By Robert Aydabirian
No, my Armenian brother is not my enemy!
When we read the words and messages circulating on social networks, when we hear the insults that are uttered in the streets of Yerevan, at various Armenian demonstrations outside the Republic of Armenia, between individuals or in front of public buildings, we wonder why and for what purpose are these slanderous words uttered?
When we ask a Turk or a Jew who his best friend is, for the first, he answers the Turk; for the second, he answers the Jew. If we ask the same question to an Armenian, his answer is often more ambiguous, and the most often heard is the following: “We are our worst enemies.”
When, for some time now, in the Republic of Armenia as in Armenian circles outside the country we hear insults, outrages vociferations, invectives, in short, all kinds of words that come from the gutter and display a zero level of decency in social relations and politics, we are all going backwards together, we all become losers, we all regress together; and we are severing our connection with the values the Armenian people have achieved over more than 3000 years of history: developing a civilization recognized for the high quality of its culture, its writings, and its architectural heritage.
Of course, we are still paying the price of the military defeat of 2020. Of course, defeat is an orphan and brings out the worst in a people: hatred, baseness, ignominy, intolerance, infamy, and excess.
