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On these days, the attention of people is always more and more centered on the Commission on foreign relations of U.S. Congress’s House of Representatives which is to vote for the resolution regarding the Armenian genocide on March 4. Though the reason maybe the fact that we deal with a big national issue: as it is said in the famous film “when the point is about the dignity of the family, talks over money are inappropriate”. By the way, the film is called “Déjà vu”.
The current situation reminds a déjà vu. In other words, all that happens now seems to have already happened once. It does not seem but it has already happened with the Armenians, with the genocide issue: the question has already once appeared in the Congress, was voted, then postponed, fallen asleep and awakened. In short, the genocide issue underwent all possible processes in the U.S. Congress except adoption. And Armenians have expected everything possible in this connection except understanding that what is discussed by the Congress is not a resolution on the genocide but Turkish-American relations.
And those smart observations that this time, the Jewish lobby will not support Armenians, but it will not hinder them either, or it will not support Armenians, but it will not support Turks either, or the weather in Washington will be good, soft wind will blow from the ocean, or it will not, in reality have nothing in common with the real process. In the end, we are to be asked whether we have ever questioned ourselves what is going to happen after the U.S. recognizes the genocide. It is not a secret that Armenians have already spent millions for this objective. Let us presume all this is spent for the sake of the nation and the homeland. But what the nation and the homeland are going to get if the U.S. acknowledges the genocide.
Can any expert explain what is going to happen after, besides killing (sacrificing) a pig in front of the U.S. embassy in Armenia (a pig, because sheep cost much and are sold to Iranians), besides naming streets, schools, squares by the names of U.S. Congressmen, besides writing poems about the Armenian diplomatic “initiative” and proclaiming that day a national holiday? The Armenians, of course, will feel deep spiritual satisfaction. We can even say that this will be the biggest moral victory in the Armenian history. And so what? What Armenia as a state, as a factor of global politics is going to win. Will any issue that Armenia faces be solved through this?
This of course does not mean that the U.S. or any other country are not to recognize the genocide. Surely, the genocide is to be recognized and condemned as it is a condemnable phenomenon. But the joy that Armenians feel from the process of the Turkish-American process trying to become a measure for that process is incomprehensible. Perhaps, the U.S. recognizes the genocide in April, in March or maybe after one year. But the game that is played with the genocide resolution in the U.S. Congress, the rules of which we do not know at all and the prove of which is the very joy repeated in a cycle, is not to be welcomed with football enthusiasm.
HAKOB BADALYAN
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