Armenian Genocide shouldn’t be recognized out of mere timeserving considerations

PanARMENIAN.Net - By the Knesset Charter, Miller’s Committee is to consider the possibility of recognizing the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and submit a resolution to Parliament for approval. In short, a usual parliamentary procedure, unless you consider that all this is happening in Israel, a country which, by logic, should have been closest to Armenia, but which, for some reason, failed. Perhaps, it’s useless to try to understand who is to blame for the present circumstances. However, the very Israel could have lent strong support to recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the international community, but the conviction of exclusivity of Holocaust prevented her from doing so. The Jewish state, as absurd as it may sound, refuses to recognize the ethnic killings of all the other peoples, though logically she must have been interested in condemnation of not only the Armenian Genocide, but also of all other crimes. And the height of cynicism is the words of a member of the Commission, who said to IzRus: “If we recognize the Armenian Genocide, others will also turn to us regarding the massacre in the Balkans, Holodomor, will remember Paul Pot and Idi Amin. There will be no end to this. We have always believed that genocide of a people, persistent and systematic, occurred only during World War II.” After such words it is all the same whether or not the Knesset will pass a resolution on the Armenian Genocide recognition...

Another disturbing aspect of this issue is the Israeli-Turkish relations. The growing anti-Israel rhetoric in Turkey on the threshold of parliamentary elections can in no way improve or worsen the already established relations. Elections of June 12 will soon be over and Turkish-Israeli relations will remain almost the same, at least in the field of military cooperation. But what looks ridiculous in this story is the position of Azerbaijan. Baku is trying hard to attach herself to all the events taking place in Turkey and abroad, so she proved unable to pass in silence by the upcoming discussion in the Knesset. However, Baku politicians obviously did not like the response of Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Michael Lotem, as after his statement an avalanche of comments followed, having nothing to do with the essence of the issue. Lotem said the following: “The discussion in the Knesset on the issue of recognizing the 1915 events in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian Genocide, has nothing in common with the relations between Azerbaijan and Israel.”

The most interesting thing is that, by and large, it is all the same to Armenia whether or not the Jewish state will recognize the Armenian Genocide, as she will do it out of timeserving considerations and not as a humane act, thus offending the memory of one and a half million people killed in the years of World War I. In this regard, let us remind that Germany recognized the Holocaust simply out of justice and repentance, but not for the sake of politics. This should be kept in mind not only by the Jews, but also by the Armenians, who rightly demanding recognition of the first monstrous crime against humanity in the twentieth century, often do not think about the true motives of recognition...