Israeli political scientist, and political activist Yaron Weiss started a walk yesterday for the sake of Artsakh.

The Israeli political scientist informed me about this in a conversation with “Hraparak”. He mentioned that he decided to start a walking tour and dedicate it to the people of Artsakh who are under blockade. He will carry out the hike in the Galilee region of Israel, whose landscape is similar to Artsakh. Weiss says it is interesting that they are similar in size. The political activist emphasizes that this walk reminds him of how he walked through the whole of Artsakh on the “Road Path” – it was the first network of paths in the Caucasus, most of which is currently under hostile occupation.

“In recent months, the people of Artsakh are under a heavy siege, tens of thousands of refugees cannot return to their homes, and one of the reasons for the worst situation is the use of Israeli-made weapons, which changed the balance of power in the conflict. In order to sympathize with the people of Artsakh, to raise awareness of their plight in Israel and throughout the world, I decided to cross Galilee, from the western side of the Mediterranean Sea to the eastern side of the Jordan Valley, the shores of the Sea of ​​Galilee.

I plan to hike for several days with the Artsakh flag in my hand to remind the many people I meet that this journey is dedicated to the heroes who live in their ancient homeland despite all the difficulties. The homeland, which is very similar to Galilee,” said Yaron Weiss.
The Israeli political scientist-activist expresses hope that he will not finish this walk alone, and in the process, other people will join him, trying to make people more aware of their walk and the blocked Artsakh.

Weiss told “Hraparak” that after organizing various actions, writing articles and addressing politicians, he hopes that this trip will leave at least a small impact on society.

“It is also important for me to show support and encourage my friends from Artsakh. It is important for them to know that there are people here who care about them and think about them all the time. I will not sit quietly waiting for the safety of the people of Artsakh to be ensured. I am convinced that thanks to the strength of the spirit of the people of Artsakh, they will eventually be able to overcome this threat as well,” concluded Israeli activist Yaron Weiss.

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Former Speaker of the National Assembly and member of RPA Samvel Nikoyan considers the act of spitting on a citizen by the current Speaker of the Parliament, Alen Simonyan, unacceptable because according to him, the National Assembly,

as a body with a primary mandate, is at the center of the attention of international partners. “Remember the presidents of the National Assembly, since the first years of independence, have you seen anyone allow such a thing? This, of course, is the reality of the new Armenia. A role is assigned to Allen, which, unfortunately, he fulfills and his behavior does not differ from the behavior of some deputies. Who said that we were not insulted, either in the parliament or outside? What, we have shown such behavior, of course not. Remember what insults Nikol Pashinyan used to inflict on the Speaker of the National Assembly, did he receive an answer of no,” said Samvel Nikoyan in an interview with NEWS.am. For Samvel Nikoyan, the behavior displayed by the members of the ruling “Civil Agreement” faction during the discussion with Edgar Ghazaryan, who was nominated for the post of HRD, is also incomprehensible. “Everyone, starting with Nikol, should get out of the instinct of gang attack. The person was making a political assessment, you attack like a mob, what? Oh, don’t you understand that one day it is impossible not to answer? Such hooliganism has never happened in any committee during any government. At that time, journalists singled out deputies with nicknames, but did any of them behave like that? They behaved much more civilized than these people who tie a tie, make a name for themselves, say that they are literate, but in reality they are ordinary hooligans,” emphasized Nikoyan. Samvel Nikoyan believes that Alen Simonyan’s resignation will not change anything in the government’s behavior. “Nikol Pashinyan set the rules, gave orders, and everyone behaves according to their human qualities. Instead of Allen, a much worse one can come, who will give a kick to the taste of milk. All the misfortune is in one person, there are many Allens, if they change, worse will come,” Nikoyan concluded. It should be reminded that on March 3, citizen Karen Mkrtchyan said on her Facebook page that Alen Simonyan ordered his bodyguards to grab him and spit in his face after he called Alen Simonyan a “traitor”. Later, Alen Simonyan did not deny the incident in a Facebook post. “”Put your ears” that your insolence will not go unanswered, there will be a legal response to insulting the legal authority of RA,” wrote Simonyan.

Yesterday, on April 4, a rally was held in front of the National Assembly on Baghramyan Street in Yerevan. The start was at 16:00. The initiator was the socio-political movement “Together”.

Earlier, the latter shared a brief message with the following content: “We have 2 issues on the agenda: recognition of Artsakh and removal of the authorities of the day. Compatriots, brothers and sisters, and friends of social networks, let’s see what we are doing. Tomorrow may be too late.’

After a long pause in the domestic political field, this was perhaps the first mass event and, as such, could not be left out of public attention. Especially since the agenda was extremely understandable and clear. And people who are dissatisfied with the opposition’s passivity in these months and think that it is necessary to wage a street struggle, but the opposition does not come out, have issued such orders and demands.

Of course, it is understandable that not much could change with this rally and it did not. Let’s say, Pashinyan was neither “sent home”, nor was the overwhelming majority of the National Assembly shown their place. The fate of the current authorities of Armenia was not to be decided by this rally. Having such expectations would be political naivety, if we count how many years it took for the demand for changes to mature and Nikol Pashinyan’s coming to power to be prepared. However, this rally was important in that it seemed to show that the Armenian political field is showing tendencies to wake up from its long winter sleep, which is good and welcome. In other words, the number one expectation that society had from that rally was it was precisely that, to give the society an impulse of political awakening. That impulse should invigorate the internal political life of our country.
In the current situation, having an active political life is as necessary for Armenia as air and water. Moreover, it should not only be in the form of press publications and announcements, but in the form of rallies, political actions and other similar events. It is important both to keep the government more or less on alert and to show the outside world that society in Armenia is not a “heated hotpot” where any kind of decision can be “passed” or “forced”.

Of course, geopolitical events and world reorganization have started to affect our daily life, but on the other hand, no matter how wounded and weak we are, at least a little “resistance” is needed so that we are not put in the place of a “toothless clam”. . Perhaps, by and large, the results will be too small, but at least for the sake of peace of conscience, it is necessary to take some steps so that later we do not have a reason to accuse ourselves of “criminal inaction” or “criminal indifference (negligence)”.

Serob Marutyan

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What happened yesterday was just a historical disgrace, and I believe that the election of the human rights defender should not have taken place in such an atmosphere, because the MPs of the “Civil Agreement” faction violated the rights of the other candidate, violated all the norms of the ethics code of the NA MP, limited the freedom of speech.

Opposition MP Taguhi Tovmasyan, who chaired the well-known session yesterday, said this in a conversation with journalists.

“We have discussed and as a first step, we will send a letter to the Prosecutor General and demand a criminal assessment, because Artur Hovhannisyan’s actions were criminal and he should be punished for the threats he openly made against the candidate, including me. , he must be punished. The second step I will take is to translate and send the transcript of the commission session to the international partners so that they understand the atmosphere in which the opposition candidate is nominated and rejected for the position of human rights defender in democratic Armenia,” said Tovmasyan.

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Anna Hakobyan, the wife of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, made a remarkable and scandalous statement during her speech in Acharkut village on Saturday.

It was said that during the 44-day war of 2020, there were 11 thousand of defectors on the Armenian side. It is interesting that the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said the same thing a few days before that, he specifically stated that during the war, the Azerbaijani army had 0 desertions, while the Armenian army had 11 thousand deserters. In fact, this same number is voiced first by the President of Azerbaijan, then by the wife of the RA Prime Minister, in the event that the case of 11,000 desertions should imply 11,000 criminal cases because desertion is a criminal act, and if there are 11,000 cases of desertion to record, it means that at least as many criminal cases should be initiated. However, based on the presumption of innocence, we can say that even the initiation of criminal cases does not mean that there has been such a case of desertion because the crime of desertion is considered established if there is a legally binding conviction. Meanwhile, not even 10 cases of desertion have been initiated in our country.

As of 2021, only 9 cases of alleged desertion during the 44-day war have been sent to court, another 7 cases are related to voluntary desertion during the war.
Regarding the topic, we talked with the former chief of the general staff of the armed forces, General Movses Hakobyan, asking if it is possible for there to be 11,000 deserters in the Armenian army, as the Prime Minister’s wife and Ilham Aliyev claim. “I don’t have that information, the prosecutor of the republic has that information,” answered Movses Hakobyan. We asked: how is it possible that the Prime Minister’s wife possesses such information and gives specific numbers? Is it normal? Movses Hakobyan answered: “No, it’s not normal, the prime minister’s wife will do well to take care of her home and raise her children.”

Movses Hakobyan responded to the observation that he himself was the commander of the Defense Army, then also the Chief of the General Staff and knows the army, is it possible for the Armenian army to have 11,000 deserters? “Looking at how you manage, you can make 28 thousand, you can make 0, it depends on how you manage, it depends on the leader.” We also asked him if the claim that we lost the war because of deserters is true, Hakobyan answered. “No, we lost because of wrong management.”

Major-General of Justice Tatul Petrosyan told us that if 11,000 desertions are announced, then the main command staff should be held criminally responsible first. “The statement of that person is the same statement that Aliyev makes, after coming to power, they completely, synchronously announce all the thoughts and statements of our enemies, that is, they do what our arch-enemies do, therefore, we are with the internal enemy. we have business. The expression “11 thousand deserters” could not only be 11 thousand criminal cases, but in the conditions of 11 thousand desertions, the first person of the country, the commanding staff of the army, in the form of the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff, should have stood before the court, do you understand? they spread a statement about such a mass desertion. That statement should have been the basis of criminal proceedings, which is not being done,” said Tatul Petrosyan.

According to him, this statement aims to disband the army and demilitarize Armenia. “This statement is a continuation of what they started, disbanding the army. They have already achieved this in Artsakh, now they want to demilitarize Armenia, this is their planned, continuous policy. How can she be called the wife of the head of the country, I don’t want to describe the woman with adjectives, this was the meanest thing that could be done to the Armenian army. Several dozen criminal cases were initiated regarding treason, how many people were tried for treason, are there 100 dollar traitors? people were caught, detained, and then released on the basis of an excuse. This is to keep our entire people in an atmosphere of fear, to break the psychological code of the people, is to destroy the self-defense instinct. “You are not a fighting nation, you are a cowardly nation.” Publishing the figure of 11,000 defectors means breaking the backbone of the country. 11 thousand is a number of great importance for the army, Armenia is a small country, but Armenia had an army that was the most capable army in the region. In the conditions of 11,000 deserters, the nation-destroying scourge called the country’s supreme commander, together with his head of the General Staff, his defense minister, and the director of the National Security Service, were to be put in solitary confinement. 11,000 cannot be a number, it speaks of a mass desertion, not 5-10 people, and if there was a law enforcement system today, this statement should immediately be the basis of criminal proceedings, and the so-called prime minister should be arrested. It was the only way, but it doesn’t happen because the law enforcement system is in their hands. If the so-called first lady makes such a statement, it means that she is doing it at the behest of her husband, and it is done with planned, calculated actions,” said Petrosyan.

Tatul Petrosyan also believes that they are deliberately trying to cede our territories. “They announced at the government session that the army should be withdrawn from the borders, the border guards should guard the borders. Today we have a border zone of more than 1400 km, the border guard troops with their light equipment are not able to hold their positions in a war situation. He does this on purpose, so that the border guard troops, as servants, carry out his order and withdraw from their positions, while many of the contract, volunteer, conscript soldiers in the army do not follow the order and do not leave their positions. The goal is as follows: to station border guard troops and when he gives the order, they will leave their positions and cede territories again, as in the Tegh community. This is their ultimate goal,” said Petrosyan.

Koryun Simonyan

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Ruling party members are getting more aggressive every day. They are feeling the heat…. one day the president of the legislator spat on the citizen in the street next day Threatening to “cut the tongue of the opposition candidate” Video

Threatening to “cut the tongue” of the candidate of the opposition for the human rights ombudsman, who’s job would be to protect the public from human rights violations BY THE GOVERNMENT

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Alen Simonyan, deleted the Facebook post he made yesterday,

April 3, that the son of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was attacked. “Yesterday there was also an attack on the son of the RA Prime Minister,” he said. Basically, Simonyan deleted the post after Ashot Pashinyan’s statement in “Haykakan Zhamanak” in which he, in fact, denied Simonyan’s post.

By Michael Rubin Washington Examiner

Against the backdrop of this autumn’s Nagorno-Karabakh war, another battle raged in Washington: partisans to the conflict seeking to sway American Jewry to their cause. In their telling, Azerbaijan was an enlightened society tolerant of all while Armenia was a deeply anti-Semitic country that supported Adolf Hitler.

Countries that embrace religious freedom seldom need to brag about how good they are to their minorities. The Netherlands, for example, seldom brags about how happy its Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, or Buddhists are. To hold indigenous Jewish communities on a pedestal, as Turkey and Azerbaijan do, is an obnoxious strategy. Not only does it suggest Jews think singularly and interpret policy through a religious lens rather than through the interests of the country in which they are citizens, but the strategy also carries an implied threat: Religious tolerance will be fleeting if Washington or Jerusalem do not abide by Ankara or Baku’s wishes. It’s the mafioso equivalent of, “Nice place you’ve got here; it would be a shame if anything happened to it.”

Indeed, representatives of Turkey’s Jewish community simultaneously tell American visitors how happy they are under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s leadership but appear terrified of running afoul of the mercurial ruler and quietly ask for advice on securing visas. While Turkish Jews can honestly say Turkey has historically been kind to the community, the community has declined under Erdogan as Turkish Jews vote with their feet. The Turkish president, meanwhile, makes little secret of his view that Turkey’s Jews are hostages to his approval of Israel’s behavior. That the Azerbaijani government and its proxies now embrace the same strategy does not assuage concerns.

Indeed, while Azeri diplomats and officials tell visitors that Azerbaijan is home to 30,000 Jews, the true population is less than a third of that as many in the community chose to emigrate when they had the opportunity. Jews also have a long history in Armenia. Armenian officials sometimes tell visitors the country is home to 500 Jews, although both emigration and intermarriage have also taken a toll on this number, and the true figure may be only half that. Regardless, numbers of Jews are likewise a silly metric for supposed anti-Semitism. Consider the fact that the Mountain Jewish community of Azerbaijan aside, most of the Jews in Baku and its environs date their arrival just to the late 19th or early 20th centuries and tied their presence to certain industries: Does that mean that anti-Semitism declined during the influx and then increased after the Ashkenazi Jews again emigrated? Or, to question the logic in a different way, is Bhutan more anti-Semitic than Iran because Iran has more Jews? Is Canada more anti-Semitic than the United States?

Azerbaijan has historically been enlightened with regard to religious pluralism, and polls show anti-Semitic attitudes among Azerbaijanis to be less in most cases than Armenians. But there still have been anti-Semitic incidents in Azerbaijan in recent years, such as the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Baku. Nadraran, a town just 15 miles from Baku, is famous for being a stronghold of Hezbollah, though this is certainly the exception rather than the rule in Azerbaijan today.

Of greater concern, however, should be Azerbaijan’s partnership and general submissiveness to an increasingly anti-Semitic Turkey. Diplomats say the Turkish Foreign Ministry demarches its Azeri counterparts to limit the number of Jews and Israelis at diplomatic functions. Azerbaijan’s recent utilization of Syrian mercenaries, some of whom previously worked for al Qaeda affiliates or the Islamic State, also undercut the notion of Azeri liberalism. To ally with and fight alongside those who would behead Christians and enslave non-Muslim minorities is hardly a sign that Jews will remain safe in Azerbaijan. Sometimes, lavish spreads in luxury hotels for visiting dignitaries are not enough to obscure reality.

There is an irony when Azeris accuse Armenians of sympathy toward Hitler when Azeri President Ilham Aliyev appears to harbor a fascination with the German dictator. Just as Hitler defined his enemy as Jews inside Germany, Jews outside Germany, and those who would support the Jews, Aliyev has made similar comments with regard to Armenians. Aliyev has also embraced eliminationist rhetoric. “Armenia, as a country, is of no importance. In fact, it is a colony, an outpost; a territory governed from abroad which was artificially created in ancient Azerbaijani lands,” he said in 2012. In 2018, the Azeri dictator declared, “Yerevan is our historic land and we, Azerbaijanis, must return to these Azerbaijani lands.” Just last week, Aliyev repeated his quest for further territorial conquest (Azeri lebensraum) defining Zangerzur, Sevan, and Yerevan as “Azerbaijani territories” while Erdogan bragged about his “Caucasus Islamic Army.”

Simply put, while it is true that religious freedom is the canary in the coal mine to determine the reality of a regime, trajectory also matters. Azeri and Armenian officials and their respective diasporas may castigate the other, but both societies have traditionally embraced tolerance toward their indigenous Jewish communities. What should be of greater concern, however, is the recent trajectory of Azerbaijan’s leadership not only to embrace rhetoric rooted in the Armenian genocide but also to welcome as a partner a Turkish leader whose obsession lays not with territorial dispute but rather with religious warfare, jihad, and deeply anti-Semitic conspiracies. Simply put, the days of Azerbaijan being an oasis for Jews is now in the past.

Michael Rubin 

Senior Fellow

A little while ago, law enforcement officers took Mher Sahakyan, an MP of the opposition “Armenia” Faction, from the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Armenian News-NEWS.am was told by this faction.

Law enforcement officers took Sahakyan from the office of the “Armenia” Faction. NA speaker Alen Simonyan was also there, and shouts were heard.

Simonyan instructed that the reporters be removed from the area.