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    A FESTIVAL OF ROBBERS AND CROOKS
    By Henry D. Astarjian M.D.

    Asbarez
    Feb 5th, 2010

    In the dark of the night they gathered, masked like common thieves and
    bank robbers. A bunch of crooks, corrupt and dishonest politicians,
    using their illegitimate authority gained by rigged election, sold
    the Armenian Nation down the pike. They signed the ill fated Protocol
    of surrender with Turkey, which paved the way for concessions to
    Azerbaijan over Karabakh, and bolstered Turkish strategy of denying
    the Genocide.

    Spearheaded by Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, and
    Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian, the government of Armenia and Turkey
    had covertly negotiated the Protocol for months, and then surfaced,
    to everyone's surprise, in Switzerland for the official signing in
    front of the cameras. It was a festival of robbers and crooks!

    The world faced a fait accomplit. Secrecy was necessary when the
    Protocol was in the fetal stage because its architects knew that it
    is easy to abort a fetus, than kill a newborn.

    The ceremony made an impressive picture with both sides being
    surrounded by our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russia's Foreign
    Minister Sergei Ivanov, and Javier Solana of the EU. They were present
    in person to lend their unconditional support to the agreement. They
    were there to protect their own interests, rather than pursue a fair
    and balanced agreement. Their presence magnified the geopolitical
    and strategic importance of the region.

    The festival looked disingenuous. Tensions were high except for Ahmet
    Davutoglu, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, who sported a wide grin,
    and looked like a cat, who had just swallowed a canary. Tensions were
    high because in their heart of hearts, they knew that the agreement
    is lopsided, and that Turkey had a hidden agenda to pursue.

    Nalbandian and his team knew, or should have known that oil and water
    don't mix.

    They should have known that signing such a deceptive document is
    unacceptable by the Armenian Nation, especially the Diasporans, who
    are still suffering from collective Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
    (PTSD), or Karabakhis who are under seige.

    They should have known that neither the Genocide, nor Karabakh are
    negotiable.

    They should have known that Turkey and the Super Powers have the
    upper hand, in this deal, and that Armenians were negotiating from
    a position of weakness, rather than strength.

    They should have known that opening the door to Turkey will blow a
    storm which could not be harnessed by Armenians, who have become used
    to serfdom under the Soviet regime.

    They should have known that opening the border, which is already
    porous, will legitimize the existing border, forever affirming the
    ill fated Kars Treaty of 1921, in which the Bolsheviks traded Armenian
    Kars for Georgian Batumi.

    Finally, they had a trump card in their hand, but they did not use
    it: Diaspora.

    They did not listen to the voice of the people, and neglected the
    will of the people, compromised the long term interests of Armenia
    and Diaspora.

    They were inebriated by the international attention given to their
    festival, the festival of robbers and crooks.

    I maintain that the negotiating sides were not naïve; Armenians knew
    all this, but they did it for personal gains, and for the interests
    of the gangsters and the oligarchs who control the economy, therefore
    the political agenda of Armenia.

    I could say this because I know about one of the major players,
    Nalbandian. He was Armenia's ambassador to Egypt, when I was visiting
    Cairo in 1998. I learned, through a high Egyptian official that "We
    [the Egyptian Government] have had it with this guy [Nalbandian],
    we are about to declare him 'Persona non-grata' and ask the Armenian
    government to replace him". They were complaining about his diplomatic
    indiscretions, and non-diplomatic wheeling dealings.

    The leaders of the Armenian community of Cairo couldn't stop
    complaining about his indifference to the issues that concerned them.

    At a dinner in a posh restaurant in Cairo hosted by a prominent
    Armenian community leader, a high American Embassy official approached
    me and said "I hear Nalbandian has invited you to meet with him, Doc, I
    don't want you to meet with him, he is no good, he is a Communist, and
    we have a file this thick on him, don't visit him". To which I replied
    "I am an American, I am free to meet whomever I want, but for your
    information, I have already rejected his invitation". He was pleased.

    Shortly thereafter Nalbandian assumed the ambassadorship of France.

    This is the kind of a man who spearheaded, enthusiastically, the
    negotiations with Turkey, which resulted in the ill fated Protocol. I
    must say that I don't know much about his partner President Sarkisian,
    many do, but I know one thing; "Birds of the feather, flock together".

    Some birds of the same feather are here in the United States. They are
    the gang who started and or supported the ill fated Turkish Armenian
    Reconciliation Committee (TARC) in the 90s, the most prominent of
    which is the Armenian Assembly. I'll leave it at that for now.

    While the festival continued, the robbers and the crooks, on the
    other side of the border, took their next planned step to achieve
    their goal of institutionalizing the Genocide Denial. Thankfully
    they exposed their hand early in the game by imposing conditions,
    which were veiled in the Protocol, but now became central; they
    declared that unless Armenia and Azerbaijan make progress over the
    issue of Karabakh, they are not going to submit the Protocol to their
    Parliament for ratification.

    For all intents and purposes the Protocol, in its present form, is
    dead. The Turks have a thousand-year-wait to submit their Protocol
    to their Parliament.

    The final nail in the coffin of the Protocol came from Armenia's
    Supreme (Constitutional) Court, which ruled-and I am paraphrasing-that
    the issues of the Armenian Genocide and Karabakh are untouchable,
    constitutionally; the two objectionable issues leading to our
    opposition.

    The Supreme Court deserves a bouquet of flowers for their ruling,
    compliments of the Armenian Diaspora.

    With this Festival, crooks on both sides have robbed their people
    of the right for peaceful co-existence, and good neighborliness, and
    the big powers have lost a good chance for reshaping the geopolitical
    landscape of the region. They must try again!
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