“I have known”
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Charles Aznavour occurred yesterday at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv. There is little to say that there is triumph. If, at random from some of the intemperate 
statements, he said be unconcerned about the word genocide, this was not the case in Israel when he dedicated his song “I have known” to the victims of the genocide, including that of the Armenians.
“I have known the chains I have known the wounds I have known the hatred I have known the lashes I have known the insult thirst and hunger I have known the harsh fear of tomorrow. I have known the mowing members broken I have experienced the shame of my nudity I have known the waves of hordes in tears I have known the schlague I have known fear.
What man does to man in defiance of all laws what man does to man the animal is not doing what the man made to the man taking pretext his faith what man does to man it is not dreaming. I have known the crowns of the obscenity of the geniuses of the crime never equal of the body that were herded without names and without life in these pits bass for rotten meat.
I have seen the vermin to feed from body to the bottom of the plants to give the death I have known things in the stench of these virtuosos of the years of horror. What man does to man in defiance of all laws what man does to man the animal is not doing what the man made to the man taking pretext his faith what man does to man it is not dreaming.
I have known women and their breasts dried up the next without flame of children aged under the eye of insensitive genocidal I have known the horrible descent into hell. But despite the worst of fates perverse I have known thy laugh and your gaze clear when in this morbid veritable institute for terminal cases without relief in thine eyes crystal clear I have known love. What man does to man in defiance of all laws what man does to man the animal is not doing what the man made to the man taking pretext his faith what man does to man why does he do that, why?”