TRAGICOMEDY OF MODESTY

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.