle on the destiny not to let it go
astray. Goethe said so, and perhaps he knew life.
Meanwhile, all the Armenians know about life they learn from the pages
of the textbook of the Armenian history. And since no other pages
interest them, it is impossible to learn from one’s own mistakes. To
acknowledge one’s mistake it is necessary to compare it with what
happens around.
Meanwhile, when one notices nothing around them, it means they live
with the feeling that they never err. The consequence of this is that
error becomes destiny.
The impression official Yerevan is trying to produce that allegedly
the process of the international recognition is the result of a
skillful foreign policy of Armenia is just another mistake which is
being made with the Armenian perception of what is right. Meanwhile,
there is no process of international recognition as such. Even if
all the parliaments of the world discuss Armenian resolutions at
the same time, there will be no process anyway. The existence of
the Armenian resolution somewhere does not mean there is a purpose
to recognize. It means the contrary that the given country is in
trade with Turkey: "What do you do in return if I don’t recognize the
Armenian Genocide?" If this country is important for Turkey, Turkey is
ready for lots of things, if not, the Armenian genocide is recognized.
It is ingenuous to consider it as a process of international
recognition, and this process as a result of the Armenian foreign
policy, a funny ingenuousness with tragic elements. In other words,
a tragicomedy is being performed on the international political stage,
such as "Othello" by Shakespeare where the furious Mauritian did not
use his brains, and killed poor Desdemona for the handkerchief, without
any other evidence. Now one tends to think that the motive of the
murder was not cheating but Othello’s flu and the vital necessity for
a handkerchief. Now the Armenian resolution has become a handkerchief
traveling from one center of international politics to another, which
may cause anything to happen, including an assassination in Istanbul in
broad daylight, in front of the office of the Agos Armenian newspaper.
In all this staff Armenia is an observer but an immodest observer
which ascribes everything to its wit and farsightedness. If modesty
makes a man look nicer, immodesty certainly does not make a man look
ugly but it is evidence to his ignorance, even if he has graduated from
all the best colleges and universities of the world. How will Armenia
benefit from this process underway in the world and referred to as
the process of the recognition? If we were immodest, we would say it
will eventually make Turkey make friends with Armenia for the world
to leave it alone. If we were modest, we would keep silent because
we have not let the jinn out of the bottle, consequently it will not
fulfill our wish, and we may only hope that at one time we will appear
on the orbit of someone’s wish in the so-called process of recognition.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
